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Oliver's world-travelling photography journey
Aug 09, 2024
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Aug 09, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Aug 13, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Aug 13, 2024 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Aug 16, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Aug 21, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Aug 23, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Aug 27, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Aug 27, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Aug 29, 2024 6:00 PM - 8:05 PM
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Aug 30, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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State of West Valley - Vision for the future
Aug 30, 2024 1:00 PM
President of West Valley College Dr. Jennifer Taylor-Mendoza serves as the 13th president of West Valley College. President Taylor-Mendoza is the first African American educator to lead the College. She is a longtime leader in the Bay Area with twelve years of service in the San Mateo County Community College District, having recently served as the President of the College of San Mateo, Vice President of Instruction at Skyline College in San Bruno, founding Dean of Academic Support and Learning Technologies at College of San Mateo (CSM), and as the Director of the Learning Center at CSM. President Taylor-Mendoza has over twenty-three years of higher education experience in both instruction and student services, mainly in the California community college system. In her various roles as a classified professional, tenured faculty leader, director, dean, vice president, and now president, President Taylor-Mendoza has found inspiration in the brilliance, power, and endless potential of community college students. She leads for social justice and liberation, recognizing our shared responsibility to address the historical legacy of racism to create a more just system of access, reward, and long-term equitable outcomes to inspire individual achievement and generational impact. The “obligation gap,” a term she coined, speaks to institutional responsibility. She is co-author of Minding the Obligation Gap in Community Colleges: Theory and Practice in Achieving Educational Equity. President Taylor-Mendoza is also an Aspen Institute Presidential Fellow and American Leadership Forum, Silicon Valley Senior Fellow. President Taylor-Mendoza’s areas of expertise include accreditation, dual enrollment, educational policy, enrollment management, global learning, guided pathways, online learning, organizational development, professional development, and workforce partnerships. As Chief Instructional Officer, President Taylor-Mendoza served on the State Chancellor’s Office’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statewide Implementation Workgroup in developing, implementing, and assessing DEI strategies to improve systemwide equitable outcomes for California’s 116 colleges. In addition, she was an adviser to the State Chancellor’s Office on the Trustee Fellowship and provided strategies to support trustees in their role as district leaders identifying regional workforce gaps and measuring student equity goals.ty. |
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Sep 06, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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The Promise & Perils of AI
Sep 06, 2024 1:00 PM
In my career in technology, a lot has changed. Y2K and 9/11 transformed the way companies thought about business continuity. Machine learning, digital data centers, and the rise of cyber threats changed the way we think about business security and the role of effective IT management. And all sizes and types of businesses have now become digital businesses.
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Sep 10, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Sep 10, 2024 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Sep 13, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Special Performance - Original Songs & Stories Growing Up in Saratoga
Sep 13, 2024 1:00 PM
Songwriter, singer and pianist Vienna Teng has released five studio albums, toured across North America, Europe and Asia, and appeared on NPR Weekend Edition and The Late Show with David Letterman among others. Her songs have been covered by vocal and instrumental ensembles around the world, and drawn praise from the likes of music innovator David Byrne and choral composer Eric Whitacre. From an unlikely start as a computer science major at Stanford, playing in coffeehouses after work as a software programmer, she has built a loyal audience touring in intimate listening-room venues and cultivating community online. In the 2010s, Vienna pursued a second career in environmental sustainability at the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute, McKinsey & Company’s Sustainability practice, and global nonprofit Delterra - themes reflected in her 2013 album Aims, which made her the first artist to win four Independent Music Awards in one year. She currently makes her home in Washington DC, and divides her time between creating new music and organizing her fanbase to take action on climate change. |
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Sep 18, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Sep 20, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Sep 24, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Sep 24, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Fentanyl & Narcan: Myths and Facts
Sep 27, 2024
