Events

We celebrate the winners of our Spring 2024 Club Grant awards!

President Sherri Simoni will lead the club in the final club assembly of her presidential year.

President Beth McCormick will lead us in our first club assembly of the 2024-25 Rotary Year, celebrating the theme, "The Magic of Rotary." All members are encouraged to attend and participate in this launch of the new year.

We are proud to welcome the District 5170 Governor, our own Jill Duerig, to lead our meeting and share her vision of The Magic of Rotary in the upcoming year. All members and guests are welcome!

Melanie is a driving evaluator who specializes in evaluating older drivers and their skillsets. She is a Licensed Driving Instructor and Driver Rehabilitation Professional (DRP).  Melanie is the author of the best-selling book Difficult Aging in Place Conversations, and is a speaker on the topics of aging and driving. 

We are looking forward to hearing from her at our meeting on July 23!

For more information, please visit the Driver Cognitive Assessment Center website.

We are excited to welcome the students our club sent to RYLA, the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards camp. We will hear what they learned and how they grew as young leaders. 

Huge thanks to Suzanne Richerson, our Youth Services Chair, for her leadership and guidance for these students.

Club members and RFL board members Dennis Gambs, Rich Goldstein, and Philomena Rambo, will share an overview of the Rotarian Foundation of Livermore and answer any questions members may have. The RFL is the 501(c)(3) organization that is shared by our club and the noon club. Together, we run the RFL and guide its generous support of our community.

Any red badgers should plan on attending this meeting to meet a Blue Badge requirement. All others will enjoy the refresher.

We welcome Bob Jacobs, who will share insights from 18 months of international service in West Africa.

We will meet at Five Rivers Aviation at the Livermore Airport to take a tour of the facility, led by Five Rivers Aviation owner, Pete Sandhu.

Please plan to be at Five Rivers, 700 Terminal Circle, Livermore, CA 94551 by 8:00 on Tuesday morning. (We will not meet at Las Positas College.)

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—or PFAS—have quickly positioned themselves as one of the leading public health crises of our time thanks to their potential health effects and widespread presence. Dubbed “forever chemicals” due to their near-indestructible nature, they have been in use in a wide variety of consumer goods and industrial applications for decades. And now, PFAS compounds are turning up in drinking water worldwide. (Source: TapScore)

We welcome back our partner and Alameda County Master Gardener Laura Cornett, who will give us a tour of LPC's Horticulture Center. 

Fellow Rotarian and Rotary Foundation Chair George Wineinger will provide us with an overview of the amazing work of the Rotary Foundation. The nonprofit arm of Rotary International, the Rotary Foundation has a global reach of support and service.

We will walk across the parking lot to meet in the new Viticulture Facility and learn from David Bramlett about the Viticulture Program at Las Positas College.

We welcome Dr. David Rakestraw, from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who will reveal the physics behind the iPhone - Why the iPhone worked after a 15,000 foot fall! We will learn some of the unknown capabilities of the iPhone as a tool for STEM.

Please download the app phyphox before the meeting so that you can be fully engaged during the presentation.

We will learn about the Shiva-Vishnu Temple and the community and cultural center that surrounds it. Our speaker, Gaurav Rastogi, is a Silicon Valley Executive with extensive experience in leading large-scale sales transformations for high-growth companies. Gaurav focuses on three areas: #Technology, #Transformation, #Spirituality.  He is also the author of “Global Business in the Age of Destruction and Distraction” (Oxford 2022).

Gaurav has been a Dhyana meditation and yoga teacher (ERYT500®) in Silicon Valley for over ten years. He has founded two learning non-profit organizations and is frequently invited to speak at events and conferences on the practices and philosophy of Yoga and Hinduism. Mr. Rastogi teaches the Yoga of Living Deeply®, an authentic yoga system designed for the modern world. At the Living Deeply Foundation, he has developed practical study guides based on the Bhagavad Gita and Vedanta philosophy, bringing this ancient wisdom into practical language. He is a co-founder and Board Member of a global service learning institute (https://hsciglobal.org) and teaches/advises programs at reputed educational institutions such as Ashoka University, GTU (https://www.gtu.edu/about/board-trustees), the Chaplaincy Institute (https://chaplaincyinstitute.org/).

Our meeting will be at Las Positas College. Following the regular meeting, club members are invited to visit the Temple for a tour. (1232 Arrowhead Ave, Livermore, 94551)

In honor of Veterans Day, we will have the opportunity to meet four veterans from Las Positas College's nationally recognized Veterans First program. They will share their journeys from active duty to college and the importance of community support.

We welcome Roland Williams, from Castro Valley Sanitary District, who will explain the purpose of special districts.

We are proud to be able to support our schools and community nonprofits by giving grants to further their work, aligned with our mission. All members and guests are invited to share in this uplifting meeting.

We welcome Carrie Olds, Program Manager, to share about the important role of Spectrum's Meals on Wheels program.