Rotary Club of Wahiawa-Waialua

Vol 11 Issue 5 – September 7th & 21st, 2023

The Pineapple ClubThe Hulali“The Reflector”
Charted on March 9th, 1937

“Making a Difference in Hawai’i”

Mark Merriam

Marie Abatayo

The strength of our Club lies in its members"One restored or newly created hope at a time."
RI President Gordon R. McInally

September is Rotary Intranational
Basic Education and Literacy Monty!
“More Than 776 Million People Over the Ageof 15 Are Illiterate. That’s 17 Percent of theWorld Adult Population.”
The Rotary theme for the month of September is Basic
Education and Literacy, which usually brings to mind
ensuring that children have an education and learning
skills that will support them in later life. Interestingly
there are several facts that may or may not surpriseyou.
Rotary’s goal is to strengthen the capacity ofcommunities to support basic education and literacy ineducation, and increase adult literacy. We support
education for all children and literacy for children andadults. Rotary members worldwide fight adult illiteracy
by working with local advocates to offer community
literacy programs.

Rotary members make amazing things
happen, like:
Opening schools: In Afghanistan, Rotary members
opened a girls’ school to break the cycle of poverty
and social imbalance.
Teaching adults to read: Rotary members in the UnitedStates partnered with ProLiteracy Detroit to recruit andtrain tutors after a study showed that more than half ofthe local adult population was functionally illiterate.
New teaching methods: The SOUNS program in South
Africa, Puerto Rico and the United States teaches

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Two For the PriceOf None!!
Service Above Self – Making a Difference

Editor – PP Geoff Horvath

educators how to improve literacy by teaching children
to recognize letters by sounds instead of names.
Making schools healthy: Rotarians are providing
clean, fresh water to every public school in Lebanon so
students can be healthier and get a better education.
Enhancing educational systems: In Kenya, Rotary
clubs are working with the Global Partnership for
Education and local and national governments toadvance life-long learning opportunities for poor andmarginalized children.

500
adults raised their reading levels by threegrades in Detroit$100 milin grants to get clean water in Lebanese
schools“When you teach somebody how to read, they
have that for a lifetime. It ripples through thecommunity, one by one.”
Basic Education and Literacy is number 5 of Rotary’s 7
Avenue’s of Service.

Our new meeting places!

PledgeSeptember 7th – Derek Conselva
September 21st – Steve Hughes

September 7th – Chris Campisano
September 21st – Derek Conselva

Outside D5K
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RCWW

September 7th
Sabrina Ford – Guest of the Club
Justin Apa – Whitmore Economic Development
Group (WEDG) – Guest of the Club
Rubvi Apa – WEDG – Guest of the Club
Chris Baily – University and Leeward Community
College – Guest Speaker
Donna Gutirrez – Prospective Member – Guest of
President Marie
September 21st
Paul Schneider – Prospective Member – Guest of theClub
Elena Santos – Prospective Member – Guest of theClub

ROTARY MINUTE
In addition to a Rotary Minute, we have Rotary
Moments! What are the differences?
A Rotary Minute is a weekly series that features
Rotarians around the world sharing their thoughts
about topics that interest them, and to educate them on
all things Rotary, such as the Rotary Foundation,
PolioPlus, Grants, etc.
On the other hand, a Rotary Moment is a two to threeminute personal story that reflects a highly memorable
experience in your Rotary life, almost like a HI $5!

Within D5K
September 7th & 21st
PDG Naomi Masuno – RC of West Honolulu
PDG Naomi Masuno – RC of West Honolulu
RI President: Gordon R. McInallyDistrict: Mark Merriam
Asst. Dist. Govt: Joshua Laguana
Club President: Mari Abatayo
IPP: Marie Abatayo
President Elect: Open
Secretary: Mark Anthony Clemente
Treasurer: Cross CrabbeClub Trainer: PP Doc Bill McKenzie &Marie Abatayo
Program/Speakers :PP Doc Bill McKenzie &PP Geoff Horvath
Membership:
Foundation: PP Doc Bill McKenzie, Chris
Compisano