Tessa Reynolds (she/they) works for the county of Santa Clara as a Rehabilitation Counselor where they lead the Harm ReduQion Project, which focuses trauma-centered harm reduction support and services for people who use substances in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Tessa is a certified substance use counselor, and brings a client centered, trauma sensitive, and harm reduction approach to their work. They have worked for over 10 years with individuals involved in the criminal justice system, the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and those who are unhoused, with a focus on substance use care. Tessa is an active member of DUHAC the Drug User Health Advisory Committee, of Santa Clara County and is passionate about making sure marginalized communities have a say in the care they receive. The Harm ReduQion Project offers 2SLGBTQIA+-affirming, trauma-centered substance use and overdose prevention, education, and resources. We provide NARCAN trainings, access to NARCAN, Fentanyl Testing Strips, and Safer Sex supplies. The best way to connect to our HRQ team is the email address harmreduqion@hhs.sccgov.org Dr. Emily Roben is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland and San Francisco. Emily's academic work focuses on improving and maintaining all aspects of care quality in the emergency department, ranging from daily department operations to patient care from arrival to discharge. She is also actively involved in education and mentoring for trainees and students. Emily earned her medical degree at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, part of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. She received a master's degree in healthcare quality and patient safety from The Graduate School of Northwestern University. Emily is passionate about teaching, community service, and outreach. She can be reached for questions or future speaking engagements via DACdb. |
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Sep 27, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Challenges As Benefits: Transforming Your Mindset to Achieve Success
Oct 04, 2024
Kenya Moses is a hybrid expert, championing in business for over 20 years; serving the non-profit, small business to corporate sectors. From her work as a Certified Executive Leadership Coach, to her work as a Marketing Strategist and Speaker, she takes a holistic approach to creating meaningful impact on the individuals and businesses she serves. |
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Oct 04, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Oct 07, 2024 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Oct 08, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Oct 08, 2024 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Oct 08, 2024 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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DG State of the District Speech
Oct 11, 2024
The District is pleased to announce that the Nominating Committee, chaired by PDG Jeff Orth, has selected Jill Duerig of the Rotary Club of Livermore Valley to serve as District Governor for the 2024-2025 Rotary year.
Jill is currently serving as Lieutenant Governor-Avenues of Service, and was an Assistant Governor for Area 4 in 2020-2021. She was President of the Rotary Club of Livermore Valley in 2019-2020.
As a retired General Manager of Zone 7 Water Agency in Livermore and a former General Manager/Chief Engineer for Scotts Valley Water District, her passion for potable water got her involved in the Haiti National Clean Water Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy (HANWASH, a partnership between Rotary’s WASH Rotary Action Group, other NGOs and the government of Haiti). She serves on HANWASH’s Steering Committee and chairs its Project & Technical Advisory Subcommittee.
Jill is married to her college sweetheart, Tom. They have three children and six grandchildren.
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Oct 11, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
OPERATION CARE & COMFORT Saratoga Rotary Packing Event: Friday, October 11, 2024 At our Club Lunch Meeting we will be doing our Annual Care packages to deployed service members overseas. Join us in this rewarding Rotary Community Service Project after lunch on October 11th. “At Operation: Care and Comfort (OCC), we recognize the immense sacrifice made by our troops who leave behind their safety, comfort, and homes to protect ours. That’s why we strive to send them a little piece of home – a connection back to the memories and comfort they left behind. Since 2003, we’ve been dedicated to improving the lives of those who serve our country.”
Co-Chairs: Patti Workman & Shinku Sharma
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Oct 11, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Oct 16, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Oct 18, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Oct 18, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Oct 22, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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So you want to get into the wine business? Let me give you the dollars and nonsense behind the scene
Oct 25, 2024
Born in San Jose, 1960, went to school here in Willow Glen and then SJ City College. We have lived in Saratoga since 1992 and raised two daughters here. I have worked for Joseph George Distributor all of my life. I have been in the retail and wholesale wine business since age 10. We grow grapes in Napa, make our own wine and sell grapes when we can.
Bert George
Joseph George Fine Wines
1559 Meridian Ave
San Jose, CA 95125
408 448 9463
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Oct 25, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Oct 29, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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District 5170 & the Magic of Rotary :)
Nov 01, 2024
We are proud to welcome the District 5170 Governor Jill Duerig to be the program speaker at our meeting and share her vision of The Magic of Rotary in the upcoming year. All members and guests are welcome!
Jill is currently serving as Lieutenant Governor-Avenues of Service, and was an Assistant Governor for Area 4 in 2020-2021. She was President of the Rotary Club of Livermore Valley in 2019-2020.
As a retired General Manager of Zone 7 Water Agency in Livermore and a former General Manager/Chief Engineer for Scotts Valley Water District, her passion for potable water got her involved in the Haiti National Clean Water Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy (HANWASH, a partnership between Rotary’s WASH Rotary Action Group, other NGOs and the government of Haiti). She serves on HANWASH’s Steering Committee and chairs its Project & Technical Advisory Subcommittee.
