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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Mar
26

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

 Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series 

In-person at Toby’s Feed Barn Art Gallery, Point Reyes Station. Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email
info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com

Robert Marshall, former President of the Rotary Club of Novato and President of H2OpenDoors, and Charles Nichol, former President of the Rotary Club of West Marin and an immigration attorney, discuss a water purification project they installed in Ecuador in January 2025. For more information, visit  https://h2opendoors.org

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Mar
5

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

 Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series | In-Person Only | Everyone is welcome!

Joanne Pillsbury, the Andrall E. Pearson Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses Nelson Rockefeller and the Politics of Art.

Pillsbury (PhD,  Columbia University) is a specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas and was previously associate director of the Getty Research Institute and director of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. She has published widely, including Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530–1900; the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award recipients Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks (2012) and Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art (2022); and Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas (2012), which was awarded the Association for Latin American Art Book Award. Her 2017 exhibition catalogue, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas (prepared with Timothy Potts and Kim Richter), won a PROSE Award for Excellence. A podcast related to this project is available here.

Nelson A. Rockefeller and Frida Kahlo at Tizapán, home of the artists Miguel and Rosa Covarrubias, outside of Mexico City, 1943. Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center.

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Feb
26

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

 Rotary Club of West Marin Online Speaker Series | In Person and Via Zoom

Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Meadow Evans is a birth doula, massage therapist, and environmental educator working with students at Bolinas-Stinson School. She lives in Bolinas with her husband, Keith, and son, Emrys. Meadow played a key role in developing Young Stewards, an outdoor afterschool program inspired by Veena Lucas' vision, and has been deeply involved since its launch in 2017-18.

Presenting to the Rotary Club of West Marin, Meadow will share insights into Young Stewards of the Land, a program for 5th–8th graders focused on self-stewardship, land stewardship, and community care. Through hands-on learning with local specialists in the West Marin outdoors, students develop skills that connect them to nature and their community. Earth Allies, a similar program, extends this approach to younger students.

The program fosters mentorship between college, middle school, and elementary students, guided by Program Coordinators. Each week, students explore Bolinas, engaging with specialists who introduce skills and knowledge at the intersection of human experience and the natural world.

Learn more at patreon.com/bostinysl/about.

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Feb
12

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

 Rotary Club of West Marin Online Speaker Series | In Person and Via Zoom

Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Alison Healy, a Marin County native, is a nonprofit leader and entrepreneur. During the pandemic, she co-founded Bay Area Marine Services and serves as Commodore of the International Yachting Fellowship of Rotarians (IYFR). As former CEO of Alliance for Smiles, she oversaw numerous international Rotary grants and missions.

Presenting to the Rotary Club of West Marin, Alison will share updates on her nonprofit, Pathways 4 Thriving, particularly its work with Floating Doctors, which provides medical care to 8,000 indigenous Ngäbe people in Panama. These communities, accessible only by water, rely on Floating Doctors for healthcare, including maternal health, family planning, dental, and veterinary services. The program has significantly reduced birth rates and improved health outcomes.

Pathways 4 Thriving collaborates with local organizations to support economic development, health, and sustainability through Rotary grants. Floating Doctors also offers a seven-day Immersion Program, where volunteers contribute to clinics while learning about Ngäbe culture.

Alison will sell handmade bags from Colombia to raise funds for this mission. Learn more at pathways4thriving.org.

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Jan
29

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

 Rotary Club of West Marin Online Speaker Series | Via Zoom

Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Marlene Capra will speak about  SPEAK SAFE: Save Adolescents from Exploitation. SPEAK SAFE is a multigenerational task force working together to bring awareness to youth exploitation and victimization in our local Marin County community. We are engaging decision-makers in our school boards, the foster care system, LBGTQ+ communities, and more to advocate for unrepresented and underserved youth. By collaborating with local law enforcement officials, we can gather targeted data and information on local cases, keeping our education programming and seminars current and hyper-relevant to the Marin County area.


