April 8th Pau Hana event at San Paolo Pizza and Wine is now a more casual event with no pre-payment needed. Show up, enjoy fellowship with your fellow Rotarians and pay for your own food and drinks. Hope to see you there.
April 22nd Club meeting with Senator Brian Schatz as speaker will be a sold-out event so if you haven't signed up yet you might not be able to, we are limited to 70 people because of parking.
April 29th Club meeting will be without a speaker so enjoy lots of fellowship and enjoy presentations from members on service projects local and international as well as discussions on the new Coke & Lawrence Fund and our existing Foundation Funds. We will also discuss the results of our recent survey.
I look forward to seeing you all soon.
Best regards,
Tom Coyne
President
The Rotary Club of Honolulu
CONGRATULATIONS TO SAM HAAS
ROTARY CLUB OF HONOLULU's
ROTARIAN OF THE MONTH!
CONGRATULATIONS TO KANDIE GEORGE with her new role as Director of the NICU at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children. (Read about Kandie in the Midweek here.)
Our amazing member, Kandie George is again inviting us to join the MARCH FOR BABIES on Saturday, April 19, 2025. The attendance last year was valued!
You can register yourself using THIS LINKto join the Rotary Club of Honolulu, or you can email Kandie HERE and she is happy to help you register for the walk.
The walk is very doable! See you at Kaka'ako Waterfront Park!
Registration/check-in: 7:30 am
Event begins: 8:30 am
Let's support this amazing cause!
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS!
Saturday Story Hours at KPT. One Saturday per month, for 2 hours, to provide fun activities and stories to the kids who live at KPT.
Get in on the fun every second Saturday of the month.
For more details on how you can participate, contact Community Services Chair Nancy Youngren HERE. Mahalo!
MALAMA MAUI WEEKEND
April 25-26, 2025
To join, click the link below for more information through our District website:
Continuing our tradition of a spring work project weekend that has drawn more than 100 participants by involving Rotarians plus inviting the broader community to join us.
Our fall international service project will be from September 21-26 (arrive no later than Sept 20 in Hue). Please refer to the map. The project is located outside of Dong Ha. We will be building playgrounds and other improvements at rural elementary schools. The work will include installing equipment sets, planting trees and plants, and making a fences and benches.
The post project will run from Sept 27-October 4 (departing October 5 from Saigon). We will start in Dong Hai and visit Hue and Hoi An.
Those wanting to attend the Kyoto Rotary Club’s anniversary celebration in Kyoto from October 7-9 will be "almost there" at the end of the post project tour.
Participation is limited to 20 due to transportation restrictions. More information, including participants’ costs, will be forthcoming.
If interested, and if you have any questions., contact Nancy Youngren at nancy.youngren@gmail.com
A MESSAGE FROM ROSALYNN COOPER
Good morning,
Our District Conference is fast approaching. If you have not yet registered - now is the time to do so. And yes, that includes registering for our 'End Polio Now Walk to create awareness'.
We have 54 clubs in our District including Rotaract Clubs. Each club is challenged to contribute at least $1,500 toward ‘Ending Polio’. Let’s meet this challenge. We can do this.
Despite what's going on in the world today - Rotary is neither stopping nor slowing down in fulfilling the promise made to the world’s children of a polio free world.
Let's walk to show our support. Let's walk to show our commitment. Let’s walk to solidify our resolve to stay the course and keep that promise.
Up next: Phase 2 increment 3 will replace the deteriorating chain link fence with sturdy metal fencing on top of the exterior rock wall and lockable entrance gates on three sides to define the site and improve security.
Fundraising continues and we salute the Osaka Higashi Rotary Club of Japan for its recent generous donation to the park effort.
On behalf of our all-volunteer Rotary Centennial Park Committee, mahalo for your continued interest and support for this beautiful community green space.
If you have a project you'd like to present, please complete the Project Recommendation Form and email to our Director of Community Services, Nancy HERE.
Do you have a speaker recommendation? If so, please complete theSpeaker Recommendation Form and send it to RCOH Administrator, Lee HERE. She will submit all forms to the Speaker Committee.
The upcoming District conference is coming up and we will once again have an amazing House of Friendship. We want and need you to share some of your projects and initiatives in a booth so we can learn from each other. You have worked hard this last year and having a booth is a wonderful way of exhibiting your Club's successes. Please discuss how you can share at your next meeting and complete the attached form.
You are not required to be in the House of Friendship the entire time during the district conference, but it is always a fun and informative place to be! Come be with us. Find out more information on the website and please get the form back to me asap. FORM HERE
Looking forward to seeing you at the Ala Moana Hotel from May 30th - June 1st. See you at the celebration of our District 500.
Aloha and Mahalo, Kathleen
House of Friendship Chair
K.merriam@live.com/808-561-4806
As a humanitarian organization, Rotary makes peace a cornerstone of our mission. And so, Promoting Peace is one of our seven Areas of Focus. The Rotary Peace Fellowship and its Peace Centers train leaders to prevent and mediate conflict through fully-funded fellowships for a Master’s Degree or Professional (post-graduate) Certificate in Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Applications for the new academic year, Fall of 2026, are now available. I serve as the D5000 main point of contact and support for the Rotary Peace Fellowship, and I ask for your help in finding qualified candidates. If you or your suggested candidate have questions or seek more information, please contact me directly.
Alan Kusunoki
Rotary Peace Fellowship, D5000 Chair
808-938-6771
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