Rotary Club of Wahiawa-Waialua

Volume 8 Issue 24 – April 8th, 2021

The Hulali“The Reflector”
District Governor
Naomi Masuno

Club President
Keoni Ahlo

“Making a Difference in our Communities”

The strength of our Club lies in its members“Rotary is not just a club that you join; it is aninvitation to endless opportunities.”
RI President Holger Knaack

April is Rotary International
Maternal and Child Health Month“Rotary members are dedicated tomaternal and child health”
Throughout the month of April, Rotary Maternal andChild Health Month, take action to support mothersand children. Read more stories about maternal andchild health to gain inspiration for club and district
service projects.
According to the World Health Organization, nearly
830 women die every day from preventable causes
related to pregnancy and childbirth. 99% of maternal
deaths occur in developing countries where nearly halfof all mothers and newborns do not receive care during
and after birth. The leading causes of death forchildren under 5 are birth complications, pneumonia,
birth asphyxia, diarrhea and malaria. These deaths
can be prevented and treated with access tohealthcare services.

Surfers Unite
Rotarian Fellowship
Service Above Self – Making a Difference

Editor – PP Geoff Horvath

Healthcare before, during and after childbirth cansave the lives of women and newborn babies.
The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 3:
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at
all ages, addresses all major health priorities, including
reproductive, maternal and child health; access for all
to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicinesand vaccines.
Rotary members are working diligently towards thisgoal through projects that provide education,
immunizations, birth kits, mobile health clinics, and muchmore. Women are taught how to prevent mother-toinfant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how
to protect themselves and their children from disease.
Here are just a few examples of Rotary projects thatare saving mothers and children:
District 1090 Vocational Training classes

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•Rotary clubs in the Philippines are implementing
the Cradle of Hope project which provides cradle
boxes for newborn babies. Each box contains
postpartum care materials and newborn supplies
such as grooming and healthcare kits, and clothing
for babies up to 9 months of age.

Mobile Medical Clinic•

The Rotary Club of Accra East in Ghana conducted
a community-wide medical outreach program.
More than 300 members of the community,
including many women and children, benefited
from health screenings and received necessary
medical supplies.

•The Rotary Club of Dhaka North in Bangladesh
assists pregnant women who cannot afford the costof delivery by providing no cost surgeries andother necessary medicine during emergencies.

•After learning about high mortality rates in India,
Past Rotary International Director Ken
Collins organizedavocationaltraining
team consisting of two gynecologists and twomidwives. The team traveled with him from
Australia to Raipur, India, to train local healthworkers on best obstetrical practices aimed at
reducing the high mortality rate of mothers andbabies due to childbirth.

•In Nigeria, the Rotary Club of Calabar South-CB
partnered with the Rotaract Club of Canaan City
CB to educate mothers on how to combat infantmortality, and promote the health of both motherand child during and after birth. Rotary members
donated materials to help nursing mothers andbabies including diapers, detergents, toilet
papers, and baby soaps.

Throughout the month of April, Rotary Maternal andChild Health Month, take action to support mothers andchildren. Read more stories about maternal and childhealth to gain inspiration for club and district service
projects. Post your club’s project on Rotary Showcase,find a project to support on Rotary Ideas, or join theconversation in My Rotary’s discussion groups! By Azka
Asif, Rotary Service and Engagement Staff.

Baby kit

RI President: Holger KnaackDistrict: Naomi Masuno
Asst. Dist. Govt: Wesley Mun
Club President: Keoni Ahlo
PP: Alex Kanamu
President Elect: Keoni Ahlo
Exec Secretary: Vacant
Recording Secretary: Kate Butts
Treasurer: Paulette Kitchell
Sergeant-at-Arms: Dr. Carver Wilcox

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AgsaldaThis week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is about living