Jill is married to her college sweetheart, Tom. They have three children and six grandchildren.
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Nov 01, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Autonomous Cars - hype or here?
Nov 08, 2024
Doug Brent is a technology leader and strategist focused on the digitization of industrial business such as agriculture, construction and transportation. Doug served in a chief technology officer role at Trimble, a $3B+ revenue industrial technology leader. Doug is a Silicon Valley veteran – from start-ups to Apple and IBM. Doug is a Board member at industrial technology company Anova, and an advisor to Piaggio Fast Forward, a personal robotics company.
Doug is the 2024-2025 President of the Rotary Club of Los Gatos, where he also served as secretary for three years. Doug is a three year appointee to the Rotary International committee on technology. Doug Brent is a Silicon Valley veteran, expert in the connection between the physical and digital worlds in a range of industrial settings--today’s digital transformation. In 2011, Doug became the first VP Technology Innovation (CTO) at Trimble, a leader in digitization for construction, transportation, agriculture and other industrial markets. At Trimble, Doug championed modern software platforms, cutting-edge technology and culture change that supported growth from $1.7B to $3B of revenue and a transition from a hardware-centric model to a deep software and solutions model. |
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Nov 08, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Nov 12, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Nov 12, 2024 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Nov 13, 2024 6:00 PM
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Dr. Wu's Journey of Science & Growing up in the Cultural Revolution in China
Nov 15, 2024
Dr. Caicai Wu grew up in China in an intellectual family, with both parents obtained master’s
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Nov 15, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Nov 20, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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The Goldie Standard - local Monte Sereno Author
Nov 22, 2024
Goldie Mandell is opinionated, assertive, and stuck in an Assisted Living Facility. But even surrounded by schleppers with walkers, pictures of sunrises, fancy fish tanks, and an array of daily activities to complement the tepid tea and stale cookies on offer, her salt-free plate is full. She's got a granddaughter to settle, an eager love interest named Harry to subdue, and precious memories of her happy marriage to fellow Holocaust survivor Mordy to draw upon.
Maxie Jacobson is young, brilliant, and newly single, not by choice. But she's got her science career, a grandmother to care for, and her whole life ahead of her. When Maxie takes on the role of her grandmother's medical advocate, she has no idea Goldie operates with the single purpose of securing Maxie with Dr. Right. Instead, Maxie is distracted by her grandmother's unexpectedly charming long-haired, sandal-wearing, peculiarly-named driver, T-Jam Bin Naumann, definitely wrong in every way.
Simi Monheit Bio:
Born and raised in Brooklyn, author Simi Monheit calls Northern California home. Simi is a graduate of Stanford's Online Novel Writing Certificate program and started writing after a career in technology. Her work has appeared in JewishFiction.net, The Forward, Moment, Chautauqua, HerStory, Pacifica Literary Review and Lilith Magazine and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Nov 22, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Nov 26, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Nov 29, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Saratoga Rotary Club Fellowship
Dec 06, 2024
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Dec 06, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Dec 10, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Dec 10, 2024 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Saratoga Rotary Club Christmas Wrapping Party :)
Dec 13, 2024
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Dec 13, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Dec 18, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Dec 18, 2024 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Dec 20, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Dec 24, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Dec 27, 2024 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Dec 31, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Jan 03, 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Jan 08, 2025 10:15 AM - 10:15 AM
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Jan 08, 2025 5:00 PM
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Saratoga Union School District Latest & Greatest
Jan 10, 2025
Dr. Kenneth Geisick began his role as Superintendent of Saratoga Union School District on September 3, 2019. Dr. Geisick most recently served as the Superintendent of Schools in the Orland Joint Unified School District in Orland, CA. “I am honored to be selected by the Board of Trustees to lead the outstanding Saratoga Union School District as the new superintendent,” Geisick said. “The district has a long tradition of excellence in providing students with an exceptional education and I look forward to building on the district’s strong foundation and many accomplishments. Coming to Saratoga will be something of a homecoming for me, I grew up in the area and attended nearby Union School District and Campbell Union High School District. And, my mother actually attended Saratoga Elementary School some years ago.” Prior to his tenure as superintendent at Orland, Geisick held positions as Chief Educational Services Officer for THINK Together, an academically oriented after-school learning program that serves over 100,000 children each year; as Superintendent of Schools in Riverbank Unified School District; and as a high school and middle school principal. Geisick began his career in education as a classroom teacher at Andrew Hill High School in San Jose, teaching social studies, English language development, and journalism. |