Marlene Capra is the Founder and Executive Director of SpeakSAFE
: Save Adolescents from Exploitation, which aims to fund and implement a collaborative approach to provide preventative education on human trafficking and exploitation of youth in the Bay Area. In addition to managing all aspects of the program, Marlene personally conducts training in conjunction with a youth team, all of whom are survivors of abuse. Both in person and on social media, they present on exploitation and the victimization of youth and what support is needed to encourage them to find their voices and come forward, enabling them to find assistance and healing.  Through this forum, victims have mobilized their voices in partnership to make lasting change while working together on this initiative.

Learn more at  www.speaksafe.org.

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Jan
15

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

 Rotary Club of West Marin Online Speaker Series | In Person and via Zoom

Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Roy Pitts speaks about the Point Reyes Disaster Council. Pitts is a US Coast Guard Master Mariner and has been a Fireman, Zoo Keeper, Sea Kayak Guide, Sailing Instructor, Disaster Response Supervisor, and Hovercraft Pilot. His next challenge is just around the corner.

Learn more at https://www.pointreyesdisastercouncil.org/.

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Dec
11

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

 Rotary Club of West Marin Online Speaker Series  | On Zoom Only

For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com

Jeff and Carol England speak about The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR). They are working to make climate restoration the overarching goal of climate action by the decade's end. Climate restoration means not just reducing emissions. It means reclaiming a historically safe climate for this and future generations and the nature we’re part of. We need to restore the pre-industrial climate by 2050 while Earth systems are still intact enough to do so. We know how to do so!

Restoring a safe climate requires a paradigm shift. Most people don’t yet know it’s possible, so they’re not calling for it. That’s why F4CR’s mission is to generate the understanding, social license, and will to restore the climate. This, in turn, will allow for funding and implementing real climate-restoration-scale solutions.

F4CR works through advocacy, education & communications, and motivation. Our members—volunteers of all ages and from all walks of life—make it happen!

Learn more at https://foundationforclimaterestoration.org/.

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Path of Lights
Dec
6

Path of Lights

  • Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 United States (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Lighting the Luminarias at Dusk

Kick off the holiday season and celebrate bringing light to the darkest time of the year. Join Rotarians and local merchants as we light the path.

Follow the Luminaria Path of Lights from Gallery Route One to the Dance Palace with shopping, sweet treats, music, and a surprise visit from Santa along the “path,” aka Main Street. This fun and festive event returns after a four-year hiatus. All visitors are invited to bring an unwrapped toy for the Sheriff's toy drive. Collection barrels will be at the event organizers: The Dance Palace, GRO/Gallery Route One, and Rotary Club of West Marin's hot chocolate booth at Toby's.

The Dance Palace Artisan Craft Fair will be open from 4 to 9 p.m. that night. Two children's choirs will perform at the Dance Palace and light a large oak tree there. Look for food booths by local non-profit organizations.

Download these flyers in English and Spanish and spread the word.

Email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com for more details.

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Nov
20

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

 Rotary Club of West Marin Online Speaker Series | In Person and via Zoom

Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Donene Vukovich from Donor Network West Foundation will speak about how Donor Network West saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation for transplantation and research. It is the DNW Foundation’s mission to support donor families and transplant recipients, to fund clinical innovation and research, and to educate our communities about the power of organ, eye, and tissue donation.

www.donornetworkwest.org

Donene Vukovich has worked in the health and wellness field as a running coach, massage therapist, personal trainer, and health educator.  A lifelong runner herself, she started her coaching business to help runners prepare for races while remaining injury-free, achieve personal records, and, most importantly, have fun. Donene graduated summa cum laude from Sacramento State, earning a bachelor’s degree in Health Science with an emphasis in Community Health Education. She is a USA Track & Field Level 1 Certified Coach and Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). She now works with Donor Network West at its San Ramon location.

