Rotary Club of Wahiawa-Waialua

Volume 6 Issue 26 – March 7th, 2019

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District Governor
Winton “Win” Schoneman“Making a Difference in our Local and Global Communities”

President
Alexander “Alex” Kanamu

The strength of our Club lies in its members

Living, Outdoor
Classroom
Service Above Self – Making a Difference

March is Clean Water, Sanitation, andHygiene Month
Clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
education are basic necessities for ahealthy environment and a productive life.
Clean Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Month is number
three of the Six Focus Areas of Rotary International.
We had two great speakers from the District RotaryFoundation and Grants Team, PP Murry Visser and Dr.
James Ham, give us an in-depth talk regarding cleanwater and the Nepal Water Project. This fits right inwith that presentation.
When people have access to clean water andsanitation, waterborne diseases decrease, children
stay healthier and attend school more regularly, andmothers can spend less time carrying water and moretime helping their families.

How Rotary makes help happen
Through water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
programs, Rotary’s people of action mobilize
resources, form partnerships, and invest in infrastructure
and training that yield long-term change.

Editor – PP Geoff Horvath2030
is the year Rotary hopes to finish providing
everyone with safe water, sanitation, andhygieneWater for a Community
Rotary clubs partnered with local organizations to
install a rainwater harvesting and distribution centerfor 4,000 people in Madan, India. They also delivered
training programs for women in the community andstudents in 35 schools.

Water Project Unites Lebanon Clubs Across
All Divides
A project to provide clean water to all of Lebanon’s
schools is uniting leaders from many of the country’s
diverse religious, cultural, and political divisions.
In 2011, Rotary members in northern Lebanon decided
to install new tanks and water filters in a few nearby
schools with the help of a Rotary Foundation grant. The
idea caught on and a few other clubs followed suit.

$24
is all it takes to provide one person with safe
water
110
schools in Ghana have better sanitation andhygiene due to Rotary-USAID partnership

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Two years later, District 2452 Governor Jamil
Mouawad and other district leaders saw the potentialof creating one giant water project that could reachevery school and involve all 24 of the country’s Rotary
clubs. They formed a committee to handle publicity andgather technical knowledge, while each club was asked
to provide volunteers, contribute funds, apply for
grants, and secure contributions from outsideorganizations.
“Every student has the right to drink clean water. It goes
without saying that clean drinking water leads to lessdiseases, healthier students, and consequently, better
education,” says Mouawad. “The bigger the challenge,
the greater its positive impact on humanity.”

While clean water is the main objective, the leaders
also saw the effort as a means of helping heal
Lebanon’s long history of sectarian strife. A civil war
divided the country from 1975 to 1990, leaving an
estimated 120,000 people dead. In recent years,
Lebanon’s government is a shifting coalition of religions,political parties, and sects.

Shehayeb, President of the Rotary Club of Aley, is a
Druze by faith. Shehayeb says working alongside clubmembers who are Catholic, Maronite, Greek
Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Muslim to promote
the project has deepened her understanding of thosewith different religious or political views.
“We are building peace and understanding,” shesays. “There has never been anything quite like this in
our country.”
Even the distribution of club responsibilities is designed
to foster peace. Each club is responsible for a certain
number of schools, some in their area but some in a
totally separate region. The clubs nominate a project
coordinator, find qualified suppliers, arrange forsponsors, and allocate contributions from sponsors,
district funds, and global grants to finance theinstallation of filters in the schools.
“For example, a club from Jounieh, a Christian resort
town north of Beirut, might be assigned schools in thesouthern mountains near the Israeli border, an areathat is considerably poorer and primarily Shia Muslim,”

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explains Mouawad. “After all, who — no matter what
their political or religious views — could argue with
providing clean water for children?”

The effort could not have come at a better time. With
the crisis in Syria, Lebanon’s population is ballooning
with refugees, including many school-age children. By
improving the schools these kids attend, Rotary
members are laying the groundwork for future peacein the region.
The committee is working in cooperation with the
Ministry of Education, World Vision, UNICEF, and the
Red Cross. Red Cross volunteers take water samples ineach of the schools a few times a year and send thosesamples to the Lebanese Agricultural Laboratory
Institute for testing.
According to the committee’s technical team, it will costroughly $2,500 a school to install water tanks, filters,
and provide ongoing monitoring. About 200 schools
have been covered so far. The goal is to reach all
1,535 schools within three years. By Arnold R. Grahl

PE Keoni Ahlo

First place for the area was Katherine Yamashita, ofJames Campbell High School, Not only did Kathrine
overcome such life affecting adversity, the shooting
and death of her mother, in Ewa a few years ago, she
has excelled academically, with a GPA of 4.365! We
hope the very best for Kathrine as she advances to the
HRYF District level selection process.

