Events

Join us for a presentation by local law enforcement about our town's K9 unit. We might even get a visit from some 4-legged members of the team!

Drs. Tom Caruso and Ellen Wang are Clinical Professors of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. They co-direct the Stanford Chariot Program, which pioneered the use of immersive, virtual reality (VR) to minimize pain and anxiety that children experience during medical procedures. Join us for this fascinating journey into the world of VR for use in pediatric anesthesia.

Mike Ricci plain and simple is a hockey guy! Born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario. He did what all Canadian boys did-play hockey, starting with a minor hockey team at the age of 13 and then quickly moving on to the Ontario Hockey Leagues Peterborough Petes. He played soccer too. His dad was a professional soccer player in Italy.

Mike went on to be drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers, later moved to the Colorado Avalanche, won a Stanley Cup and, in 1997, joined the Sharks where San Jose fell in love with him. We lost him in 2005 to the Phoenix Coyote. He retired in 2007 and then came back to the Sharks front office and is now a scout and development coach with the organization. Does he have stories to share! Find out how many teeth he lost playing hockey! And much more!

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 and is a longtime leader in the Bay Area with twelve years of service in the San Mateo County Community College District.  She will talk about the challenges today’s students face - beyond just academics - and the many ways that West Valley College is responding and supporting them.

Carl Salas is a founding principal of Salas O'Brien, a position held since October 1976. Prior to this role, Carl Salas worked as an engineer in the Nuclear Energy Division at General Electric from June 1974 to September 1976. His talk covers a history of San Jose’s nuclear pioneers, how the Three Mile Island disaster froze the adoption of nuclear energy, and todays resurgence of the technology.

Ryan Rosenberg is a Los Gatos Rotarian and chair of the Los Gatos Community Center Campaign. Most towns in the Bay Area have a modern community center that serves all ages, but not Los Gatos. Ryan will discuss the background of community centers in Los Gatos, look at centers in other communities, and discuss the efforts (so far) to bring a new intergenerational community center to our town.