Pictured (l-r) are President Anna Reilley and speaker John Marquez. Photo credit Martha Richardson.

The recent Fillmore Rotary speaker was John Marquez, Executive Director, Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce. Marquez talked about how Santa Paula, Fillmore and Piru needed to focus services on small businesses because we don’t have large businesses. We have to do things to fund the businesses like having festivals, podcasts to let people know what is happening and people can ask questions, and have more social media to get people involved and enthused. Santa Paula has lots of possibilities in a new development area where apartments and homes are being built such as a restaurant or grocery store. When the train bridge is repaired people can come and go and enjoy various attractions.