Last Tuesday I volunteered with the Rotary Club of Kona Sunrise for their monthly Meet and Eat program. We arrive at 4:30 p.m. at Kona’s Intermediate (Junior High) school. We bag up groceries, mainly donated by Costco and local produce farms, and these are handed out, along with containers of hot meals, to families as they drive by. This Tuesday, the cost of the hot meals was funded by the larger Rotary Club of Kona, and the meals were prepared and packaged by a large resort hotel. The cars start rolling by at about 6:00 p.m. There are many needy families, and anywhere from 100 to 200 cars come each Tuesday. The Rotary Club of Kona Sunrise volunteers on the first Tuesday of each month (and have been doing this for 3 years now), and other organizations volunteer on the other Tuesdays. We had about 10 volunteers, including spouses of Rotarians, help out this week.
In the photo are my two Rotary buddies Dennis Rast (a retired principal from San Diego, and also a past president of their club) and Mike Fraser on the right, who is currently club president. Mike and his wife Bev (also in the club) are Canadians who came to Kona many years ago from Invermere, B.C.