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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

​President Kit Hawkins opened our meeting at 12:15 with the Pledge of Allegiance.  

 

HAWAIIAN CHANT E HO KAI

Stephen Kiefer led us in the Hawaiian Chant E Ho Kai.

​INSPIRATION

Mary Rolander inspired us with a quote from Thoreaux,

"Any fool can make a rule and any fool can mind It."

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GUESTS

Gloria Lukens Welcomed our guests:

Ed Lorenz
Colberg, Ontario
Alain Mai & Gim Lim
Kihei
Milton and Bonnie Rolle
Minot, SD
Michelle Scott
Tiburn, CA
Ose Take
Kuroka City, Japan
Bob Borchers
Reston, VA
Eugene Wilkbower
Auburn Hill, MI

SUNSHINE REPORT


Cynthia Clark  We can now sign up in Cynthia's Lotsa Helping Hands Calendar to help her with meals, rides to appointments, visiting and her other needs. To see the calendar, click on this link and to sign up for the days, times and tasks that you can help with. You'll need to set up an account with Losta so they can send you email reminders about your chosen tasks.

You can also donate financially to Cynthia's GoFundMe account by clicking on this link.


Billie Moksnes is home and healing from her accident last week.

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Holly Tolosko, former club president and Assistant District Governor, needs help covering her expenses in dealing with a chronic condition known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), which has progressed over the years to the point where she can no longer continue her professional life. To help, click here to go to her GoFundMe medical fund account.

 

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Paige Fontaine and Dave Ballaine are both wearing braces to minimize movement and allow tendons to heal. 

 

We wish them all well.

​OUR SPEAKERS

​Dr. Mark Barry and Kelly Trang

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Mark spoke about the Children’s Orthopedics Education for Developing Nations organization that he created [see his website] and their recent Global Help Initiative in Tanzania. He and Kelly began their four-month stay in Africa with some safari sightseeing and then went to work at the Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute (MOI) in Dar El Salaam.

There are 51 million people living in Tanzania, 50 percent are under 18, and there is only one orthopedic surgeon in the country, and before Mark's program was no pediatric orthopedic training program or scoliosis surgeons. The target for this year is to train three bright, selected Tanzanian surgeons in a full-time, one-year program. The surgeons enter the program and train with a team of newly retired Orthopedic Surgeons from North America and Europe who are eager to share their knowledge and expertise for a four to six weeks-a-year assignment followed by succeeding teams resulting in continuous teaching for a full year.

The graduates of the program agree to stay in the area and perform surgery on pediatric patients. The program, if fully developed will become the Alliance of Emeritus Medical Educators and they will provide jobs for graduates who will maintain their high-paying private practices but also commit to public practice. Then they will become teachers of future orthopedic specialty surgeons.The program supplies online resources, electronic textbooks, seminars, surgical tutorials, videos and online access to orthopedic journals. The program schema Mark has developed is exportable to all other surgical & medical specialties.In July 2016 the Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute opened with 240 beds. Mark has arranged for sixty orthopedic beds to be delivered there, and coming will be two new operating rooms, x-ray machines, CT Scanners and MRI.The corrective surgeries performed are for clubfoot and scoliosis. Mark's slided showed x-rays of very bent spines before surgury and dramatically normalized spines and their  corrective rods after surgery.  The patients are very happy and thankful for the help they are receiving. Dr. Mark is funding the endeavor and is hoping for some assistance as they build a track record.Kelly Trang “plays” with the kids. She has started a program called Maisha Mtoto which means Child Life. Through innovative family education in nutrition, dental hygene, hand-washing, hydrocephaly/disease awareness, family planning, breast cancers self-examination and assistance with school supplies it fosters emotional well-being and health awareness for the patients and their families who are in the hospital for extended periods of time. Provided are bedside school, play opportunities, building the sense of normalcy, minimizing stress. The school is free, but families must provide uniforms and supplies, sometimes beyond their means, so jewelry making skills are being taught so women can make some money for their families.

Mark and Kelly chose this project because of their love of children and their desire to give back.President Kit awarded them the much coveted Kihei Wailea Mug.

