Saratoga News Business Briefs Rotary club raises $2,500 to help rid world of polio As part of an areawide effort by Rotary clubs, the Saratoga Rotary Club contributed more than $2,500 to a campaign aimed at ridding the world of polio by the year 2000. The donations, made by individual members in May and June, will go toward immunizing people in the nations of Ghana and Liberia in Western Africa against polio. Local clubs have raised more than $175,000 for the campaign. Saratogan takes job with IES of San Jose Gordon N. Ciochon of Saratoga has become a principal with the San Jose-based company of Interim Executive Services. IES is a start-up business that provides executive knowledge to businesses who wish to expand or establish business in international markets. Ciochon recently served as the vice president of worldwide operations for Symantec Corporation. At that company, he led operations growth from $20 million to nearly $600 million. The Saratogan earned a master's degree from San Francisco University in urban policy and administration. He received his bachelor's degree in political science from San Jose State University, with a minor in business administration and history. Saratoga winery named the best Kathryn Kennedy Winery won Best of Show at the Santa Cruz Mountains Commercial Wine Competition, held Aug. 24 at Devlin Wine Cellars in Soquel. Judges selected the winery for its 1996 Santa Cruz Mountains Syrah from Maridon Vineyards. The Saratoga vineyard was selected for its grapes by winemaker Marty Mathis at the request of the vineyard's property owner, Charlie Maridon. Only 200 cases of the wine were produced, and it is available only through the Kathryn Kennedy Winery. [ Back to Contents Page | Saratoga News Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Saratoga News, October 21, 1998. ©1998 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.