Pierluigi Oliverio Discusses Every Topic
Pierluigi Oliverio, SJ City Council
Following in the great tradition of local politicians speaking to our Rotary Club, Pierluigi Oliverio was today’s guest, as introduced by David Keller and his daughters.
Councilmember Oliverio represents San Jose’s Sixth District, and is in the first year of his term. He presented his perspective on several local issues, including neighborhood preservation, community business districts, constituent service, and the City’s structural deficit — he also displayed his “protest beard,” shaved in the style of Abraham Lincoln, in honor of Presidents Day.
In addition to bringing some technology sector experience to the council, Oliverio has been a school teacher and a long-time resident of the Willow Glen neighborhood. He also writes a weekly blog column for SanJoseInside.
Janine Payton in Louisiana …
Janine Payton and her son Eddie have joined with other families (40 people in total) from the Campbell United Methodist Church to participate in home reconstruction for victims of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. She’s in Dulac, Louisiana, through the end of the week.
Different members of the delegation are blogging about their experiences in a regular basis. Keep up with the CUMC group at CUMCDulac.blogspot.com.
Burgard Appointed to State Boards
We may not be seeing a lot of Jim Burgard for a while …
Jim has been kind of busy recently … serving on and being appointed to civil and public boards for the State of California. Word has come from Sacramento that Jim is now serving on the California Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors and the California Department of Consumer Affairs Board of Pharmacy.
His appointment to the Professional Engineers board is so recent that his name has yet to appear on the official list of board members. As for the Board of Pharmacy, his name is prominently included, but his biography inexplicably fails to mention Rotary.
Dr. Sue’s Brain Music Therapy
Hey, check it out! … Our own Dr. Sue is famous!
San Jose’s local television station, KNTV NBC11, recently featured a story about Dr. Susan Klear’s “Brain Music Therapy” as demonstrated by one of her clients. You can read the story and surf to the video from Sue’s website, KlearYourMind.com!
St. Valentine’s Day on Feb 12
Join your RotaryCSJw friends for our special St. Valentine’s Day party on Tuesday, February 12 … two days ahead of schedule!
Jim Morelan has arranged to bring us Julius Melendez, a professional Latin trumpet player who will provide some special entertainment. Julius Melendez has played with many famous Latin musicians, including Tito Puentes, Santana, and Celia Cruz. In the week after our meeting, he will be playing with Arturo Sandoval at Yoshi’s. He’ll hopefully play some music for us, and he’ll also have CDs for sale and autographing.
Plan on bringing your spouse or significant other for a fun time.
RotaryCSJW’s 60th Birthday
February 4, 2008, is the 60th Anniversary of the Rotary Club of Campbell & San Jose West! … so join us for our birthday celebration on Tuesday, February 5!
Carl Meddione has lined up several of our long-time (we won’t call them “old”) members to tell us some of the individual history of both clubs. Each presenter plans to share their unique historical review of our club.
And we’ll have some birthday cake, too!
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