Wednesday, June 16 -- Vocational Day, Guest Speaker TBD
Wednesday, June 16 -- Board of Director's Meeting, Immediately following the general meeting
Wednesday, June 23 -- Guest Speaker TBD
Wednesday, June 30 -- Induction of New Officers -- stay tuned for more information
Other Rotary Meetings and Invitations
Email regarding Diaper Project
District Happenings
A series of D5000 Rotary webinars is available for your viewing, either live or recorded. You can also find ton of webinars in the Learning Center at rotary.org: https://learn.rotary.org/members/learn/catalog
Will be held for the first time in Hilocommemorating 100 years of Rotary on Big Island on May 14, 15 and 16, 2021. The event is now 100% virtual. Volunteers who have skills in videotaping and virtual platforms are requested. Please contact Alan Kusunoki at aakusunoki@aol.com
District Conference 2023
Will be held in Hilo. The committee is looking for volunteers to help with the planning and a co-chair from East Hawaii.
Future Rotary International Conventions
Taipei: June 12-16, 2021 Rotary International has announced that the International Conference will be virtual due to the ongoing threat of the COVID virus. Stay tuned for further news.
Volunteer opportunity - Continuing through January, 2021 -- Junichi Noumaru
State Department of Health and UH Nursing request Rotarians to help for the face mask observation. One or a pair of volunteers will count the number of people who (a) wear the mask correctly, (b) wear the mask in correctly and (c) don't wear the mask at a designated location from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturdays:
Prince Kuhio Plaza (Zippy's)
Airport Post Office
Target/Walmart/Safeway
Hilo Farmers Market
Since Saturday morning is a favorite time slot for webinars/meetings by D5000, the host is considering to widen the time frame in the Saturday afternoon.
If you have any question, please contact Dr. Glauberman (glauberm@hawaii.edu).
Today's Inspiration
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson
Guests
Thank you for joining us!
Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker Dr. Yumiko Ohara December 16 2020
Wednesday’s Guest Speaker was Dr. Yumiko Ohara and her presentation was “The “real” language situation in Japan and its implications”. Even though Japan is considered a homogeneous country culturally and linguistically there are other languages within its borders that are in danger of being lost. The Japanese government lists the 7 languages in danger as dialects of Japanese not separate languages. UNESCO claims there are 8 endangered languages including 6 languages in Okinawa. Dr. Ohara used the expression “thank you” to demonstrate that the languages are mutually unintelligible. In general, if a dialect is being spoken there should be mutual intelligibility. A traditional language that is classified as a dialect can have damaging results such as endangerment or death of the language, loss of traditional knowledge, and loss of identity among others. She directed us to the website www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php to see a map of the world’s languages that are currently in danger.
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