June 12, 2019
Wailea, Maui
Annual Visioning Session
President Joanne: E komo mai! Welcome, thank you for joining us today on our beautiful aina—this land we know as Maui no ka oi! Our short regular meeting will be followed by our end of year visioning. Our visitors are welcome to watch and contribute to our Visioning process or be excused to go explore Maui!
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Aloha Greetings among all present were exchanged.
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Inspiration by: Barry Rosenfeld
Consider the feelings of others before we concern ourselves with our own feelings. Never discredit a person's attempt to contribute, no matter how small or large their contribution may be.
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Hawaiian Word of the Day: 6/12/19 Just a verbal today…he’e=octopus. Today we’re going to wiggle all our arms and brains and wrap them around our ideas for 2019-20 in our visioning process.
Introduction of Guests:
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Ron Capanash, Arizona Club
Heidi Hershenhouse, Sacramento
Wendy Hornack, UpCountry Maui Club
John Briley, Kalama Heights, Author
Announcements:
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Wendy Hornack: The Upcountry Club is looking for the volunteers to act as “marshals” for the 4th of July Parade—to be held in Makawao on Saturday, July 6th . Can contact her at wlhmaui@hotmail.com. Might even get a free T-shirt!
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Gloria: She’s ready to order all new badges for members who would like a ‘travel badge’ or need their round, blue club badges replaced. Please contact her gelukens81@gmail.com
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President Joanne—a big thank you to the 12 members who turned in the surveys regarding our club for our Visioning today.
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Speakers:
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June
June 19 No speaker
June 26 No meeting
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July
July 3 Justin Yanagida, Fighting sickness with fitness
July 10 Lehua Huddleston-Hafoka, Kihei Youth Center
July 17 Bridget Bongaard, Hawaiian Cancer Wellness Retreat
July 24 No meeting
July 31 Pau Hana
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August
August 7 Pending
August 14 Mayor Michael Victorino
August 21 Pending
August 2 Pending
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Our next guest speaker was to be the Mayor of Maui County, Michael Victorino. However a last minute conflict has him rescheduled for August 14th. Instead, Mark Harbison will give us a glimpse of what the Rotary International Convention in Hamburg, Germany was all about.
Happy Dollars: Elizabeth Kemmish
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Who’s Happy? Sally Dean is happy she’s back on Maui from Nova Scotia; Gloria welcomed John Briley from her Kalama Heights community. Ryan is an author looking for a publisher. Barry thanked Margie for the Monsanto field trip. Mark H is back from the 2019 Rotary International Convention in Hamburg.
Rotarian Redux: Mini-bio
Gary Redfern
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Gary and Elizabeth are our Rescue Tube leaders and we thank them for serving the travelers and locals here on Maui.
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Gary has been in the club for 2 years and has lived 5 years on Maui. He was in a Rotary club in Seattle whose major fundraiser was a “Duck herding”—he provided the leafblowers to ‘move the ducklings along’. He is one of 7 siblings and grew up on a farm in Canada. Was in Marketing for 7 years at Imperial Oil; moved to Winnipeg for work for 7 years, then to Seattle for 7 years with his own business. Gary was married for 29 years, has a son and daughter and 2 grand-children. He met Elizabeth while in Rotary. Gary will be able to finish his mini-bio at a future meeting.
Magic Marble: Smita Martinez. Barry Rosenfeld pulled a blue marble, not gold. Jackpot moves to our next meeting.
In the World of Wacky and Unusual Commemoration Days: today, 6/12/19, is:
National Jerky Day—And we have samples! Nibbles were passed around.
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Our guests were invited to stay and observe or add in their ideas to our Fundraisers chart –they got a special post-it pad. We’re always looking for new ideas for increasing our Revenue stream—our visitors were asked to share any ideas they had for Fundraising.
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Regular meeting ended at: 12:37 p.m.
Visioning Session then began:
To guide us in this process, Wendy Hornack from the Upcountry Club—our sister Club of Excellence on Maui, was introduced. Wendy has been President of her club, an Assistant Governor, a District Membership Chair, a workshop provider on membership and visioning, Mom of 2 teens, a good friend and colleague, and the owner of Island Support, a tech support company.
Our Visioning proceeded with members adding their evaluations on the last year along with ideas for the following: Fundraisers, Strengths and Challenges for our club, 2018-19 Project and President’s goals’ evaluations, Guest Speaker suggestions and Topic suggestions. Joanne reminded members that the “thinking outside the box” mind-set for their suggestions will carry on past the club—be alert for other ideas as they go on with their day and into the evening.
All were thanked for their input and ideas. Joanne will take in any new late surveys that are sent to her and include them into our totals so planning, coordinating and budgeting can occur over the next few weeks.
Full Meeting ended at approximately 1:20 p.m.