​ROTARY FOUNDATION

 

Barry Hyman, chairperson for the Rotary Foundation spoke about the generosity of our club this year. Thirty=three of our forty-three members ave donated a total of  $7,637  Thirty  members are sustaining ($100 or more) donors, and our cub will achieve EREY status (Every Rotarian Every Year), and only seven aren’t Paul Harris Fellows.

Barry explained how the funding works—the Rotary Foundation invests our donations and it's overhead is all paid by the income on the investments. After three years the Foundation returns our donations plus matching funds for our international service projects, also paid for by the investment income. So often, because of the matching funds, each $1 of our donations becomes $5.50 that we use for service projects.
   
Mark Harbison will tell us next week where the money goes.

Ron Harris was given an crystal sculpture award for becoming an Estate Planning Benefactor with a pledge of $10,000 or more.

Ose Take was happy to be back at our club for the second year and will be back next year.

MARDI GRAS 2017

 

President Kit reminded us of the Mardi Gras 2017 fundraiser coming up on March 25. He urged us to sell tickets, post flyers and find donors for the silent auction. He also asked us to sign up for setup, breakdown, ticket selling and auction management on the night of the event.

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Click here o download auction donation forms.

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Click poster to purchase tickets online.

SEABURY HALL INTERACT SPRING FLING

 

Our Seabury Hall Interact Club is hosting their Spring Fling, a high-school party for special needs folks from all over Maui. The students will supply food, music by DJ, photography, and venue, and we'll supply beverages, help serve food and party with everyone. Lot's of fun!

Patti Hemmen announced that after many months of negotiations the Rescue Tubes will be showing up on beaches in March after they were approved at the County Council meeting on January 31 that she and Jason Denhart attended.

 

At the meeting our liaison with the Maui Fire Department, Captain Colin Yamamoto, showed the compelling Rescue Tube Foundation's PowerPoint presentation about the

RESCUE TUBE PROJECT

history, use and value of Rescue Tubes in Hawaii, including video of an actual rescue using a tube. He emphasized that the tubes also prevent "double drownings" when rescuers also drown.

 

Chief Gerald Kosaki from the Big Island spoke about 2014 Pololu Valley rescue when one person, using two tubes, rescued a family of five.So far on Maui 4 tubes have been placed at the Royal Lahaina Resort, 3 at Kealani Resort (where three rescues have already occurred) and 30 in Kaanapali. The council was glad to note our plan, after our test period, to engage other Maui Rotary clubs in placing tubes at beaches over the whole island including Hana, Keanai Landing and Ohea Gulch ("Seven Pools"). Jason pointed out that we are establishing agreements with four groups, the Maui County Council, the Hawaii State Dept. of Land and Resources (DL&R), the State Parks Department for places like Makena State Park, and private hotel and resort operators like the Kealani and Grand Wailea. He also described how our Rotary International insurance will be renewed annually.

 

Members of the council shared there big appreciation to our club for this major gift to the community. The County Council clarified that the agreement adequately indemnifies the county and that after, advice from the Parks & Recreation and Fire departments, RCKW makes ultimate decision about placement. They also agreed to extend the trial period from 1 year to 3 years to avoid excessive annual hearings. The council unanimously approved authorization for the project on county beaches.

 

Click here to watch a video of the council meeting.

 

Click here to see the text of the authorization.

 

HAWAII JOB CORPS FIELD TRIP

​Stuart Karlan told us about the Hawaii Job Corps tour we had last Thursday, January 26th.

 

A couple of turns off Baldwin Avenue, we discovered a huge white clapperboard mansion built in 1900 for a girls' school, that served as a hospital in World War II. It is a two-year military type job training for students from 16 to 24. Seventy per cent are from the Pacific Islands and they study Culinary Arts, Office Management as well as Math and other subjects.

Each student is granted $34,000 per year that covers travel, housing, food and other expenses. There are three dorm buildings and students are given unannounced drug checks and will be dismissed if tested positive or drugs are found. The day starts at 6am with breakfast at 7 and class from 8 to 4. There is homework after that and a Recreation room is available as well as an Auditorium and Exercise room. The success rate of placement is 60% and Culinary trainees can go on to San Francisco and Office Management to the Boston area.

