Rotary Lunch Speaker: Shelli Zulauf – Traumatic Brain Injury: A Personal Journey

On Tuesday, July 28 2020, our lunch speaker will be Shelli Zulauf. Her presentation will be: “Traumatic Brain Injury: A Personal Journey”

Shelli Zulauf was raised in Toppenish, Washington and has an Associate degree in Radiologic Technology. She specialized in ultrasound, and had a very successful career from 1989-2010. She and her family moved to Bend in 2007.

 

She enjoys the many outdoor activities the Bend life style has to offer. She is the survivor of a near fatal car/bike accident, in 2010, and has spent the last 10 years recovering from her many injuries. She has helped other people in the community, who have been in similar circumstances, recover as well. She is here today to tell you her story.

This meeting will be all-virtual. Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85489256429?pwd=cEM3QWFGVWxJdlNuU3ZRdHdycHcwdz09

You can also call in to the meeting at 1 669 900 6833.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Rotary Lunch Program: Belluno Exchange Student Update

On Tuesday, July 21 2020, our lunch program will be an update on our Belluno, Italy exchange program, led by Steve Lelli and Kit Carmiencke. They’ll be following up with the students who participated in the exchange program.

 

This meeting will be all-virtual. Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/99315074173

You can also call in to the meeting at 1-669-900-9128.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Rotary Lunch Speaker: Abe Shehadeh, CEO of Blackstrap

  On Tuesday, July 14th 2020, our lunch speaker will be Abe Shehadeh, Founder & CEO BlackStrap Industries Inc.

He’ll be talking about how his local Bend business has successfully pivoted during the COVID-19 crisis.

Born and raised in Los Angeles CA area, now residing in the Cascade Mountain range in Bend Oregon, Abe grew up with love, admiration and respect for the entire snow industry which directly influenced him in the creation and implementation of BlackStrap.

Abe started BlackStrap with the mindset that their products would soon become known as a direct extension of your technical outerwear. BlackStrap was engineered to ensure your body’s core temp, heat dissipation, and comfort levels are all in perfect optimal ranges so that you experience skiing, snowboarding, and many other recreational activities and not just the weather.

BlackStrap focuses on keeping 100% domestic manufacturing, ensuring quality and making sure every product they release is innovative and technologically driven.

We will be live streaming the meeting as well. To attend the meeting virtually, please click the following link:

https://zoom.us/j/92145603065

Join us from noon till 1:15 at the Riverhouse Convention Center, 2850 NW Rippling River Ct, Bend, OR 97703.
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Our lunch speaker is Abe Shehadeh, Founder & CEO BlackStrap Industries Inc.
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Rotary Lunch Speaker: Becky Johnson, Vice President of OSU Cascades

On Tuesday, June 23 2020, our lunch speaker will be Becky Johnson, Vice President of Oregon State University – Cascades. Becky will be giving us an OSU Cascades Expansion Update and talking about the impact of COVID-19.

 

Becky’s career in higher education spans more than three decades. Prior to joining OSU-Cascades in 2008, she spent 25 years at OSU in Corvallis, rising from an assistant professor in the College of Forestry to vice provost for academic affairs and international programs.

Under Becky’s leadership, OSU-Cascades has transformed from a capstone model housed on the Central Oregon Community College campus, to a four-year university, now on a campus of its own. She is leading what has been called one of the most exciting university development projects in the country: the reclamation of under-utilized lands near the center of Bend — a former pumice mine and demolition landfill — and expansion of OSU-Cascades from a 10- to a 128- acre campus that will serve 3,000 to 5,000 students.

Becky is responsible for the financial stability of the campus through securing state funds for new land and buildings as well as philanthropic funding efforts — which have resulted in private support for academic buildings, scholarships, endowed faculty positions, and new academic programs to serve the needs of the Central Oregon business community.

