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Volume 6 Issue 20 – January 3rd, 20196District 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

Happy
New Year!
Service Above Self – Making a Difference

New Year!
The New Year Resolution
Religious origins. Babylonians made promises to theirgods at the start of each year that they would returnborrowed objects and pay their debts. The Romans
began each year by making promises to the god Janus,
for whom the month of January is named.

Editor – PP Geoff Horvath• Quit smoking.
• Spend more time with family and friends.
Common New Year’s Resolutions with percentages.
Most common New Year's resolutions
According to a recent ComRes poll, the most common
New Year's resolutions include:••••

Why do we make News Year’a Resolutions?
A New Year's resolution is a promise a person makes
for the new year. Regardless of what resolution you
commit to, the goal is to improve life in the coming year.
Resolutions can come in many forms. Some people
make a promise to change a bad habit, such as quitting
smoking or eating less junk food.
The Top Ten Resolutions
Chances are, more than a couple of the top 10 mostcommon resolutions will look familiar to you:
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Exercise more.
Lose weight.
Get organized.
Learn a new skill or hobby.
Live life to the fullest.
Save more money/spend less money.

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Exercise more (38 per cent)
Lose weight (33 per cent)Eat more healthily (32 per cent)Take a more active approach to health (15 percent)• Learn new skill or hobby (15 per cent)• Spend more time on personal wellbeing (12 percent)• Spend more time with family and friends (12 percent)• Drink less alcohol (12 per cent)• Stop smoking (9 per cent)• Other (1 per cent)
10 tips how to keep your New Year’s resolutions
Here’s the complete list of Wiseman’s advice:•If possible, make only one resolution – changing alot of things at once is more difficult.

•Think about your resolutions in advance, and spendsome time to reflect on them.

•Don’t re-visit past failures, but focus on newresolutions instead.

•Focus on what you really want – don’t just go withwhat’s trendy.

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•Break your goal into manageable, concrete steps
with specific deadlines.

•Go public – tell your friends, family, social
networks about your goals, which will increase
your fear of failure and also garner support.

•Create a checklist focusing on how much better
your life will be once you’ve achieved your goals.

•Whenever you make progress on the steps
towards your goal, give yourself a small reward.

•Document your journey – charts, spreadsheets,
journals and other means of tracking your progress
will keep it concrete.
•Don’t beat yourself up and quit if you sometimes
revert to old habits – treat it as a temporary
setback. messagetoeagle.com
Who started the New Year’s Resolution?
As mentioned above, the ancient Babylonians are said
to have been the first people to make New Year'sresolutions, some 4,000 years ago. They were also thefirst to hold recorded celebrations in honor of the newyear—though for them the year began not in January
but in mid-March, when the crops were planted.

During a massive 12-day religious festival known asAkitu, the Babylonians crowned a new king or
reaffirmed their loyalty to the reigning king. They also
RI President: Barry Rassin
District: Win Schoneman
Asst Dist Govr: Doreen Higa
Club President: Alex Kanamu
PP: Lilette Subedi
President Elect: Keoni Ahlo
Exec Secretary: Alison Dela Pena
Recording Secretary: Rene Mansho
Treasurer: Kate Butts
Sergeant-at-Arms: Dr. Carver Wilcox
Asst Sergeant-at-Arms: Austin Kanamu

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made promises to the gods to pay their debts andreturn any objects they had borrowed. These promises
could be considered the forerunners of our New Year’sresolutions. If the Babylonians kept to their word, their(pagan) gods would bestow favor on them for thecoming year. If not, they would fall out of the gods’
favor—a place no one wanted to be.
A similar practice occurred in ancient Rome, after thereform-minded emperor Julius Caesar tinkered with thecalendar and established January 1 as the beginningof the new year circa 46 B.C. Named for Janus, thetwo-faced god whose spirit inhabited doorways andarches, January had special significance for theRomans. Believing that Janus symbolically looked
backwards into the previous year and ahead into thefuture, the Romans offered sacrifices to the deity andmade promises of good conduct for the coming year.

