Aloha Rotarians;
Get ready for a busy, fun and productive month. And PLEASE get a bag of rice to Dexter for IHS. 15 lbs. or more.
Feb. 3 - Mililani HS Beautification. 8:30 - 12 noon. Bring your family.
Feb. 5 RCMS BOD Meeting @ Derrick's place
Feb. 10 - Mililani Library Book Sale. Set-up 7 - 9 am and Clean-up 2:30 - 4. Remember, all books are FREE to you for helping
Feb.. 16- 18 MHS Carnival. Sign up with June. Please make and bring BAKED GOODS to sell. We are serving Portuguese Bean Soup & Corn Chowder for $4 a bowl with Oyster Crackers.
Feb. 24 - Scholarships Interviews 8 - 3:30 (or earlier) at Ku'ulako Town Homes Conference. (Linda C condo complex - directions will be forthcoming).
NEXT WEEK's GUEST SPEAKER: Eric Golub is a comedian who does national circuits. "Using Humor for Better Advocacy and Unity". Great time to bring some guests.
This weeks guest speaker was SENATOR GLENN WAKAI who also is part of a firm called REACH OUT PACIFIC which sends medical supplies to Micronesia. in the Senate he is Chair of the Economic Development & Tourism Committee. He shared his very moving story of finding his birth mother and opening up Japan to better and more widely used Foster Care for children.
CHASING STRATEGIC ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR HAWAII:
More money needs to be allocated to this area. We must move from #50 in State Business Climate , higher. WE are #1 in "Best places to live". The goal is 80/80. To have 800,000 Teach jobs paying over $80,000 by 2030.
How ???? Investing in and growing the 4 "A"s.
A - Affordable and renewable energy. We can become a world leader with our solar, wind, geothermal, wave and our 360 days of sunshine.
A - Aerospace & Drones. develop a NASA SPACE CAMP on the BI and use of proximity to the equator to our advantage.
A - Aquaculture - we import too much and could make over $40 million in raising our own food and WE be the exporter, especially seafood.
A - Aloha Stadium. Better utilize those 104 acres, using Public/Private Partnership, to make it a place where locals and tourists can eat, shop. be entertained every day of the week. (EX: Staples Center in LA).
Respectfully,
Linda C.