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Club Service: Marie Abatayo
Community Service: Derek Conselva, Pat
CompisanoIntnl Service: PP Doc Bill McKenzie
Youth Services: PP Geoff Horvath
Vocational Service: Derek Conselva - PP
Geoff Horvath
Public Relations: Rene Mansho
Sergeant at Arms: PP Geoff HorvathFundraising: Marie Abatayo
PP Doc Bill McKenzie,
PP Geoff Horvath
HRYF: PP Geoff HorvathSocial Media: Arthur Hughes
Newsletter: PP Geoff HorvathThe Rotary Foundation – Individual
Recognition
Part IV

Your generous contributions to The RotaryFoundation are essential to securing and growing
Rotary programs throughout the world. We recognize
donors to express our gratitude for your commitment,
offering individual and club recognition as well as
naming opportunities that enable you to honor a friendor family member with a named or endowed gift.
Legacy Society
When you promise a gift of $1 million or more to theEndowment, you’ll be listed in Rotary’s annual reportand invited to exclusive Rotary International andFoundation events. Legacy Society members also
receive special recognition items and all the benefits
provided to Bequest Society members.

Club Recognition
100% Paul Harris Fellow ClubFor clubs in which all dues-paying members are Paul
Harris Fellows. This is a one-time recognition.
100% Paul Harris Society ClubFor clubs in which every dues-paying member
contributes a minimum of $1,000 to the Annual Fund,
PolioPlus, or global grants within a Rotary year
100% Foundation Giving ClubFor clubs that achieve an average of $100 in percapita giving and 100 percent participation, withevery dues-paying member contributing at least $25
to any or all of the following during the Rotary year:
Annual Fund, PolioPlus Fund, approved global grants,
or Endowment Fund.

Hawaii Rotary YouthFoundation (HRYF)
Sully Sullivan, Founder of HRYF! Maurice J. "Sully"
Sullivan (October 1909 – February 28, 1998) was an
immigrant from Ireland who moved to Hawaii and was
the co-founder, with See Goo Lau, of Foodland Super
Markets, the largest and only locally owned
supermarket chain in Hawaii. The first store opened on
May 6, 1948 in Honolulu, Hawaii. By 2007, Foodland
stores could be found on each of the four largest
Hawaiian Islands. "Sully" also famously introduced
McDonald's to Hawaii in 1968 as well as Dunkin'
Donuts.

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Sully introduced Portuguese Bean Soup at most of the
McDonald's! This was a bold move, since no francize
could add to the menu without prior approval form
McDonald’s HQ. But, when they found out how popular
it was, Sully was allowed to keep it on the menu. This
was the birth of local-style menu items such as Clam
Chowder in the Northeast States!

Sully Sullivan beside the first shopping carts
seen in Hawaii!

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Recognitions for August 26th to September 30th, 2023

Gonzalo Pineiro celebrated his birthday
September 9th.
Chris Campisano celebrated his birthday
September 21stonon

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Anniversaries

Gonzalo Pineiro and Lindsay Schrader celebrated
their one-year anniversary on September 1st

Gonzalo Pineiro joined our club 1 year ago on
September 1, 2022

Crabbe Cross joined our Club two years ago on
September 16, 2021
Past President (PP) Bob Pang joined our Club 17
years ago on September 28, 2006

HI $5’s
September 7th
Derek Conselva gave a HI $5 in celebrating going up
to the mountain to pull invasive weeds as a Rotarian,
representing our Club.
Ruvi Apa threw in some money for the Rotary Club, for
an undisclosed reason!
Mark Anthony gave a HI $5 in celebrating the
kicking of his campaign for State House.
September 21st
Pat Campisano gave a HI $5 in celebration of hubby,
Chris’s birthday!
Mark Anthony celebrated joining the Whitmore
Economic Development Group (WEDG) meeting andlearned more about their work in workforce
development and agribusiness expansion.
Paul Schneider gave a HI $5 in celebration of joininga Rotary meeting for the first time.

Trip Reports

universally renowned as one of the most influential andcelebrated artists of the twentieth century.

