COVID-19 & Its Impacts in Santa Clara County
Meeting for the week of August 31 - September 06, 2020
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: COVID-19 & Its Impacts in Santa Clara County
Speaker: David Campos
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from Programs Committee Chair - Tanya:
Programs Committee Chair - Tanya
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.
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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 Steve Shags Shagrin!
Better safe than sorry . . .
The doctor, who had been seeing an 80-year-old woman for most of her life, finally retired. At her next checkup, the new doctor told her to bring a list of all the medicines that had been prescribed for her. As the young doctor was looking through these, his eyes grew wide as he realized she has a prescription for “birth control pills.
“Mrs. Smith, do you realize these are BIRTH CONTROL pills?!?" "Yes, they help me sleep at night." "Mrs. Smith, I assure you there is absolutely NOTHING these that could possibly help you sleep!" She reached out and patted the young Doctor's knee. "Yes, dear, I know that. But every morning, I grind one up and mix it in the glass of orange juice that my 16 year old granddaughter drinks... And believe me, it helps me sleep at night!
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
This video is from the National Institute of Allied Arts Zimbabwe, and showcases a school group winning a marimba competition. Called Hillcrest College - Marimba Challenge Cup Winner, it's a nice reminder that focused and well-prepared students can do amazing things. It's also a nice shout-out to Immediate Past President Tzviatko, who is based in Zimbabwe.
World of Rotary
Every month we will focus on a particular story that tells of our organization and the work of Rotarians in the world.
This month, we bring back the story of Canadian Jennifer E. Jones, who is Rotary's first woman to be named Rotary president-nominee. When Ms Jones becomes RI President in 2022-23, she will be the first woman to hold that office in Rotary history. Read the full story here: https://www.rotary.org/en/jennifer-e-jones-makes-history-becomes-first-woman-named-rotary-president-nominee
Ms.
Jennifer E. Jones
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.
After the Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017, I drove to Mt Hood and waited for the night sky to reveal the Milky Way.
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.
10 Clever Kitchen HACKS To Try Right Now
Feedback we've received shows that food/cooking/kitchen hacks are people's favorite, as we all have to eat! Here's a short one with some new ideas.
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!
Club Announcements
Haven't joined the conversation on Facebook yet? Consider joining the conversation by signing into our club members-only Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/rotarysiliconvalley/
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 on the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Please apply my gift to Polio Plus. Hurricane Laura is preparing to visit us.
Selected Comments
Every week at the bottom of our meetings, there is a comments section for members and guests to tell us what they enjoyed about the meeting or to ask questions to the speaker. We select a few comments every week from last week’s meeting to be featured during this week’s meeting.
Here are the comments selected from last week’s meeting.
Sandy Stabile said:
Loved the Marble Music Machine!
Elizabeth, thank you for speaking with our Club.
As an RN working in a public teaching hospital I saw first hand the crisis our mental health care access and treatment are in.
Mental Health is an invisible disease and is usually the first thing to be cut when budgets are done.
As a state and country we need to prioritize access and care for mental health.
ShagCA said:
That marble machine was amazing! There are several I've seen at the Butler Institute of American Art in my hometown of Youngstown, Ohio. The Butler is the first art museum created exclusively for American artists. There's a Winslow Homer (Snap the Whip), Robert Vonnoh (In Flanders Field) and a large Norman Rockwell (Young Lincoln). Not sure if they ones with steel marbles is online at https://butlerart.com/our-art/, but it's worth a visit to the website to check out the amazing collection of American art!!
As for the program -- WOW! I knew about things closing down, and my wife is a pharmacist that worked in hospital and then retail. The challenge outside of in-patient/residential care is medication management, especially when the patient finds their situation to be the norm. Thanks for this message, and may we spread it to the masses.
Phil Dean said:
I was intrigued by the Marble Music Machine, so much so that I went to the Wintergatan web site and watched a video of a modification of the Marble Machine X. Fascinating.
Thank you Elizabeth for the discussion on the poor support currently available for mental illness patients. Is there a simple explanation for why the great decrease in beds available since the 50's?
Be sure to leave a comment at the end of this week’s meeting after you watch the program below, and perhaps you’ll see your comment featured next week!
Program: COVID-19 & Its Impacts in Santa Clara County
Speaker: David Campos
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others. Special thanks to member Roger Plested for leading our club's Programs Committee in finding us amazing speakers each week.
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!
As a Deputy County Executive and Public Information Officer, David Campos will discuss COVID-19, its current status, its impacts on Santa Clara County, our community's needs, and how the 2020 Census has been impacted.
David Campos joined the County of Santa Clara in March 2017 as a Deputy County Executive and is currently serving as the Public Information Officer for the COVID-19 Emergency Operations Center. As a Deputy County Executive, David oversees the Division of Equity of Social Justice, which includes the Offices of the Census, Cultural Competency, Gender Based Violence Prevention, Immigrant Relations, Labor Standards Enforcement, LGBTQ Affairs, and Women’s Policy.
David joined the County of Santa Clara following two terms on the Board of Supervisors for the City and County of San Francisco (2008-2012, 2012-2016). He enacted landmark legislation for issues of local and national significance including immigration, transportation, policing, housing, health care, labor and employment, small business, women’s and LGBTQ rights, and homelessness.
Campos is a member of the California Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Campos holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Stanford University. He is a native of Guatemala and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. Campos currently resides with his partner in San Francisco.
Members and guests, please welcome David Campos!
Additional Resources
To learn more: sccgov.org/coronavirus, www.sccfreetest.org, www.sccsafeworkplace.org, www.sccstayhome.org, www.covid19prepared.org
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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