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Nov
13
to Nov 20

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

 Rotary Club of West Marin Online Speaker Series | In Person and via Zoom

Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Lori Davis founded Sanzuma in Marin County in 2012. Thanks to generous donations, Sanzuma began by delivering solar ovens to small villages in remote regions of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Mexico. These ovens allowed villagers to cook food without cutting down trees for wood, make income, and purify their water—all without electricity or propane! Their forests would stay intact, and they would not have lung problems and burns from cooking over a smokey fire. As we expanded our solar oven program to other villages, we saw an urgent need for a basic, sustainable, healthy food system paired with nutrition education.  

​Being true to Sanzuma's motto, "Your health should not be a reflection of your economic status, " we took a closer look and found the same challenges in Marin County. Thus, Sanzuma began developing our School Farm-to-Cafeteria program. Since 2013 we have converted many existing school gardens into producing farms, taught thousands of nutrition classes while educating the students how to grow their own food. The bounty from the gardens is then processed through the San Rafael City School lunch program for their salad bars. This is all done through an environmental lens.

Sanzuma has fostered deep partnerships with Health and Human Services of Marin County, The CDFA, Giving Marin, and many others. With these partners, Sanzuma started the Farm to Student Collaborative. As a group, we have vowed to do whatever it takes to increase awareness and implement an equitable food system at all Marin County Schools through programs that are possible within each school’s constraints.

Learn more at https://www.sanzuma.org/.

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Oct
23

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

In Person and via Zoom | Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Dr. Angelo Capozzi, Founder of Rotaplast International and a member of the Rotary Club of Tiburon-Belvedere, will speak about Rotoplast and its mission to help children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and palate, burn scarring, and other deformities. Working with local professionals, Rotarians, and other organizations, Rotaplast sends multidisciplinary medical teams to provide free reconstructive surgery, ancillary treatment, and training for the comprehensive care of these children. Rotaplast supports education and research on preventing cleft lip and palate. It aims to help local professionals build sustainable models for the care of these children, improving their lives and those of their families.

In December 2023, Rotaplast sent its 258th mission and, to date, has served over 21,000 patients. Twenty-six countries have hosted Rotaplast teams, including Vietnam, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, El Salvador, Romania, China, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Brazil, Bangladesh, Mali, Togo, Liberia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Tanzania, Myanmar, and the Philippines.
www.rotaplast.org

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Oct
9

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

In Person and via Zoom | Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

David Behring, President of the Wheelchair Foundation and fellow Rotarian, will speak about his Foundation's goal to provide a free wheelchair to every child, teen and adult worldwide who needs one but cannot afford to buy one.  This organization has provided 1.2 million wheelchairs to people in 156 countries.  David has traveled to over 35 countries in the world personally delivering wheelchairs. He has always been active in community service and has been a Rotarian for over 23 years and has served as Club President and Assistant District Governor.  He also belongs to the Exchange Club of the San Ramon Valley and the Danville Area Chamber of Commerce, has served as President and the Board of the All Wars Memorial and is a longtime Board Member of Leadership San Ramon Valley.
www.wheelchairfoundation.org

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Classic Car Show in Stinson Beach
Oct
6

Classic Car Show in Stinson Beach

Start your engines and join us for the fun event benefitting the Stinson Beach Volunteer Firefighters.

Early Bird Registration: $25
Stinson Beach Volunteer Firefighters T-Shirt: $30
Sponsorships: Silver ($100), Gold ($250), or Platinum ($500)

Click here to download the flyer and spread the word!

SPONSORS
Platinum:
Highway One Properties and Seadrift Realty
Gold:
Parkside Cafe, Stinson Beach Market, and Shane Boyce Construction
Silver: John Archibald, Harriet Moss, Anne Sands, Stinson Beach Books, and Surf Lodge

All items have options; select none if you are not interested in one of them. For example, you may want to register for a car and get a t-shirt but not be a sponsor; in that case, select none on the sponsorship drop-down menu.

Classic Car Show Registration (Early Bird $25), T-Shirts ($30), and Sponsorships ($100, $250, and $500)
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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Sep
25

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

In Person and via Zoom | Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Cristina Aquino, from the Rotary Club of South San Francisco and our District 5150 PolioPlus Society Chair, will give a dynamic presentation about the Rotary International Polio eradication campaign and how we Rotarians and the general public can join the fight to End Polio Now, Worldwide...forever!

