Events

Our Vocational Service Chair Samir El-Swaify will be our guest speaker.

Our Vocational Service Chair Dr Samir El Sawify will be our guest speaker.

Please join us for a sunset sail to watch the Friday Night Waikiki Fireworks.

Join us for Cocktails at 6pm with the meeting starting promptly at 6:30pm.

Our Guest Speaker will be Nainoa Mau from the Friends of the Library of Hawaii.

The Friends of the Library of Hawai‘i is a nonprofit organization whose primary objective is to maintain free public libraries in the State of Hawai‘i, to promote extension of library services throughout the State of Hawai‘i and to increase the facilities of the public library system of Hawai‘i by securing materials beyond the command of the ordinary library budget. Other objectives are to focus attention on libraries and to encourage and accept, by bequest or gift, donations of books, manuscripts, money, and other appropriate material that can enrich the cultural opportunities available to the people of Hawai‘i.

https://friendsofthelibraryofhawaii.org/

Nainoa Mau - Friends of the Library Hawaii.

Agenda to follow.

Mike Trojan will speak about the Hawaii Men's Shed Association, an organization our Club has been supporting for the last several years, since its inception.

https://hawaiimensshed.org/

Sheds are a place for men to gather and socialize in a purposeful way. The men take on projects that benefit the members and the community. It has also been shown that men’s health significantly declines after they leave their jobs. They often isolate themselves and if they are married, often become a bother to their spouses at home. These isolated men typically have poor quality of life and a shortened life-span compared to women. By creating a space for men to socialize, these men are more motivated to be with others and in turn pay better attention to their health.

It’s a community group mainly, though not exclusively, for older men, outfitted with woodworking tools and other intrigues, a coffee pot, pamphlets on health initiatives and a friendly atmosphere. Members join to make and repair stuff and to tinker. They wind up making friends and, in the end, pursuing troubling health issues. Multiple public health studies have shown that Men’s Shed members around the world live longer, healthier, happier lives. The Shedders, now 60+ members strong, are organizing a speakers group to visit Rotary Clubs and other organizations throughout the Islands to present the message af the Mens' Shed movement and to encourage enthusiasm and sponsorship for other community Men’s Sheds. Members are now discussing membership drives and fundraisers. The Shedder's vision is to establish and maintain venues where members can meet, engage in projects of choice, have fun, make friends and address health issues; venues that ensure Men’s Shed’s development into valuable community facilities supported by a thriving, diverse and active membership drawing on each other’s skills, knowledge, wisdom and friendship. The Men’s Shed motto “Shoulder to Shoulder” comes from the observation that men don’t talk face to face, they talk shoulder to shoulder. It is often this simple insight that resonates with people new to the concept of the Men’s Shed.

Mike Trojan will speak about the Hawaii Men's Shed Association, an organization our Club has been supporting for the last several years, since its inception.

https://hawaiimensshed.org/

Sheds are a place for men to gather and socialize in a purposeful way. The men take on projects that benefit the members and the community. It has also been shown that men’s health significantly declines after they leave their jobs. They often isolate themselves and if they are married, often become a bother to their spouses at home. These isolated men typically have poor quality of life and a shortened life-span compared to women. By creating a space for men to socialize, these men are more motivated to be with others and in turn pay better attention to their health.

It’s a community group mainly, though not exclusively, for older men, outfitted with woodworking tools and other intrigues, a coffee pot, pamphlets on health initiatives and a friendly atmosphere. Members join to make and repair stuff and to tinker. They wind up making friends and, in the end, pursuing troubling health issues. Multiple public health studies have shown that Men’s Shed members around the world live longer, healthier, happier lives. The Shedders, now 60+ members strong, are organizing a speakers group to visit Rotary Clubs and other organizations throughout the Islands to present the message af the Mens' Shed movement and to encourage enthusiasm and sponsorship for other community Men’s Sheds. Members are now discussing membership drives and fundraisers. The Shedder's vision is to establish and maintain venues where members can meet, engage in projects of choice, have fun, make friends and address health issues; venues that ensure Men’s Shed’s development into valuable community facilities supported by a thriving, diverse and active membership drawing on each other’s skills, knowledge, wisdom and friendship. The Men’s Shed motto “Shoulder to Shoulder” comes from the observation that men don’t talk face to face, they talk shoulder to shoulder. It is often this simple insight that resonates with people new to the concept of the Men’s Shed.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Comerford, Dean of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Dr. Comerford’s research expertise is in the area of forest soils, with an emphasis in tropical and subtropical regions. His work concentrated on soil-tree root interactions, the measurement and modeling of soil nutrient bioavailability and general aspects of forest soil management. As an active member of the Soil Science Society of America, he was elected president of the society and served in that capacity in 2010. Comerford was a past board member and chair of the related Alliance of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science SocietiesCorporation.

Comerford earned his PhD in silviculture and forest influences from the State University of New York and Syracuse University, his master’s degree in forestry from the University of Maine and his bachelor’s degree in forestry from the University of Illinois.

Guest Speaker: Al Bediones

Agenda to follow.

We are off-site due to the annual meeting at WYC.

We'll be meeting at the Hawaii Health and Human Harm Reduction Center in Kakaako. 

https://www.hhhrc.org/

Speaker: Heather Lusk, Executive Director

Heather Lusk, MSW, is the Executive Director of the Hawai'i Health and Harm Reduction Center, which is the outcome of a recent merger between The Life Foundation and the Community Health Outreach Work (CHOW) Project. Heather has over twenty-five years of experience dedicated to reducing health disparities and stigma as it relates to HIV, viral hepatitis and other chronic conditions linked to substance use. As the Chair of the Hawaii Advisory Commission on Drugs and Controlled Substances and as Vice Chair with Partners in Care, Oahu’s Homeless Coalition, Heather works to support systems integration and the intersection of mental health, substance use, homelessness, chronic health conditions and the criminal justice system.

Please join us at 6pm for Cocktails, with Dinner and the Meeting starting promptly at 6:30pm.

We will have a Club Assembly focused on Club Leadership.