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March 2026

Rotary Club Meeting - Derek Eidson (Rotaract Vietnam Project)
Holiday Inn of Oxnard

Mar 17, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

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Holiday Inn of Oxnard

600 E Esplanade Dr.

Oxnard, CA 93036

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President’s Message March 7, 2026

We sure “Let the Good Times Roll”! Good Times for Turning Point, Good Times for our Foundation, and Good Times for the West Ventura County Rotary Club. Our 240 guests, including many of our Gold Coast Rotarian brethren, had a whale of time at the most fun fundraiser in District 5240! Each of you contributed to our success by sponsoring, volunteering, donating booze, gifts and credit cards. I believe we were able to solidify a couple of new membership recruits as well!

Our initial estimate is that we generated over $150,000 in revenue and $118,000 net proceeds that will be divided among Turning Point ($64,000) Our Foundation (($42,000) and our Club ($10,000)

I want to especially thank the following members of our club and their spouses, who’s support made this event a big success:

Sponsors (27 of you!): (see ad's below)

Stacy & Linda Zaruka, Larry Bushey, Jack Pollack, Paul VanAcker, Rich Cooper, Dennis Longwill, Sam Monroe, Daniel Cervantes, Josh Carsman, Jackie Sanchez, Cynthia Torres, Bob Braitman, Suki Sir, Emma Morata, Kirsti Vomund, Bob Davis, Gary Davis, Kendall & John Mattina, Gary Davis, Diane & Marty Moss, Bob Davis, David Wilk, Bon Wakam, Cindy Kroeger, and Juan Guererro.

Live Auction Donators:

Cynthia Torres, Josh Carsman, the Zarukas, Mike Resse, Matt Meyring, Tom McCain, and all the Rotarians that brought in the gift cars and the booze!

Package Team (yeoman’s work!)

Linda Zaruka, JoAnna Monroe, Kendall Mattina, Melody Thurmond, Cindy Kroeger, Carol Pollock, Robin Kosh

At the Scene:

All the package team, plus Paul VanAcker, Melanie Cota, Luke & Melinda Beer, Lee Gibson, Brant Gerckens, Suki Sir, Josh Carsman, Sam Monroe

Plus all of you who donated the booze, cards, and gifts!

It was my pleasure to lead in this effort which went off without a hitch. Any you have any comment on how we can do it better next year, let me know. Date set as February 28. 2027!

Our Wintertime service continues this week with Teacher Recognition and the Final Boys Basketball Tournament. Try to carve out a couple of hours on Friday to come to the finals of this great event, the oldest youth basketball tournament in the country and, yes, we are the sponsors!

See you Tuesday as we bask in the celebration of our Service Above Self!

Rotarians John (Rotary WVC President) & Linda Zaruka (Wedgewood Weddings) - https://www.wedgewoodweddings.com

Rotarian Stacy Zaruka (Sterling Hills Golf Club) - https://www.sterlinghillsgolf.com

Bushey Financial - Rotarian Larry Bushey lkbcfp@aol.com

The Pollock Family - Rotarians Jack & Carol!

ThiesenDueker Wealth Management - https://thiesendueker.com

Ameriprise Financial (Daniel Bodemeijer) - daniel.x.bodemeijer@ampf.com

Lowthorp Richards - https://www.lrmmt.com

Rotarian Rich Cooper (Manhattan of Camarillo) - https://www.themanhattanofcamarillo.com

Rotarians Dennis & Jeanette Longwill!

Rotary Club of Camarillo Sunrise - https://portal.clubrunner.ca/2822/

Jason & Stephanie Meek!

Rotarian Suki Sir!