PP Geoff Horvath

Recognitions for the week ending March 10th, 2019.
Oli – PP Lilette Subedi

Honorary Member Linda Sato celebrates herbirthday today!

Spouse’s BirthdayS
Outside D5K
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Within D5K
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Honorary Member Linda Sato’s husband, Garycelebrates his birthday on Mar 10th.

Anniversaries

Grace Abatayo – Mom and Guest of Marie Abatayo
Steven Sue – Creativity Unleashed, Founder andChairman – Guest of the Club
Brannon Yamauchi – Creativity Unleashed, Program
Director and Historian - Guest of the Club

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Dr. Carver Wilcox was inducted into our club 23 years
ago on March 9, 1995
PE Keoni Ahlo was inducted into our club 2 year ago
on March 10, 2016.
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HI

Hawaii Rotary YouthFoundation (HRYF)

PP Geoff Horvath gave a HI $5 in appreciation of PP
Lilette representing our club at the HRYF Area
Selection, held this past Saturday, March 2nd.

Our top Scholar, Toshio Yoshizumi, placed third in thearea selection.

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Kate Butts gave a HI $1 with $4 being added for thebottle of wine she brought for the Ace of Hearts. It wasa bottle of Robert Mondavi Pinot Noir!
Marie Abatayo gave a HI $5 for the hard work Kate
Butts and PP Doc McKenzie are putting in for our Golf
Tournament Fundraiser. She also thanked Sen Glenn
Wakai for his efforts in getting us some great sponsors!
PE Keoni Ahlo gave a HI $5 for $200 for a team for
our Golf Tournament Fundraiser. Keoni told us that heput the word out at a recent Business Network
International (BNI) meeting.
PP Lilette Subedi gave a HI $5 for our Golf
Tournament and the willingness of our Sister Club,
Mililani Sunrise offering their assistance as needed.

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Provide technical guides for all stages of WASH
projects including program life cycle•

Seek funding outside the Rotary domain tocomplement internal resources•

Facilitate connections with other organizations
sharing Rotary goals•

Alert Rotarians to the availability of expertise andfinancial resources•

Identify and share Rotary and other resources
available to Rotarians.

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Assist and enable clubs to seek support from otherclubs, from TRF and beyond Rotary•

Ensure clubs can learn of the needs of other clubs•

Maintain and build a collaborative working
relationship with RI and TRF•

Implement appropriate processes to monitor andevaluate the impact, efficacy and sustainabilityof Rotary projects and programs•

Facilitate the exchange of idea and information

ROTARY MINUTE
The Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action
Group (WASRAG)WASRAG was formed in 2007 by a group of
Rotarians, recognized by Rotary International, andfocused on WASH projects. Since then it has facilitatedmany hundreds of projects – helping clubs findpartners, ensuring sustainability, stressing theimportance of a needs-driven approach, anddeveloping best practices. We encourage a holistic,
integrated approach in which water is not the end in
itself, but is rather the means to a better life andlivelihood in the community. Most importantly,
WASRAG links water and sanitation to improved
hygiene, better health, and empowerment of thecommunity – especially women, irrigation andagriculture, education and literacy and, ultimately,
child mortality.
WASRAG Goals:•

Access and connect with experts in WASH

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E-mail from Sen Donovan Dela Cruz

Homeless Outreach and Cleanup in Wahiawa
Ongoing
Aloha,
I wanted to share an update regarding the homelessissue in Wahiawa. For the past several weeks, myoffice has received an influx of calls about the growing
homeless community. I want to assure you that your calls
aren’t falling on deaf ears. Working together with
ALEA Bridge, the Wahiawa Police Station
Community Policing Team, the Governor’s
Coordinator on Homelessness, and private landowners including Dole Foods Company, we have comeup with a plan for outreach and enforcement.
For the past month, ALEA Bridge has been visiting thearea around Karsten Thot Bridge weekly to offer
support and guidance to those in need as well asupdate the residents in these encampments of theplanned enforcement starting this month.

