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Make It Home: Everything You Wanted to Know About a Local Nonprofit Benefiting the Local Community
May 02, 2023 8:00 a.m.
For those transitioning out of homelessness or aging out of the foster care system, even the simplest of furniture and household goods are unaffordable. Make it Home was created to solve this problem. Make It Home furnishes homes of those in need with donated furniture and household goods. Prior to working with Make It Home, Kendall Galli spent over 3 decades educating Bay Area kids culminating in teaching high schoolers at Archie Williams. She is the proud mom of 3 twenty somethings. Similarly, Susan Brennan retired to join the Make It Home board after a long career in business in the US and Asia. She is also a proud mom of twenty something kids. |
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A Day in the Life: The Adventures of a Touring Bassist
May 31, 2023 5:30 p.m.
Special meeting at the Elks Club! Angeline will discuss her experiences as a touring musician, music educator, solo artist, and working as a female in the music industry. Musical performance included! Lifelong Marin resident Angeline Saris is a bass player, songwriter, artist, educator, and activist for women’s empowerment. Her career highlights include touring with Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer Todd Rundgren on the 2022 Celebration of Bowie Tour, and extensively with Grammy award-winning producer Narada Michael Walden (Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey), jazz-ska-reggae legend Ernest Ranglin, and all-female Zeppelin tribute Zepparella. She has released multiple solo albums, been featured on the cover of a number of publications, and teaches internationally and locally when not touring. A UC Berkeley graduate in Rhetoric, Angeline has recently launched the GROW Initiative (Global Reach of Women), an organization that seeks to raise awareness and resources to help women not just survive but thrive. |
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An Overview of Services of Ritter Center
Jun. 13, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Ritter Center prevents and resolves homelessness and improves the health, dignity and well-being of people living in poverty in Marin County by providing high-quality, culturally sensitive, easily accessible medical care and social services. Mark Shotwell has worked in health care for 30 years, emphasizing holistic care to individuals in underserved communities. He became the Executive Director of Ritter Center in 2018. His passion comes from his own personal story as a person in recovery from mental illness and substance abuse over three decades, driving his efforts to help others and champion their lives. |
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Get to Know Your Local Water District
Jul. 25, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Your drinking water is locally sourced with the majority of the supply coming from seven reservoirs located on the Mt. Tam Watershed and in the hills of west Marin. Learn about Marin Water – the municipal water district responsible for caring for those watershed lands and providing that drinking water to you and 191,000 other people around the clock 365 days a year across central and southern Marin. As the impacts of climate change, including periods of severe drought and increased threat of wildfire continue to challenge water District’s across California, learn what actions your water District is taking to ensure the resiliency of our water supply now and for future generations. Monty Schmitt was elected to serve as the Marin Water Division II Director beginning in December 2020 and also currently serves as Board President. Monty is a water resources scientist and a senior project director with The Nature Conservancy’s Water Program in San Francisco. |
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Reimagining Apiculture in a Time of Crisis
Aug. 08, 2023 8:00 a.m.
The challenge: In the midst of climate collapse, our bee populations are collapsing as well. These creatures are the backbone of our ecosystems; if they perish our world will be transformed beyond recognition. Michael’s pioneering approach to apiculture and honeybee conservation has appeared in national and international magazines, books and films. He has presented his work at Harvard University & New York University, consulted for the USDA, and in 2006 developed the organization Gaia Bees to advance biodynamic practices in apiculture. In 2017 he founded Apis Arborea to preserve the life and resiliency of honeybees through wilding, that is, the promotion of self-willed ecological processes, and the use of a holistic, system- and science-based framework in working with bees. |
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Getting Your Novel Published in 2023: There’s Never Been A Better Time to Be a Writer
Aug. 15, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Longtime Greenbrae resident and San Francisco attorney Sheldon Siegel is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon best-selling author of fifteen critically acclaimed legal thrillers featuring San Francisco criminal defense attorneys Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez. Sheldon’s books have been translated into a dozen languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. |
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Learning is Lifelong
Sep. 05, 2023 8:00 a.m.
We never stop learning. Leonard Weingarten, Vice President of Emeritus Students College of Marin (ESCOM), will share about ESCOM's free lifelong learning programs. Leonard had a rich history in developing, marketing and managing successful local to international business, civic and educational programs and partnerships. Activities have included two Summer Olympic Games, a Mass for Pope John Paul II, working with the Oakland Raiders, designing and teaching a marketing course to an international audience at U.C. Berkeley and helping hundreds of students have a positive introduction into the work world. |
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Art History in Iran: The Role of Research and Art in Social Justice
Sep. 12, 2023 8:00 a.m.
As an Assyrian-American who is researching the art of Assyrian minorities in Iran, Ryan will present on the experiences of writing his thesis in graduate school. He will discuss how to research in the field of art history and Iranian studies in general, the relevance of art for social justice, the history of Assyrian minorities in Iran, and what it’s like to ask family members about vulnerable stories from back home in Iran. Ryan Nazari is a candidate for the MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, having previously earned a BA in English and Philosophy at Santa Clara University and served as a Fulbright grant to teach English to university students in Yerevan, Armenia. He is currently researching Assyrian paintings in 20th-century Iran and is the sponsor for the Rotary Global Grant from San Rafael Harbor to fund his graduate school research. He loves to run, listen to jazz music, and cook pasta. This presentation will be delivered via Zoom from St Antony's College in England. |
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Miracle in the Mara
Oct. 03, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Miracle in the Mara is a memoir written by Rotarian Terry Wilson. Subtitled "An Unforgettable Story of a Young Maasai Warrior’s Vision," it is Terry's most recent achievement. He has been writing most of his life. He has spent the past 36 years as a San Carlos Rotarian. He has been involved in many Rotary projects and services over the years, but it was his visits to the Mara in southwest Kenya that led to his biggest accomplishment in spreading the word about the Maasai culture. |
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Highlights and History from the First International Rotary Archiotour of Sardinia
Oct. 17, 2023 8:00 a.m.
Linda and Neal Birnbaum met at Ohio State University and have been married 52 years. Linda joined Mission San Rafael Rotary two and a half years ago and serves as Chair of the Youth Committee. This year, besides the Rotary trip to Sardinia, Linda participated in a Rotary service trip to Uganda and worked at the RYLA summer camp with 150 high school students. Linda has had years of service as a volunteer and retired after 7 years as an Assistant Principal at Casa Grande High School in Petaluma. Since 1977, Neal has practiced as a rheumatologist in San Francisco, where he remains managing partner of Pacific Rheumatology Associates. Chief of Rheumatology since 1983, he twice served as Chief of Staff at California Pacific Medical Center and is a clinical Professor at UCSF. Neal was President of the American College of Rheumatology and spent 10 years as Chairman of the Board of Brown and Tolland. In his free time he enjoys golfing, and both Linda and Neal love spending time with their 4 year old and 7 year old grandkids. |
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