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September 16, 2009      "Building Bridges of Peace and Hope" District 5000 Conference September 25-27 2009        There is still time to join your fellow Rotarians at the September 25th-27th District Conference at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel! Please go to www.rotaryd5000.org and download registration and meal package forms. It will be a weekend filled with outstanding, inspirational and motivational speakers, interactive workshops and fellowship!   If you can make only one of the events, please support District Governor Lisa Foster and her leadership team, by attending the Governor's Dinner Saturday, September 26th, at the Molokai/Lanai Ballroom. Rotary International President's Representative and Rotary International General Secretary, Ed Futa, will Keynote the evening of great food, entertainment and fellowship.   A 6 - 7 PM no-host cocktail reception in the Molokai Foyer will precede the Governor's Dinner. Sonya Mendez and her band will conclude the evening with a fabulous array of tunes for your dancing pleasure from 9 - 11 PM. It will be a fantastic evening, so get your $80 tickets now! Fill a table with your club members, and make a night of it in Waikiki! Show your Aloha for DG Lisa, by joining her at the Governor's Dinner Saturday night, September 26th.    September 1, 2009   The District 5000 Fall Conference, "Building Bridges of Peace and Hope," brings us together early in the Rotary year, allowing us to shape our future, and to continue our work in the areas of greatest need: clean water, health and hunger, literacy and polio eradication.   My husband, Brad, and I invite you to a wonderful weekend of fellowship and fun at the Sheraton Waikiki. We have the opportunity to meet the youth as they participate in their first-ever District youth leadership conference on Saturday and join us at the first plenary session.   Breakout workshops on Saturday afternoon include facilitators: General Secretary and RIPR (Rotary International President Representative) Ed Futa (Rotary: Inside Edition); Deepa Willingham (International Service: Deeper with Deepa); Bob Pennington (Vocational Service: High School Mentoring); and a "hands-on" solar water pasteurization assembly project (WAPI: Water Pasteurization Indicator).   Saturday evening's District Governor's Dinner and Dance, will feature dinner and music, followed by keynote speaker General Secretary Ed Futa, and culminates with live music and dancing with Sonya Mendez and her musicians. Attire: Ladies (evening/cocktail attire) and Gentlemen (dinner jackets, tie optional).   The conference will culminate on Sunday as we celebrate Rotary's future leadership with  EarlyAct, Interact, Rotaract, RYLA, Youth Exchange, HRYF (Hawaii Rotary Youth Foundation) student beneficiaries and the GSE (Group Study Exchange) team from Thailand  During lunch we will be "electrified" by Hawaii's own ukulele virtuoso, Taimane Gardner.   GSE Team-Thailand: Team Members: L-R: Winatta Saengsook, Patthara Limsira, Amorn Dinthamron (back), Kulchaya Temchavaia Team Leader: Orade Rungruangroj   Featured Sunday speakers include peace scholar, Melissa "Bambi" Wurst; Joshua Cooper, Director of the Hawai'i Institute for Human Rights and the United Nations; and Rotary Beneficiaries who will share how club projects have made in a difference in their lives and others.   This District conference seeks to inspire and motivate members and clubs to continue their great work in our community and world. Together, let us celebrate Rotary with great passion; share our vision and dreams for the coming year; and work together to make our clubs and district strong and successful!      DISTRICT GOVERNOR'S FALL MEMBERSHIP CHALLENGE   August 31- October 31, 2009   Any club that inducts 5 new members from August 1, 2009 through October 31, 2009 will receive a special recognition emblem for their club banner. Take the membership challenge now! Each one of us may have joined Rotary for different reasons - but we all shared something in common - someone invited us become a member of a Rotary Club. Somewhere, there is a potential member waiting for that same invite. Rotary membership starts with YOU!  Meet the District Governor's Fall Membership Challenge!

July 1, 2009   Dear Rotarians,   Aloha and welcome to our 2009-2010 Rotary year! It is a privilege and pleasure to serve as your District Governor. Rotary provides us with many opportunities to grow personally and professionally by engaging us in humanitarian service in our community and our world. It is important that we create partnerships and work together as a team, so that in our collective effort, we can continue to make a significant difference in the lives of those in need. We have a tradition of great leadership in D5000 and in our nation. District Governors have built upon the success of those who preceded them, and I look forward to being part of that wonderful tradition. The role of the District Leadership Team is to serve, inspire, motivate and support your efforts at the club level because the Future of Rotary is in your Hands!   This year, the emphasis is to promote continuity and focus on projects that address the urgent needs of clean water, sanitation, health, hunger, literacy and polio eradication.  I encourage clubs to "think outside the box," to be creative and to work collaboratively on projects that address these needs.   Strategic planning, visioning and leadership programs can also strengthen clubs in all areas, by providing a vision and blueprint as to where clubs are now, and where they want to be in the future.  I encourage all District 5000 clubs to participate in strategic planning and develop a club success plan with the support of club members.   We have the opportunity to continue the great work of our clubs by getting together early during the upcoming Rotary year for our first-time ever Fall Conference on September 26-27, 2009.  The early conference will set the stage for fellowship, sharing ideas, and working together on projects that address clean water, health, hunger and literacy. The theme of the conference is, The Future of Rotary is in Your Hands: Building Bridges of Peace and Hope. The conference will offer workshops, hands-on projects and speakers who will inspire us to shape Rotary's future through service above self. A special conference for youth will be held concurrently during our session, allowing Rotarians to meet and interact with our young leaders.   At the end of our Rotary year in June 2010, I envision a thriving, vibrant, and growing District, whose clubs have achieved or surpassed their own club goals, each striving for excellence, and each being the best they can be. The future of Rotary will be shaped by members and their clubs. It is up to us, Rotarians, to build upon our past successes, to create Rotary's future, to build a stronger District and stronger clubs. Together, we can make a world of difference!   Yours in Rotary Service, Lisa