Events

Join your fellow Rotarians for our weekly Friday Happy Hour.  It's a good time to celebrate the end of the week and prepare for the weekend!

Randy was elected as the 51st Mayor of Santa Barbara in 2021 to a five year term.  He previously served on the City Council from 2010 to 2019.

Randy arrived in Santa Barbara in 1972 to attend UCSB as an Environmental Studies major, and never left. He and with his wife Janet have lived in the same house on the Mesa for 36 years and raised two children there. 

You may also recognize Randy for his 37 years as owner and operator of the Paradise Cafe.

Prior to his City Council tenure, Randy was active in community organizations such as the Downtown Parking Committee, the Chamber of Commerce, The Downtown Organization, Hospitality Santa Barbara and the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. 

He was named Volunteer of the Year from the Downtown Organization in 2010 and Business Person of the Year from the Chamber of Commerce in 2019.

Join your fellow Rotarians for our weekly Friday Happy Hour.  It's a good time to celebrate the end of the week and prepare for the weekend!

 

The Santa Barbara Rotary Club is pleased to welcome Kieran Shah, the President and CEO of VNA Health, the third oldest Visiting Nurse Association in California. VNA Health continues to be a nonprofit leader in comprehensive home healthcare by providing home health, palliative care, hospice and a variety of community programs throughout the Santa Barbara region.

 

Demonstrating an unwavering commitment to patients, families, communities, and staff, Kieran is proud to help lead organizations to fulfill their mission and vision. While ensuring strong financial stability, philanthropy, and stewarding the organization’s future, he focuses on the heart of hospice by maintaining a patient-centered model of care. Under Kieran’s leadership, his organizations have consistently been positioned as the provider and employer of choice within their geographic service areas.

 

Kieran is a nationally recognized leader in Advanced Illness Care operations and Patient Access. Through innovative approaches to serious illness care, his organizations continue to have a deeper impact with patients and families, within healthcare systems, and with providers. In collaboration with the Board of Directors, Kieran has also helped lead acquisitions and mergers to strengthen the commitment of care at Hospice of the Valley, and in the creation of the California Hospice Network.

 

Kieran brings 20+ years of strategic leadership, business development, operational planning, innovative contracting, and process improvement on both US coasts and in the United Kingdom.  Kieran serves on the Board of Directors for CenCal Health and the Ridley Foundation. He previously sat on the Boards of the Central California Alliance for Health’s Continuous Quality Improvement Committee, and the California Association of Healthcare Leaders (CAHL / ACHE). He served as the End-of-Life Care Thought Leader for the Santa Clara County LTSS Integration Subcommittee, and an advisory group to the County Board of Supervisors to improve transitional and facility based care for seniors across the region. In 2023, Kieran was recognized as a Pacific Coast Business Times Champion of Healthcare and received the ACHE Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award in 2016.

The Santa Barbara Rotary Club is fortunate to have John McKinney returning to speak to our club on “California’s State Parks: The Best of California Preserved Forever”

Other states have high mountains, vast deserts, and scenic shorelines, but only California has all these features and preserves examples of them in its park system. California has 280 State Parks! Who knew? The short answer is hardly anyone. John McKinney, the only one crazy enough to have hiked and written about all 280 parks and longtime advocate for them, will take us on an informative and entertaining virtual tour of the parks. You won’t want to miss his celebration of the natural, historical, and cultural treasures on display in our California State Parks.

Bio: John McKinney is an award-winning writer, public speaker, and author of 30-hiking themed books: inspiring narratives, top selling guides, books for children. For 18 years John, aka The Trailmaster, wrote a weekly hiking column for the Los Angles Times, and has hiked and enthusiastically told the story of more than ten thousand miles of trail across California and around the world. His “Every Trail Tells a Story” series of guides highlight the very best hikes in California. “Hike Santa Barbara: A Day Hiker’s Guide” is his local bestseller.