Keiki To Career Kauai – An exciting new education initiative

Date:  Saturday, April 20th
Time:  9:30am
Place:  Kawaikini Charter School on the KCC Campus behind the reservoir
Guest Speaker:  Diane Zachary, President & CEO o Kaua’i Planning & Action Alliance (KPAA).

“Our April 20th meeting provided our membership an opportunity to hear Diane Zachary speak about the “Keiki to Career Kauai -Ready to Learn, Ready for Life” program. It is a community collaboration of more than 40 individuals and 25 organizations, businesses, and agencies on Kauai working together to ensure our young people are: Kindergarten ready, academically ready, postsecondary ready, career ready, and citizenship ready for life.  This coalition called the kauai Planning and Action Alliance, Inc. will soon launch a program that can assess and monitor its success.

Many of our members who are former teachers volunteered to be a part of the process. After the presentation, most of us went to Gaylord’s for lunch. Here are a few photos…

Pic 1&2 Diane Zachary presenting…

Pic 3&4 The classroom

Pic 5 Q&A time

Pic 6&7 At Gaylord’s

The Women’s History Month Update

On Friday, March 8, 2013, eight members of the branch presented monologues of famous women at the Kilauea Elementary School for the Women’s History Month, which is March.

The following monologues were presented:

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman physician in the U.S.

Beatrix Potter, author of Peter Rabbit and others

Sally Ride, astronaut, first American woman in space

Yoshiko Uchida, writer

Amelia Earhart, aviator

Georgia O’Keeffe, artist

Julia Morgan, architect

Alice Paul, Women’s Suffrage leader

The group had a late lunch at the Kilauea Bakery.

The free will donations collected at the showing of the Invisible War to members and friends were sent to the Legal Advocacy Fund of The AAUW Funds.

On Friday, March 1, 2013, our member Nancy Golden was honored at a reception at the Nana’s House, Waimea, a family service center. Nancy is the founder of Nana’s House. She is retiring after over 20 years of servicing Nana’s House. A Nancy Golden Fund was created in her honor.

On March 14, a box full of toiletries were sent to the Women’s shelter, Lihue, thanks to Dr. B.

Here are the pictures that were taken on March 8, 2013:

Leilani Spencer as Julia Morgan, architect

Liz as Amelia Earhart, aviator

Lenda as Sally Ride, astronaut, first American woman in space

Anna as Beatrix Potter, author of Peter Rabbit

Isabel as Georgia O’Keeffe, artist

Kay as Yushiko Uchida, writer

Elyse as Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman physician in the US

Group picture of monologuers at Kilauea Elementary School

March, the women’s history month, Monologues at Kilauea Elementary School

For this March, the women’s history month, our branch did monologues of famous women at Kilauea Elementary School.

Front row: Liz, Elyse, Anna
Back row: Leilani, Isabel, Lenda, Jane, and Kay
Taken on March 8, 2013

And here is Ms. Jane. 

Above is our new member Elyse, and below is Leilani.

2013 Regional Science Olympiad

On Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, AAUW Kauai members helped at the Regional Science Olympiad at the Kauai Community College. Middle School and High School students competed in various activities, such as: egg drop, mousetrap vehicle, Write It, Do It and many more. The Waimea Canyon Middle School and the Island School Middle School both won medals and trophies. Island School High School also received awards. AAUW was honored with a beautiful glass trophy.

AAUW Works Together with Habitat

On Sat. Jan. 12, 2013, AAUW Kauai members helped Habitat at their work site in Anahola where 3 houses are being built on Hawaiian Homelands. We helped at 2 of the houses painting panels for a garage, putting up sides of houses, drilling holes for nailing, removing rust from a container donated by Matson, etc. Another group of volunteers came from the Global Village. Members of this group came from many different states as well as from Vietnam. Volunteers from Americorps were the team leaders. A family who will live in one of the houses provided a lunch for all of the volunteers.

2012 in review

WordPress.com prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 1,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 3 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

Alzheimers Walk, Voter Registration and Celebration of the Royal Sovereigns

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October 6,2012

AAUW Kauai member participated in the Alzheimer’s Walk at Kukui Grove. AAUW Kauai contributed $100. to the Alzheimer’s association. We received a T-shirt with their logo. This shirt was given to new member, Jean Souza who walked with us that morning. Janis Benn’s daughter received a big plastic flower. She put names of people to be remembered on the pedals.

October 8, 2012

This was the last day for voters to register, AAUW Kauai had a table at the Kauai Community College Resource Center library lobby. Over 50 voter registrations were completed by students. Now they can vote at the November elections. The completed forms were taken to the Election Board Building before they closed at 4:30pm. Anna and Tom Smithwick took care of the morning shift. Cherie Mooy and Jane Asher did the afternoon shift. Thanks to Cherie Mooy for making all the arrangements at the collie.

October 14, 2012

A celebration of the Royal sovereigns, King Kamehameha the Fourth and Queen Emma was held at All Saints Episcopal Church in Kapaa. Member Leilani Spencer’s two daughters, Anna and Julie read the lessons in Hawaiian. They are both fluent in the Hawaiian language. Member Lix Crites composed the prayers of the people and read it in English to the congregation. Anna and Julie presented the silver challis and paten at the altar. They were gifts Queen Emma gave to All Saints Church. They were used for the first time on Christmas day 1925.

The 2012 Queen Emma Festival took place in Kokee State Park. Hiipoi Kanahele, came in her queenly regalia and read portions of Queen Emma’s diary. The doxology and the Queen’s prayer were sung in Hawaiian. many hulas, Hawaiian chants, blowing of the conch shell, were included in the morning’s service.

A slideshow of these events can be viewed at the top of this post.