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Club News
Meeting Notes from March 11, 2025
Los Gatos Rotary Meeting notes The Cat Tale
 
Vice President Greg Gentille opened the meeting at 12:30, filling in for Doug Brent.
 
John Pencer led us in the pledge of allegiance.
 
Guests
  • Richard Bobis introduced his sister Nancy from Florence, Italy
  • Andrew Howard introduced his friend Cyrus Fazeli
  • Nava Fathi introduced Eric Cennich, here with Bliss Zin
 
Judy Rodriguez gave our inspiration
She is focusing on our core values this month. Today’s message is that we are all different but we take those differences and mobilize them for the good of our community. We give gratitude for both our individuality and our common bond.
 
Greg announced our March birthdays and membership anniversaries
 
Thank you to all who served dinner at JW House. We were able to assist people who have family members with extended stays at Kaiser Hospital. Thank you Nancy, John, Lissa, Jeff, Nicolette, and friends!
 
The eggs for St Lukes Tuesday breakfast were decorated with a St Patrick's Day theme.
 
 
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Meeting Notes from February 25, 2025
Los Gatos Rotary Meeting notes The Cat Tale
 
Doug Brent began the meeting at 12:30pm 
 
Pledge: Ron Cassal 
 
 
 
Inspiration: Dan Snyder talked about an education seminar he went to and the speaker spoke about happiness. Some tips from the session: social interaction is vital to happiness. Sharing with others makes people happier. Make a list of things for which we are grateful. Express gratitude to others. Focus on what makes us happy. Make time for happiness, develop healthy practices such as exercise and be present in the moment. 
 
Visiting Rotarians: Barbara Chapman and Helena Davis from Cupertino Rotary. Kohinoor from Los Gatos morning Rotary and Mary Pelican, the Ambassador of fun and the sister of Carol Goedde, from Niles Fremont Rotary. 
Guests: Shawna Rodgers, daughter of Teri Rodgers, Sami Malik, guest of Sergio Michel, Alex Bonev, Stefka Bonev’s son, and Dinah Cotton, writer for the Los Gatan. 
 
 
 
 
St. Luke’s Eggs: Beautiful spring themed eggs from Randy and Kathie. 
 
 
Thank you notes were received from Grateful Garment and Project Amigo for our club’s support. 

 

Red Badge Presentation:

Carol Goedde was welcomed into our Club and Gae LaTorre presented her with her Red Badge. 
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Meeting Notes from February 11, 2025
Los Gatos Rotary Meeting notes The Cat Tale
 
President Doug Brent opened the meeting at 12:30
 
Sergio Michel led the flag salute
 

Visitors

  • Ina from Spain and Caleb from Los Gatos, newlyweds now living in Los Gatos
  • Kim Thorton, who is checking out our club
  • Sam Kotmel, Maja Nelson, Jennifer Zumarraga, Joseph Sandoval, Katie Kehriotis, and Kim Thorton from El Camino’s Aspire program
 

Inspiration

Dan Snyder led the inspiration by sharing an Ask Amy column. When she retired she wrote how to lead a good life: Show up for people, be gentle with yourself and others, lead with kindness and recognize kindness in others, reserve your harshest judgement, be of service, express your feelings, ask for forgiveness.
 

Fundraising

Doug Brent shared a video slideshow of the Crabfest and David Wells said we will announce full financial results soon. Then John Pencer auctioned off crab cakes and steaks with leftover crab from the crabfest and made over $1000 MORE dollars right there in our meeting!
 

Service opportunities

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Meeting Notes from February 18, 2025
Los Gatos Rotary Meeting notes The Cat Tale
 
Meeting called to order by President Doug Brent at 12:30pm.
 
Doug Brent led the pledge of allegiance.
 
John Pencer gave our inspirational message about advice for life by Amy Dickinson.
Recognize small blessings and express gratitude, be kind to anyone who needs to physically touch or serve you in order to do their job, understand that there are times when it is necessary to give up, spend time in nature, explore your core ethical and/or spiritual beliefs, respect boundaries—yours and others, seek counsel of people wiser than you are and ask their advice and listen.
John concluded with some of the most important statements anyone can make:
  • I need help.
  • I’m sorry.
  • I forgive you.
  • I love you, just as you are.
 

VISITORS

  • Carol Goedde of San Jose Rotary Silicon Valley, soon to be a member of LG Rotary.
  • Sandra Jewett, San Jose Rotary.
  • Stephanie Figeira, sister of Nicolette; PVI director of nutrition services
  • Bruce Frambach, RotaCare
  • Alexander Bonev, interact club president
  • Joshua Michel and Drew Farley, seniors at Bellarmine
 
 
 

Decorated eggs St. Luke's Pantry—NBA Allstars
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We meet most Tuesdays, 12:00-1:30PM at
Shir Hadash
20 Cherry Blossom Lane
Los Gatos CA 95032

Upcoming Events
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Centennial Video
Our club is celebrating 100 years of service in our community. Check this out to see what we've been up to!
Weekly Meeting/Speaker Schedule
Local High School Juniors
Mar 18, 2025
Enterprise Leadership Conference (ELC) Presentation
Ben Taylor, General Manager of the San Jose Giants
Mar 25, 2025
The World of Minor League Baseball
Matt Braker, County Prosecutor
Apr 08, 2025
Unlocking Justice: Solving Cold Cases and the Stories Behind Them
Ewell Sterner, Founder Hunger at Home
Apr 15, 2025
Bridging the Gap between Food and Hunger: The Astonishing Need for Help in Silicon Valley
Herbert Lin PhD, Fellow Cyber Policy at Stanford
Apr 22, 2025
Digital Conflict Through the Lens of National Security
Brennan Bowen, Owner Golden Gate Cookie Co.
Apr 29, 2025
Chocolate and the Cookie that Made it Famous
Pasquale Esposito, Musician
May 13, 2025
America - The Land of Opportunity!
In-Meeting Service Project
May 20, 2025
Making Pet Blankets for the Humane Society of Silicon Valley
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Our Long List of Service to the Community!
We fed families burdened by extended hospital stays at JW House in August 2024.
 
We assembled hygiene kits in May 2024 for the Catholic Charities Shower of Hope Mobile Van bringing hot showers to the unhoused population in East San Jose.
 
We raised over $14,000 at our February 2024 CrabFest for the Bill Wilson Center Safety Net Shelter for at-risk youth.
 
Every year, we partner with Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley to help fix up a home in our area.
 
Each Fall, we stuff back packs full of essential back-to-school supplies for underprivileged kids.
 
Each year, we help prepare 30,000 meal packs for Rise Against Hunger.
 
We assembled activity kits for isolation patients at El Camino Hospital in February 2023.
 
We helped prepare materials for solar kits for Lighting For Literacy in December 2022.
 
Each holiday season, we donate hundreds of toys for Toys For Tots.
 
We volunteer every year at Second Harvest Food Bank.
 
We volunteer to clean up the Los Gatos Creek.
 
We donated then sorted hundreds of books for children being treated at Stanford Children's Hospital.
 
Every week, we donate food to the homeless at St. Luke's Church Los Gatos.
 
Here we are packing PPE equipment for the elderly at one of our Summer 2022 meetings. 
 
Our Leigh High School Rotary Interact students volunteering at Second Harvest.
 
We donated bikes to Good Karma.
 
We sorting items donated for fire evacuees in Summer 2020.
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