Events

We will be working with Waimanalo Elementary at 8:00 am. Please join us, no prior Opthalmology experience required!

Join us in helping with Adventist Health Castle’s 35th Annual Community Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony! We will be helping direct parking and aid those entering and exiting the transport buses.

Bring your lawn chair and come early to listen to Christmas music and enjoy a picnic on the lawn.

Event highlights
• Pre-ceremony Christmas concert at 6:15 p.m. by the
Marine Forces Pacific Band.
• Formal ceremony at 7 p.m. Includes special music,
the lighting of the tree and the arrival of Santa.
• Holiday lights and decorations on our campus and
trolley rides into Kailua to see the Christmas lights.
• Photo opportunities with Santa and Mrs. Claus.
• Activities for children
• Free popcorn, Christmas cookies and beverages (while
they last).

Parking and shuttle advisory
• Event parking will only be available at the Kailua Long’s parking structure.
• Trolleys will run between the hospital and the Kailua Town Center (front of the old Macy’s) beginning at 5 p.m.
• No parking will be available on Manu Aloha Street (adjacent to Castle’s Emergency Room).

Please join us for a morning of holiday merrymaking! Help Windward Sunrise Rotarians, the staff, and clients of the Windward Community Mental Health Center decorate a Christmas tree and all the trimmings! Our club has worked hard to donate these festive items to make the clinic just a little bit brighter for clients and their families -- and yes, this is the clinic we helped renovate last May! Hot chocolate, coffee, and light breakfast items will be served.

Margaret is a licensed social worker and the Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawai‘i (BBBS) Program Coordinator. BBBS supports keiki ages 6-16 years old who have faced adversity in their young lives and experienced the loss of a valuable connection. 

The youth-centered programs at BBBS helps keiki create goals that mentors can help them achieve. Each keiki and mentor is connected with a staffmember who provides ongoing coaching for the youth, training for the volunteer, and resources for the ohana. They partner with the parent/guardian, child, and mentor to ensure that the social and emotional needs of youth are being met and that every keiki has an opportunity to reach their full potential. See how you can get involved! 

Dates: Dec 21 and Dec 22

Help your Rotary Club raise funds for all of the Hawaii Salvation Army's phenomenal work in our community! 2-hour shifts are available to ring at a kettle outside Safeway off Hamakua in Kailua. Please reach out to Brenna Dicks to snag a shift and spread the holiday cheer to our Windward community!

Dates: Dec 21 and Dec 22

Help your Rotary Club raise funds for all of the Hawaii Salvation Army's phenomenal work in our community! 2-hour shifts are available to ring at a kettle outside Safeway off Hamakua in Kailua. Please reach out to Brenna Dicks to snag a shift and spread the holiday cheer to our Windward community!

Get a start on Santa's "Nice List" for 2020! Please join us to help clean Kalama Beach Park and the shoreline after the influx of holiday travelers. This cleanup is sponsored by Ally Bank and Hensel Phelps: Ally is giving our club a financial grant for our projects, and Hensel Phelps will provide the safety equipment necessary for our successful cleanup! Save a turtle and come on out! All ages welcome!

Please consider carpooling,as parking at the location will be limited.

Join us to kick off 2020 with positive fellowship, Starbucks coffee, brunch snacks, and your heart for service! We will be discussing upcoming projects and planning for our very special Rotary International Convention host year, as well as taking suggestions and ideas from our members and community guests about goals for the year. 

Ms. Sharen L. Truex Nakashima, Partnership Specialist for Honolulu with the U.S.Census Bureau, will share the history and current information and issues surrounding this Constitutionally-mandated event.

See you the following Tuesday on 1/28!

Patrick Pihana Branco is a fourth generation Kailua resident and proud graduate of the Kamehameha Schools class of 2005.  Branco is a lifelong public servant and international affairs professional, who has spent his career overseas working to advance U.S. foreign policy. 

Branco received a full-tuition Presidential Scholarship from Hawaiʻi Pacific University (HPU), where he served as Student Body President.  In Washington D.C., Patrick was the first from Hawaiʻi to receive a Congressman Rangel International Affairs Fellowship, which fully funded his Master's at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in International Economics and Korea Studies. 

Patrick was commissioned as a United States Diplomat by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012. In the U.S. Department of State, Patrick served tours in Colombia as the Deputy Press Attaché, Pakistan as a Vice Consul, the Special Assistant to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, a Watch Officer in the Secretary of State’s Operations Center, and as the Cultural Attaché for U.S. Embassy Caracas.  He speaks Spanish, and is conversational in Korean and Hawaiian.

Join us for a special meeting to learn all about what's in store for Rotarians, their friends, and family during Honolulu 2020, June 6-10. Learn how you can get involved, what to expect, and how to sign up. It's going to be a blast!

Light breakfast will be served.

Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii promotes a safe and drug-free Hawaii where people from diverse cultures live and thrive in harmony. Their mission is to reduce and prevent drug abuse in Hawaii through awareness, education, and action. Come see how they are making change and impact while learning what you can do about the serious substance abuse issues facing our community.