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Member Derek Conselva attended the recent North
Shore Chamber of Commerce meeting on September
12th, representing our club.
Derek reported the following:
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The meeting focused on emergency preparedness
with respect to the wildfire tragedy that affectedWest Maui.
Derek met many individuals and speakers who
were there from government, military, otherorganizations, and the news.
Loko Ea Fishpond could be a potential service
project.
There were a couple people that were interested
in joining our Rotary Club.
Possible good speakers!

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picassoç
was a Spanish painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent
most of his adult life in France. Throughout the longcourse of his career, he created more than 20,000
paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and otheritems such as costumes and theater sets. He is

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Derek Conselva with a friend

Oahu Army Natural Resource Program(OANRP)

Derek Conselva enjoyed a day of hiking and pulling
weeds with the Oahu Army National Resource
Program, an organization that ensures that all
indigenous plant species are taken care of andreplenished as required. They have a lab andgreenhouse to assist in propagating these rare plants.
Part of their trips to the mountains is to weed andmonitor areas for invasive plants and insects.
Derek’s Report.
I volunteered with the Army Natural Resources Programon September 7 to West Makaleha above Makakilo toclear land from weeds and to cut down strawberry
guava trees. Hard work but the view was spectacular.
A great day and I had a lot of fun with the people I
was with. More photos below.
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Derek Conselva taking a well-deserved breakRotary – 118 Years of Service to the World!

Rene Mansho is researching schools in our area to geta count of the number of dictionaries we need to
distribute to all 3rd graders in our area.
Rene reported:
The total number of dictionaries needed is 709! This
will be enough dictionaries for every third-gradestudent in the Leilehua and other school complexes,
including:• Daniel K. Inouye• Haleiwa Elementary• Helemano Elementary• Iliahi Elementary• Kaala Elementary• Solomon Elementary• Sunset Elementary• Wahiawa Elementary• Waialua Elementary• Wheeler Elementary• Kamalani Charter• Hōʻala• St. Michael• Trinity Lutheran
Additional dictionaries may need to be ordered thatevery student receives a dictionary.
Origin of the Dictionary Project
The Dictionary Project was originally the idea of Annie
Plummer of Savannah, GA. In 1992, she gaveaway 50dictionaries to local school children.
Eventually, she raised funds to give 17,000 children in
Savannah a dictionary! Bonnie Beeferman in Hilton
Head, SC, read about Ms. Plummer’s project andstarted her own dictionary giveaway in her community.
She was so overwhelmed by requests from teachers,
that she reached out for help. Mary French and herhusband Arno from Charleston answered her request
by starting the Dictionary Project, a 501(c)3, in 1995.
To date, 28+ million children have now received
dictionaries! Civic clubs, businesses, individuals andparent groups have sponsored projects in all 50 states
and a growing number of international locations.
Mission Statement
The goal of this program is to assist all students inbecoming good writers, active readers, creative
thinkers, and resourceful learners by providing themwith their own personal dictionary. The dictionaries area gift to each student to use at school and at home foryears to come. Educators see third grade as thedividing line between learning to read and reading tolearn, so we encourage our sponsors to give
dictionaries each year to children in the third grade. The Dictionary ProjectOctober 14 – s Ho’ala Craft Day. The RC of WahiawaWaialua will be selling Bento boxes for $10,00, as afund raiser. Come out, enjoy the fair and terrificbento’s!

John Robert Wooden was an American basketballcoach and player. Nicknamed the "Wizard ofWestwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic
Association national championships in a 12-year period
as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record
seven in a row.

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What is the world’s smallest country?

September 7th
Value-Added Building in Waiawa

PDG Roz Cooper – World Polio Day on October 24th
Nov 2 – Dan Nellis, Dole Foods Operations
Dick May – Annual Funds Chair?

John Wooden

John Wooden

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Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey, is the Project Manager at Leeward
Community College, for the Wahiawa Value-Added
Product Development Center. He is an alumnus of
Hōʻala School, Punahou, and Lewis and Clark.
The son of an immigrant entrepreneur from southern
Thailand, Chris’s passion for food and small businessstems from childhood afternoons in his mother andaunt’s Waipahu restaurant where they served Thai andlocal food. He saw how his mother’s dedication gave
him and his brother opportunities she didn’t have, likeattending Punahou, where the connections he madehelped frame food entrepreneurship as a tangible
career path.
Chris Bailey presentation provided information on the
new Wahiawa Venture, Wahiawa Value Added
Product Development Center, which opened this Fall.
He has worked on this project for many years throughthe efforts of people like Senator Donovan Dela Cruz.
Chris wants to work with the Ag industry, early college
student level entrepreneurs, and current and emerging
entrepreneurs.

