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Julie and three students from S.O.S will provide an update on their activities.

 

 

Railroad Square Summary
Down & Around Railroad Square

Stranger she is not to Railroad Square:  Marta Koehne has been shepherding her business and some of the area homeless residents for 35 years.  Marta guided us through several scenarios, encounters over the years with potential shoplifters. hallucinating shoppers, security supervisors and visits to homeless encampments and eventually interviewing Redwood Gospel Missions' Jeff Gilman and Chris Keyes.  The message Marta gathered from her experience was that homelessness is a about people, one at a time and they frequently decline shelter due to unhealed, broken relationships.  Of the 2,835 people deemed homeless in Sonoma County last year, the number one reason was due to loss of a job, and number two an argument with the roommate.

From the newly operating SMART train, running along previously encamped right of ways, the closure of   US 101 freeway under-crossing, the presence of shelterless people is more visible, and a challenge to most all Railroad Square businesses.  Marta's observations and conversations with locals and some Cubans on her recent visit convince her that we all can help reduce the source of isolation and reluctance to accept shelter support by simply recognizing each other's need for acceptance, belonging and hope that trust in friendship can be restored.  

Marta's business, Hot Couture at Third Street and Wilson Avenue is a well know haunt for new identities.  Just aks Harry Coffey, he has had several makeovers with Marta's extensive inventory.  Stop in and browse, live or online:http://www.hotcouturevintage.com

 

 

Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week 

On a regular basis, our resident photo pros Warren Smith and Jack Strange submit pictures of what is going on at the weekly meetings. You can always find the most recent pictures at the websites photo journal called "Meeting Sighting" Please note that all the meeting photos for the entire Rotary year are at this location with the most recent on the last page.

Thanks for all the great pictures Warren and Ross! Link to Meeting Sightings. The most recent are on the last page!

Additional photos may be found on the SR Sunrise Facebook Page.

 

 

Travelling to Sabalos
Having Fun Enroute
 

Lunch along the way.

 

Changing planes.

 

 

A Horn to Toot
A Brassy New Sax
An Elsie Allen High School Band Musician smiles his obvious approval of the school's new bass sax.    Provided through a Rotary District 5130 Matching Grant, Sunrise Rotary Past President Merle Hayes coordinated the purchase to replace a vintage, but well worn, beyond salvage instrument held together with duct tape.  The new saxophone will help highlight the Marching Band visually and acoustically.
 
 
Asahi Shinbun Digital
News Article (translated) from the Asahi Shinbun Digital by Nozaki Tomoya
From the Meiji Restoration in 1868, this year 150th anniversary. There are things that have been inherited beyond the years that followed the Meiji, Taisho, Showa, Heisei since the end of the Tokugawa period. People who have history, draw the figure of people trying to connect the past and the future.
 
Santa Rosa, California, USA. In October of last year a massive wildfire was hit, 24 people died alone in some Sonoma counties in the city, more than 5 thousand houses were burned down. Christmas is close to the end of last year, I visited the north side of the city that suffered serious damage. Most of the luxurious residential buildings that were scattered were burned and the removal work of the debris was under way. Before the fire, there was a red circular building on the hill. It was well seen from the road with a lot of traffic and was familiar as the landmark of the city. In the local, it became a postcard and a calendar, it was familiar presence. The building was "round barn" which was used as a stable of a winery (brewery of wine). It was one of the "Satsuma student" who went to the UK at the end of the Edo period and built by Daisuke Nagasawa (Kanae) called "King of the Grapes" in the United States.
In 1865, 13-year-old Nagasawa traveled to the UK with 18 young people including Tomonari Gomiyo and in 1996 moved to the United States with six people including Forestry et al. The "group of young Satsuma" who stands in front of JR Kagoshima Central Station in Kagoshima City is the image of this international student.
 
Nagasawa did not return home after the Meiji Restoration, learned wine from Thomas Lake Harris, a master who was a winemaker, and moved to Santa Rosa where a climate of Mediterranean climate was suitable for wine brewing in 1875. In 1900 he was appointed winery management from Harris and raised it to the winery representing California. After dying at the age of 82 in 1934, the wine business was not handed over, but another winery opened in part of the land owned by Nagasawa in 1994.
 
In the exclusive room, we exhibited Nagasawa Yukari's sword, tuxedo and glasses and introduced the achievements. With the existence of Nagasawa as a trigger, grass-roots exchanges continued for a long time, such as students coming and going between Kagoshima and Santa Rosa, and having homestays with each other.
However, the wildfires hit the round barn which was the symbol.
 
