November 5, 2024

 

Call to Order: Scott called the meeting to order at 12:10 p.m. with a reminder that the International Rotary Theme is “The Magic of Rotary” and our local club theme this centennial anniversary year is "Mountain View Rotary: 100 Years of Creating Magic through Service and Fellowship."

 

Pledge and Thought for the Day: Fred led us in the pledge of allegiance, and our 3-fer, Roger, shared his story about coming to the USA in 1968 for university and living the American Dream.

 

Introductions: Cathy let us know there were no guests today, other than the speaker, Niles, a student at Mountain View High School.

 

Club Business/announcements:

 

Program: Scott introduced Catherine, our Board’s Youth Services Liaison. Catherine introduced our speaker, Niles, a student at Mountain View High School where he is President of the Golden Gate Interact Club. Niles talked about his experience as a contestant in our speech contest. He also talked about the Youth Services Club, which is international and a good opportunity to meet folks from all over the Bay Area and beyond. In 2024, the Youth Services Club has supported countryside farmers in Vietnam. While the work they are doing is great, membership is declining and he is looking for avenues to increase membership at the school district level.

Rotary Club of Mountain View

October 3, 2023

 

Welcome to Rotary Club of Mountain View. President Tori welcomed everyone to the club where: We’re more than a Club… We’re a family!

 

Our international theme for 2023-2024 is “Create Hope in The World”. Our Club's theme is “Help locally and have fun.”  Thank you for joining us today.

 

The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Judy Hannemann.

 

Bruce Barsi shared a thought for the day as he welcomed his sixth Grandchild and second Granddaughter into the world, about how precious, exciting, and at times, adventurous life with a Granddaughter can be.

 

General Club Announcements:

 

Save the date of Saturday, December 9^th, for the Club’s Holiday Party.  This will be a mandatory event, so plan to attend and enjoy.  More details to follow.

 

The Crab Feed is on for Saturday, February 3^rd, at the Buddhist Temple.  We will need all hands on deck for this event and a list of tasks and duties if being prepared for everyone to volunteer.

 

We are starting to plan for our Club’s 100 Anniversary Celebration which will occur next September 13^th or 14^th.  More details about this event will be shared as they are available.

 

President Tori presented a Blue Badge to Susan Bacchi and an Honorary Badge to Tom Moran.

 

Save The Date of Sunday, November 19^th, for Cops and Gobblers.  The event takes place starting at 9:00 am sharp at the Mountain View Police Department, rain or shine

 

Speaker:

Our speaker was Brad Warren, Blood Services Community Outreach Specialist with the Red Cross, who gave us information about donating blood with the Red Cross. 

 

There is always a tremendous need for Red Cross Services in today’s society.  He told us that there are over 100,000 volunteers for Red Cross programs nationwide.  24,000 families are helped by the Red Cross daily.  This includes 170 families affected by disaster, 12,500 blood donations, 807,000 weather alerts, 1,400 services to military and veterans, and 683,000 child vaccinations.

 

82% of all blood donated comes during blood drives.  Generally, blood drives involve at least forty donors as well as several volunteers from the host organization.  The Red Cross has a mobile unit with several stations that is used for the blood drives.