For early Christians, the first day of the new year
became the traditional occasion for thinking about
one’s past mistakes and resolving to do and be betterin the future. In 1740, the English clergyman John
Wesley, founder of Methodism, created the Covenant
Renewal Service, most commonly held on New Year’s
Eve or New Year’s Day. Also known as known as watchnight services, they included readings from Scripturesand hymn singing, and served as a spiritual alternativeto the raucous celebrations normally held to celebrate
the coming of the new year. Now popular withinevangelical Protestant churches, especially AfricanAmerican denominations and congregations, watchnight services held on New Year’s Eve are often spent
praying and making resolutions for the coming year.
Despite the tradition’s religious roots, New Year’s
resolutions today are a mostly secular practice. Insteadof making promises to the gods, most people makeresolutions only to themselves, and focus purely on selfimprovement (which may explain why such resolutions
seem so hard to follow through on). According to recent
research, while as many as 45 percent of Americans
say they usually make New Year’s resolutions, only 8
percent are successful in achieving their goals. But thatdismal record probably won’t stop people frommaking resolutions anytime soon—after all, we’ve had
about 4,000 years of practice.

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Dr. Lynn Goya – Clinical Psychologist – Guest ofKate Butts

PP Oran Spotts

PP Geoff HorvathDr, Lynn Goya

Ashton Kanamu – Guest of Austin Kanamu
New Year Oli – PP Lilette Subedi

Ashtin Kanamu
PP Lilette Subedi with the New Year Oli

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Spouse’s Birthday

See Rotary Minute – PP Doc McKenzie read a few
articles out of the January 2019 The Rotarian
Magazine. One article covered two recognitions
received by the Rotary Foundation, which you can readin the Rotary Minute.

Dr. Manny Abundo’s wife, Rebecca “Daisy”
celebrated her birthday on December 26th
PP Dave Bramlett’s wife, Nora (Harmsen) celebrated
her birthday on December 31st.
PP Gerry Joering’s wife, Denise Werle celebrated herbirthday on January 2nd.

Anniversaries

PP Doc McKenzie and the Rotarian Magazine

Also his comments regarding the Rotarian Magazine
and the good information that can be found in themagazine. if anyone can’t find anything of value in themagazine, then they are not a true Rotarian. They areputting self above service, and not Service Above Self
There is something for everyone in the Rotarian!

PP Gerry and Denise Joering celebrated their 25th
Wedding Anniversary on January 2nd
George and Florence Fujiwara celebrated their
Wedding Anniversary on January 2nd.

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BLACK BOARDERNOTICE
Loss of a Dear and Valued Rotarian

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From December 22 to the week ending January 6,
2019.

Honorary Member Nora Bramlett (Hammsen)celebrated her birthday on December 31st

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PP Roy Tanji

We received news that our dear Club member, PP Roy“the Smiles” Tanji, entered into his Glory onNovember 12, 2018 at 88 years old. He spent the last

few months in a long-term care facility. We will missseeing this gentle man’s bright and infectious smile.

ROTARY MINUTE
Our Legacy, Rotary’s Promise-The Rotary Foundation“Enabling Rotarians to advance world
understanding, goodwill, and peace”

The Rotary Foundation received two honors this fallrecognizing its work around the world.
Highest Rating: For the 11th straight year, the RotaryFoundation scored the highest rating – Four Stars –from Charity Navigators.

PP Geoff almost got fined for his joke, by PP Lilette
Subedi. But, PP Geoff invoked the “no fines during theholiday season” since this week is still considered theholiday season. After making this declaration, PPGeoff took off his dancing shoes!! Oh, the joke hadsomething to do with “Brainstorming!”
HIPE Keoni Ahlo gave a HI $5 for the special time heand his family spent visiting other family members
during the Christmas holidays, and of course, having
both KJ and Paige home for the holidays!
President Alex gave a HI $5 for being busy withDistrict business, Pre-President Elect Training Seminar(PETS), PETS, and less stress during his second year asPresident. He is also thankful for all our Club member’s
support and our upcoming next President, President
Elect (PE) Keoni Ahlo and the preparations he ismaking for his 2-year term. It will be a smoothtransition.
Kate Butts gave a HI $5 for all the hard work Jackie
Barnes is putting in to our annual WW golf tournament
fundraiser.