President Keoni

PP Geoff Horvath

Outside D5K
PP Brett Morey – RC of La Jolla Golden Triangle
Surfers Unite Rotary Fellowship – Guest Speaker.
PDG Alan Test – RC located in the East Bay,
California area
Within D5K
Keegan Flaherty – RC of Hawaii Kai
Sean Slentz – RC Downtown Honolulu

a full and well-rounded life, as illustrated by thefounder of our Foundation, Arch C. Klumph. From ourarchives: Arch had a great love of music. At age 18 hebegan to study the flute, and three years later he received
a chair in the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. He playedwith the orchestra for 14 years and was a lifelongsponsor of it. "My heart is in music and my head is inbusiness," he said. Arch balanced his love of music andtheater with his professional business and dreamedhuge dreams beyond Cleveland to the theater of theworld, with spectacular success. One of those dreams
was The Rotary Foundation.
Your contribution to The Rotary Foundation keeps ArchKlumph’s dream alive and fulfills the dreams of many
people around the world who need our help

Hawaii Rotary YouthFoundation (HRYF)
We are scheduling our Scholarship Award Meeting forApril 4th, 2021
Recognition for the week ending April 11th, 2021.

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Spouses’Nicole Beltazar – Guest of Brett Morey – Friend ofPresident Ahlo’s family!
Melisa Bagayas – Guest of Brett Morey

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Anniversaries

Arch C. Klumph, Well-rounded
Citizen

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Arch Klumph

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ROTARY MINUTE

Rotary’s Ongoing Commitment
That commitment endures today through anorganization that remains truly international. Only 16
years after being founded, Rotary had clubs on six
continents. Our members now span the globe, working
to solve some of our world’s most challenging problems.
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Received from Kate Butts.

No fines“Do the best you can until you know better.
Then when you know better, do better.” —Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014)“Aloha Club Members, our community service project
this month is April 24, Rotarian at Work Day. We'll
meet at Dr. Mac's house in Waialua at 8:00am. We
need volunteers! So please ask your friends andneighbors to join us. We will need to know how many
will be in your party by April 15. We'll be ordering
potato/mac salad from Dot's/Marianne's catering so
we need to know how much to order. Mac will providea BBQ lunch. Please plan to bring a salad or dessertto share.
Everyone is required to sign a release waiver, which I
am securing and will route as soon as possible.
We will walk the beach collecting rubbish andmicroplastics until lunch time. It will be fun! Reserve theday and plan to help Rotary clean up our beaches.
Aloha,Kate”------------------------------------------------Rotary Club of Wahiawa-Waialua
P.O. Box 860601
Wahiawa, HI 96786

See flyer just before “Around the Club in Pictures”
Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, andcivilrightsactivist.
Shepublished
seven
autobiographies, three books of essays, several booksof poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies,
and television shows spanning over 50 years. She
received dozens of awards and more than 50
honorary degrees.

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April 15 Roger Breisch – Suicide Prevent Hotline
April 22 – Board Meetings

Mar 27 – Tree planting at Gunstock Ranch – Due towet conditions at the Gunstock Ranch, this event will berescheduled for some time in May 2021. It will be heldon the North Shore, around 12:00 pm 0 4:00 pm. See
Kate Butts for more information. Liability forms mustbe submitted 3 days prior the event. Kate has theforms if you need one.
April 24 – “Ridge (Mauka) to Reef (Makai)”Rotarians at Work Day, Waialua, near PP Doc
McKenzie’s home. Bring a dish to share with members.
Bar-B-Q – See Kate Butts for more information.
April 29 – HRYF Scholarship Awards meeting

Surfers Unite RotarianFellowship

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Brett Morey

Love of surfing brings together morethan 930 Rotary members from 32countries
You have to LOVE technology and Zoom, because it
gave us an opportunity of meeting and hearing form
an amazing man and Rotarian, Brett Morey!
Brett is the Founder & Chair, Surfers Unite Rotarian
Fellowship and the Past President (2013-14) of theRotary Club of La Jolla Golden Triangle.

Socrates

Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who iscredited as one of the founders of Western philosophy,and as being the first moral philosopher of the Westernethical tradition of thought.

Which book holds the record for being the book thatis most often stolen from public libraries?

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A third generation native Californian Brett spent mostof his life living in coastal communities and surfing forover 35 years. In addition to surfing throughout Hawaii
including Oahu, Kauai and Maui he’s also been to Tahiti
and surfed Baja Mexico and Portugal over the years.