Rotarian Paul Van Acker and Family! (UBS Financial) - https://advisors.ubs.com/vanackerfinancial/

Rotarians Daniel Cervantes & Melanie Cota (Ocean Air Federal Credit Union) - https://oceanair.org

Rotarian Cynthia Torres (New Dawn Counseling) - https://www.newdawncnc.com

Rotarian Bon Wakam (Kham Inc.) - https://khaminc.com

Rotarian Jackie Sanchez (Edward Jones) - https://www.edwardjones.com/us-en/financial-advisor/jackie-sanchez

CBIZ / MHM Tax Accounting - https://www.cbiz.com

Wagon Wheel Brewing - https://wagonwheelbrewingcompany.com

Mission Linen Supply - https://www.missionlinen.com

Rotarian Bob Davis (Bob the Lender!) - https://business.venturachamber.com/list/member/bobthelender-powered-by-xpert-home-lending-inc-38326

Ventura County Community Foundation - https://vccf.org

Rotarians Marty & Diane Moss!

Rotary Club of Ventura East - https://rotaryventuraeast.org

Rotarian Mike Reese (Signarama) -https://signarama.com/locations/ca-ventura/

Rotarians John & Kandall Mattina!

Holiday Inn Oxnard - https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/oxnard/oxron/hoteldetail

City National Bank - https://www.cnb.com

Rotarians Cindy Kroeger & Jonathan Novick!

Dr. Gary & Bonnie Davis!

Rick Heldwein (SSBP) - https://www.ssbp.com

Lindy & Larry Matheny Family!

National Graphics - https://nationalgraphics.com

Rotarian Sam Monroe (S.E.A Development LLC) - seadllc@outlook.com

Rotarians Bob & Mary Braitman!

Rotarian David Wilk (Preserve Your Life Story) - https://www.biographydavidwilk.com/about

Rotarian Lee Gibson (Meyers Widders Gibson Jones & Feingold) - https://mwgjlaw.com

Engine - https://engine.com

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Induction of Brian Carlson and Rajju Bajracharya

President’s Message – February 12, 2026

REMEMBER TO BRING SILENT AUCTION GIFTS, GIFT CARDS, AND BOOZE BOTTLES FOR MARDI GRAS ON TUESDAY!

President’s Message 2/21/2026

Exciting Times for The West Ventura County Rotary Club! Last night we had the pleasure of awarding trophies to the winning girls’ teams at the Oxnard Youth Basketball Tournament which we have sponsored forever. Thanks to the several Rotarians who showed up to show our support, Valeria, Hugg, Linda, Stacy, Patrick and anyone else that came earlier. We have the boys coming up soon, which should be very entertaining. Try to attend. It’s fun!

We are just a week away from our big fundraiser, Mardi Gras ’26. We will let the good times roll. Here is a brief description of the event. If you have guests, you might send them this info as well.

Dress code is flexible. Some folks dress the Mardi Gras theme others are pretty relaxed. It is what you feel comfortable with. There is a Dixieland band, silent auction, live auction and a raffle for two of the live auction items. A New Orleans Style Dinner is served. There are doubloons given to sponsors to give to guests for an adult beverage or two.

On Tuesday we will be finalizing our Day of Event schedule and volunteer assignments.

Note we still need:

Booze bottles to fill the wheelbarrow.
Any hard item to fill out our silent auction. Check your garage! Sightly used is OK!
Gift Cards for the purse and wallet.

Attendance –

Thank you to many of you who have sponsored. Your guest lists are due early this week. Email them to me on my personal email – jlzaruka@msn.com.

For rest of you, we hope you can attend and participate in our biggest fundraiser. Please let me know if you will be coming with your and your guest’s names. Those of you that are volunteers, I will hold a seat for you and your guest if needed.

This week we will have the pleasure of inducting Baljinder Singh as our newest member. Thank you Alan Kosh for bringing in your business successor. We are very close to reaching our goal of 60 active members, a great achievement but maybe we should reset our goal to 65! Keep bringing the guests. Great job Rotarians. I believe we are at the top of the District in member recruitment. See you Tuesday.

Prez and Krewe Chief JZ