September 30, 2007

 POTENTIAL MATCHING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

We frequently are advised by other Districts of Matching Grant projects available in their country where they are seeking an International Partner.  This will be listed for your consideration.  If you are interested in more details on any of these projects, contact District Grants Chair Dave Berry at berrysinhawaii@aol.com 

Click here to see the current list.

Oahu Camp scheduled for

November 10 - 12, 2007

From Dick Starkweather, District Secretary

As the year begins, there have been questions arising concerning attendance.  I have included some frequently asked questions that you may find helpful:

WHAT IS THE 80+ RULE?

Members with a combined age and years of membership (in one or more clubs) totals at least 85 years may submit a written notice to the club secretary, asking to be excused from attendance; the board must approve the request before the member is excluded from attendance.

WHEN ARE THE ATTENDANCE REPORTS DUE?

Attendance reports must be submitted to Rotary International within 15 days of the last meeting of each month.  Each club is requested to submit its report to District within 10 days of the last meeting of each month to allow all reports to be submitted to the District Governor and Rotary International in the time requested.

MAKE-UPS

You may give attendance credit to a member who misses a club meeting if, within 14 days before or after the missed meeting, the member completes a makeup meeting.

WHAT QUALIFIES AS A MAKE-UP?

Make-ups can be performed in many different ways:

1. Attend at least 60 percent of another clubs meeting.
2. Is present at the usual time and place of another club's regular meeting and that club is not meeting.
3. Participates directly and actively in a service project sponsored by the District, RI, or The Rotary Foundation in a remote area where a make-up opportunity isn't possible.
4. Attends a meeting of any of the following: Rotaract club, Interact club, Rotary Community Corps, a provisional Rotaract or Interact club or Rotary Community Corps or a meeting of a Rotary Fellowship.
5. Attends or participates in a club service project or club-sponsored community event or meeting authorized by the board.
6. Attends a board meeting, or, if authorized by the board, a meeting of a service committee to which a member is assigned.
7. Participates through a club web site in an interactive activity requiring an average of 30 minutes of participation.

IS ATTENDANCE COUNTED IF OUR CLUB CANCELS ITS MEETING?

When calculating the clubs monthly attendance report, you can omit a regular meeting that is cancelled for one of the following reasons:

- Legal holiday
- Death of a member
- Epidemic or disaster affecting the entire community
- Armed conflict in the community that endangers the lives of club members

Additionally, the board may cancel up to four meetings per Rotary year for causes not otherwise specified, provided that the club does not fail to meet for more than three consecutive meetings. 

Don't include these canceled meetings when calculating attendance.

District Conference 2008

Register early and SAVE!!!

Register here

fax or mail it in today!

Your early registration gives the committee the information they need to make this an event to remember!!  We want the best for you and this way, you can help make it happen!!

Beautiful Wailea Maui!

 Rotary Basics for 2007-08 now available 
 

The 2007-08 edition of Rotary Basics (595-EN) is now available. This eight-page brochure provides a great overview of Rotary for both new and prospective members. It can be ordered for US$0.75 or downloaded at www.rotary.org.

And the Winner is ...

By Helena Oh, The Rotarian

Like many clubs, the Rotary Club of Golden, Colo., USA, sponsors an annual ethics awards competition for local businesses – but with a special twist. The club honors companies that follow not only The Four-Way Test but also “cowboy ethics,” which calls for living each day with courage, being tough but fair, and talking less but saying more, among other things. A 2004 book, Cowboy Ethics: What Wall Street Can Learn from the Code of the West, inspired the theme.      

The club cosponsored the second Golden Ethics in Business Awards with the Greater Golden Chamber of C

ommerce and the West Chamber Serving Jefferson County. Ed Greene, weather forecaster for Denver’s CBS television affiliate, was master of ceremonies, and Dan Ritchie, chancellor emeritus at the University of Denver, delivered the keynote address. A Colorado School of Mines professor, along with some of her ethics students, evaluated the for-profit and nonprofit entries on criteria such as environmental record, employee relations, community involvement, and customer service.

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Well done to Hal and Leah Darcey, Masa Edamura, Rob Hail and all those who have joined the Rotary Clubs of Metropolitan Honolulu, Honolulu Sunrise and the six clubs from Kauai to make this exciting event a reality.  Great work-this is a big step in the life of FLOW and our support. Thank you all again for making this possible.  See more photos!

 From Kapolei to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kapolei Rotarians Joni Henderson, PP Sonya Mendez and Rhona Slingerland don authentic Ethiopian head scarves in preparation for the upcoming Rotary PolioPlus NID in Addis Ababa from Oct. 14-21. The trio will be bringing suitcases full of pens, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, and rulers to school children in the city and the countryside. It will be Henderson's and Slingerland's first NID, and a second time for Mendez.

Other Hawaii Rotarians on this trip are PDG Roz Cooper, PAG Kristine Westmoreland, Bob Sullivan, Donna Files, Mike Elinski and Joe Lopez.