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Wahiawa Venture, Wahiawa Value Added ProductDevelopment Center

The Center is a state-of-the-art 33,000 sq. ft. spacewith on-staff expertise to educate students, farmers,
entrepreneurs, etc. to step into the value-added
product economy. It is a project of Leeward
Community College and the State of Hawai’i,contributing to the growth of Hawai’i’s agriculturalindustry and entrepreneurial community through:•Premier educational programming to students andcommunity
members, empowering
Hawai’i’sentrepreneurial ecosystem for generations to come.

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Increased opportunities for local farmers and growers
to sell their products to value-added producers.

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Supporting local entrepreneurs to incubate theirbusiness through access to small business resources,
production kitchens and in-house product and processdevelopment.
The Center offers product development consultation
services, lab testing and production kitchens.
They serve Hawai’i’s producers, processors,
entrepreneurs, farmers, and students. We arecommitted to taking value-added food and beverage
products to market and advancing Hawai’i foods
across the globe.
Other information Chris talked about was:
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The project cost $21.6 million to build and furnish
A local hot sauce maker or jam maker who makeproducts at home will be able to use kettles andfilling machines to be able to increase their output,
open new market possibilities, and realize an
economy of scale.
Will work with farmers’ products that aren’t
necessarily good for sale to develop different
products.
Is meant to mimic the flow for a producer including
cold storage, production kitchen, dock, etc.
12,000 sq. ft. of the center is kitchen space split
across 5 kitchen spaces; 2 are a wet side (including
steam, gas, etc. for jam, papaya chutney, hotsauces, etc. that require a hood system) and 3 area cold side for dry products, including an allergenarea.

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Will educate users in their media kitchen to teachsocial media marketing. There’s a second-floor
mezzanine to be used as an open floor co-working
area that can be used to host larger format
seminars/classes.
Have a pressure system, the first of its kind in thestate, to extend the shelf life of various products.
Will function as a satellite campus of Leeward
Community College. They’re currently working on
the mechanism for students to be able toeventually earn college credits for their work in thecenter.
The Center will be open during traditional businesshours, once it starts up.

September 21stRotary/ClubRunner

PDG Naomi Masuno (2020—21)

Our special speaker tonight is Past District Governor
Naomi Masuno, from the RC of West Honolulu.
She has been a Rotarian since 2002 and has served as
East Honolulu Club President 2006-2007, District
Awards Chair 2008-2014, District Secretary 20142015, and District Treasurer 2016-2018, and District
Chief of Staff 2018-2019. She has also served on
numerous District Committees. She is committed tosupporting the District and Club leadership to carry out
the mission of Rotary.
In addition to serving on multiple committees and beingheavily involved in D5K, Naomi is our Rotary “Google
Search!” for D5K and Rotary International! A Rotary
D5K walking encyclopedia!

Tonight, Naomi provided our Club with the “how to” inRotary ClubRunner programs, our Club’s management
tool and application.
What is ClubRunner? ClubRunner is a powerfulsoftware program that improves membershipcollaboration and accelerates growth!
Founded in 2003, ClubRunner began as a project by
the Rotary District 7080 Website Chair, a long time
Rotarian and Past President of the Mississauga City
Center Rotary Club who is also a world-class software
executive who has worked with software companies
such as IBM in the past. As a software provider for
major banks and insurance companies, his own
company was already using the latest technology tomanage online databases, generate dynamic
documents and perform time saving work flow functions
within an organization. Working closely with his home
district and club, along with his highly experienced
team, they started out with a mission to change the way
membership clubs and associations function and connect
with members by automating administrative functions
and aligning them to the way non-profits work.
Unlike other membership solutions, ClubRunnerprovides powerful, uncompromising functionality with afun, extremely easy-to-adopt experience. We takepride in seeing its customer succeed for the long term,
which is why today we have the highest retention rates
in any software industry.
The training covered:
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Naomi provided training with a PowerPoint
presentation to illustrate the various Rotary
websites members can access.
Our Clubʻs website:
https://wahiawawaialuarotary.org/
Rotary website: https://rotaryd5000.org/
o There are classes on leadership, Rotary
101 etc. that can be accessed through“Webinars”
International Rotary Website:
https://myrotary.org
o If you don’t have an account you have to
set one up (see below)
o Username: your email addresso If you’ve never visited the website, you
can click on “Register”
o You can sign up for newsletterso You can also see how much you’ve
donated for tax purposes by clicking on“my account” then click on “MyDonations”
o There are various courses you can takein “Learning Center” (click on“Knowledge & Resources” first); there
are public speaking classes throughToastmasters.

