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Jun 23, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Dana Gajda is a business manager (M.B.A), entrepreneur, and a Past President of the Rotary Club of Paradise. She is also a veteran of the Army, where she served as an Instructor. She lives in Paradise and has been involved in community projects, and most recently serving as Chair of the Hope Plaza Committee. Greg Melton, owner and Principal Landscape Architect of Melton Design Group, has been planning and designing award-winning landscapes for over 25 years. A graduate of both Chico State and UC Davis, Greg is also a member of Chico's Sunrise Rotary Club and has done numerous local projects include Chico City Plaza and Caper Acres. |
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Jun 30, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Jul 14, 2020 7:30 AM
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Jul 14, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Jul 21, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Anthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute. Watts has been in the weather business both in front of, and behind the camera as an on-air television meteorologist since 1978, and locally for KHSL-TV/ActionNewsNow since 1987. He currently does daily radio forecasts for KPAY Newstalk 93.9 FM. Watts has created weather graphics presentation systems for television, specialized weather instrumentation, as well as co-authored peer-reviewed scientific papers on climate issues. He operates the most viewed website in the world on climate, the award-winning website wattsupwiththat.com.He has been a Chico Rotarian and has served on the Chico Unified School board. |
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Jul 28, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Tim O'Connell is the President, CEO and CTO of Rescue 42, a 25-year manufacturer of Fire/Rescue and Mobile Communications equipment headquartered in Chico, CA. Tim is a graduate of Chico State University, a former Nuclear Engineer on Fast-Attack Submarines and has been a Volunteer Firefighter with the Butte County Fire Department for over 35 years. Tim holds 7 United States Patents with several more pending. |
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Aug 04, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Jake Mangus - Jake Mangas has been the President & CEO of the Redding Chamber of Commerce since 2016. Since then, Jake has grown the Chamber to now serve 1175 business members. He recognizes that the health of the business community, and that of the greater community are one in the same. Jake is also the CEO of the Chamber's 501(c)3 the Forward Redding Foundation, which has served as the vehicle for the transformative "Redding City Identity Project" and is the current president of the Rotary Club of Redding. Jake and his wife, Janet, have been married for 15 years and have chosen Redding as the place to raise their 3 children: Joe (19), Coby (10), and Siena (7). |
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Aug 11, 2020 7:30 AM
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Aug 18, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
James Lewis - The Polio Virus has been on our planet for at least 4,000 years. Killing, crippling children and adults all of this time. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President of the United States was the first president who was suffering from the effects of Polio which he came down with in 1921, he was only 39 years of age. his legs were paralized. Under his leadership it started a campaign called the March of Dimes. Mothers would walk the neighborhoods collecting dimes for polio. As with COVID-19 there was no vaccine, but that changed by two wonderful doctors, both came up with the polio vaccine, 4 years apart, but both have changed the world when it comes to polio eradication. My program will address "Life After Polio, Past, Present and Future"
I look forward to speaking to your Rotary Club, as a Polio survivor, it is an honor and a privilage. |
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Aug 25, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lt Colonel Jose Ariza is an Instructor and Evaluator Pilot in the California Air National Guard. He has held numerous active positions as a member of the 146th Airlift Wing, most recently he served as the Director of Operations for the 146th Operations Support Squadron, Channel Islands Air National Guard Base. Lt Colonel Jose Ariza enlisted in the Air Force in 1994 and served as a Weather Observer. After four years ona ctive duty he transferred to the Florida NAtional Guard, while completing his degree from the University of Central Florida. He transitioned to the California Air National Guard in 2004 and received his wings in 2006. Between 2006 and 2017, he deployed numerous times, flying more than 500 combat sorties to Afghanistan, Germany and Kuwait in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and IHERENT RESOLVE. Lt Colonel Ariza is a Senior Pilot, Instructor, and Evaluator with more than 3500 hours in C-130J aircraft. He has amassed over 750 combat hours in 450 combat missions. He is qualified as a Modular Aerial Firefighting System (MAFFS) Instructor Pilot and has previously served as a deployed Chief of Tactics and aerial firefighting Mission Commander. He is a First Officer with Southwest Airlines and lives in Camarillo, CA with his wife, Tess, of Chico, CA, and two sons, Julian and Travis and a daughter, Jordyn. |
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Sep 01, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Mark Roberts joined the Rotary Club of Lamorinda Sunrise in April 2009. In the late 1970s, he was a charter member and second president of the University of San Francisco Rotaract Club where he enjoyed attending meetings of Rotary Club #2.
Mark served as Lamorinda Sunrise club service director. He was named club Rotarian of the Year before becoming president in 2012-13. He has served District 5160 as Assistant Governor. He is a “charter member” of the district’s Training Cadre.
In 2017-18, Mark was Rotary Foundation Committee Paul Harris Society and Major Gifts Chair. He is a Triple Crown member: Paul Harris Society, Major Donor and Bequest Society.
Mark has over 25 years of fundraising experience working for several Bay Area higher education and other non-profit institutions before retiring last year.