No trip reports. Someone mentioned those that have atrip report are on a trip!

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Welcomed into the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors.
In October, 2018, the Rotary Foundation waswelcomed into the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors at
the University of Oxford for its continuous support ofthe university.
Since 1949, the Foundation has provided scholarships
to more than 200 Oxford scholars, including a former
U. S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author, and investigative report with theNew Your Times, and a director and senior fellow at theAnsari Africa Center.

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newsprint, which will be displayed each meeting, just incase someone has an idea! If they do, they can list itfor future discussions.

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PE Brainstorming “Eye of the Hurricane” Keoni Ahlo

Some ideas for Community Service
Jan 17 – Sex Trafficking Awareness Month– Guest
Speaker, Jody Allione, Co-founder of Ho'ōla Nā Pua••

Open – Second payment (second 6 months) ofannual dues are due!
Jan 19 2019 – Semi Annual 2018-2019 President's
meeting at the Hawaii Convention Center.
Feb 1-3, 2019 – Rotary Youth Leadership Awards(RYLA). Camp Homalani
Mar 31 – Annual Wakai-Wilkinson Golf Tournament
fundraiser at the Moanalua Golf ClubOngoing – Jack in the Box Fundraiser. Each member
will be given 10 tickets ($100) to sell.

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Beach Cleanup. We could do it as a club only, orpartner with a school or other community
organization.
Golf Tournament –• $100 per player – includes everything• 2-person team – goal is 30-50 teams
Dictionary Deliveries• Daniel K. Inouye Elementary• Solomon Elementary• Sunset Elementary• Waialua Elementary
Bingo Fundraiser – Month to be decided on
Ho’ola Na Pua (North Shore) – Support for District
5000 projectScholarships
Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) – Need
more students. We will send out forms to Waialua
High School, Glenn Lee, Robotic Team AdvisorSpeakers
Social Media – Our ClubRunner website – Keoni
demonstrated how to get a shortcut installed onyour smart phone, so you can get to our site with
one touch.

Open Mike Thursday!
Brainstorming into 2019 and Beyond!
Today, since we didn’t have a guest speaker, wedecided to spend our time brainstorming ideas forcommunity service projects as well as other projects, forthis year and beyond.
It was a great meeting with everyone participatingwith ideas and discussions on goals, what will work,
what won’t work, etc. Some of the projects are known
but were placed on our list to keep them in the forefrontof our minds. This portion of the meeting wasfacilitated by PE Keoni Ahlo, writing our ideas onRotary – 113 Years of Service to the World!

PE Keoni Ahlo showing PP Oran Spotts and Kate Butts
how to make a shortcut to our ClubRunner website•••

Our Annual Al Wonder Christmas Party for ARC
Hawaii, Wahiawa facility.
Historical Markers – Entrance to Wahiawa, on
hiking trails, etc.
Suggest District 5000 project to repair the Koko
Head trail. It is in disrepair and, in some areas,dangerous.
Hi, Kate!

Chairman of the Board!

Hmmm, not sure!

Ace of Hearts

It is a Happy New Year!

No Ace of Hearts today!

(Go to our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/9628629737
49303/ to view all pictures.)

PE Keoni talking to guest Dr. Lynn Goya

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One of Dot’s finest!

Paul Harris Fellow, PP Oran Spots and Alison Kanamu

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Hmmm! Interesting – PP Lilette Subedi and President AlexPineapple by

The Ace is still there!

A reflection of who we are!

President Alex giving his HI $5

Kate Butts giving her HI $5

Austin Kanamu – Collector of fines, etc.

PE Keoni giving his HI $5
OK, Our ClubRunner from a Smartphone

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Completed water well with a modern water pump

So far, so good! Any other ideas?

Getting to ClubRunner from your Smartphone

Completed water well with a modern water pump
I think I’m getting it now!

See, go to Safari then go…….

It’s good to be President!

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Got that! Now let me capture it!

Happy New Year!

Next on the agenda is…….

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