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20th Annual Oktoberfest!

Tables and individual tickets are on sale, and selling briskly for the 20th anniversary Oktoberfest, Rotary Club of Hilo Bay's major fund- fun- and friend- raising event Friday evening, Oct. 4, 2019 at Sangha Hall (398 Kilauea Avenue, Hilo) .

This evening of food, music, auctions, and contests raises funds that help Rotary International eradicate polio as well as fund community service projects in East Hawaii. The public is invited. Talk to a Hilo Bay Rotarian for tickets. Or buy online at www.hilobayoktoberfest.com.

Conversational Partners

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Jun 21, 2019

June 21, 2019

Rotarians Steven Jacunski, Richard Cunningham, Mike Carroll, Marlene Norton and Junichi Noumaru participated in the Conversational Partners at the Hawaii Community College on June 21, 2019. Rotarians mingled with international students in an IEP class and made conversations with them. Some students just arrived from their country to Hilo a couple weeks ago and study hard to improve their English skills.

The Rotaract of Club of East Hawaii

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Aug 22, 2019

August 22, 2019

Junichi Noumaru stopped by at the open table by The Rotaract Club of East Hawaii (UH Hilo) where the president, the vice president and the secretary were promoting the club to the fellow students. As of my visit, 27 students signed up to join the club. The club does activities almost every weekend. Good job!

Galaxy Forum presented by International Lunar Observatory Association

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Aug 17, 2019

Immediate past president David De Luz, Jr. offered me (Junichi Noumaru) to talk at the Galaxy Forum held by International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) on August 17, 2019. The theme of the forum was "Astronomy from the Moon, and Hawaii 21st Century Business & Education Communities." Steve Durst, the founding director of ILOA introduced the project and told that the International Lunar Observatory or ILO-1 will be launched and will be landed to the south pole of the moon soon. I learned the Rotary helped build the ILOA's office building in Waimea.

How about traveling to Bali?

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Aug 14, 2019

Paul Field - Rotary Club of Volcano

The guest speaker for August 14, 2019 meeting was Paul Field of The Volcano Rotary Club. Paul explained this year's D5000 International Service Project in Bali Indonesia.

D5000 Bali International Service Project

Center for Tomorrow's Leader

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Aug 07, 2019

August 7, 2019

This week's guest speaker was Joy Matsuura of Center for Tomorrow's Leaders where she is Student Leadership Facilitator for Hawaii island. She was born and raised in Hilo, a graduate of Hilo High School and has three children. She is excited to work with the Center For Tomorrow's Leaders, because of her love and passion to see Hawaii's keiki to strive and accomplish educational and life goals that will bring our 'aina to a brighter future.

2019 Rotary Council on Legislature and 2020 Rotary International Convention in Honolulu

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Aug 19, 2019

July 31, 2019 - Club Assembly

This week's guest speaker was Del Green, former District
Governor and member of Rotary Club of Downtown Honolulu. He
was the D5000's representative to the 2019 Council on Legislation
and keep us up to date about what's going on at Council on
Legislature and about how we need to update our by-laws. Del is
also the chair of Rotary International 2020 Convention in Hawaii.
Some major takeaways of his presentation were for rotarians to
have perfect engagement rather than perfect attendance, dues
will continually increase $1/year, and make-up meetings have
been extended to within one year.

Got clean tap water?

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Aug 19, 2019

July 24, 2019

This week's guest speaker was Keith Okamoto, Manager-Chief Engineer of the County of Hawaii Department of Water Supply. Keith is also the most recent past-President of the Hilo Rotary Club. Keith noted that he was more nervous than usual when giving this presentation due to the fact two of our club members in attendance, David DeLuz Jr. and Julie Hugo are current members of the Water Board, while Art Taniguchi, also in attendance, is a former Chairperson of the Water Board.

Peter Muller

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Aug 19, 2019

July 17, 2019

Past District Governor and the charter member of the Rotary Club of Hilo Bay Peter Muller talked his story exclusively to our members.

Secret of Maunakea, Secret of Subaru - Three anecdotes

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Jul 10, 2019

July 10, 2019

Kyoji Nariai is the Professor Emeritus at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

Dr. Nariai is the astronomer whose research fields are astronomical optics and stellar astrophysics. His carrier as the researcher started with the assistant at Tokyo Astronomical Observatory (TAO) of Univ. of Tokyo. He became the professor at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in 1989. He frequently visited Hilo since then and became the Director of the Hilo Office of the Japan National Large Telescope or JNLT project in 1992. Since then, he lived in Hilo and made coordinations for the construction of JNLT with the local government and the contractors. Also he made really good relationship with local community. He became the vice director of Subaru Telescope in 1997 and retired NAOJ in 1998. Now he enjoys his retirement life without obligation.

Biking Expedition

Posted by Junichi Noumaru on Jul 03, 2019

July 3, 2019

Douglass Adams is HHSC Corporate Board Member.

He spoke about his biking expedition he did right after he retired and relating his experiences.

Doug is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from West Point, his Master’s degree from National Intelligence University, and his JD from Antonin Scalia Law School. He is currently chair of the Hawaii County Charter Commission, vice-chair of W.H. Shipman Ltd., chair-elect of the Boys and Girls Club of Big Island, and board president of Kuikahi Mediation Center. The East Hawaii Region representative to the Corporate Board, Doug serves as chair of the Finance and Information Systems Committee and on the Audit and Compliance Committee.