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“Brand Center” - this is where we canget the new logos etc. for The Clubo Find current projects through“Knowledge & Resources” then “Rotary
Showcase”• Member Login – top right• When you log-in, you can edit your profile.
• If you want to find a Rotarian, you can go to the
Rotary website, Membership, and search byname of the club, name of the Rotarian, etc.
• The website also has “yellowpages”• You can get the ClubRunner app for your phone
so that you have access to the Rotarian access.
Arthur Hughes agreed to be the webmaster for The
Club.
oMeetings are In-person and are subject to change.
Oct 5 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School
Oct 19 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School
Nov 2 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School
Nov 16 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School
Nov 23 – Thanksgiving – No meeting (DARK)
Nov 30 – 5th Thursday – Meeting to be determined
Dec 7 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School – Pearl
Harbor Day
Dec 21 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School2024
Jan 4 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School
Jan 18 – 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Ho’ala School
Subject to change

Answer to the Quiz of the Week. What is the world’s
smallest country. Vatican City!

Vatican City, a city-state surrounded by Rome, Italy, isthe headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. It's
home to the Pope and a trove of iconic art andarchitecture. Its Vatican Museums house ancient Roman
sculptures such as the famed “Laocoön and His Sons” aswell as Renaissance frescoes in the Raphael Rooms andthe Sistine Chapel, famous for Michelangelo’s ceiling.

It is encircled by a 2-mile border with Italy, Vatican
City is an independent city-state that covers just over
100 acres, making it one-eighth the size of New York's
Central Park. Vatican City is governed as an absolutemonarchy with the pope at its head.
The dispute between the Italian government and the
Catholic Church ended in 1929 with the signing of theLateran Pacts, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its
own sovereign state and compensated the church $92
million (more than $1 billion in today’s money) for the
Papal States. The Vatican used the payment as seedmoney to re-grow its coffers. Mussolini, the head of the
Italian government, signed the treaty on behalf of King
Victor Emmanuel III.

PP Doc McKenzie taking notes while Chris Bailey talks

Around the Club in Photos!
To keep the size of this document down, I will not
publish all pictures. If interested, you can view themall on our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/rotarywahiawaw
aialua/September 7th

Chris Bailey telling the group about Wahiawa Value-Added
Product Development Center

A photo op!

Justin Apa talking to guest speaker, Chris Bailey, with
PP Doc McKenzie in the backgroundRotarians and guests enjoying the meeting

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Derek Conselva talking to Sabrina FordOahu Army Natural Resource Program(OANRP)

Donna Gutirrez talking to Mark Anthony Clemente

Beautiful views

On the way to the work site

PDG Naomi Masuno and Chris Campisano

September 21st
Derek Conselva and Friend in the wilderness!

Guest Speaker Chris Bailey

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‘Ohi’a Lehua tree

September 21stViews from the work site

Perspective members Paul Schneider and Elena Santos

Training is insession!
Police Officer Nicholas Mina, HPD

Guest speakers at the North Shore Chamber of Commerce meeting

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PDG Naomi explaining the fine art of Rotary web-based applications

Members with their laptops following along with PDG Naomi’s
instructions

Pat Celebrating Hubby’s. Chris Campisano’s Birthday

PDG Naomi Masuno going over the finer points of Rotary webbased systems

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