Comments from Regional Director Rick Lau
May 1, 2010
74th
Hawaii Region Convention – May 15 – 16, 2010
Venue: The Pacific Beach Hotel
Chairman Duke
Chung held a Convention Committee meeting on Saturday March
27 at the Kalihi YMCA. There are several deadlines to be
met. Duke will soon be sending out reminder notices to all
club presidents. All are reminded to encourage your members
to send in their registration form to Convention registrar
Bob Kuwahara as we are only a few weeks away. Next
committee mtg: 10 AM Sat. May 1. Venue: Kalihi
YMCA
BF Delegate – You all
received RSD Travel Ray Seto’s email regarding BF delegate
coming from Uganda. Mr. Stephen Kasoro has applied for
travel and his application is pending at the US Embassy. We
need all clubs in the region to assist with his home stays
while he is in the state. His tentative itinerary is for
the month of May 2010 and he plans to attend our Hawaii
Regional Convention. As of this writing it is 95% sure that
he will be coming.
Roll Back Malaria – IHQ has sent a
ballot out to all the ICMs to vote on continuing the RBM
project for another 5 years. As soon as the ballots are
counted, I will inform you all whether or not if the
campaign will continue.
69th International Y’s Men Convention – Yokohama, Japan
(August 5 -8, 2010)
. I have
appointed Travel RSD Ray Seto to chair this committee and
here’s the itinerary:
Tues. Aug. 3 - depart Honolulu
Wed. Aug. 4 - Arrive Tokyo. Transfer to Yokohama Sheraton
Hotel via train.
Aug. 5 – 8 - 68th International Y’s Men Convention
Sun. Aug 8 - leave for Tokyo via train. Transfer to Hotel
Pacific
Aug. 9 – 11 - Free time in Tokyo.
Wed. Aug. 11- Depart Tokyo for flight to Honolulu through
Narita Int’l Airport
Cost is …. $ 1.183 per person based on double occupancy.
Includes 8 nights,
R/T airport transfer; Yokohama –Tokyo train fare with
English
speaking guide and daily buffet breakfast.
Airfare has just been finalized. Cost with fuel surcharges
is $ 898.40. . If interested in the above itinerary, please
contact RSD Ray Setofor details on signing up. Set up your
travel savings account now. Encourage your members to visit
the website: http://ic2010yokohama.web.fc2.com/
for more
info. Registration forms were passed out to all club
presidents at the Mid Year Cabinet meeting. You can also
download the registration form at the above website.
Early bird deadline has been extended to May 15, 2010.
Sign up to join and meet your Brother Club
members.
International President Elect – all ballots
have been counted and IHQ announced that Past Area
President of Europe, Mr. Finn A. Pederson (Norway) has been
elected IPE (2010 -11) of Y’s Men International. Thanks to
all club presidents who submitted their ballots. Hopefully
IPAP Fred Leonard will consider running again next year as
the US is not well represented with seats on the
International Council. Here’s the final tally I received
from IHQ. Ballots were sent to ALL 9 Hawaii Region Club
presidents in September 2009. IHQ records only 2 presidents
in Hawaii sent in their ballots.
New Secretary General of Y Service Club International
- Congratulations
to Takao Nishimura of Japan who has been elected to replace
Rolando Dalmas as the new Secretary General. He will take
office in the fall.
PAU = means fini. Dis da last RD Blog you going get from me
– Aloha !
I pass the torch onto Regional Director Russ Lynch.
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MEMO - Please send in your Hawaii Convention registration
form to Bob Kuwahara.
If you plan on staying at the Pac Beach Hotel, call the
hotel to make your
reservations. (We are only 2 weeks away!)
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help
another up.