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Jan 10, 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Jan 14, 2025 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Jan 15, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Speaking about her book: "Save the Planet in Your Spare Time"
Jan 17, 2025
Joyce Mercado, Rotary Club of Alameda President, is available to give Rotary Clubs a presentation on her new book “Save the Planet in Your Spare Time – A Climate Protection Handbook for the Busy Person.” The book chronicles Joyce’s journey to becoming a climate protection leader in Alameda so others can learn from her experience. The book covers: · Reducing your emissions · Creating and distributing a checklist of 70 action items to protect the climate and a resource list to help individuals take action · Writing for the local press · Jumping at opportunities as they present themselves · Partnering with other organizations · Building leadership actions into your daily life · Taking political action · Presenting on climate change · Maintaining your optimism Leaders influencing others in their communities to protect the climate, community by community, is an essential element in fighting climate change and Rotarians can be an effective part of the solution to the climate crisis with the guidance in this handbook. Anyone can be such a leader, even if you have a busy life. We need thousands of leaders like you in communities nationwide and worldwide to solve the climate crisis. Together we can make a difference! Joyce Mercado’s bio: Joyce Mercado has been an effective climate activist in her community of Alameda for the last twenty years even while holding a full-time job as a Technical Sales Manager for IBM and raising two children with her husband David. Joyce is a monthly climate protection columnist for the local press, an Al Gore program-trained Climate Reality Project Leader who has given dozens of presentations on climate protection, a member of many climate protection organizations, creator of the Alameda Climate Protection Checklist and Resource List with 70 actions individuals can take and has been recognized by the City of Alameda for her climate protection leadership. The climate emergency prompted her to write this book when she retired so others could learn from her experience to become climate leaders in their communities. Joyce is a proud Rotarian having served as Community Service Chair and President of the Rotary Club of Alameda. Joyce has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Joyce went to graduate school at Princeton University to study plasma (electrically charged gas) physics for two years. Joyce decided plasma physics was not for her, attended her first on-campus interview, and got a job at IBM for the next 35 years. Joyce lives in Alameda, California with her husband David. |
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Jan 17, 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Jan 20, 2025 5:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Jan 22, 2025 10:15 AM - 10:15 AM
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The Innocence Project: Jeremy Puckett's Journey to Justice
Jan 24, 2025
Karyn Sinunu-Towery is a 30-year veteran prosecutor in Santa Clara County who has volunteered with the Innocence Center. She will tell the story of how she helped gained the freedom for Jeremy Puckett through the Center. Karyn Sinunu-Towery is the past president of the San Jose Rotary Club. The Innocence Center is an independent non-profit law firm dedicated to freeing the innocent from prison, educating the public on the causes of wrongful conviction, and assisting freed clients as they reenter society. The Innocence Center launched in 2023. The Board and Staff have decades of innocence work under their belt, all having worked at the California Innocence Project as a staff or faculty member. Collectively, the group has freed more than 40 people who have served 560+ years in prison for crimes they did not commit. The team has been responsible for getting a dozen laws changed to prevent future injustices and make it easier to free the innocent. The Innocence Center is a member of the Innocence Network. |
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Jan 24, 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Jan 29, 2025 10:15 AM - 10:15 AM
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Jan 31, 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Around the World: Flight to End Polio
Feb 07, 2025
Cousins Peter Teahen and John Ockenfels, piloted a single piston-engine airplane around the world in 2023 to raise awareness and money for Rotary’s End Polio Now program. The flight took 90-days, made 37 landings in 19 countries, and involved 24 fundraisers. Only 702 pilots in history have ever achieved this feat, and less than 270 are alive today! Both Peter and John are longtime Rotarians and members of the International Fellowship of Flying Rotarians. They are both recipients of Rotary’s two highest honors, “Service Above Self”, and the “Service Award for A Polio Free World”. As pilots, they have qualified for the prestigious Circumnavigator Diploma from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. Peter and John departed Cedar Rapids, Iowa on May 5, 2023 in their 1977 Cessna T210M airplane, and successfully returned home 90-days later on July 30. Today Peter and John will share their powerful story of: “Around the World: Flight To End Polio”. |
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Feb 07, 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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