According to the local newspaper, forest fires occurred in Calistoga, Santa Rosa North, on the evening of October 8 last year. The fire caught a strong north wind south and brought enormous damage to Santa Rosa. The exhibition room where Nagasawa's belongings were also burned down. Noriko Frazer (maiden Kyoda) who lives in Santa Rosa from Kagoshima city also burned her home. "No wonder everyone thought that fire would come up to Santa Rosa." A cat who was at home also says he does not know where he is going.
 
The residential area spreading on the flat land became an unbearable burned-away field. However, as Christmas decorations were made to pray here and there, this message was also added. "From the ASHES WE WILL RISE (From ashes, we stand up)"
 
Steve Amend, 66, president of the Kagoshima Friendship Association who accepted six students of Kagoshima at their homestay, also burned down the house with the Japanese garden. On the evening of October 8, there was fire information, but because the place was far away Amend et al. Went to bed. However, in the early morning the next day I noticed that the fire was approaching and evacuated. "I left home in five minutes, I took a cell phone and a cat and ran away with each car." As the trees beside the road burned, I ran the car. My wife, Katherine, said, "I felt a fever in the car, I can never forget that feeling for the rest of my life." While smoke came, I ran on the light of a car running in front of me. I lose my house and my husband and I lose attention at my friend 's house. Although Amend is planning to rebuild his house, "I do not even know when it will begin to clean up debris."
One of the students who was shocked by Amend's disaster, Mr. Kodama Hiroshi Saki (22) in the 4th year of Kagoshima International University. He was a member of the student branch of "Santa Rosa Friendship Association" in Kagoshima, and in June 2016 I stayed home with Amend for a week. "I heard that it was a fire in California, but I did not expect it to be Santa Rosa." I learned that the house was burned down in posting by Katherine 's facebook. "Shocked, I did not make a word"
 
"Santa Rosa Friendship Association" and "Kagoshima Friendship Association" have sent dozens of students alternately every year since 1987. There is a student branch "Santa Rosa club" at the same university and has played a central role in student exchange. The club exercises language skills through weekly activities and prepares for exchange once a year. The day of the activity that was after the fire, forest fires came up. "It was not that anyone said that, it was a matter of course that everyone would support them," said Toshizawa Fujisaki, director general of the three years (21). Students started to support Santa Rosa.
(Nozaki Tomoya)
 
In the afflicted area "From the ASHES WE WILL RISE (Ashes rise up from us)" was written
President of the Kagoshima Friendship Association's Amend who explains the situation at the time in front of a burnt round barn = Both are Santa Rosa, California, USA
 
Article 2:
A samurai from Satsuma clan, Nagasawa Ding (Kanae) who went abroad at the end of the Tokugawa period and went to Santa Rosa, California as "King of Grapes". The connection between Kagoshima and Santa Rosa, born through his existence, began to move a lot of people across the border now about 150 years later.
 
Last October, a student from the Santa Rosa Club, a student branch of the Santa Rosa Friendship Association, who has been exchanging Santa Rosa and students since 1987, is a student at Kagoshima City's Kagoshima International University's Professor Karuharu Mori collected. It was time for usual club activities, but the topic was nature and wildfire in California. "Can we do something?" For support, I gathered donations and thousands of cranes and video messages sent to the site.
The club's general manager Toshi Fujisaki (21) had a homestay in Santa Rosa in the summer of last year. The host family was safe, but the places visited such as the friends 'relatives' houses and the winery stables "Round Barn" built by Nagasawa burnt down. "I was shocked, I thought I wanted to be a little power."
 
We started fund-raising activities at "Meiji Restoration Festival Festival 2017" which was a city in Kagoshima City in a few days, and develop activities on a steady approach where people gather at commercial facilities and university school meals. About 2.4 million yen gathered by the end of November, receiving cooperation from companies and others. Those who have experienced experiences of interacting with the locals who actively contributed. Professor Mori said, "I'd like you to build a monument of Roundbarn 's prize, etc, but first of all I will support my life and have my usage decided."
 
In the video I took in member in December, I shoved photos taken with the exchanges of the past several years and sent out to the stakeholders such as host families on facebook etc. SNS. "We are the Kagoshima Santa Rosa Club (you guys) have a very scary experience, but do not forget that you are not alone."
The reason I cried for the video posted on SNS in mid December was Steve Amend's chairman (66) and his wife Katherine of the "Kagoshima Friendship Association" who accepted students from Kagoshima. Katherine, who speaks with a smile saying "Even if you look at it many times, tears come out," he said he saw it four times in two days. "This video will make our hearts stronger". About the same time, Shouna · Lauren Chen, who is in charge of exchange student exchange students, received a thousand paper cranes. "What a beautiful thing, I have not thought about the future yet, but I'd like to have a lot of people look around at the house of the victim." Someday when the exhibition room of Nagasawa is rebuilt, she wants to display a thousand paper cranes. The exchange between Kagoshima and Santa Rosa has been going on for over 30 years. "This relationship made possible thanks to one man named Nagasawa is special." Loren Chen also said, "This is a bond between people who have been long and people, I want to cherish it from now on."
Mr. Fujisaki, who was involved in the support activities, said, "Nagasawa Ding studied abroad at the age of 13 and did a big deal in the US, and now we also taught that if we have a goal we can accomplish something" He said with a smile.
 
