January 13 in-person meeting at Simply Sichuan, with the speaker, Dr. James Ham, please sign up for the doodle link in the Pali View.
Lunch cost is $21.00 / pp, inclusive. (Min 20 members)
*Board meeting after the lunch meeting.
January 20, zoom meeting, the speaker is Kawika Riley
Biography:
Kāwika Riley is the Vice President for External Affairs at Kupu, Hawaiʻi's largest youth-focused conservation nonprofit. Since its founding by three local young adults 15 years ago, Kupu has trained over 5,000 youth and young adults to prepare them for careers in conservation or other sustainability-related fields. In his role, Kāwika oversees Kupu's public relations, policy advocacy, and strategic planning. He was born and raised on Hawaiʻi Island (Kohala and Kona), and lives with his wife and children in Kaimukī.
Topic: Kāwika will share the story of Kupu's founding, growth, and its current work to restore youth and land through hands-on learning, service, and work programs in Hawaiʻi and other parts of the Pacific.
Glen Suzuki will also give brief summary of the December project in Nepal.
January 27, zoom meeting, the speaker is Jeremy Frank
Biography: Dr. Jeremy Frank is the Collections Manager for the Bishop Museum's Entomology collection-the 3rd largest of its kind in the country and 5th largest in the world. He is a specialist in the study of solitary wasps, which he studied at the American Museum of Natural History in New York before joining the Bishop. At the Bishop, his role is to maintain and facilitate research into the museum's collection of 14 million insect specimens.
Topic: Dr. Frank will be presenting on the Bishop Museum's Hawaiian Cave Arthropod Collection-a holding of 40,000 specimens of insects, spiders, and other creatures found only in Hawaiian lava tubes. Started in 1971, when Bishop Museum researchers made the surprising discovery that these dark lava tubes hold unique forms of cave-adapted life, the HCAC has become the world's best collection of Hawaiian cave insects and an important resource for studying cave biology. Dr. Frank will introduce the history of the collection and detail the Bishop's current efforts to preserve and promote this scientific resource.
February 3, is WHR Chinese New Year and Valentine's dinner event at Jade Dynasty Seafood Restaurant, 5:30 pm. $45 /pp inclusive
Menu:
Winter melon soup
Lobsters x 2 over E-mien
Beijing Duck
Braised Beef and tendon
Village style spareribs
Mushroom vegetables
Fried rice
Mochi Balls in honey ginger soup (Dessert)
February 10, zoom meeting, Brittany Nagasawa will give an update report on the financial market 2023.
February 24, zoom meeting, the speaker is Theresa Anne Kong Kee.
Sister Club, Kyoto West RC 65th Anniversary celebration - Sun & Mon, March 5 & 6, 2023. For members & spouses.
Vietnam Vocational project - Tues-Mon, March 7 - 13, 2023. For members & spouses.
The 33rd Annual Texaco Honolulu District Elementary Speech Festival Request for Support, see info below:
Subject: Fwd: 33rd Annual Texaco Honolulu District Elementary Speech Festival Request for Support
Hi Terry,
The HNL District Speech Festival is back in business as an in-person event on Sat, April 15, 2023, at Kaimuki High. We have had terrific participation from West Honolulu Rotarians, who volunteered as judges. I know you also judged this event. See principal Daniel Larkin’s email, below. Thank you, Grace.
An easy way to get funds to The Rotary Foundation to support the Polio Eradication efforts is to do it electronically. Please consider asking friends and family to make a donation with you to PolioPlus through our club team page by going to : https://raise.rotary.org/WestHonolulu-Rotary/challenge21
Also, have you signed the PolioPlus Society pledge yet? If not, would you consider pledging $100 per year to PolioPlus until polio is eradicated?
Polio is a disease that has no cure and is totally preventable with vaccines. We are so close to knocking this out, but until then, it's only a plane ride away from us and we need to vaccinate 400 million children each year in 60 countries to make sure they are protected.
RI President Jennifer Jones announced that an additional $150 million was pledged and she iterated that ‘Rotary members have been at the center of the worldwide effort to eradicate polo for more than three decades. Rotary launched PolioPlus in 1985 and helped found the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988, where there were an estimated 350,000 polio cases across more than 125 countries in one year. Since then, cases have plummeted by more than 99.9%, sparing more than 20 million people from paralysis. Rotary has helped immunized nearly 3 billion children against polio, contributed more than US$2.6 billion to global polio eradication efforts, and helped secure more than US$10 billion from donor governments.
Please make the pledge by completing this online form and making your donation to PolioPlus.
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