ROTARY CLUBS OF HIROSHIMA SOUTHEAST AND PEARL HARBOR
BLAISDELL PARK TREE PLANTING CEREMONY

The history and significance of the tree planting ceremony observed by the Rotary Clubs of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima Southeast is based on the desire of both clubs to establish a memoriam to honor those killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor and dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima.

Mr. Hirotani PP RCHSE asked, during our club visit to Hiroshima in 1990.  If it would be possible for their club to plant a peace tree on the shores of Pearl Harbor to show their remorse for, and to honor, the memory of those military and civilians who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor.   Read on ...  and see the pictures .

 ROTARY CLUB OF HANALEI

“Growing our own Teachers”

The pictureshows some of the Teacher Candidates, UH Faculty Advisor, Dr. Ka’ani Blackwell

and many Hanalei Bay Rotarians at the sale.

This is a program from the University of Hawaii at Manoa whereby teacher candidates on the neighbor islands can get their teaching credentials without having to go to Oahu to study.  They take the first two years of study at Kauai Community College, then UH professors come to Kauai for the balance of their studies.  The last semester of their senior year, the candidates must be in a classroom full time and are not able to hold a job during that time. 

Many candidates are single moms or other providers for their families and without assistance would have to drop out of the program.  We are raising funds to provide each candidate with a $4,000 award to get them through the program with the stipulation that they spend at least three years teaching in our schools. 

On September 15th we had the “Mother of all Garage Sales” in Kilauea where we raised over $4,800 for the program.  We have been challenged by the Stanny Foundation who will match our funds up to $17,000, so the $4,800 will bring $9,600 toward our goal. 

The Poipu Beach Club contributed $8,000 and the Kapa’a Club $4,000.  This project has been adopted by all of the Kauai Clubs and will be an annual project since the need for more teachers is critical to our children and their schools.

The Rotary Club of Hanalei hosted two short term exchange students for two weeks in August.  Both were sponsored by the Kihei-Wailea Club on Maui and spent the first part of their visit there.  They are Haruka Minato (female) and Yasuhide Kunishige (male) both attending Dosisha University in Kyoto, Japan.  The attached picture shows the students along with some of the Rotarians from Hanalei Bay who kept them busy on Kauai.  They went on hikes, attended a polo match, went sailing on Hanalei Bay, went to a luau, had several beach days for boogie boarding, went to Kokee State Park to view Waimea Canyon and the Kalalau Lookout, went to Kilauea Lighthouse National Wildlife Reserve, toured the botanical gardens at Na Aina Kai, went to a beach cookout with long term exchange students from Chile, Brazil and Italy and more.  Haruka and Shige performed the Japanese Tea Ceremony for Rotarian George Corrigan and his wife.

Got a great story?  Wanna share?

Submit your club's activities and stories (print ready) and photos (jpg format) for newsletter consideration!  We can't publish it if you don't submit it!

District 5000 is looking for Rotarians to advertise their business on the Rotary District 5000 website & newsletter!!

Contact us  for more information.

Printing of the 2007-08 District Directory is completed.  Your respective AG will be getting your copy to you shortly.  Thank you everyone for being patient!  We are all volunteers and we do our best with what precious time we have.

If you would like to be on the committee for next year's directory, please submit your name to be included on the committee list.  Mahalo!!

Attention all club members:

Be a part of your District website.

Submit your name, email address, and club name for your password to log into the members area to see schedules, training, district members' contact information and other restricted information.  Your will also receive your own copy of Maluna Pono'i via email.

Clubs' newsletters are posted on your page of the district website. Contact us to get your club's newsletter & photos listed.

Pictures are also being posted to share! See the clubs' photo albums here.

  Click here for the flyer form

Pacific Beach Hotel's Grand Ballroom

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Honolulu's gastronomic event of the year

... don't miss it!

Tickets are limited. RSVP today!

A message from Audrey:

Attention at Presidents, Secretaries, and Family of Rotary Chairs:

Please let me know when there is a Rotarian or spouse who is ill or when someone passes.

Information I will need are names and addresses so DG George can send out a card.

Thank you, Audrey Wilson, Chair, Family of Rotary

Wilson.audrey@hawaiiantel.net

Does your club have a significant celebration you want to share?

Birth in the Rotary Family?  Celebration and Tribute of Life?  Milestones?

Share!!!  We would love to see it listed here.

Celebrating Life

Celebrating the life of

DR. JOHN DILLON

Dr. John Dillon, founding member of the Rotary Club of Poipu Beach, died this past week.

After WWII, Dr. Dillon enrolled in medical school, specialized in anesthesiology, and taught several generations of medical students.
 
After Hurricaine Iniki, Dr. Dillon kept the outside world in touch with Kauai via short-wave radio rigged to his car battery which he brought into his house atop Poipu Crater.

His wife was a nurse and he established a nursing scholarship in her name at Kaua'i Community College with an initial contribution of $100,000.  The scholarship fund, now grown to include culinary and teaching students, is administered by the Foundation of the Rotary Club of Poipu Beach.

At the request of Dr. Dillon, there will be no formal memorial service for him.  We will miss our dear friend and Rotarian.