July 17, 2019

Wailea, Maui

Today's Meeting

Joanne: E komo mai! Welcome, one and all to our— Maui-- our beautiful aina—our Maui no ka oi! Even if it was burning and smoky last week with 94 degrees in Kahului breaking heat records for July.

Pledge of Allegiance led by Smita

Inspiration by: Barry R.

Those folks we don’t agree with need to be viewed as worthy opponents and not as enemies.

Introduction of Guests:

Bridget Bongaard, Guest Speaker, member of the Rotary Club of Wailuku

Alice & Joe McDermott: Just returned to Maui from Scottsdale, AZ

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Island-wide Presidential Induction & RYLA Fundraiser: On July 15th about 50 Rotarians gathered at Pa’ina Bldg UHMC for a 3-hour mass Induction and fundraiser for RYLA. Now Joanne is official! Also honored were Mark H, Jay, and Gary, who spoke on the rescue tube project on Maui, and Colin Yamamoto, former Battalion Fire Chief and our Rotary Rescue Tube Program liaison and Jocelyn Demirbag, UHMC Foundation Director. Uncle George Kahumoku provided Hawaiian entertainment.
Thanks Two cards were passed around members to sign to thank our firefighters and police in Kihei for their tireless work last Thursday thru Saturday to keep persons and property safe. Goodies will go with these when President Joanne delivers. After our meeting, she delivered the 2 cards to the Kihei Police Station and the Kihei Fire Station near the Library. The Lieutenant at the Police station was surprised and welcomed our gifts. He offered that some of the officers’ uniforms still smell like a BBQ smoke!”
Club Field Trip Our next tour, Kealia Pond, is scheduled for August 28th, 9:30 a.m. at the Visitor Center.
Pau Hana—July 31, for prospective members—invite a friend, colleague, acquaintance in your condo complex, member of our biz community…more details later.
Free Health Club Membership Justin Yanagida, our last week's speaker, is looking to gift 10 free 2-week memberships to his fitness center. If you are interested in getting healthier for free, contact Justin at… yanagidafitness@gmail.com

Speakers:

July

July 24 No meeting

July 31 Pau Hana

August

August 7 Pending

August 14 Mayor Michael Victorino

August 21 Pending

August 2 Pending

Speaker: Barry Hyman on Foundation. Barry shared that all our Foundation goals were met this past year and explained how our contributions are matched by the District and world funds.

Barry explained how our contributions to the Rotary Foundation are multiplied and come back to the club to fund our local and international projects thorugh the Foundation Funding Model, which works like this:

We make a contribution to the Rotary foundation
Our contribution is invested for three years
After the 3rd year, the Foundation returns our contribution in two ways

a. 50% comes back to us through our District 500 as District Designated Funds (DDF) in the
form of:

• Global Grants
• District Grants
• Scholarships
• Vocational Training Teams (VTTs)

b. 50% comes back to us as matching funds through the Rotary Foundation World Fund for:

• Global Matching Grants
• Scholarships
• Vocational Training Teams (VTTs)

We use the funds we get back from the Rotary World Fund for new local and global grants, and add additional club funds, which are then matched by the District. The result is that our grant donations are often multiplied 2 to 3.5 times. This is real leverage!

We are all asked to consider a $100 contribution to the Rotary Foundation each year. However, if we all contribute at least $25, we will again become an EREY Club—“Every Rotarian, every year”.

Our grants all go to one of the Rotary Foundation Areas of Focus:

Peace and Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Disease prevention and treatment
Water and sanitation
Maternal and child health
Basic education and literacy
Economic and community development

Barry gave us examples of local projects that we funded this year in this way:

Lokelani Leadership Training project.

The club put in $186 which, after matching grants by the district and RI turned into a total grant of $1,684.

Kihei Elementary Library Shelving project

After the club's $740 was matched the grant totalled $1,480

An International project, that we contributed to in 2018-19 is funding Cataract Camps and Surgeries in New Delhi, India. Our club donated $2,500, which after matching funds from other Rotary clubs and Rotary International came to $157,504.

Happy Dollars: Sally carried the koa bowl around the room to see who among us were happy. Here’s two: Judy Gray so happy our Central Maui fires are now over and several other things; Barry was happy his colleague "Alice McDermott" is back on Maui and re-joining our club.

