This coming Thursday, the meeting at the Rotary Club of San Jose East/Evergreen will be one you do not want to miss. There will be an interesting variety of topics that make Rotary meetings the place to be for lunch. It is packed with a greater variety than most Rotary meetings have.
August 10 the speaker is Dave Cortese, President of the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County. He will be discussing the state of the county and related major issues involving homelessness and immigration.
We will have 7 Rotarians from Okayama-East Rotary Club in Japan visiting. It is part of their celebrating 60 years of Sister City with San Jose. They invited me to attend a concert today which included members of the Okayama Junior Orchestra and San Jose Youth Orchestra. Okayama-East Rotarians were one of the sponsors to bring the orchestra from Japan. That is incredible Rotarian spirit.
In addition there will be a young man (soon to be high school senior) who just returned from a 10 month stay in Japan to address our visiting Rotarians. He was sent as a Rotary Youth Exchange student by our own Rotary District 5170.
We will also have an overview of a Rotary grant we are writing to fund a robotics competition in East Side Union High School District schools. The grant will end up between $30,000 and $50,000. The competition will be held on the Evergreen Valley College campus. The competition and the college setting will raise the self-confidence of the students. This will help give students from an economically challenged area of Silicon Valley a chance at leveling the playing field.
From my perspective as a dyed in the wool Rotarian, I am very much looking forward to this meeting.
Rotary Club of San Jose East/Evergreen meets at the Ranch Golf Club, 4601 Hill Top View Ln, San Jose, CA 95138. People start to arrive at 12:00 noon. I will be starting the meeting by 12:15 pm. The speaker begins 1:00 pm. There will be a $20.00 cost for lunch. If you do not wish lunch, the cost is $10.00.
Hope to see you there………