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November 20, 2019
Wailea, Maui
PDG Win Schoneman handed our club three awards for our Rotary Foundation giving this past year. The Every Rotarian Every Year (EREY) award because every member in our club has given $100+ in the last year and we donated $1,500 to Polio Plus. We gave $11,000 to all funds combined last year. Kudos to all participating members!
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Todays Meeting
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The meeting opened by our esteemed President, Joanne Doell at noon.
Inspiration by: Barry Rosenfeld - “Sometimes angels are disguised as children with special needs to teach us how to be better people.”
Hawaiian word of the day: Local places: “NASKA”
1943-NASKA (Navy Air Station Kahului) runways later became known as Kahului Airport in 1950. Previous Airport? Pu’unene Airport 1939-1943 closed for larger NASKA airport; the space is now Maui Raceway Park—go cart racing and model airplane flying. Maui’s original “airport” was a dirt runway near Ma’alaea; downside was it would be too muddy when it rained for planes to land or depart—so Pu’unene Airport was created.
Guests: Mark Ambrose, Calgary South; Larry Reynolds, Campbell River; Robert & Karen Cole, Pukalani; Harry Helliesen, Yakima, WA; Mary Albitz, Upcountry Maui; and our Assistant Governor, Gray Tuttle, Southern Pines, NC; Guest speakers: Maggie Pulver and Paul Higashino.; Win Schoneman, former D5000 District Governor
Maui minute: Larry Reynolds says his daughter was married on Makena beach and named one of her children Makena—with an erroneous spelling on her birth certificate.
Announcements
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We have collected the background check forms from 22 club members. Those will be sent in next week. Thank you, Al Weiland, for being the point-man on this endeavor!
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Club Christmas party will be December 18th at noon, at Mulligans. Charge will be $25 that includes prime rib, lobster bisque, scalloped potatoes, drink, and tip. Please sign up if going and include guest count. Still need volunteer Santa. Exchange $10 gift optional. Bring your best Christmas story to share at your table.
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Annual fundraiser will be at Mulligans, March 21st. Please sign up for different committees in the binder today. Let’s all step up and play a part in this to be even more successful than last Spring!
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Club Board meeting is tomorrow, November 21st.
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Sign up in the book if you want a travel badge ordered for you.
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Gloria has club theme pins for members who did not get one.
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Kalama Heights caroling will be December 20th, 12 to 12:15. Our Lokelani student-singers must then get back to their afternoon classes.
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Christmas Angels program. Margie will be shopping November 30. Please get $$ to her before then. These gifts are designated for those families St. Theresa’s deems in need.
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Smita Martinez is looking for a liaison from our club to the Interact club at Kihei Charter school.
Former District Governor Win Schoneman joined Barry Hyman in awarding a Paul Harris Fellow pin/award to Dray Wilson.
Happy Dollars:
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Mark Harbison was happy we are joining our sister club in Japan to fund a grant to teach pediatric surgery in Uganda.
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Kimokeo Kapahulehua thanked all who supported a cancer foundation he’s involved with.
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Many were just happy for the guests present, the speakers, and to be on Maui.
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Today's Speakers
Paul Higashino and Maggie Pulver
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Paul Higashino and Maggie Pulver from the Kaho’olawe Island Reserve Commission, part of the State Dept of Land and Natural Resources. Maggie is the Public information Specialist and introduced Paul. We watched slides and heard Paul give us the update on restoring native plants and animals.
Kaho’olawe is the island off Makena shores and is 48,000 square miles of ordnance- riddled, virtually denuded landscapes, 1,500’ at it’s highest point. The farthest side of the island from Wailea-side was the launching and arrival site as our Hawaiians returned to Tahiti over the generations; it is still where the Hokulea began and ended voyages of discovery and good-will around the world.
Kaho‘olawe is dedicated to Kanaloa, Hawaiian deity of the ocean.The 50 years of constant use as target practice by US military forces came to an end in 1990. Prior to that, assorted critters such as cattle, sheep, goats and rats devestated the flora/fauna of the island. In a coordinated process, ordinance removal ran for 10 years, but 25% of the land remains with hidden ordnance
Travel on designated ordnance-free trails is mandatory. The public can only go to Kaho’olawe as volunteers with the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission. Paul mentioned that when he shows volunteers precisely how to dig a hole for a new plant, he’s careful to use the exact same spot each time—a spot he knows has no bombs in it! Our own Paige Fontaine recounted her canoe trip to the island to help for 4 days.
The Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission is responsible for the restoration and sustainable management of the island until it can be transferred to a native Hawaiian entity to manage. Among the highlights of his talk was Paul’s use of ancient island tricks to trap soil and moisture/rainwater in barren soil by using rocks and pebbles (even china plates) as mulch/barriers over the newly planted seeds to minimize erosion, capture soil flying in the wind, and reduce the large sediment loads moving from the land into the waters around the island. His slides showed evidence that this ancient practice works. They also showed many ways that data sensors are collecting information, including in the surrounding ocean, to prove the efficacy of their anti-erosion methods.
Go to their website for more information.
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Click the arrows at each side to view Paul's slide show.
Act of Kindness: Joanne was singing “Hawaii Aloha” in a group setting at the end of a film and someone in the row behind her reached for her hand to complete the circle of aloha among the many rows of the audience.
Magic Marble: Alice McDermott held the bag of blue/gold marbles while Pat Rosenfeld drew a blue marble. So, the marble draw goes on to the next meeting.
In the World of Wild and Wacky Commemoration Days: Today is National Absurdity Day, so let’s all go out and do something completely Absurd.
Guest Speaker next meeting, December 4th, wll be Kimokeo Kapahulehua speaking on his Kimokeo Foundation and his efforts to preserve and perpetuate his Hawaiian culture and to preserve the land and sea, to educate our youth and to assist Hawaiian cancer survivors. He will include some stories of our Kihei-Wailea-Makena heritage.
Win Schoneman led us in the Four Way test—slowly, this time, so as to savor each and every one of the tenets of Rotary.
Stuart led us in singing our song of thanks to our guests for coming.
Mahalo nui loa—thank you very much and, a hui hou—until we meet again, rang out to the our attendees as we exited the room.