On Tuesday, September 1, 2020, our lunch speaker will be our own club member and past president, Erik Tobiason. Erik will be talking to us about the Central Oregon Veterans Village.

The Central Oregon Veterans Village is a community of transitional shelters designed to provide shelter and services for homeless veterans.

The project is a Joint Venture between the Bend Heroes Foundation and Central Oregon Veterans Outreach (COVO). It is being managed as a public-private partnership with the City of Bend, Deschutes County, and the State of Oregon.

The Village is being modeled after a successful program in Clackamas County. Our goal is to have 15 shelters and a central community building. The community building will have kitchen, dining, meeting rooms, restrooms, and showers.

This meeting will be all-virtual. Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/93738520118

You can also call in to the meeting at 1 669 900 9128 and enter meeting ID Meeting ID: 937 3852 0118.

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

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On Tuesday, August 25, 2020, our lunch speaker will be Dr. Erika McCalpine – Instructor and Program Lead, Business Administration, OSU Cascades. Dr. McCalpine will speak to the Club about her Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lab at OSU Cascades.

Erika McCalpine is a business instructor and leads the business administration program at Oregon State University – Cascades. She teaches courses in human resources, business ethics, leadership and entrepreneurship.

McCalpine is a recognized advocate for advancing social equity and inclusion within OSU and weaves those themes throughout her teaching and in her work with students. In 2019 she received the OSU Frances Dancy Hooks Award for building bridges across cultures and showing courage in promoting diversity. She received the OSU-Cascades Diversity Award in 2019.

McCalpine has served on the executive committee of the OSU Faculty Senate since 2018, where she represents the interests of academic faculty at OSU-Cascades. McCalpine’s community service includes positions on the boards of directors of Volunteers in Medicine since 2019 and of the City Club of Central Oregon since 2020 She is the co-founder of Love Your Neighbor, a grassroots effort that encourages community members to appreciate and accept fellow residents from diverse backgrounds. She was named the Source Weekly Woman of the Year in 2019.

Prior to joining OSU-Cascades, Erika taught at the University of Alabama, where she was awarded the Morrissette Award for Excellence in Teaching Leadership and Ethics, and the J. Craig Smith Integrity Award. Erika also attended the University of Alabama where she earned degrees in Management and has specialties in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior. She has also earned a certification in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. Erika is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management and the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity.

This meeting will be all-virtual. Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/93019645984

You can also call in to the meeting at 1 669 900 9128 and enter meeting ID Meeting ID: 930 1964 5984.

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On Tuesday, August 18, 2020, our lunch speaker will be Luann Abrams, who will talk about her startup CEOX. Research shows that the best performing companies have women in leadership roles, yet women make up only 6% of Fortune 500 companies. Gaining experience remains a daunting barrier—numerous studies reveal that companies hire men based on their potential, while they hire women because of their past experience. What ensues is a Catch-22 for women leaders, who need and deserve increasingly significant roles, yet are rarely championed into them.

This meeting will be all-virtual. Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/99756055532

You can also call in to the meeting at 1 669 900 9128 and enter meeting ID Meeting ID: 997 5605 5532.

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On Tuesday, August 11, 2020, our lunch speaker will be Eric Denbrook. Eric graduated from Arizona State University in 1979 with a BS in Industrial Design from the Mechanical Engineering school. He started his career at Hughes Space and Communications, where in 1982 he was the Vehicle Engineer for the first operational Space Shuttle’s primary satellites.

He was the Vehicle Engineer for the U.S. GOES and Japanese GMS weather satellites and in 1984, spent 4 months on Tanegashima Japan launching GMS. He worked on many other commercial and classified programs and was also responsible for the first Space Shuttle recovery of two satellites.

In 1989, he started working at a small startup company called Orbital Sciences Corporation. He was the Integration and Test lead for Orbital’s first product, the Transfer Orbit Stage for the Space Shuttle. At the end of the program, he was the Chief Engineer as well as Deputy Program Manager and spent two years at Cape Canaveral on the integration test and launch of that program. At the end of that program, he opened an office at Vandenberg Airforce Base to integrate, test, and launch the world’s first commercially developed rocket, called Pegasus. That rocket evolved into several other rockets called Taurus, Minotaur, and Ground Based Missile Defense Boosters. He became the director for those operations and led the team until he retired in 2019.

This meeting will be all-virtual. Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/97172358543

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.

On Tuesday, August 4, 2020, our lunch speaker will be Matt Stuart, Urban Renewal Manager/TIF Manager, City of Bend. Matt oversees the Urban Renewal program. Bend has two established urban renewal areas, Juniper Ridge and Murphy Crossing. Work is currently underway on a new urban renewal plan for the Core Area of Bend.

Matt is the Urban Renewal Manager with the City of Bend’s Economic Development Department. A relative “newbie” to Bend, Matt spent the past 10+ years in Tucson, AZ, where he worked in Real Estate Investment, Regional Planning & Visioning, Land Use Public Policy, and eventually as a consultant overseeing the entitlement and development process on behalf of private developers for infill mixed-use, commercial, and residential developments.

An alumnus of the University of Arizona (Go Cats!), Matt also spent 4 years as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Geography and Development teaching an Introductory Economic Development course to undergrads. Though Matt has spent his education and work experience focused on regional and local economic development in the United States, he holds dual citizenship in the US and the European Union.

This meeting will be all-virtual. Join the Zoom Meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/92975084654

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.

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.

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.

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:

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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.

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.