May 23, 2018
Maui Sunset
ROTARY IN ACTION
These photos were taken at the year-end celebration with the Interact Club at Lokelani. They showed us a 45-minute video they did themselves highlighting the ten service projects they did this year. RCKW members who attended were PE Joanne, Margie, Elizabeth (who brought cupcakes), Gary (who brought the water), Gloria and John.
Below you will see photos of the Interact Club's meeting and samples of the PowerPoint.
TOUR OF MAUI LAVENDER FARM, UPCOUNTRY, MAUI 5/24/18
The free tour for our members began about 10:00 am. At 4,000 feet, this botanical 26 acres showed us a wide variety of Maui flora: all manner of lehua from pale pink to yellow, orange and red, a variety of King, Queen and Pincushion Protea, English and French lavender and a unique-to-Maui-variety that mixed the English and French together to create a dark and fragrant newbie. Real Hawaiian varieties of uki uki—with blueberries to dye kapa cloth and kipu kipu fern—with its long, thin, sword-like leaves just right for haku lei are among plants used for a variety of protocol ceremonies. Lots of olive trees with tiny nubs growing handily, large shrubs of Podocarpus Gracilior—graceful, frilly and sometimes called the Fern Pine, and Wisteria—we missed the April bloom—fill the garden in with a variety of trees of apple, peach, cross between a small red apple and Maui’s wild Mountain apple and assorted other plants such as Heliotrope, California Golden Poppies and who-knows-what-else. A small and colorful children’s garden has two playhouses—all overlooking Maui’s central alluvial plain through Italian Cypress above the road to Haleakala. The small but delightful gift shop has a variety of scones and donuts, banana bread, and brioches along with coffees, teas, fizzy drinks; these complement a small arsenal of lavender products such as creams, balms, essence oils, sprays and that all-time-fav—lavender blossoms’ bags to scent clothes in the dryer. What’s not to like! Kudos to Margie, again, for setting up a great tour!
MARK HARBISON BRINGS HOME THE GOLD!!
President John Moore and Mark Harbison celebrate as First Place Winner for International Grant Projects for a large club (our new designation). Thank you, Mark, for all your hard work in securing matching grants for our many projects!
OPENING THE MEETING
​
President John opened the meeting and then read this inspiration: "Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person."
TODAY'S SPEAKER
Richard Hogeboom, Ph.D.
Rift, "Rebellion" and the Future of Spain,
Richard presented the history of the Catalan independence movement in a way that would of put us in the middle of the story of Catalan, to feel, experience, and visualize the issues and hopes for better governance by giving us the responsibilities of a resident, including dividing us into a group of long-term Catalan residents and more recently arrived residents and asking us to vote for or against independence.
The central question he posed was "Should Catalan be allowed to become an independent country, separate from Spain?".
He said that Catalan exemplifies independence movements worldwide, fueled by passions, shared histories and group identities.
He gave the following comparison of the results between violent suppression or negotiation with separatist movements: “When central governments crackdown on independence movements, political and economic instability and even violence are the usual outcomes which inflame secessionist passions.” Instead, more effective responses have been:
-
Give a legitimate legal path to a secession vote.
-
Structure the vote with a wider range of alternatives.
-
Negotiate “reasonable power transfer to regional governments".
When Britain and Canada did so, Scottish & Quebecois independence votes failed
Here is the slideshow Richard presented. Start the show by clicking the right-pointing arrow at the bottom of the slide. The three slides with a in the middle are videos. Click the arrows to see the videos.
​KIHEI YOUTH CENTER COMPUTER GRANT
Mark Harbison introduced past member Lehua Huddleston and Kahea Ferreira, her executive assistant at the Kihei Youth Center and told us about the grant the club has made to supply 2 HP computers valued at $1,072 for their after-school computer homework program, which supports kids who don't have a computer at home. This was one of four local grants the club provided this Rotary year.
INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS
SUNSHINE REPORT
Gloria Lukens' birthday was on May 1
​
Cynthia Clark has been having a great time with friends and family on the East Coast, will be at a Billy Joel concert tonight, and and will be coming back to Maui on Saturday.
NEW MEMBER INDUCTION
Mark Harbison inducted Draysen Wilson, a financial advisor who works with his sponsor, Barry Hyman, at FIM Group
ANNOUNCEMENTS
DISTRICT CONFERENCE
The year-end District Conference was held last weekend at the Four Seasons Resorts in Kapolei on Oahu and was attended by President John Moore, President-elect Joanne Doell and Grants Chair Mark Harbison. Our membership has grown just enough to put us into the "Large Club", so even though we were in competition with many much larger clubs, we came home with three awards, First Place for Large Club International Service, Runner-up for Large Club Youth Services and Runner-up for Large Club Public Image.
PHOTOGRAPHER NEEDED
All of our regular meeting photographers will be gone in June and July, so please let president John know if you have a camera and would like to take photos for the newsletters for a few meetings.
​
NOTE TAKERS NEEDED
All of our regular meeting newsletter note takers will be gone in June and July, so please let president John know if you will take notes that we use to make the newsletter.
​
DISASTER DONATIONS
Manny Arriaga visted the Big Island last week and told us that 5 Rotarians lost their houses to the Kiluea lava flow but that the people he met were all optimistic.
Remember to go to the District 5000 website to make donations for Kauai flood relief and Hawaii Puna lava relief, both at https://rotaryd5000.org. These donations will go directly to the community through local Rotary clubs without any overhead expenses.
​
CLUB FIELD TRIP
We'll be taking a tour of the Maui Lavender Farm in Kula tomorrow, carpool meeting at 9 a.m. near Outback in the Piikea Shopping Center for a 10 a.m. tour.
​
NEXT MEETING
Our May 31 meeting will be a Picnic Pau Hana from 5-8 p.m. on the lawn at Keawakapu beach by the Five Palms restaurant. Bring a a potluck dish, your own beverage and a lawn chair.
​
CLUB MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
Karin Carlson and Mark Harbison were included in a Maui News article about realtors helping the Maui Food Bank.
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
​
HAPPY DOLLARS
JOHN'S QUIZ
All questions about Memorial day. He gave a flag pin along with candy to the winners.
MAGIC MARBLE
Starting over again after winners at the last two meetings, the pot was at $109. Jeri Grazier's number was drawn, and she picked one of the many blue marbles from the bag.
Say What!!!
CLOSING THE MEETING
​
Stuart led the club Aloha song in a new key used by Aunty Doll, whose Kalama Heights Friday morning ukulele group, is helping to make a recording of the song.
UPCOMING PRESENTERS
​
-
May 30, Pau Hana
-
June 6. Kelly Trang,
-
June 13, Kai Pelayo, Monsanto
-
June 20, Colin Yamamoto, Ocean Safety, Resue Tubes and Full Face Mask Safety
-
June 27, No Speaker
-
July 4, No Meeting
-
July 11, Melodie Ulman, Executive Director, Caring K9 Therapy Dogs
-
July 18, Dr. Nancy Long, Hospice
-
July 25, Mark Barry, End of Life Planning
NEXT WEEK'S MEETING DUTIES
Wednesday May 23, 2018