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In 2002 he joined the Rotary Club of Brentwood as away to give back to their local community in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Brett has experienced plenty ofincredible Rotary projects along the way and received
the Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2005 for hisoutreach to Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims in theSoutheast, Rotarian of the Year in 2011 and been
published in the Rotarian Magazine November 2018
yet none of these accolades replace the joy he feels
when taking an autistic child surfing, working with HighSchool and university students on volunteer events likeLife Rolls On or taking adaptive surfers in the water.
A Rotarian for over 18 years, Brett served as Presidentof the Rotary Club of La Jolla Golden Triangle, Youth
Service Chair for District 5340, UCHS Interact Rotarian
Advisor and Founder and countless other roles. Hecharacterizes his greatest Rotary accomplishment as
having founded Surfers Unite Rotarian Fellowship in2017 which now has over 930 members in 32 different
countries. Please join the upcoming ZOOM event titled,“Growing the Family of Rotary Through Fellowships”
and learn how you can engage your community andbring youth into the family of Rotary through relevantsocials and events.
Brett spent more than 12 years of his professional
career in the Automotive Industry working for AmericanHonda Motor Company and Toyota. In 2008 thefamily relocated back to San Diego and in 2011 hebecame Director of Sales N.A. for Total Power, Inc., achemical engineering firm dedicated to reducing fuelconsumption and harmful toxic emissions while
improving fleet reliability. His firm works in over 25
countries with many of the largest mining,transportation and power generation clients in theworld. Married to his college sweetheart since ’94 thecouple live in Del Mar Highlands and are blessed tohave two adult children and a three-year-oldgrandson.

Get more out of your experience as a Rotarian throughthe power of Rotary Fellowships.
Brett told us that one of the most rewarding things
about a Rotary Fellowship is you get to meet Rotarians
from around the world that have the same interest you
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out to their community, to engage others, includingchildren and teens in their special Fellowship.
With membership dwindling, this is a good way tointerest others in becoming a Rotarian, throughinteresting and fun activities that each have in common.
Brett asked, “How many of you made a New Year’sresolution?” A few of us raised your hands, and forthem and those that didn’t raise their hands, had us
make a resolution to join or start at least two Rotary
Fellowships before the end of this Rotary Year!
There are many Rotary Fellowships that Rotarians canjoin. Depending on what your interests are, you are
sure to find one that is a perfect fit.
Brett showed us there are 80 or more Fellowships thatare available to join, the largest being the “Cycling toServe.”

Surfers Unite Rotary Fellowship members span theglobe from Argentina to New Zealand, including
countries that have no access to oceans, such as theCzech Republic and Hungary. Members don’t have tobe near oceans or seas to capture the spirit of thefellowship, which is bringing together Interactors,
Retractors, and Rotarians for fun events.
The Fellowship has a noble mission, introducing people
to surfing, attracting young people to Rotary, building
connections, and mentoring. Members don't have to benear oceans or water to capture the spirit of
the fellowship, which is bringing together Interactors,
Rotaractors, and Rotarians for fun events.
The “connecting” part is partnering with other 501(c)3organizations to help them organize, plan, and execute
fundraisers. This is a win-win for all involved.

One of the great features of this Fellowship is, you
don’t have to live near water. If you have a desire tosurf, they will teach you to surf. For those who don’tknow how to swim they will teach you! Living on an
island or near the water, we take it for granted thateveryone can swim. But that is not the case. There arethose that live surrounded by water and don’t know
how to swim.
The main reason Rotary encourages Fellowships is it:

Support, guidance and a plan to break the cyclesof divorce, poverty and hopelessness.

•Connects those that have a passion and specifichobbies that can be sued for a World of Service.
• It can involve non-Rotarian friends and family• It includes all who have a passion to surf and serve.
The Fellowship includes:• Beach enthusiasts• Bodyboarders• Body surfers• Surfers• Kite surfers• Wind surfers
Surfers Unite wants to connect with other organizations
and people, attracting youth, providing them withmentors.
Each year Surfers Unite Rotary Fellowship hosts a bunchof activities, some which are fundraisers such as:•Beach, river and shoreline clean up –Environmental Stewardship (the new #7 Rotary
Focus Area). This event brings multiple Club
members together, multiple generations together,with an open invitation to non-Rotarians!

