APRIL 25, 2018
Wailea, Maui
Cynthia (Miss Sunshine),
Enjoy your National Parks tour!
THE MEETING STARTS
The meeting was called to order by President John Moore, at Mulligans at 12:05. He welcomed guests, visitors, and members, then asked we share the aloha with hugs and handshakes. Kit Hawkins led us in the pledge.
Bless Young shared an inspiration on perseverance written by Jonathan Greenleaf Whittier
John has been encouraging us to report acts of kindness we’ve seen or experienced in the past week.
Steve Moksnes volunteered to share one example. Steve and Billie spent two hours Monday morning with a young woman exploring the possibility of separating from her husband.
Margie Flores shared she helped pay for groceries for a young woman ahead of her in a Safeway check-out line.
Steve Moksnes passed around the loose-leaf membership notebook. He learned two have brought guests today, so he is paying $100 to Rotary Foundation.
John reported the results of the Maui Food Bank drive at Safeway last weekend. Helping were 10 students from Lokolani Intermediate school, as well as 18 members from our club. We collected more food and money than the last drive in November. Money collected was $2114 in cash, and 40 boxes of food totaling 1475# of food. John presented a big spoon to Tom and Jane Sawyer to help test whether rice or pasta has more staying power when eaten. Mark Harbison was presented a spatula to flip all the Spam he is going to fry this evening for dinner. Margie Flores was presented a paper fan to stay cool.
A thank you note from Lokolani school was sent around thanking us for the $2498 we gave them to purchase library books.
THE MENU
Kula Chopped Salad
Beef Stir Fry
Jasmine Rice
Birthday Cupcakes
TODAY'S SPEAKER
Cory Vicens ​
Visit their website at
http://maui.hawaii.edu/foodinnovation/about/
Cory Vicens, Marketing & Communications Director of the Maui Food Innovation Center (MFIC) said their mission is building a stronger, economically diverse, and sustainable Maui Nui by supporting the local food producers and value-added industry through education and training, business incubation services, research, and development of food products. They help develop “cottage” size companies into medium-sized food manufacturer’s in the State of Hawai’i by providing access to industry leaders, a food business incubator and shared-use processing facility with resources and technologies to elevate and foster their growth.
They educates and train people through the process of starting a new business using food products made from Maui agriculture. They are part of the University of Hawaii and based on the Maui College campus and help businesses launch, act as a resource center helping with marketing, connecting with others, and promotinh the expansion of the businesses.
Cory showed us several pages of labels representing products sold on Maui as well as worldwide, that got their start on Maui. Monies have been allocated to fund a building dedicated to MFIC that would include a test kitchen and space for retail of products.
Click at bottom of slide to autoplay Cory's slideshow.
or
Click the slide or press left arrow key for next slide, or right arrow key for previous slide.
INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS
​
SUNSHINE REPORT
Gloria Lukens
Gloria had a list of people celebrating birthdays in April. Those include Kit Hawkins, Tom Sawyer, Kathy Haas, and Mary Rolander. Those celebrating Rotary anniversaries: Frank Schuster, Sally Dean, Jeanie Duberstein, Kathy Haas, Randy Miller, and Ron Harris. Of those present Randy Miller drew the magic golf tee and received a prize.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
-
KAUAI RELIEF FUND: A fund through Rotary Foundation has been set up if you would like to donate to the flood victims and clean up on Kauai.
-
BOAT RAMP CLEANUP: Kihei Charter School Interact club is cleaning up the Kihei Boat Ramp April 28th at 8:30 to 12:30. Members are encouraged to attend to lend support.
-
DISTRICT CONFERENCE: The District Conference is May 18th.
-
PAU HANA THINGS
-
Pau Hana is scheduled for the last Wednesday in May. A chairman is needed.
-
Janet Walker was looking for someone to store the Pau Hana materials over the summer.
-
-
NEXT CLUB TOUR: Margie Flores has another tour planned May 24th at the Lavender Farm.
HAPPY DOLLARS
Karin Carlson
MAGIC MARBLE
We have $839 in the pot today. Billie Moksnes drew a blue marble.
CLOSING THE MEETING WITH THE ALOHA SONG AND THE FOUR-WAY TEST
UPCOMING PRESENTERS
​
​
-
May 2, Teri Frietas Gorman, Medical Cannabis/Maui Grown Therapies
-
May 9, Kelly Keating, Blazy Construction
-
May 16, Phyllis Robinson, Farmers Apprentice Mentoring Program
-
May 23, Richard Hogeboom, Stanford PhD., Barcelona, Spain Crisis
-
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:
-
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 2nd, 2018