Becky was named the Bend Chamber 2015 Woman of the Year, the 2014 Source Woman of the Year, and received the Bend 2030 Vision Builder Award in 2009. She received a B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. and Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Rotary Lunch Speaker: Jason Brandt, President and CEO of the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

On Tuesday, June 16 2020, our lunch speaker will be Jason Brandt, President and CEO of the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association.

Jason Brandt’s expertise revolves around association management and government affairs work at the state and local levels.

 

His vision for the hospitality industry is to continue to build upon the significant tourism growth Oregon has seen over the past decade by helping lead advocacy, communication, and education efforts for restaurants and lodging establishments. Prior to joining ORLA as President & CEO in 2015, Jason served as the CEO of the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce. Jason earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with a minor in Communication from Pacific Lutheran University. He received a post-graduate certification in Nonprofit Organizational Management from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute Program.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Rotary Lunch Speaker: Commissioner Tony DeBone

On Tuesday, June 9 2020, our lunch speaker will be Commissioner Tony DeBone.

Prior to his job as Commissioner, Tony served on the Board of Directors of the La Pine Park and Recreation District as Board Chair and the La Pine Rodeo Association on Land Acquisition.

 

While living on Maui, Tony met his wife Kathy, a Central Oregonian. They married and had their son Michael in Hawaii, then moved to Seattle, Washington for four years, where Tony worked as an Associate Computational Scientist doing drug discovery research. The family moved to Southern Deschutes County to seek a more rural lifestyle and to be closer to family.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Rotary Lunch Speaker: Roger Lee, CEO of EDCO

On Tuesday, June 2 2020, our lunch speaker will be Roger Lee.

Roger is CEO of Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO), the largest private economic development non-profit corporation in Oregon.

 

Lee has led EDCO since 1999 and past economic development experience includes the Seattle/King County Economic Development Council and heading a public (city/county) economic development program in a rural northeast Oregon. A native of Idaho, he is a graduate of the University of Washington in Economics.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Rotary Lunch Speaker: Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson

On Tuesday, May 19 2020, our lunch speaker will be Deschutes County Sheriff, Shane Nelson.

 

Sheriff Nelson has been in law enforcement and with the Sheriff’s Office since 1993. The Deschutes County Commissioners unanimously appointed Nelson as the 9th Sheriff of Deschutes County in July 2015. He was voted in by the citizens of Deschutes County in November 2016. He was born and raised in Bend and graduated from Mountain View High School in 1988. After graduating from Oregon State University in 1993 he moved back to Bend. He and his wife Lisa, a Bend Police Officer, have four children.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Rotary Lunch Program: Dr. Marinus Koning, Reach Another Foundation

On Tuesday, May 12 2020, our lunch speaker will be Dr. Marinus Koning, founder of Reach Another Foundation.

 

Dr. Koning, a general surgeon, saw a need 10 years ago after traveling in Ethiopia. He donated time to perform surgeries on children with spina bifida. He then created a foundation to help eradicate spina bifida through getting Vitamin B to pregnant mothers. With addition of Vitamin B in salt in their diets, spina bifida can be drastically reduced, thus reducing the needs for surgery. His presentation will be on his 10 year journey, working with Rotary, CDC, government of Ethiopia and others.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.

Rotary Lunch Program: Eric King, Bend City Manager

  On Tuesday, May 5 2020, our lunch speaker will be Eric King, Bend City Manager.

Eric began his career in local government working for the City of Portland. In his 10 years there, he worked on a variety of projects and programs focusing on economic development and program management. He began working for the City of Bend as Assistant City Manager in April, 2007 and accepted the position of City Manager in May, 2008.

Eric was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He has a Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development from Portland State University. Eric currently services on the KIDS Center Board and has served on the Visit Bend and Oregon City/County Managers’ Association Boards as well as volunteered with SMART- promoting early childhood literacy.

Eric loves Bend for its scenic beauty, the multitude of outdoor activities it offers, and most importantly, he and his wife Martha believe Bend is an ideal place to raise their two children.

We will record the presentation for others who aren’t able to attend at noon.