St Vinny's Bistro: Feeding San Antonio's Homeless - Martin O'Conner, CEO

12511 W I-10,San Antonio TX 78230

04 November, 2021

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NW Rotary Club of SA program today: St Vinnys Bistro "Feeding the Homeless in San Antonio." Martin O'Conner is CEO of St Vinny's Bistro. He will be our program speaker and will be accompanied by Executive Chef Lorris Gibson. Mr. O'Conner has been involved with St Vinnys Bistro for 22 years and brings his experience of over 30 years as a business leader in San Antonio, TX. His business career was focused on the medical device industry where he was the founder, owner, and president of Germaine Laboratories and Adam Diagnostic Laboratories. He was namced small Business Leader of the Year, North Chamber of Commerce, San Antonio, TX in 2010. The mission of Vinnys Bistro is to feed San Antonio's Homeless. No Questions Asked! They serve anyone that walks through their doors. St Vinnys Bistro is more than a soup kitchen. They provide 3 hot nutritional meals each day, 365 days a year. St Vinnys Bistro is par of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Southwest Texas. Come and meet the community service professional volunteers at Northwest Rotary Club, members of Rotary International, the largest service organization in the world. Rotary has a mission of World Peace through service, locally and worldwide, for people and communities. Learning more about our community, outreach, and being good neighbors is how a Rotary Club finds service projects to support people and communities. We do that at lunch meetings on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month, where we enjoy fellowship and learn. In existence since 1956, Northwest Rotary Club and its members have created a sizeable Charitable Fund to help support its charities. Rotary is especially well structure for working people, from home or office, as well as stay at home spouses, searching for a way to help the communtiy, learn participation and leadership, and those making new contacts and friends Lunch is served at Outback Steakhouse for $16 per person. You can attend Zoom for free, or the meeting with the lunch, after registering here. You might consider joining Rotary for the following reasons: * Community Service and learning more about the community * Ethical Leadership Opportunities/Business Contacts * Global Service to Humanity/Mission of World Peace through service We urge you to join us to support the San Antonio Food Bank, Salvation Army Children's Shelter, Morgan's Wonderland, Robyn's N.E.S.T., a mobile literacy service, and the Rotary International Foundation with their worldwide polio and covid vaccination programs, in the effort to help others in our community during these difficult times. Since 1956, Northwest Rotary Club has helped a number of charities, locally and globally, and has provided scholarships for promising students for college and professional/technical training over many years, that improved lives of people in need and communities. Rotary Clubs uniquely support the community they are located in, and support the world peace mission of Rotary International. Find out more about Rotary at www.rotary.org.  Find out more about all the Rotary clubs in South Central Texas at www.rotary5840.org. Find out more about San Antonio Northwest Rotary Club at www.rotarynorthwest.com.