This outreach and enforcement plan is multi-phased
and already in effect. In fact, just this week ALEA
Bridge, along with over 30 personnel and providers
from various partner agencies, was able to offer
outreach and issue trespass notices. Their efforts helped
place 12 homeless individuals in shelters. Also, a totalof 10 animals that were assisted, two went to shelterswith their owner, and one abandoned dog was
rescued.
This outreach and enforcement plan is multi-phased
and already in effect. In fact, just this week ALEA
Bridge, along with over 30 personnel and providers
from various partner agencies, was able to offer
outreach and issue trespass notices. Their efforts helped
place 12 homeless individuals in shelters. Also, a totalof 10 animals that were assisted, two went to shelterswith their owner, and one abandoned dog was
rescued.
The next phase will be a clean-up of this area which
will begin later this month, and we also hope to install
fencing to prevent future trespassing. There was also acleanup of the encampment fronting Wheeler Airfield
this week. We hope for continued successful
collaboration with our community partners and positive
outcomes with our homeless friends and neighbors.
I appreciate the continued support from our community
and am especially grateful for the support andassistance from all agencies and organizations
involved. We will continue to work together with all
involved organizations and agencies to help those inneed find resources and assistance.
Please continue to reach out to my office with anyquestions or concerns you may have.
MahaloMar 14 – Nicole Milia Coglietta – CEO/Founder ofCare Sift – Providing Support to Seniors and theirfamilies.
Mar 21st – Ms. Kay DeWeese – Maasai Girl School
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Mar 31 – Annual Wakai-Wilkinson Golf Tournament
fundraiser at the Hickam Par Three
April 18 – HRYF Scholarship Award Luncheon
Ongoing – Jack in the Box Fundraiser. Each member
will be given 10 tickets ($100) to sell.

Steve Sue

Brannon Yamauchi

Project Lemon Tree: The Living, Outdoor
Classroom
Steve Sue is the creator of Bizgenics Foundation, its
programs as well as Bizgenics® Innovation
Framework. While he maintains interests in several forprofit enterprises, most of his time is donated toBizgenics Foundation nonprofit programs. Before
becoming an entrepreneur, Steve had a 25-year
career as a creative expert and conceptualist in
several industries. For more information, visit
stevesue.com.
We don’t know much about Brannon Yamauchi since
he was filling in for Myron Nakata, who couldn’t makeit. Brannon is the program director and historian forthe organization. He showed us a short video, heproduced himself, during the presentation.

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What is Project Lemon Tree?

Project Lemon Tree is a living, outdoor classroom
program built by students. Public and private schoolson all Hawaiian Islands as well as businesses andcommunity locations are also invited to participate. The
program anchors a curriculum system for grades K-12
in the subjects of agriculture, farm-to-table, culinary,
ecology, water conservation, Ahupa’a eco-ag systems(native Hawaiian plants), trellis building (architecture,engineering and construction), crafts, innovation, andentrepreneurship. It is a “No-test Academy” that focus
on engineering, hospitality, foodservices, construction,etc., and teaches new ways of earning a living in
Hawaii.
This has become more important in our State, once theplantation days were over. After the plantation days
ended, people that worked on the plantation had tothink of what to do next. People had to refocus theirefforts on education and training, to becomecompetitive in the Hawaii market with skills that weremarketable. They wanted their children to have abetter future by becoming engineers, business people,
getting into real estate, etc.
As an example, Steve suggested that most students that
get into robotics is not to learn how to build robots, but
how to become engineers, since building andprogramming are becoming more and more
automated, programming being taken over by
Artificial Intelligence (AI). Students have to come up
with new ways of earning a living here.
The program is a project-based learning Ecoentrepreneurship program that teaches water
conservation, food sustainability, design, critical andinnovative thinking, and collaboration. Foodsustainability being one of the important areas since
the majority of our food has to be transported to theislands.
Why Lemon Trees? Of all the fruit trees, the lemon tree
is the most efficient at removing CO2 from theatmosphere. In addition to this, there are many uses forlemons.

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Other advantages of the lemon tree are:•

A top reducer of CO2•

Drought tolerant. It is classified as a zero-scapeplant, so doesn’t use very much water, in turn,protecting our aquafers. In the plantation days, theaquafers were 1600 feet below ground. Since theend of the plantation days, the aquafers has raisin
200 feet. It takes time to replenish our aquafers,
so the less water we use, the better off ouraquafers will be.

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It prevents rodent infestation because of its highacidity fruit•

Noninvasive root system, unlike mango trees which
disrupt underground infrastructure, fall hazards,
etc.

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Wide climatic suitability. The lemon tree can growalmost anywhere and thrive.

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High-value agriculture crop because of the amountof lemons produced by the trees•

Low pest plant. The tree attracts good insects thatassist in plant growth, while killing the bad insects.
This makes the lemon tree suitable for organic
production.

