Dear members and friends, here are the updates on upcoming meetings and events!
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.
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. Please sign up below...on doodle!
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. Brittany and David are the two advisors co-managing the WHR Foundation Morgan Stanley accounts.
February 17, 12 noon, in-person meeting, at Waikiki Yacht Club. Wesley will invite Director General Mr. Richard Lin from Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Honolulu as the speaker. Will forward the invitation to other Rotary & our DG Randy & AG David. The menu will be TBD. Sign up on doodle, below.
February 24, 12 noon, in-person meeting, at Simply Sichuan (2nd-floor private party room in Chinese Cultural Plaza, thanks to Richard Ing our speaker is Theresa Anne K. Kong Kee, Securities Commissioner of DCCA, her topic: Affinity Fraud and Ponzi Scheme. Remember to sign up on doodle!
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.
March 17, zoom meeting, PE Glen Suzuki will give brief summary of the Nepal relief project that he and Naomi did in December 2022.
The 33rd Annual Texaco Honolulu District Elementary Speech Festival Request for Support, see info below:
From: Grace Fujiyoshi <fujiyoshi.grace@gmail.com> 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. who volunteered as judges. Grace Fujiyoshi asking for volunteers for this 33rd Annual Texaco Honolulu District Elementary Speech Festival Request for Support. We have had terrific participation from West Honolulu Rotarians, who volunteered as judges. See principal Daniel Larkin’s email, below. Thank you, Grace.
Details are forthcoming on more exciting events during the 2023 year:
District 5000 conference in Hilo, May 19-21 at Grand Naniloa Hotel;
Rotary International Convention May 27 -31, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia - our club will form a small group traveling to Melbourne & Sydney to attend, details to be determined;
The Kyoto West Sister Club Exchange youth visitation in July / August and David Malo Banquet for Nov. 2023...
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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