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Sep
18

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

In Person and via Zoom | Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Retired urban planner Chris Hartzell discusses the “Future of the City.” Hartzell has 40 years of experience as an urban planner. He will discuss the future of cities with particular reference to changing communications and the impacts of remote work. 

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Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series
Sep
11

Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

In Person and via Zoom | Everyone is welcome! For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com.

Ken Eichstaedt, a professional water systems engineer, will give a brief update on North Marin Water District projects that will affect West Marin.

Leslie Alden from Act Now Bay Area (formerly Drawdown Marin) is working to phase out fossil fuels in the Bay Area. She will speak about existing solutions that make it easy for everyone to take climate action—at home, at work, and in our neighborhoods. The impact of climate disruption in the San Francisco region, including devastating fires and sea level rise, puts billions of dollars at risk, affecting all nine counties, 101 cities and towns, and especially the 7.8 million people who call this region home.

Act Now Bay Area is leading the Regional 2030 Climate Challenge - a campaign to dramatically reduce the San Francisco Bay Area's greenhouse gas emissions and reach ambitious 2030 climate goals at speed and scale.

Before founding Act Now Bay Area, Leslie worked for the County of Marin for over 13 years on policy and community engagement, bringing a multi-disciplinary approach emphasizing community involvement to move climate action and sustainability policies forward. Projects included two of the nation's breakthrough climate initiatives: Marin Clean Energy, the first Community Choice Energy program in California and the first in the US focused exclusively on renewable energy, and the 2015 "Marin Here-Now-Us Project", a partnership between Marin County, Climate Access, and FEMA, which tested a virtual reality tool designed to engage the community on sea level rise. These two projects led to dramatic GHG emissions reduction, increased public awareness, significant participation by decision-makers, and encouraged innovation. She co-founded the Marin Climate Action Network in 2017, which developed and helped launch Drawdown Marin (now MarinCAN), the precursor to Act Now Bay Area.

Leslie holds a degree in education and public policy from UC Berkeley and a Public Leadership Credential from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She has served on several non-profit boards and is currently on the Board of Directors of Climate Action Now, a start-up in Silicon Valley.  She sees hope and peril in the coming decades and, borrowing from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., recognizes "the fierce urgency of now."

Check out their Resource Library  https://www.actnowbayarea.org/resources for "how to" guides.

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Heidrun Meadery Tour, Tasting, and Lunch (Fundraiser)
Aug
28

Heidrun Meadery Tour, Tasting, and Lunch (Fundraiser)

Heidrun Meadery Tour, Tasting, and Lunch (Fundraiser for West Marin Senior Services)

Come join us for a fun-filled day at Heidrun Meadery, benefitting West Marin Senior Services. Take a guided tour of our facilities and learn about the art of mead-making. Afterward, indulge in a tasting session and boxed lunch where you can sample a variety of our delicious meads. Whether you're a mead enthusiast or just looking for a unique experience, this event is perfect for anyone interested in trying something new. Don't miss out on this opportunity to explore the world of mead with the Rotary Club of West Marin members.

The cost is $75. All proceeds benefit West Marin Senior Services.

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Rotary Club of West Marin: Club Assembly
Aug
14

Rotary Club of West Marin: Club Assembly

  • Debrief on Inverness Fair Hot Dog and grilled cheese booth. Peace Garden Clean up.   

  • Sign-ups for the August 17 Rotaplast Bocce Tournament and BBQ. Marin Bocce, 550 B St., San Rafael. Let's assemble a team for a day of fun and fundraising for Rotaplast International. To make reservations, click here.

  • Final planning for the August 28 Heidrun Meadery event to benefit West Marin Senior Services.

  • Planning for October 6 Classic Car Show to benefit Stinson Beach firefighters.

Members Only.

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Inverness Fair
Aug
10

Inverness Fair

Join us at the Inverness Fair, we are hosting a hot dog and grilled cheese sandwich booth. Learn more about the Rotary Club of West Marin and connect to the community at the family-friendly event.

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