March 13, 2019
Today's Meeting
Meeting Opened at 12:00 p.m. by Joanne
Pledge of Allegiance by: Rema Bagshaw
Inspiration by: Randy Miller—“Life isn’t about Finding Yourself—It’s about Creating Yourself.”
Hawaiian Word of the Day: 3/13/19 Makawao--“maka” means “eyes”--the beginning of the forest-open your eyes--this is where the gods live, you are leaving the realm of man and entering the realm of the gods; take offerings/gifts and be alert.
Introduction of Guests:
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Stephen Thiele from: Toronto West, Ontario
Wendy Hornack UpCountry Club on Maui
Al Stjermegaard from: Port Moody, BC
Mary from: British Columbia
Greg & Charlotte Morton from: Surry, British Columbia
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Maui minute—a place, an event, an activity or a quick, short story:
Today Charlotte Morton shared her favorite memory of Maui, which is the friendliness of the people and the kindness that is shown to all.
Rotarian Redux: Judy Gray, our newest member—Mini-bio Summary:
Judy was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia in Africa, with parents from Montrose, Scotland. She married, (1 child) moved to a small settlement in the bush—called Chirundo, with its 45 men and 5 women. Was used to the ins and outs of the Zambesi River and the wildlife that abounded nearby on the Zambian border. Moved to Victoria Falls when the border closed due to sanctions against Rhodesia. Worked for Air Rhodesia, in engineering—maintaining electroplating tanks. She told of limitations of only $350 that could be taken out of the country when families went ‘on holiday’ (on vacation), and which clearly left little in the way of money for food and extras. She moved to L.A. in 1981, had a metal finishing business there and then to Maui in 1990, where she is a Broker in Charge at Wailea Point Realty. Was a member of the Rotary Club of Kihei Sunrise from 2003 to 2013 and served as their president for a year. Recently, she found she ‘missed the people’ of Rotary and decided to join our club. She has been a Paul Harris member since 2006 and a Rotary Foundation Benefactor since 2013. We all welcomed Judy to our Club!
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Announcements:
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Membership Info: Joanne emailed members a doc to fill in your data to update and check our membership logs. Can fill it in, re-save and send it to her at rotaryemails@aol.com. If all is still OK with no changes, please send email or text to Joanne.
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Visitor email addresses: Visitors were reminded to add their emails to our sign-in roster so we may send them this week’s newsletter; their emails will not be used for other purposes.
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Keiki Dental events: The next Keiki Dental dates, (signup sheets in binder): April 18th at Kihei Elementary, 8:30, and April 24th at Kamali’i Elementary, 8:30. Rotarians are needed to assist the Dental Hygienists from UHMC who will be doing the lessons with the first graders with puppets, praise and practical instruction on how to brush and floss teeth.
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HRYF Scholarships: On Saturday, 3/16, as RCKW's representative, Joanne attended the 2nd round of interviews for applicants for 2 Hawaii Rotary Youth Foundation (HRYF) $10,000 scholarships; One student in the state will turn his/her $5,000 scholarship to a Mainland 4-year college to $10,000; Same for an applicant who goes to a 4-year college in HI.
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Rotarian Visitor needs a room: Rotarian Daniel Bradley, from Huntsville, Ontario Rotary, will be here first week in April and is looking for a Rotarian to stay with. More information later.
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Next Pau Hana—is from 5–7 pm, Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at Kamaole Poolside Bar behind 'Ami 'Ami restaurant at 2259 S Kihei Road. (Happy Hour from 5-6 with reduced prices). Kit Hawkins will be your Greeter. This is an opportunity to bring a potential new member to enjoy our company and Talk Story about Rotary or …?
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Rotarians at Work Day is April 27, 2019. Mark Harbison announced our 2nd Maui Food Bank collections will be done that weekend with youth from KCS or Lokelani Intermediate school assistance.
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Kamali'i Project Based Learning Day: Joanne attended Kamali’i’s Project Based Learning Day on March 13th. Open house in selected classrooms from K-5 on student/team projects—very enlightening. Projects ranged from Kinders learning to work together in a team to discovering information about the American Revolution to several groups who created actual businesses with their entrepreneurial hats on—Brazilian sweets to a jewelry business; creation of STEM small cars designed to drive down an incline, smash into a post all while protecting a raw egg from damage—videotaped in slow motion for analysis reasons.
Speaker's Schedule:
March
March 20 Chris Wood, Police Suicide and Welfare Fraud
March 27 5–7 pm: Meet & Greet Gathering
at the Kamaole Poolside Bar behind 'Ami 'Ami restaurant
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
April 30 Pau Hana
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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
Gloria had new, official badges for Rema & Dennis Bagshaw, Suher Rasid, and Barry Rosenfeld.
Flag Exchanges with President Joanne: Charlotte Morton from Surry, BC, and Stephen Thiele of Toronto West, Ontario
Happy Dollars: George Fontaine passed the koa bowl.
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Rema & Dennis happy for receiving their nametags; several others just happy to be at RCKW
Jay Satenstein for 46 years as a Rotarian!
Joanne—for 4.5 hours of entertainment and luau at Makena Keawala’i church (est. in 1832) as the Pastor of 28 years will retire this year.
Acts of Kindness:
Joanne—helped a family take a group shot so Mom could be in the photo at the Aquarium, new Whale Sphere.
Dave Ballaine’s wife, Heather, is making flags for the Rescue Tube stands.
Magic Marble: Janet Walker
Pot value $542; Number of Marbles: 24; Person drawing: Dennis Bagshaw. Better luck next week!
Today's Speaker
Kit Zulueta
Kit presented the basic premise of Escape Rooms—a group, family, friends, or colleagues agree to be locked in the room and must brainstorm their way out within a certain period of time with a wide variety of clues. Ingenuity, thinking-outside-the-box strategies and just plain luck guide the nimble fingers of these ‘guests’ as they create new ways to get-outtah-there! This was an interactive-production-guest-speech; Kit presented 3 tables of members/guests with small, metal, locked suitcases and a few clues. The suitcases needed to have their locks opened to reveal further clues to use to go and open the wooden, treasure chest at the speaker’s table—the contents of which were secret. All three groups were successful with the first suitcase, but no one was able to get into the innards of the secret treasure chest in the time period we had. Attendees were encouraged to get folks together to have the full-blown experience in Wailuku as a creative and wacky event. Discount business cards were handed out.
Phone: 808 249-2062; E-mail address: info@mysterymaui.com
Address: 81 N. Market Street, 2nd floor, Wailuku, 96793
Website: www.mysterymaui.com
Here's the silde show that Kit didn't have time to show us because we had so much fun solving the puzzle.
In the World of Wacky and Unusual Commemoration Days: today is… *National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day: --but if you don’t believe in courting bad luck, I like this one even better…It is also Smart & Sexy Day—so look in the mirror when you get home and imitate “The Fonz’ ” move—Aaaayyyyy! Or Lady Antebellum song lyric, “Baby, you look good!”
The Closing of the Meeting
Stu—Sang us out the door at 1:05 p.m.
Mahalo nui loa--Thank you very much and a hui hou! --until we meet again.