Committed to volunteer service, Mark has been a continuously active member of the Delta Sigma Pi professional business fraternity. He served as a central office staff member, foundation trustee and chairman, and national alumni vice president. In 2007, he received Deltasig’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mark served as board president of the Orinda Association, the California Autism Foundation, Orinda Senior Village and Senior Housing Foundation. He has been honored as Orinda’s Citizen of the Year.
Mark’s wife, Claire, also a past president of Lamorinda Sunrise, was co-chair of the Rotary 4-Way Fest Multi-District Conference in Reno in 2019. Claire remains active in Delta Sigma Pi (which is how they met), being recognized nationally for her many accomplishments.
Mark and Claire were married in 1985 and have been residents of Orinda since 1993.
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Sep 01, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Sep 08, 2020 7:30 AM
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Sep 08, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Chief Steve Standridge started in the position of Chico fire chief at the end of January,2018 He hails from Colorado, where he served for 23 years with the South Metro Fire Rescue Authority outside of Denver, most recently as emergency management division chief. That department, he says, was huge—covering 172 square miles and comprising some 300 firefighters. At 51, he’s looking forward to working with a smaller, moreintimate operation. Originally from Medford, Oregon, and with family spanning from Santa Cruz to Southern Oregon, Chico is middle ground for Steve. And with a teenager and preteen at home, being able to be outdoors in Chico is appealing.
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Sep 22, 2020 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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Sep 29, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
3 presenters - David Copp, Meaghan Likes and Patsy Inouye: David Copp is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada. PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University, 1976. Taught at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver until 1984, and subsequently at the University of Illinois, Chicago (84-87), Bowling Green State University (98-03), University of Florida (03-09), and University of California, Davis (1989-1998 and 2009-2018). Department chair at BGSU, UF (acting), and UCDavis. Retired in 2018. Member of RC Davis Sunrise since 2011. Chaired membership committee and international committee and president-elect for 2021-2022. Meaghan Likes owns 5 businesses in Northern California…. her favorite of which is her window cleaning business. And, while you wouldn't guess it from her personality, Meaghan's day "job" is working as a CPA. She is known as a disrupter in the accounting industry and her claim to fame is showing small business owners how to do their own bookkeeping correctly in less than 1 hour per month using Quickbooks Online. No accounting knowledge or experience required. Meaghan’s passion is educating and empowering other business owners across the world, to find financial freedom in their own lives. She is a proud Rotarian who volunteers on average 10 hours per week and she teaches smarter ways to make money, save money, and will inspire you to give back in meaningful ways. Four Fun Facts about Meaghan: She is the 3rd fastest female window cleaner in the world, She spends about 20 weeks a year travelling around the world, She was a Rotary youth exchange student to France in high school, and She is a proud mama to 7 chickens and a dog :) Patsy Inouye - For thirty-nine years was a librarian at UC Davis as a Government Information Librarian and then as an archivist in its Special Collection and Archives. " What a wonderful career, helping professors and students navigate through all the information of a huge library. In the beginning, it was all on catalog cards, remember those? Then we had the first computers and databases (I didn’t understand cursors!) and finally the most advanced technology. It is still changing everyday." After retirement in 2014, Patsy joined Rotary, explaining that she liked to say “yes.” and enjoyed getting to know fellow Rotarians, and helping those in need. She loved traveling to Kenya to participate in a project to give reusable sanitary pads to underprivileged. Ans she is ever so grateful that Davis Sunrise Rotary selected her to be Rotarian of the Year, 2019-2020. She is married, with two grown children and two grandchildren. |
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Oct 06, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Oct 13, 2020 7:30 AM
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Oct 13, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Robert Catalano was born in Illinois and grew up near St. Louis, Mo. He entered the Army as a 17-year-old and served in Viet Nam. After working at a variety of jobs including smoke-jumber for the U.S. Forest Service, fireman for an oil well company, and a salesman, he went back to school earning a B.S. in Secondary Education the University of Oregon and an M.S. from Portland State University in Marriage, Family and Rehab Counseling. After a private practice in Salem, Oregon serving mainly teenagers and their families, veterans and victims of sexual abuse, he retired as a result of an Agent Orange-related disease. He has been a California resident for 19 years and a resident of Butte Creek Canyon for 11 years. He is past president of the Centerville Recreation and Historical Association. As current president of the Honey Run Covered Bridge Association, Robert has led efforts to rebuild the 131-year-old Honey Run Covered Bridge which was destroyed in the November 8, 2018 Camp Fire. The Covered Bridge had been owned by Butte County which determined it has no funds for the rebuild. FEMA would only reimburse. In early 2019, the nonprofit Honey Run Covered Bridge Association stepped in to assume responsibility for Bridge ownership and rebuilding the Bridge with private donations. With donations from hundreds of individuals and businesses and grants from the Rotary Clubs of Chico, Durham, and Paradise, the North Valley Community Foundation, the local Foor Foundation, and companies that completed Camp Fire debris removal, and after completion of an arduous permitting process from County, State and Federal agencies, Phase 1 of rebuilding the Covered Bridge is now underway and will be completed within a few weeks. This includes grading, abutments, foundations, and columns. If funding allows, Phase 2 will start in 2021 and will include flooring and trusses. Phase 3, siding and roofing, will follow in 2022, pending funding. Robert’s presentation will include a brief history of the Honey Run Covered Bridge, its importance in Butte County and Northern California, and steps underway to rebuild the Bridge. |
