Events

Rotary Club of Hilo Bay's Oktoberfest 2019 will be held on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019 at Sangha Hall (424 Kilauea Avenue, Hilo) from 5:00 to 8:30p.m. Enjoy an evening of food, music, auctions, and costume contests with friends to raise funds that help Rotary International eradicate polio as well as fund community service projects in East Hawaii.  The public is invited (register online by clicking the "Guests" button on this page). Tickets are $50 advance, $60 at the door.

Bavarian festivities, Hilo style with traditional foods associated with Oktoberfest in Germany (Würstl (sausages), Brezel (pretzels), Sauerkraut and/or Rotkohl/Blaukraut (red cabbage) and Weisswurst (a white sausage)); mugfuls of beer and wine; live joyful music; dress in costume or not; bid on a diversity of auction items.  Authentic German food.

Julie Mitchel is the Executive Director of Kuikahi Mediation Center.

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Bio:

Kyla Edison is the Geology and Material Science Technician for the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES), a state funded aerospace company dedicated to promoting the aerospace industry in Hawai’i.  A three-time PISCES summer intern, Kyla has been researching in the Planetary Geology field for almost six years.  In 2015 & Kyla won a NASA Hawai’i Space Grant fellowship studying gully formation in Martian craters.  In 2016 Kyla graduated from the University of Hawai’i Hilo with her bachelors in Geology, having had a dedicated focus to astronomy and planetary geology.  Today Kyla is a full-time PISCES employee researching how to create construction materials using Lunar and Martian regolith(surface dust) for future base settlements.  Kyla does this by using the strikingly comparable Hawaiian basalt rock and a technique known as sintering. Kyla’s biggest hope is that the construction materials PISCES creates can also have Earth based applications especially for economic development in Hawai’i.

Rotary District 5000 Fall Foundation Seminar

MEMBERSHIP & FOUNDATION/

GRANTS SEMINAR

HILO

Overview of the Seminar:  Membership Development:  Learn how to grow and retain your club membership.   The Rotary Foundation:  Everything you wanted to know about The Rotary Foundation (TRF).  What is it?  How does it work?  What happens to my donation?  Should I donate to TRF?  Grant Qualification: Participants learn how their clubs can become qualified to access “free money!” A minimum of two attendees (president elect preferred and other members) from each club is mandatory in order to apply for grants. The goal is to have the participants complete most of the required paperwork during the seminar to be grant qualified.   

Date:              Saturday, November 16, 2019

Time:             7:30 a.m. Registration

Location:    Hospice of Hilo, Conference Room

                            1011 Wainuinui Ave., Hilo

Cost:               $10.00 per person

Agenda

  8:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.               Membership

  9:45 a.m. p 10:00 a.m. Break

10:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.              Foundation/Grants

11:45 a.m. to 12 noon     Wrap-up/Evaluations

Noon                                               Adjourn

Aloha and welcome to VASH Hawai`i Island, the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawai`i on Hawai`i Island. Our Mission is to share the aloha spirit with visitors affected by adversity.

We recognize that even during the fun and relaxation of vacations, unfortunate events can happen. And when far from home, visitors do not usually have access to their own support systems and resources.

VASH assistance is designed to help visitors cope with and recover from a variety of unfortunate situations such as crime victimization, the loss of a purse or wallet, medical situations, or the death of a loved one. When we receive referrals from the Hawai`i County Police Department, local area hospitals, airport security and others in the visitor industry, we assess each visitor’s situation and needs on a case by case basis to offer appropriate supportive services.

Our Vision is that every visitor touched by adversity will also be touched by the aloha spirit. Our hope is that the stories our visitors tell upon returning home are all about the care and love they received – the aloha – rather than being about the unfortunate incident.

Alan Shiraishi is the District Manager of Junior Achievement of Hawaii.

As District Manager, Alan manages daily operations of JA programs on Hawaii Island, primarily East Hawaii, by building relationships with educators, recruiting and training volunteers, and implementing all administrative procedures. He coordinates the execution of programs, increases public awareness for all programs, and assures program quality and expansion.

Prior to his current role, Alan volunteered for JA's elementary, intermediate and high school programs for over 14 years. Alan has over 40 years of experience in business management in the banking industry and is well connected in the Hilo community with current and past affiliations with the Waiakea Lions Club, Toastmasters International, Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce, and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Hawaii, to name a few.