 

HAPPY DOLLARS

 

Susan Bradford passed the Happy Dollar Bowl.

Karin Carlson announced that she and  her boyfriend of 26 years eloped last week!

Ron Harris

Barry Hyman

Maile Williamson

Mary Rolander

Mark Berry

Margie Flores

Jane & Tom Sawer

Charlotte Smith

Karin Carlson

Susan Bradford

Ed Lorenz

Happy for 30 years of perfect attendance and being alive after a near-fatal infection lat week.

Mark Harbison

Ose Take

Happy  to return to our club after a year, and will be back again next year.

Heather Ballaine

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Dr. Mark Barry

 

Heather Ballaine

 

 

Gim Lin

 

 

Fred from Anchorage

 

 

Ed Lorenz

 

 

Margie Flores

 

 

Milton Rolle

 

 

Patte Hemmen

 

 

Stephen Kiefer

 

 

Karin Carlson

 

 

Maile Williamson

 

 

Mark Harbison

 

 

Barry Hyman

 

 

Mary Rolander

 

Take from Japan

 

Charlotte George-Smith

 

Ed Lorenz and Bob

 

Dave Ballaine


Gim Lin, Fred from Anchorage, Ed Lorenz-30 years in Rotary, Margie Flores, Milton Rolle, Patti Hemmen, Stephen Kiefer, Karin Carlson, Maile Williamson, Mark Harbison, Barry Hyman, Mary Rolander, Take from Japan, Charlotte George-Smith, Bob who came with Ed Lorenz, and Dave Ballaine. Very successful passing of the bowl.

 

Magic Marble Bowl


Paige held the Magic Marble bowl for Kelly to draw Patti Hemmen’s number. She drew a blue marble. The pot is at $227.

 

 

Happy Birthday Dave Ballaine

 

 

Stuart Karlan led us in a short Happy 80th birthday to Dave Ballaine and we all joined in the Whale Song.
President Kit closed the meeting with the Five Way Test at 13:23.
Respectfully submitted, Heather Ballaine

edit me. It's easy.

MAGIC MARBLE

Paige held the Magic Marble basket and Kelly drew Patti Hemmen’s ticket.

 

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Looking for the gold, but she  drew a blue marble.

 

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The pot is now at $227.

ERICA TAIT, OUR INTREPID PHOTOGRAPHER, AT WORK

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE BALLAINE

Stuart Karlan led us in a short Happy 80th birthday to Dave Ballaine and we all joined in the Whale Song.

 

 

 


President Kit closed the meeting with the Five Way Test at 13:23.
Respectfully submitted, Heather Ballaine

NEWSLETTER TEAM

This week's notes: Heather Ballaine

Text Entry: Steve Moksnes

Photos: Erica Tait

Editor: Stuart Karlan

​UPCOMING SPEAKERS

Che Frausto and Becca Peterson

Feb 08, 2017

Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project (MNSRP)

 

Maui Police Chief Tivoli Faaumu

Feb 15, 2017

 

Keoki Sousa

Feb 22, 2017

Hawaii Congress

 

Ron Worland, Humanitarian Surgeon

Mar 01, 2017

A recent mission to Xingyi, China

 

Dennis Gabelhouse—Restor International

Mar 08, 2017

Reconstructive surgery to disadvantaged children and adults in developing countries

 

Deidre Tegarden

Mar 15, 2017

Nisei Veterans Memorial Center

 

Joanne Laird

Mar 22, 2017

RYLA - Rotary Youth Leadership Awards

 

Ann Paquin

Apr 05, 2017

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​NEXT WEEK'S MEETING DUTIES

February 8


Dave Ballaine: Setup
Ron Harris: Breakdown
?? Greeter/Inspiration
Frank Schuster: Cashier
Billie Moksnes: Happy Dollars
Heather Ballaine: Minutes
Stuart Karlan: Audio/Video
Erica Tait: Photographer
Paige Fontaine: Magic Marble

ROTARY VIDEO OF THE WEEK

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