Breathing for Life
Meeting for the week of March 08, 2021 - March 14, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Breathing for Life
Speaker: Castro Valley Rotary
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Welcome, everyone, to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Every year, Rotaractors and Rotarians around the world celebrate World Rotaract Week during the week of 13 March to commemorate the founding of the first club in 1968.
Beginning this Rotary year, our club is a proud co-sponsor of the Rotaract Club of Cupertino. You have probably read about the club’s update in our quarterly Newsletter. Sponsoring a Rotaract Club is a great opportunity to mentor and mold the leaders of tomorrow.
This week is a time for celebrating the success and importance of Rotaract and what better way to show our support that participating in the upcoming joint-meeting with our Rotaractors on Sunday, March 14th at 19h PT.
Wherever you are joining us from and whatever time you may be reading this, our goal is to share what is special about our club and Rotary with those near and far, and we're glad you're here.
Yours in Rotary service,
Raquel D’Garay-Juncal
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
I Have a Sister Like That!
Little Emily ran into the house, crying as though her heart would break.
"What's wrong, dear?" asked her mother.
"My doll! Billy broke it!" she sobbed.
"How did he break it, Emily?"
"I hit him over the head with it."
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
The little things you do matter to others, often more than you know. In this short TED talk, firefighter Mark Bezos shares a story that reminds us what our #52 ways project is all about.
World of Rotary
Every week we will focus on a particular story that tells of our organization and the work of Rotarians in the world.
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
A good friend became an expert at iPhoneography when her DSLR broke down on a photography workshop in Venice. She made some very creative images using apps and filters and became a popular speaker on the topic. I have always preferred the advantages of my Nikons, but since I got my first iPhone last year I find the convenience to be an advantage when I saw something interesting without my big cameras in hand. While golfing one-day last fall, I saw this willow that was nicely backlit and reflected in the pond. My iPhone was able to capture the image, but it needed more "pop". By adding a "painterly" filter, the image stood out from the ordinary with an impressionistic feel. Can anyone find the one minor distraction that I did not crop out? What is it?
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun, and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B!!
What can I say -- I love to hear this in any rendition!!
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
On the first meeting of every month, we feature service reports from club members for the previous month. Thanks for your service everyone!
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! This section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Past Events:
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Monique Ziesenhenne made the Other Amount donation.
I'm happy because I am retiring this week after 33 years of working in local government! I am happy to celebrate and to think eagerly about what comes next. Please contribute to TRF-Annual Fund.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
The last time I posted here, Texas was getting out of an awful, very cold, snow and ice storm. It warmed over the weekend here, hitting eighty on Sunday. Now it is in the high fifties with rain. Tomorrow will be a bit warmer. Please apply my gift to Polio Plus.
Anonymous? made the Other Amount donation.
Happy to have received the second Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday and feeling great. Please make my donation to Rotary and its Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), which is using that network to help rollout COVID-19 vaccines around the globe.
Program: Breathing for Life
Speaker: Castro Valley Rotary
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
$350,000 Global Grant is for an oxygen generating plant in Ethiopia that will provide all the needs of the Nejo Community Hospital, and is the largest Global Grant ever done in our District.
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
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