Acts of Kindness: Joanne reported that when the brush fire was approaching Kihei on Thursday, the managers of the ABC store on the corner of Alanui Ke Ali’i & South Kihei Road stood outside their store directing cars to the gas pumps there so there wouldn’t be a traffic jam and very calmly stepped up to pump our gas for us with Aloha and a quiet confidence that all would be OK. Priceless!

Today's Speaker

Dr. Bridget Bongaard

Dr. Bridget Bongaard, Integrative Internal Medicine; Hawaiian Cancer Wellness. Dr. Bridget has a passion for healing and seeks to offer patients ways to manage pain without drugs. She seeks to create a retreat center on Maui that is fashioned after one in Stowe, Vermont, whose mission is to help cancer survivors transform their lives to a new and better level of Health and Wellness—to a ‘new normal’. "We provide the tools and cutting edge evidence-based learning about the healing process for you to use for yourself and family." Her activities and all materials have their basis in scientific research, such as: Nutrition as related to Cancer Wellness, Prevention of Illness, Creation of Resilience and Hardiness, Consciousness, Epigenetics, Psychoimmunobiology ( the study of how our emotions and thoughts influence our immune system), and more. Important new research techniques can reveal the genetic structure of tumors; identify genes and find ethnic

vulnerabilities for cancer, and educate the vulnerable populations. There are 58,000 ethnic Hawaiians who have the genetic markers.

Dr. Bongaaard's project is to make a brighter healthier future for our Ohana given the growing number of those developing cancer by:

Creating an approach that brings together key partners and organizations to develop a plan to reduce the number of community members who develop or die from cancer.
Through 3-day retreats, educating >500 attendees yearly on the preventable aspects and focus on high risk populations that are highly predisposed (fragile populations, and impoverished remote populations).
Promoting genetic testing to identify those needing earlier/intensive surveillance.
Focusing on cancer prevention through experiential education about the causes of most burden in the community, and uses methods that have worked in similar communities to prevent and control these cancers.

Here's a link to the project's website.

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Birthdays: Judy Gray-- Today we celebrated Karin’s husband, Bob’s, birthday as well as Mike O’Dwyer’s & Gloria’s anniversary of 23 years as a Rotarian. Judy passed around chocolate mini-cupcakes to the celebrants, with extras going to the patrons and staff in the bar.

If for some reason, we’ve missed your birthday or spouse’s birthday or anniversary for joining Rotary, please let us know and we’ll update our records.

Magic Marble: Paige

Pot value $846 Number of Marbles: 10 Person drawing: Barry Rosenfeld—Nope! Better luck next week! Only 9 marbles left.

Next guest speaker: August 7th, Stacy Moniz from Maui Farms

Appreciation: Thank all the members who helped out today—Who? Mark, Barry, Judy, Karin, Stu, Kit, John, Elisa and Sally.

In the World of Wacky and Unusual Commemoration Days: World Emoji Day—there’s even some new Pidgin English ones…and if you’re not a fan of Emoji’s…it’s National Hot Dog Day!

One last thought from President Joanne…After our North Kihei evacuation, please evaluate your own evacuation kit for completeness. I didn’t take my passport nor other important papers with me because for some illogical reason didn’t put this emergency in the same category as tsunami’s, earthquakes and hurricanes, I didn’t even take my new solar/crank radio & cell phone charger thinking I’d be only gone for an hour or two! Not so.

AND also… Be thinking who you can invite to our Pau Hana—Wed, July 31st Place and time to be announced.

July 17, 2019

Wailea, Maui

Today's Meeting

Joanne: E komo mai! Welcome, one and all to our— Maui-- our beautiful aina—our Maui no ka oi! Even if it was burning and smoky last week with 94 degrees in Kahului breaking heat records for July.

Pledge of Allegiance led by Smita

Inspiration by: Barry R.

Speaker: Barry Hyman on Foundation. Barry shared that all our Foundation goals were met this past year and explained how our contributions are matched by the District and world funds.

Happy Dollars: Sally carried the koa bowl around the room to see who among us were happy. Here’s two: Judy Gray so happy our Central Maui fires are now over and several other things; Barry was happy his colleague "Alice McDermott" is back on Maui and re-joining our club.

Today's Speaker

Dr. Bridget Bongaard

vulnerabilities for cancer, and educate the vulnerable populations. There are 58,000 ethnic Hawaiians who have the genetic markers.

