President's Message for October

October is Economic & Community Development Month 

What does this mean to a small Rotary Club on the Island of Ha- waii? It means that we, along with millions of Rotarians through- out the world get to celebrate all that we have done to promote Economic and community development through the world and here at home. 

The dollars that we donate to the Rotary Foundation on over a
three year cycle come back to us in the form of local and global grants that our club can use to support community and global projects.
This year your club executives together with the Chairman of International Service, Kent Nakamaru, has pledged our support to two international projects, a library and learning 

Center in Taiwan and a dialysis medical device project in Thailand. Elsewhere in this newsletter you will find more detail on these projects. In addition our club gave $1000.00 to the Polio Plus campaign to further Rotary's efforts to eradicate polio in the world. 

Here at home we are using our District Grant Funds to assist the Kona Literacy Center in their struggle to get established and to be able to o er learning tools to the literacy challenged adult population here in Kona. 

And, never ever loose sight of the endless work we do in our community, from Keiki Vision ( please sign up to help), seniors projects, providing food for the homeless, honoring our veterans, providing for needy keiki, to name but a few. 

This is what being a Rotarian is all about and why I am so proud to be a Rotarian.