The Santa Rosa Friendship Association accepts donations until February. For details of donation to HP (http://www.srksep.org/) of the association. (Nozaki Tomoya).
 
Following is the original article as published in the Ashai Shinbun Digital News
 
1868年の明治維新から、今年で150周年。幕末から明治、大正、昭和、平成と続いてきた歳月を越えて、受け継がれてきたものがある。歴史がつないだ人たち、過去と未来をつなげようとする人たちの姿を描く。
 
 米カリフォルニア州サンタローザ。昨年10月に大規模な山火事に見舞われ、同市のあるソノマ郡内だけでも24人が死亡、5千軒以上の住宅が全焼した。
 クリスマスも近い昨年末、甚大な被害を受けた市の北側を訪れた。点在していた高級住宅はほとんどが焼け、がれきの撤去作業が進められていた。
 火事の前、丘の上には真っ赤な円形の建物があった。交通量の多い道路からよく見え、街のランドマークとして親しまれていた。地元では絵はがきやカレンダーにもなり、身近な存在だった。
 その建物はワイナリー(ワインの醸造所)の馬小屋として使われていた「ラウンドバーン」。幕末に英国留学した「薩摩スチューデント」の一人で、米国で「ブドウ王」と呼ばれた長沢鼎(かなえ)が建てたものだった。
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 1865年、13歳の長沢は五代友厚ら18人の若者らと英国に渡り、67年には森有礼ら6人で米国に移った。鹿児島市のJR鹿児島中央駅前に立つ「若き薩摩の群像」は、この留学生たちの像だ。
 長沢は明治維新後も帰国せず、師とした宗教家のトマス・レイク・ハリスからワインを学び、75年に地中海性気候の風土がワインの醸造に適していたサンタローザに移住。1900年にはハリスからワイナリー経営を任され、カリフォルニア州を代表するワイナリーに育て上げた。
 1934年に82歳で死去した後、ワイン事業は引き継がれなかったが、94年に長沢が所有していた土地の一部で別のワイナリーが開業。専用の部屋で、長沢ゆかりの刀やタキシード、グラスなどを展示して業績を紹介していた。
 長沢の存在をきっかけに、鹿児島とサンタローザの間では学生らが行き交い、互いにホームステイをするなど草の根の交流が長く続いてきた。
 しかし、そのシンボルであったラウンドバーンを山火事が襲った。
 地元紙によると、山火事は昨年10月8日夜、サンタローザ北のカリストガで発生。火勢は強い北風を受けて一気に南下し、サンタローザにも甚大な被害をもたらした。長沢の遺品があった展示室も全焼した。
 鹿児島市出身でサンタローザに住むフレイザー(旧姓京田)典子さんも、自宅が全焼した。「まさかサンタローザまで火が来るとはみんな思ってもいなかった」。家にいた猫も、その後、行方が分からないという。
 平地に広がる住宅街は無残な焼け野原と化した。しかし、あちこちに祈るようにクリスマスの飾り付けがされ、こんなメッセージも添えられていた。
 「From the ASHES WE WILL RISE(灰の中から、私たちは立ち上がる)」
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 これまでに鹿児島の学生6人をホームステイで受け入れた「鹿児島友好協会」のスティーブ・エイメンド会長(66)も、日本庭園のある自宅が全焼した。
 10月8日夜に火事の情報はあったが、場所が遠かったことからエイメンドさんら家族は就寝。しかし、翌日早朝には火が迫っていることに気づいて避難した。「5分で家を出た。携帯と猫を持って、それぞれの車で逃げたんだ」。道路脇の木々が燃えるなか、車を走らせた。妻のキャサリンさんは「車の中で熱を感じた。あの感じは一生忘れられない」。煙が立ちこめるなか、前を走る車のライトを頼りに走った。
 自宅を失い、夫婦は友人宅に身を寄せる。エイメンドさんは家を再建する考えだが、「がれきの片付けすら、いつ始まるのかわからない」。
 エイメンドさんの被災にショックを受けた学生の一人が、鹿児島国際大4年の児玉早(さき)さん(22)。鹿児島にある「サンタローザ友好協会」の学生支部の一員で、2016年6月には1週間、エイメンドさん宅にホームステイした。「カリフォルニアで火事と聞いていたけど、まさかサンタローザだとは思っていなかった」。キャサリンさんのフェイスブックの投稿で家が全焼したと知った。「ショックというか、言葉にならなかった」
 「サンタローザ友好協会」と「鹿児島友好協会」は、1987年から毎年、交互に学生を十数人ずつ送り合ってきた。同大には学生支部「サンタローザクラブ」があり、学生交流の中心的な役割を担ってきた。
 クラブは週1回の活動で語学力を鍛え、年1回の交流に備えている。火事後にあった活動の日、山火事が話題にあがった。「だれが言い出したというわけではなくて、当然のようにみんなで支援をしようという話になりました」と3年の藤崎利紗部長(21)は語る。
 学生たちがサンタローザの支援に動き出した。
 (野崎智也)
 
