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Tradewind Newsletter
2025 | March 21
A MESSAGE FROM
PRESIDENT TOM COYNE
Aloha,
As your Board of Directors work to improve your Rotary experience we call on you all to please take the 5 minutes needed to complete the survey recently sent to you via email, thank you. Here is the link:
Also, because we expect a large turnout for the April 22nd meeting with Senator Schatz, we encourage you all to sign up early. You will be receiving an email with details on how we are prioritizing sign-ups and note that we have a March 31st deadline for members before we open it up to other Rotary Clubs and other interested people.
Once again, I would like to thank President Elect Brian Dunkel for filling in for me while I am on our Philippine Project.
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 [email protected]
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.
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.
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.
Have you been to Centennial Park in Waikiki? It really has come a long way from being an empty lot filled with garbage to the beautiful, grassy, family friendly park it is today!
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