•The Switchfoot Bro Am Music Concert, a fundraiser
attended by thousands of people. TheSWITCHFOOT BRO-AM Foundation is dedicatedto giving back to the San Diego community byheightening the profile of and providing grants tononprofits. These events can include surfing eventsalso!

•Children with Autism – this outreach provides
therapy dogs, reaches the underserved, andcreates incredible memories for these children.

Surfers Unite Rotary Fellowship offers opportunities tovolunteer like Adaptive Surfing events and Learn toSurf events, plus many other events.
Other events Surfers Unite organized and participatedin are:•••South African Champ surfing training event
Sand Island Beach Clean-up, Oahu
Hope Leadership Academy. The Academy is ayear-round youth ministry for underserved
communities.

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The Rotary Club ofWahiawa-Waialua•Rotary MusiCamp Learn to Surf event• Lagoona Kahuna Beach Clean-up
So, there is no lack of participation opportunities andno excuse for not participating!
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Paddle out for Polio
The “Big Kahuna”“Combine Fun andRelevant Events with theGenerations of Rotary!”• Zoom Events• The Core for Crisis
Boys to Men Mentoring. This outreach is geared forboys without fathers. Their mission is to build
communities of male role models who, throughconsistent group mentoring, encourage and empower
teenage boys to follow their dreams.

•Stand up for the Cure

Rotaractors & Interactors can join for free! Rotarians
can join for as little as $20/year and the Lifetime
Membership for $150 includes $48 in SURF gear. All
Rotarians like a good bargain, right?
For more information, go to www.surfersunite.org.

2021 Updated Meeting Schedule and Time
(Thursday, Hawaii Standard Time
April 15 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
April 22 – In-person Board meeting – Location to be
determined.
April 29 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm – HRYF ScholarshipAwards
May 6 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
May 13 – 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/91954669065?pwd=d1dHTGwzUkJYVDhaWGNwRlQ3zddTUFmdz09

Answer to April Fool’s Quiz. The Guinness Book ofWorld Records! Ironic, isn’t it?!

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Guinness World Records, known from its inception in1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records andin previous United States editions as The Guinness Bookof World Records, is a reference book publishedannually, listing world records both of humanachievements and the extremes of the natural world.

Celebrate our Environment
Volunteer for our Ridge to Reef
Beach Clean-up Event
April 24, 2021

Rotarians At Work Day - Ridge to Reef Cleanup & DataCollection
The plastics and micro-plastics piling up on our beaches, parks, trails and reefs are morethan just unsightly, they’re often a safety hazard and a real health concern to both humans
and animals alike. Plastics threaten Hawaii's water quality and vulnerable marine
ecosystems and are even accumulating in our bodies.
Join us on Rotarians at Work Day 2021 f or a statewide Ridge to Reef trash cleanup andaudit. With a small group of Rotarians, you can spend one day to help make ourcommunities safer, care for the ocean, protect Hawaii's natural beauty, marine animals, andour own health from the damages of this plastic pollution.
The good news is, we still have a chance to fix these problems from persisting. In theweeks following, we will explore ways to reduce or replace the plastic from our everyday
lives that are otherwise ending up in the ocean. As an added benefit, the data we collectcan help local advocates launch successful campaigns against plastic pollution, targetinglong-term solutions.
Date/Time: April 24, 2021 — Rotarians at Work Day - 8:00am - 12 noon followed by BBQ
Location: Meet at Dr Mac's House - 68-325 Kikou Street, Waialua.
Questions:Kate 808-358-0640

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BBQ at Mac’s House:68-325 Kikou Street

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Sean Slentz

Nicole Baltazar

Derek Conselva

President Keoni Ahlo

PP Geoff Horvath

Kate Butts

PP Brett Morey

Meeting in progress

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PDG Alan Test

Almost a full house!
Some spiritual or spirit-filed Fellowships – the Gin
Fellowship was founded in Hawaii!!

Celebrating our Enviromemt
Keegan Flaherty

Meeting fun!
The new Rotary Seven Focus Areas

Super Rotarian – man behind the suit – Posed for the posterthat was used in the Rotarian Magazine

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