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Boosts locally grown lemons sold in markets in
Hawaii, since 2.5% of the lemons that are sold are
local, the other 75.5% coming from outside thestate. By the time the lemons get to Hawaii, they
are not very fresh, so lose a lot of their flavor.
Locally grown lemons are fresher, juicer, andtastier than those being shipped in. Stores lovegetting freshly grown lemons into their stores. It
costs less, and provides their shoppers with the
freshest lemons.

•Lemons are used a lot in local, cultural cuisines.

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Lemon trees can be grown using trellises/Pergolas.
This method allows for faster growth with wider
canopies that provide shade, outdoor classrooms,
Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM)
learning, and career pathways to building trades,such as architecture, engineering, and construction.

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Lemon trees are school friendly, are easy to grow,and produce lemons in abundance. All schools
have enough property to support growing lemon
trees.

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Disease resistant and everbearing•

Is juicy and with a moderate acid content•

It provides students with innovation andentrepreneurship experiences through theprograms companion program, LemonadeAlley.

Schools are not the only ones that can participate in thisproject. The project is opened to Churches,organizations, home schools, and private homes may
participate in this program. For the private homes, they
have to agree to provide their excess lemons to theprogram, there by sustaining and advancing the
program each year.

Lemonade Alley is an annual youth entrepreneur
challenge where students, grades K-12, invent uniquelemonade recipes, build a lemonade stand fromrecycled materials and sell lemonade to support acharity of their choice. Through Lemonade Alley,
students learn entrepreneurship, eco-stewardship andcharitable giving through social venture projects.

It is such a successful program, that schools are excitedto get one started on their campus.
Brannon showed us a video showing the building of a
Pergola at Jefferson Elementary School. A few years
ago, vandals torched the schools play station, melting
it down.

What type of lemon trees are used in the Lemon Tree
Project?
The Meyer lemon tree is the lemon tree that has been
selected for this project. The Meyer lemon is sweeter
and better tasting than other types of lemons. It is also
a high yield crop and easy to grow for reasonsmentioned above.
The Meyer lemon, is a hybrid citrus fruit native to China.
It was introduced to the United States from China in
1908, and was discovered by Frank N. Meyer, who
was on assignment to China from the USDA as an
agricultural explorer.
It is a cross between a citron and a mandarin/pomelo
hybrid distinct from the common or bitter oranges.

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The school removed the remains of the play station, andwanted to remove the concrete foundation. The
principal put a halt to that, because he saw a future
use for the foundation slab. When he heard about the
Lemon Tree Project and the method of growing the

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trees on a pergola, he said, why not make lemonadeout of a lemon?

Benefits for becoming a sponsor:•••

Your donation will be honored with a company ororganization hangtag or stake-sign by your tree/s
as it matures
Your company or organization logo will befeatured in posts on the program’s social media
accounts
Your company or organization name will appear
by the school you sponsored on the projects
ProjectLemontree.com site.

That’s all it took to get the project started. The school
had help form Kalani HS, private business, like City Milland local world-class chefs.
For more info, visit:https://bizgenics.org/project-lemon-tree/

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All students had a hand in the design, architecture,engineering, and building of the pergola. The project
was completed and is a total success story.

PP Lilette had the right ticket number, but the wrong
card! Lilette drew the Three of Hearts

PP Lilette with the Three of Hearts

The following Sponsor Packages are available:•$300 Sponsor pays for 20 curriculum, books, ateacher’s guide and one lemon tree.

•$1000 Sponsor pays for 80 curriculum books, 4teacher’s guides and 4 lemon trees.

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PE Keoni and Brannon setting up for the presentation
PP Oran Spotts setting the Pines up!

Derek Conselva hard at work?!

Dor’s Pineapple Lounge

Brannon starting the program
Steve Sue and Brannon Yamauchi

Pineapple by

PP Geoff is ready for his HI $5
Brannon Yamauchi setting up

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Brannon and Steve getting a terrific Marian’s Catering
lunch

Graced with the presence of Grace Abatayo

Projerct Lemon tree

Marie Abatayo and PP Lilette discussing theupcoming Golf tournament fundraiser

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PP Lilette and Doc Carver Wilcox discussing namebages

PP Lilette starting the meeting

Steve Sue and PP Lilette getting ready for thepresentation

Steve telling us about Project Lemon Tree

What the project is all about

Steve Sue explaining how the project works

PP Lilette going over some of the handouts with
BrannonStudents busy designing

The project involves the community

Steve stresses the importantce of the projectKing George V, patron of the 12th convention of
RotaryLynn Goya and Doc Wilcox

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Jefferson Elementary School Success Story

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