Rotary News

We were pleased to have Rhys Williams and Jessica Beaver of the FAU Tech Runway be our guest speakers.  Jessica gave the presentation, and both Jessica and Rhys answered questions.    The FAU Tech Runway® is a South Florida public-private partnership that serves as a hub to accelerate technology development and incubate startup companies. Our 28,000-square-foot collaborative working space provides entrepreneurs with a complete ecosystem in which to office, train, mentor, fund, and scale their companies from ideation through to early revenue stage. There are three major program areas in FAU Tech Runway: 1) Venture, [...]

Bryn has been a Rotarian since 1986 when he joined the Rotary Club of Barrie Huronia in Barrie, Ontario. He was Club President in 1995-96; served as District Governor.  District Conference Chair in 1999 and was a GSE Team Leader to Australia in April 2000. Bryn was District Governor during the Rotary Centennial year of 2004-05. He has served Rotary as chair of numerous committees and as RI President Representative to numerous District Conferences. His passions for Rotary includes a membership and OUR Rotary Foundation. He was D7010 District Foundation Chair from 2007-10 and was the Regional Rotary [...]

MikeMayo spent more than 30 years at the South Florida Sun Sentinel in a variety of roles before his retirement from daily journalism in early 2020. He spent his final four years as the newspaper’s dining critic and food writer on “The Eat Beat.” “It was my dream job, because the only thing I love more than writing is eating,” says Mayo, who joined the newspaper in 1989. He picked up his critic's fork after 14 years as the paper's local news columnist. He also spent 13 years as a sports reporter and columnist. Through the decades, Mayo [...]

We were pleased to have Dr. Donna Holland speak to our Rotary Club on the topic, “How to be a Good Mentor.” Dr. Holland graduated medical school in 1978 and after completing her residency in psychiatry and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry, she began her medical practice in our community in 1983.  In addition to her private practice, she has served in leadership roles in local and national hospital and day treatment programs and was active in pharmaceutical treatment research. Since 2012 has been Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Charles E. Schmidt [...]

We were pleased to have Gilbert Chaidez as our guest speaker this week. He works for Rise Against Hunger – an international hunger relief organization that is also a Collaborating Organization with Rotary International.  Rise Against Hunger distributes food and life-changing aid to the world's most vulnerable. They focus on the issue of hunger from a global perspective. Each year they mobilize over 400,000 volunteers around the world to provide over 60 million meals in 70 countries. Rise Against Hunger's vision is to have a world without hunger. Here are a few slides from [...]

We were pleased to have Charles Bender as our speaker on Oct. 21. He is the Founding CEO of Place of Hope, Inc., a faith-based and state-licensed, family-style child welfare organization serving abused and neglected children, located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Charles earned his bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and also studied at the University of South Florida in Tampa. An accomplished administrator, Bender provides a solid combination of strategic vision, leadership, management experience, organizational development and advancement skills. Throughout his career, Bender has made it his main objective to positively [...]