 【写真説明】
長沢鼎=鹿児島国際大提供
ラウンドバーンを訪れた鹿児島の交換留学生たち=2016年夏、藤崎利紗さん提供
被災地には「From the ASHES WE WILL RISE(灰の中から私たちは立ち上がる)」と書かれていた
焼けたラウンドバーンの前で、当時の状況を説明する鹿児島友好協会のエイメンド会長=いずれも米カリフォルニア州サンタローザ
エイメンド会長に手紙を書いた児玉さん=鹿児島市
 
 
幕末に海外に渡り、米カリフォルニア州サンタローザで「ブドウ王」として名をはせた薩摩藩出身の武士、長沢鼎(かなえ)。彼の存在を通して生まれた鹿児島とサンタローザのつながりが約150年後の今、多くの人たちを国境を越えて動かし始めた。
 
 昨年10月、1987年からサンタローザと学生の交換派遣を続けてきた「サンタローザ友好協会」の学生支部「サンタローザクラブ」の学生が、鹿児島市の鹿児島国際大の森孝晴教授の研究室に集まった。いつも通りのクラブ活動の時間だったが、話題は自然とカリフォルニアでの山火事のことになった。
 「私たちに何かできないか」。支援に向け、集めた募金と千羽鶴、ビデオメッセージを現地に送ることになった。
 クラブの藤崎利紗部長(21)は、一昨年夏にサンタローザでホームステイをした。ホストファミリーは無事だったが、友達の親戚の家や、長沢が建てたワイナリーの馬小屋「ラウンドバーン」など訪れた場所が焼けた。「ショックだった。少しでも力になりたいと思った」
 数日後に鹿児島市であった「明治維新体感フェス! 2017」で募金活動をスタートし、商業施設や大学の学食など人が集まる所で地道に活動を展開。企業などからの協力も受け、11月末までに約240万円が集まった。積極的に寄付をしてくれたのは、現地と交流した経験がある人たち。森教授は「いずれはラウンドバーンの顕彰碑などを建ててほしいと思うが、まずは生活支援。使い道は向こうに決めてもらう」。
 12月にメンバーで撮ったビデオには、これまで数年間の交流で撮影してきた写真をちりばめ、フェイスブックなどのSNSでホストファミリーら関係者に発信した。
 「私たちは鹿児島サンタローザクラブです。(皆さんは)とても怖い経験をしたと思う。けど、あなたたちは一人じゃないということを忘れないで」
 12月中旬にSNSに投稿された動画に涙したのは、鹿児島の学生らを受け入れてきた「鹿児島友好協会」のスティーブ・エイメンド会長(66)と妻キャサリンさん。「何度見ても涙が出てくる」と笑顔で話すキャサリンさんは、2日で4回繰り返し見たという。「この動画は私たちの心を強くしてくれるわ」と力こぶを作ってみせた。
 同じ頃、学生の交換留学を担当するシャウナ・ローレンチェンさんの元には、千羽鶴が届いた。「なんて美しいのだろう。今後のことはまだ考えられていないけど、被災者の家にまわして、たくさんの人に見てもらいたいわ」。いつか長沢の展示室が再建されたとき、千羽鶴も展示したいという。
 鹿児島とサンタローザの交流は、30年以上続いていてきた。
 エイメンドさんは「長沢という一人の男のおかげでできたこの関係は、特別だ」。ローレンチェンさんも「これは、長く続いてきた人と人との絆です。これからも大事にしたい」と話す。
 支援活動に携わった藤崎さんは「長沢鼎は13歳で留学して、アメリカで大きなことをやった。今の私たちも、ちゃんと目標を持てば、なにかを成し遂げられると教えてくれたと思う」と笑顔で語った。
 サンタローザ友好協会は、2月まで募金を受け付けている。募金の詳細は同協会のHP(http://www.srksep.org/)へ。(野崎智也)
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