Events

Backpack Assembly Project

Wednesday 24^th is a back-to-school Club service project. The Club has purchased (via Heidi and Club budget) school supplies to insert into 125 backpacks donated by LDS (Mormon) Church. The Club members and the LDS teen youth group will form an assembly line to fill the backpacks with supplies, which will then be donated to CVUSD (100) and Redwood Christian Schools (25). 

The Club will also be donating additional gift cards for the Family Outreach center at the CVUSD District office to support underserved students and their families.

Collaborating Organizations & One Million Meal Goal!

www.riseagainsthunger.org

Jay and Justin will provide an overview of Rise Against Hunger, the 2023 Impact Report, Four Pathways to End Hunger through the November 2023 South Africa Trip, and how Rotary Clubs worldwide have contributed to our joint success in ending world hunger. In addition, the Patel family has made a goal to "unite the community" by packaging one million meals and inviting the Castro Valley Rotary to attend their 51st Event on August 10, 2024, where we will package 15,000 meals in two hours!

Jay is a CPA and grew up in San Francisco. He has a BS in Accounting, an MBA, and over 30 years of business experience in accounting, finance, real estate, and software development. In the summer of 2023, Jay joined the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business as a professional faculty member. Jay and his wife Nimisha have a daughter (graduate school) and a son (undergraduate). Jay is a volunteer with Rise Against Hunger and a National Board Member. He has set an ambitious goal with his family to “unite the community” by packaging one million meals for Rise Against Hunger. To date, they have reached 92% of their goal.

Justin is the Events Manager for the Rise Against Hunger Northern California branch and has been a part of the team for over 4 years. Starting his career in the culinary arts, he eventually found that relief work was his calling. Being an active volunteer for food banks and community centers at a young age, he realized that he wanted to serve not only locally, but the global community as well.

Trust and Estate Planning

www.phillipslaw.us

Like President Dan, Jim is home grown - CV Elementary to CVHS. Phillips families have lived in CV for over 100 years.

Jim is married to Melissa and has two children and 1.5 grandchildren. His sister, Anne Duey, and his brother, George, also live in Castro Valley, as do their children and as does Jim’s daughter, Katelyn.

Human Development degree from UC Davis and JD from UC Hastings College of the Law and LL.M in tax from Golden Gate Law School. Jim has owned his own law office since 1989 and has been a certified specialist in trust, probate, and estate planning law for over 30 years.

Jim’s godfather was our 1st president and his dad was our 2nd. Jim’s been a Rotarian for over 40 years.

Annual Restaurant Walk along Castro Valley Blvd.

District 5170 Governor 2024-25 Insights

Jill Duerig joined Rotary in 2003. Due to a change in jobs, she left the Scotts Valley Club and joined the Rotary Club of Livermore Valley in 2005, serving as its President in 2019-2020. She was an Assistant Governor for Area 4 in 2020-2021 and served as Lieutenant Governor-Avenues of Service from 2021-2023.

Jill is a retired General Manager of Zone 7 Water Agency in Livermore and a former General Manager/Chief Engineer for Scotts Valley Water District. It’s no surprise that her passion for potable water got her involved in the Haiti National Clean Water Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy (HANWASH, a partnership between Rotary’s WASH Rotary Action Group, other NGOs and the government of Haiti). She participates in HANWASH’s Steering Committee and chairs its Project & Technical Work Group. She is also a WASH ambassador and cadré member.

Her husband of fifty years, Tom, started out as her college sweetheart. They have three married children and six grandchildren. So even though her career and Rotary focus may be water, her love of family and her history as a soccer mom, cub den mother, girl scout leader, frequent school trip chaperone, Sunday school teacher, babysitter and grandma cookie maker demonstrates that she lives the motto “Family First.”

Additional details about Jill include:

• Former board member of Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments (SAVE) in Fremont
• Current member of the Ohlone College Foundation Board in Fremont
• Current member of the Ohlone College Citizens Bond Oversight Committee
• Former member of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) board of directors; former chair of the ACWA Water Quality Committee; former member of the ACWA Groundwater and Recycled Water Committees; former board president of the California Urban Water Agencies (CUWA)
• JD - Santa Clara University School of Law; MS Civil Engineering - Univ of Pittsburgh (PA); BS biology/chemistry Lehigh University (PA)
• Member of the California Bar; Registered Professional Engineer (CA); Certified Water Treatment Plant Operator

What I’m thinking about that might interest You

www.martynemko.com

Named the San Francisco Bay Area's "Best Career Coach," Marty Nemko, Ph.D., has been career and personal coach to 6,000 clients and enjoys a 95 percent client-satisfaction rate. The author of 13 books (250,000 copies sold) including Careers for Dummies, plus 4,000 published articles, including in TIME, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and more than 1,800 in Psychology Today. 26 of his best articles are anthologized in The Best of Marty Nemko, 2021 edition. He teaches methods of inquiry to medical students at the University of California San Francisco. He was the one man in a one-man PBS-TV Fundraising Special, 8 Keys to a Better Worklife. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley with two specializations: educational psychology and evaluation of individuals and programs..

He is married to Barbara Nemko, the Napa County Superintendent of Schools. They have one daughter and one doggie: Hachi, named after a dog so loyal that he waited at the train station for his owner to return for ten years. The archive of Marty Nemko's writings and KALW (NPR-San Francisco) radio program plus a link to his YouTube videos and his books, are accessible from martynemko.com.

We Need Your Help!

We will ahve Rotary booth at the Fall Festival to promote our Club and to feature the RI Polio Plus campaign.  Please wear your favoitre Rotary attire and pin to help with promotion.

Thanks for your help!.

59 Day Trip through America's National Parks

It's time again for the monthly evening social!  Please register and bring a friend or prosepctivce member to join us for some casual Club fellowhsip.  We are scouting out a diffenrent location for next month (Octoiber) for the Interact Club students to join us so please check the monthly calendar on ClubRunner for any future changes in location.

The Biology of Us

Gary Howard will describe his upcoming book, The Biology of Us (Oxford University Press). It is easy to overlook the natural world all around us. Only major life events, such as birth and death, remind us that we are biological organisms. The book describes common but fascinating examples of biology and nature that are hidden in plain sight. Many of our normal activities are examples of evolution: standing up, communicating, telling time, and more.

Gary C. Howard worked 22 years as a science editor and writer for the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco and continues to edit and write books. He received a PhD in biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University and completed fellowships at Harvard and Johns Hopkins. He is vice-chair of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Board of Education.