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Oct 20, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Jason Schwenkler has over 25 years’ experience in GIS analysis, project development and management, strategic planning and leadership, and relationship cultivation and stewardship. Jason works in partnership with local, state, federal and nonprofit partners to meet their data gathering, mapping and analysis needs. He collaborates with faculty to identify partnerships where geographic information systems can contribute to faculty research interests and develops joint funding proposals. Jason identifies internship opportunities in the center’s grants and contracts wherever possible, providing opportunities for real world experience for CSU, Chico students. Additionally, he mentors other CSU campuses to develop GIS-based centers, and works with local, state, federal and academic organizations to develop business analyses and provide recommendations on integration of GIS into organizational structures and workflow processes. Jason’s publication topics include wireless broadband measurement, scientific indexing of water pollution, and riparian restoration. He has presented at numerous conferences throughout his career. |
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Oct 24, 2020 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Oct 27, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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Oct 30, 2020 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Nov 03, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Katie Simmons I was hired in 2008 as the executive director of the Paradise Ridge Chamber of Commerce. I was from the Bay Area, and I left because my parents had moved to Chico a few years earlier and I wanted to slow down. I had the opportunity to live and work in Paradise and work with Chuck Rough and Lauren Gill. I really fell in love with it. I also went through the Humboldt fire with the town both as a resident and on the periphery of the emergency operations at the town. We as a chamber had the opportunity to assist the community with messaging and connecting them with resources. I then moved down to Chico and spent seven years as president and CEO of the Chico Chamber of Commerce. During those seven years I got to know economic and social fabric on the region, and the importance the region serves for the North State in terms of supplies, services, homes. I was actually chair of the urgent response task force, at the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, and I helped coordinate a lot of across chambers in the country when they were dealing with disasters, school shootings to floods to hurricanes. Then, in 2018, I joined the Associated General Contractors of California, and I really got a great view on what it means to be in construction. With economic development, community awareness, and construction, I think I really have a lot to bring to Paradise. |
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Nov 10, 2020 7:30 AM
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Nov 10, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Chief Madden has been with the Chico Police Department for 23 years, and most recently, took over as interim chief in early June. Matt has served in almost every sworn position from police officer up to chief. He is a Paradise native, and is very serious about building a strong relationship between the community and the department. |
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Nov 17, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
James Gallagher has represented California’s Third Assembly District since 2014. Before joining the Assembly, he served on the Sutter County Board of Supervisors for six years. James earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at UC Berkeley before completing an Assembly Fellowship in Sacramento and a law degree at UC Davis, where he graduated at the top of his class. He advocates for small businesses and farmers in his law practice and is a partner in his family’s farming operation. James is married to his high school sweetheart, Janna; the two live in Sutter County where they are raising their five young children. |
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Nov 19, 2020 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Nov 21, 2020 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Chico Noon Rotary WorkdayRotary Centennial Park Saturday, November 21st at 8 AM
Work commences at 8 AM and with many hands should easily be finished by noon The Project: Building 1,300 ft. of split rail fenicing Please bring:
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Dec 01, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
District Governor Jon Dwyer (Bonnie) Jon joined Rotary in 2005 as a member of the Benicia Rotary Club, served on the Club’s Board in several positions prior to being President in 2009 – 2010. At the District level, Jon served as Assistant Governor for the Diablo Valley Eight in 2012 – 2013, and the Solano County 10 +1 Clubs in 2013 – 2015 and as District trainer in 2015-2017. He has been a Camp Venture Counselor since 2010, and has been responsible for the House of Friendship at our District Conferences since 2012. Jon is a 2010 graduate of the District 5160 Leadership Academy, a member of the Paul Harris Society and a Major Donor. He is an avid believer is “Enhancing the Rotary Experience for our Members” and highlighting the work that all of the Rotary Clubs are doing in their local communities. Jon was born in Bennington, Vermont, He is a 1970 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Chemical Engineering (and a “minor” in football as he was a Student Mgr. of the football team). He retired in 2008 after 30+ years in Technical Sales and Sales Mgt. for Nalco Chemical Co. His working career included 8 years of foreign assignments, two in Thailand and six in Saudi Arabia. Jon and his wife Bonnie have been married for 49 years and live in San Ramon, Ca. Bonnie is a certified Contra County Master Gardener. They have two children: Tyler and Carrie, and six grandchildren. |
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Dec 08, 2020 7:30 AM
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Dec 15, 2020 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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