Megan K. Kau is a trial attorney. Her practice areas include civil litigation, personal injury cases, and select felony criminal matters, mainly white-collar crime cases, homicides, and sexual assaults. She has completed approximately 45 jury trials.

Megan is a 2003 graduate of Santa Clara Law School. After completing law school she was certified by the State of Hawai`i as a CPA. After working as a tax accountant at KPMG in Honolulu, Megan tried many cases as a career criminal Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu. She then worked for two midsize civil litigation firms.

Come hear Megan talk about the State of Hawai`i Prosecutor's Office and learn more about our legal system.

Reducing family homelessness can only be achieved through a coordinated and collaborative approach that provides at-risk families the help they need, when they need it the most. Homelessness has a significant impact on the health and well being of our keiki, including the parents’ ability to find jobs and retain steady employment. 

Kahauiki Village is a groundbreaking initiative that maximizes public and private resources to implement a long-term strategy for reducing homelessness in our communities. Please join us to hear Allen speak about this amazing initiative happening now in Honolulu!

Ashley Wiberg, LCSW, CSAC, has been a leader and team-builder in the world of healthcare in Hawaii. She brings her unique experience and expertise as co-founder and clinical director of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center of Hawaii.

Ms. Wiberg spent five years at the Bobby Benson Center, a residential treatment program on Oahu’s North Shore, where she eventually served as clinical director. During this time, Ms. Wiberg gained expertise working with individuals with a variety of severe problems, including depression, anxiety, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as other behavioral and emotional problems. In addition to treating adults, Ms. Wiberg has broad experience working with adolescents.

Oahu friends created “KupunaKokua.org” to help vulnerable seniors by making it easy for everyone to stay at home.

Kupuna Kokua is more than just a delivery service for groceries and meals. They strive to be an additional resource for the community, an extra helping hand. 

Kupuna Kokua is currently working on an array of potential and ongoing programs such as our Kupuna Support Service, where they provide periodic check-ins over the phone to lend an ear for someone to talk to as well as discover what needs we may be able to fulfill. 

Come hear how their swift response to COVID-19 has positively affected our local Oahu community and has helped keep our seniors safe. 

Want to do a hands-on project for Windward neighbors in need? Windward Sunrise Rotarians need your help with the second phase of the Windward Community Mental Health Center renovation! Our club did an amazing renovation last year and we're back to do more good. This project will include the following:

- Painting a room
- Creating bulletin boards for client art
- Creating "clotheslines" to hang client art
- Hanging bulletin boards and a whiteboard
- Light cleaning

Donations of your time and materials are accepted and appreciated! Come do good with Rotary, create memories, and meet new friends who love helping the community as much as you do! 

Please join us at our weekly Zoom meeting to hear our special guest speaker, First Vice President of Toastmasters International lecture on the topic of "Leading Through Difficult Times"! E-mail windwardsunriserotary@gmail.com for Zoom meeting info.

Margaret Page, DTM, of Delta, British Columbia, Canada, is an entrepreneur and investor. She is the founder and co-founder of several companies, including Westminster Property Management Ltd., Precision Contractors Ltd., Quality Tire and Treading Ltd., Etiquette Page Enterprises, and Beyond the Page Coaching and Training Ltd.

As a champion for women in politics, Page has been active over the last decade in supporting, developing, and delivering campaign schools for women in British Columbia and beyond to provide them with the tools to serve at three levels of government – municipal, provincial, and federal.

Page says, “Toastmasters transforms people's lives as we hold each other to a higher standard and lift each other up. It has absolutely opened up doors of opportunity that I wouldn't have even imagined for myself.” As an officer of the Toastmasters International Board of Directors, Page is a “working ambassador” for the organization. She works with the Board to develop, support, and modify the policies and procedures that guide Toastmasters International in fulfilling its mission.

Please join us for a special family event including storytelling, magic tricks, & a sing along with “Rotarian Ricki!” Watch Rotarian Ricki share about the event at this link. E-mail windwardsunriserotary@gmail.com for the Zoom login info!

Gerald S. (Jerry) Clay is a 40-year construction industry legal veteran and proud Rotarian. A founding partner of his law firm, his professional focus in on the continuing needs of developers, design professional, contractors, subcontractors, engineers, material suppliers and sureties – both large and small.

Co-author of the popular “Before You Sue” introduction to mediation, he has also published many learned articles and books on construction law and alternative dispute resolution. Today, he is recognized pioneer in ADR application to construction and business.

A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Law, Mr. Clay received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburg. He is an adjunct professor at Hawaii Pacific University’s MBA program and has served as adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii Law School, teaching construction law.

Mr. Clay is a popular and frequent lecturer on the topics of mediation and construction law and is active in Rotary International Service Projects across the globe.

The vision of the Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative ("HLRI") is to develop and implement innovative forest restoration models that will not only return the endemic forests to the landscape of Hawai‘i, but will allow these forests to be financially self-supporting both now and into the future. Please join us to hear about how our Rotary Club is partnering with HLRI to help restore Hawai‘i's precious forests and protect our wildlife's homes.