Dr. Bongaaard's project is to make a brighter healthier future for our Ohana given the growing number of those developing cancer by:

Creating an approach that brings together key partners and organizations to develop a plan to reduce the number of community members who develop or die from cancer.

Through 3-day retreats, educating >500 attendees yearly on the preventable aspects and focus on high risk populations that are highly predisposed (fragile populations, and impoverished remote populations).

Promoting genetic testing to identify those needing earlier/intensive surveillance.

Focusing on cancer prevention through experiential education about the causes of most burden in the community, and uses methods that have worked in similar communities to prevent and control these cancers.

Here's a link to the project's website.

Birthdays: Judy Gray-- Today we celebrated Karin’s husband, Bob’s, birthday as well as Mike O’Dwyer’s & Gloria’s anniversary of 23 years as a Rotarian. Judy passed around chocolate mini-cupcakes to the celebrants, with extras going to the patrons and staff in the bar.

If for some reason, we’ve missed your birthday or spouse’s birthday or anniversary for joining Rotary, please let us know and we’ll update our records.

Next guest speaker: August 7th, Stacy Moniz from Maui Farms

Appreciation: Thank all the members who helped out today—Who? Mark, Barry, Judy, Karin, Stu, Kit, John, Elisa and Sally.

In the World of Wacky and Unusual Commemoration Days: World Emoji Day—there’s even some new Pidgin English ones…and if you’re not a fan of Emoji’s…it’s National Hot Dog Day!

The Closing

NEWSLETTER REPORTER

John Moore

NEWSLETTER PHOTOGRAPHER

Kit Hawkins

NEWSLETTER LAYOUT

Steve Moksnes

NEWSLETTER EDITORS

Joanne Doell

Stuart Karlan

July 17, 2019

Wailea, Maui

Today's Meeting

Joanne: E komo mai! Welcome, one and all to our— Maui-- our beautiful aina—our Maui no ka oi! Even if it was burning and smoky last week with 94 degrees in Kahului breaking heat records for July.

Pledge of Allegiance led by Smita

Inspiration by: Barry R.

Speaker: Barry Hyman on Foundation. Barry shared that all our Foundation goals were met this past year and explained how our contributions are matched by the District and world funds.

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Happy Dollars: Sally carried the koa bowl around the room to see who among us were happy. Here’s two: Judy Gray so happy our Central Maui fires are now over and several other things; Barry was happy his colleague "Alice McDermott" is back on Maui and re-joining our club.

Today's Speaker

Dr. Bridget Bongaard

vulnerabilities for cancer, and educate the vulnerable populations. There are 58,000 ethnic Hawaiians who have the genetic markers.

​

Dr. Bongaaard's project is to make a brighter healthier future for our Ohana given the growing number of those developing cancer by:

Creating an approach that brings together key partners and organizations to develop a plan to reduce the number of community members who develop or die from cancer.

Through 3-day retreats, educating >500 attendees yearly on the preventable aspects and focus on high risk populations that are highly predisposed (fragile populations, and impoverished remote populations).

Promoting genetic testing to identify those needing earlier/intensive surveillance.

Focusing on cancer prevention through experiential education about the causes of most burden in the community, and uses methods that have worked in similar communities to prevent and control these cancers.

​​

Here's a link to the project's website.

Birthdays: Judy Gray-- Today we celebrated Karin’s husband, Bob’s, birthday as well as Mike O’Dwyer’s & Gloria’s anniversary of 23 years as a Rotarian. Judy passed around chocolate mini-cupcakes to the celebrants, with extras going to the patrons and staff in the bar.

If for some reason, we’ve missed your birthday or spouse’s birthday or anniversary for joining Rotary, please let us know and we’ll update our records.

Next guest speaker: August 7th, Stacy Moniz from Maui Farms

Appreciation: Thank all the members who helped out today—Who? Mark, Barry, Judy, Karin, Stu, Kit, John, Elisa and Sally.

In the World of Wacky and Unusual Commemoration Days: World Emoji Day—there’s even some new Pidgin English ones…and if you’re not a fan of Emoji’s…it’s National Hot Dog Day!

The Closing

NEWSLETTER REPORTER

John Moore

NEWSLETTER PHOTOGRAPHER

Kit Hawkins

NEWSLETTER LAYOUT

Steve Moksnes

NEWSLETTER EDITORS

Joanne Doell

Stuart Karlan