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March 6, 2019
Today's Meeting
Silent Auction
At 11:30 before the meeting began and after the meeting ended, silent auctions items were displayed outside on the lanai inviting people to peruse and to bid. Bid closing was at 1:05 when winners could pick up and pay for their items.
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The meeting opened at noon by President Joanne Doell. Kathy Haas led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Joanne led us in the 4 Way Test.
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Kathy offered the Inspiration of the day. She quoted Lao Tzu, “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Karin Carlson announced our fundraiser in February netted $17,568. She thanked those who helped—and the attendees at Mulligan’s gave a round of applause to all.
Mike O’Dwyer, owner of Mulligan’s suggested if we are thinking of having the fundraiser next year at Mulligan’s we might consider heavy pupus instead of full dinner for less expensive ticket charge. That way guests might consider spending more on silent auction items. Mike also offered his heartfelt ‘thank-you’ for the birthday card we recently all signed.
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Joanne Doell reminded all members to get in personal information to her for the website by filling in the form sent to them and emailing it back or bringing it into the March 19 meeting.
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Margie Flores announced Keiki Dental dates: April 18th at Kihei Elementary, 8:30, and April 24th at Kamali’i Elementary, 8:30.
Keiki Dental is a program we coordinate with the Dental Hygienists at UHMC. These volunteers come prepared with toothbrushes and puppets to teach First Graders how to brush properly, floss and choose healthy foods to keep their teeth in tip-top condition. Rotarians assist the college students by handing out materials and checking on the student’s techniques. Signup sheets are in the binder. If you’ve never attended one of our keiki projects, this is an excellent opportunity to help out and see these cherubs’ smiling faces!
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The next Pau Hana will be Wednesday, March 27th, place TBA.
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The next tour for our club is the Pineapple tour in Hali’imaile, 9:30 a.m. March 28, 2019. Signup page is in our binder.
Maui College Rotaract Fundraiser
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Rotaract is a college-based Rotary organization of young adults (between the age of 18 and 30) that develops professional and leadership skills emphasizing respect for the right of others, ethnical standards, and the dignity of all useful occupations, and provides opportunities for young people to address the needs and concerns of the community and our world.
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Support the new Rotaract Club at the University of Hawaii Maui College by attending their first public event.
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RCKW Donates to Elementary School Libraries
Margie presents $300 check to Librarian Casey at Kamali’i Elementary for Library books.
Margie presents $1,480 check to Jessie O’Neill Prest at Kihei Elementary School for new library bookshelves.​
Joanne, Margie & John cut the ribbon on the new bookshelves.
On Friday, March 1, 2019, Students at Kihei Elementary celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday
Students in several grades had stories read to them written by Dr. Seuss –who would have had his 115th birthday on Saturday, March 2, 2019. First graders came in with hand-colored hats they made to hear President Joanne read to them, Marvin K. Mooney—Will You Please Go Now! Joanne brought in a globe of the world and spun it around as she mentioned the countries in which Rotary does good things for children and grownups. The students called out when they recognized countries—as some of them were from Brazil, the Philippines, etc.
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Joanne told the students that at the end of the book she would tell them a secret—don’t forget to ask her! She encouraged them to call out the line, “Will You Please Go Now! as it was read. When the reading was complete, students asked what the secret was… and Joanne told them her name really was Mooney—her name when she was a little girl! About half of the cherubs’ jaws dropped open! Wow! Another Dr. Seuss-Mooney—right here in Kihei! The globe was spun around to show Ireland where her family came from and one cherub in the front row called out that he was Irish, too—and was wearing a green T-shirt!
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After both first grade classes had been read to, John and Margie gave them each a bookmark and a special pencil as they filed out.
Speaker's Schedule:
March
March 13 Kit Zulueta, Mystery Maui Escape Room
March 20 Chris Wood, Police Suicide and Welfare Fraud
March 27 Meet & Greet Gathering, location TBA
April
April 3 Elizabeth Johnson, Non-Traditional Children’s Learning
April 10 Nicole Fisher, Akaku Public Television
April 17 Dawn Hall, Animal Rescue
April 24 No Speaker
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May
May 1 Malia Cahill, Executive Director at Maui Huliau Foundation
May 8 Kim Julen, Feng Shui Intuitive Coach
May 15 Beth Mathias, Pacific Bio-diesel
May 22 No Speaker
May 29 Pau Hana
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June
June 5 Megan DeGaia, Publisher-Neighbors of Wailea and Makena
June 12 Pending
June 19 Pending
June 26 No Speaker
ROTARY FOUNDATION: Barry Hyman encouraged all to refer to the lead article in the Rotary magazine this month. It tells of a young woman in Nepal.
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Our club has a matching point program that transfers points to a member who may need more points to become a Paul Harris Fellow. You become a Paul Harris Fellow if you donate $1,000 to the Rotary Foundation, if someone has donated money to the Foundation in your name, or if you earn matching points from another member. All members are encouraged to donate $100/year. Our club averages $163/year or more.
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Consider becoming a Rotary Foundation Benefactor by designating money to the Foundation upon your passing.
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GUESTS: Were introduced at each table. Today we had Gerry Mooney, brother of President Joanne, Sherry LeMaster, guest of Bless Young, Al Stjernegaard new to Kihei from Port Moody near Vancouver, BC., and Skippy Hau as our guest speaker.
HAPPY DOLLARS: Most were happy the fundraiser was such a success, one was happy it was over. That may apply to most members! Charlotte Smith was happy her cat was approaching 19 years old.
MAGIC MARBLE: Joe Mitchell announced we have $549 in the pot for the lucky winner this week. Barry drew a blue marble, so we go on to next week.
Today's Speakers
Skippy Hau ​
Speaker Skippy Hau is from the State of Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources, has been in that department 34 years and has a wealth of knowledge about life in the waters around us. He tried to capsulize several semesters of information into 20 minutes of delivery to us. He shared several details of sperm whales, porpoises, seals, green turtles, Hawksbill turtles, lantern fish, seaweed and tiger sharks. The warmth of the ocean is measured; sharks are tagged to study and follow. A turtle that had a spear in it was sent to Oahu to be treated and returned.
Skippy had several handouts available to us. He also brought live o’opu—fresh water small fish in our streams (Hawaii’s freshwater Goby fish—the only indigenous one in our streams) They are known to climb 1,200-foot waterfalls with their sucker-like underbelly. “They accomplish this daunting task with some help from fused pelvic fins, which form a suction cup. Using their mouth and this special sucker, slowly but surely they make their way up the steep falls. “ This edible fish is also rumored by Hawaiians to bring good luck—luck will ‘cling’ to you.
Also on display was the opae’ula (red, freshwater shrimp) swimming around at the display table. Apparently, this shrimp can be kept in aquariums as pets.
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For information on how to join Eyes of the Reef: email: contact@reefcheckhawaii.org. or visit their website.
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Here's Skippy's slide show.
Coral bald on top because people stood on it.
Guest Al Stjernegaard gave a 4-minute talk on his Rotary club project that connected with a Rotary club in Belize (formerly the Commonwealth of British Honduras in Central America). The local club found out the only way they could improve conditions in a local prison was to let the Rotary club do it. So Al’s club in Port Moody near Vancouver paired up with them to hire other staff and started the Khan Academy and other programs at that prison. Now the prisoners are taught literacy and vocational training by Rotary volunteers using computers only linked to in-house hard drives with all the programs and data. This setup poses no danger or opportunity for the inmates to get on the internet for nefarious reasons. Al shared that they were enthusiastically becoming eager learners in this educational endeavor.
Here's Ed's slide show
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