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We meet regularly to not only form bonds and friendships, but we also strive to improve lives locally and around the world. We invite you to be our guest at one of our meetings, and share with you the benefits of membership. We meet Tuesday at 7:00 PM at the Wood Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley. At our meetings, you can always count on good food, an interesting program, and great fellowship.

Stephen Silver - Cartoonist

Posted by Ryan Mills on Dec 17, 2019

Stephen Silver is a professional British artist, cartoonist and character designer. He is best known as the lead character designer for the animated series "Kim Possible." He's worked on much more and is also an Art Instructor. This evening, he shared how he got into this career and then we had a little fun. He gave us a quick tutorial on some character work and for about 15 minutes we were all his students. Again, it's surprising to see the amount of talent we have in our club.

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Simi Sunset Christmas Party

Posted by Ryan Mills on Dec 14, 2019

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(More photos coming soon. Check again later. Also, upload your own!)

Max Copenhagen - Ventura County Civil Grand Jury

Posted by Ryan Mills on Dec 10, 2019

Max Copenhagen and his colleague are Grand Jurors in Ventura County. They came to share exactly what they do as a Grand Juror and how to become one. Per the County of Ventura... By law, to become a grand juror a person must: (1) be a citizen of the United States, 18 years of age or older; (2) have been a resident of Ventura County for one year immediately prior to being selected; (3) be of ordinary intelligence, sound judgment, and good character; and (4) have sufficient knowledge of English to understand and report grand jury business. A person may not serve on the grand jury if he or she: (1) is currently serving as a trial juror; (2) has been discharged as a grand juror in any court in California within one year; (3) has been convicted of misconduct in office or any felony or high crime; or (4) is serving as an elected public officer.

Gabe Solberg - DISC Personality Assessment

Posted by Ryan Mills on Dec 03, 2019

Gabe Solberg is a Senior Learning Specialist at Cydcor. Cydcor is a company that helps their clients obtain and retain customers. Part of Gabe's positition at Cydcor is to help staff with understanding of different personality traits and human behavior. Pyschologists believe that understanding personality traits will help build better relationships at work, home, and every day life. Before the meeting began, Gabe had us all take a quick assessment using DISC. DISC is a behavior assessment tool based on the DISC theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston, which centers on four different personality traits which are currently Dominance (D), Influence (I), Steadiness (S), and Conscientiousness (C). During the meeting Gabe explained to us what our results meant. Quite interesting to hear everyone's results and how they relate to our actual relationships.

New Member - Gary Paul

Posted by Ryan Mills on Dec 03, 2019

Tonight we inducted a new member. Please welcome, Rotarian Gary Paul!

YMCA Painting Project

Posted by Ryan Mills on Nov 24, 2019

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Vanessa Bechtel - 2020 Census

Posted by Ryan Mills on Nov 19, 2019

Ventura County has been identified as one of the most at-risk counties in the nation for an undercount in the 2020 Census (59th out of over 3,000 respectively). Each person that is not counted is a loss of $2,000 per person/per year for ten years. Literally, hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake for the programs that help bridge gaps in our society and allow all to live in dignity. Vanessa Bechtel serves as the President and CEO of the Ventura County Community Foundation, but tonight she came to us to help spread a message -- Fill out those census forms! She claims that the accuracy of the forms will help Ventura County financially.

2020-21 Board of Directors

Posted by Ryan Mills on Nov 19, 2019

President: Mark Lowry
Past President: Joe Grossman

President Elect: Stephanie Sieminski
Secretary: Stephanie Angeli
Treasurer: Amanda Wilson
Sgt At Arms: Paula Miller
Club Service: Mike Kort
Community Service: Linda Ferry
International Service: Lizzy Whitlock
Vocational Service: Loren DeLotell
Youth Service: Terry Talley
Director at Large (Communications): Ryan Mills
Director at Large: Jill Haney
Membership Chair: Reed Galloway
Foundation Chair: Richard Grossman

Congrats to the upcoming Board!

YES!

Posted by Ryan Mills on Nov 16, 2019

Rob Sherman and Stephanie Sieminski at YES! 2019.

Brick Connors - Fighter Pilot Parent

Posted by Ryan Mills on Nov 12, 2019

Retired US Navy Captain Brad “Brick” Connors is a former Navy Strike Fighter Pilot and amassed over 4,500 hours and over 1,000 carrier landings during multiple combat deployments. He was the Commanding Officer at Naval Base Ventura County for more than 3 years before he retired. He also has written a book called Fighter Pilot Parent that is available on Amazon. Tonight he told some heroic stories of other fighter pilots that he looked up to and a little bit about his deployments. He links he leadership in the air to parenting his 4 children. "Every parent wants the same: to have our children take off into the world and its adventures, but to return home safely at the end of the day." After the meeting our club was so enthralled by his stories, that Brick stayed for a book signing.