Wakinikona Hawaiian Club
Seattle, Washington
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Wakinikona Hawaiian Club Seattle, Washington
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Wakinikona Hawaiian Club News
Next Club Meeting Wakinikona October Meeting For Members and Guests of the WHC WHEN: Saturday, October 18, 2008 TIME: 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM WHERE: Valley Ridge Park Community Center SeaTac, WA
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The treasurer reminds all members that it’s time to renew your membership by paying your annual dues. It’s $36 a year. If you are a senior member, age 65 and over, the dues drops to $12 annually. Please send your payment, payable to: Wakinikona Hawaiian Club 8701 Madrona Lane, Edmonds, WA 98026
Mark your calendar for this Saturday, April 19th for our annual WHC birthday party. Please bring pupu and potluck dishes you want to share at the party. Bring your instruments for the kanikapila. …..Members will need to pay their annual dues starting Jan 2008. Members who pay on or before Jan 31st, will take advantage of the reduced rate of $30. Those paying after that date will need to pay $36 for the year. See the Treasurer at the Christmas party to pay early. ....Members may rent our club sound system at $35 per day. Contact Stan Dahlin to reserve it.
WHC Members Making a Difference The two purposes of our club are to perpetuate Hawaiian culture and to provide fellowship. While we do that through our Hawaiian festival, our hui wa’a, the summer picnic, the annual Christmas party and the monthly potlucks, some members are contributing in additional ways in perpetuating our culture. Several of our members have and are using music as part of their contribution to preserving our culture. Maile and Ben Baker, Larry Awana, Tiko Kaeo, Iwalani Stone, and Danny Kaopuiki come to mind. However, Dan has added writing to his contributions and has been a feature writer in the Northwest Hawaiian Times newspaper for over six months now. He is such a fixture, that each month readers quickly turn to his Kamaina Lifestyle column to see what he has to say. Another group from WHC is making a difference in developing emerging leaders to help their Pacific American communities. Heather Minton, leads a leadership institute ( NA PALI) with the Pacific American Foundation (PAF). She drafted Larry Kamahele to serve as her deputy director. In one of her programs, the Pacific American Emerging Leaders’ course, she drafted fellow WHC members Reidar Smith and Stan Dahlin to work as facilitators. This team has also been busy soliciting and encouraging eligible Pacific Americans to be part of the annual class. Two of the three NW participants in the most recent class were from WHC—Maile and Ken Taualii. See page 4 for photos relating to the training course they went through in mid October on Molokai and O’ahu,.with 15 fellows of Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Chamorran, and Maori backgrounds. Recipes Needed If you want to contribute to this feature in our newsletter, please send your recipe to Stan Dahlin.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
With the longer daylight savings time period, we’ve found that we can’t paddle during the week anymore. It just isn’t safe to be paddling despite having our own running lights—other boaters aren’t as observant and tend to run into smaller craft, to include our wa’a. Thus, we are paddling only on Saturday mornings at 9:00 AM, rain or shine. Only rarely will I cancel the recreational paddling session—normally whenever we expect high winds, or predicted near to or freezing temperatures. With just one opportunity to paddle during the week, I strongly encourage you to come to get in your paddling workout. This is also a great time to bring friends to introduce them to the sport, and expose them to the Hawaiian culture. We usually don’t go very far and we encourage mixing of crews, between our hui and SOCC, so everyone can get onto the water and paddle. To remain fit, especially in controlling our weight, na hoe wa’a (paddlers) should be adjusting their routines for the winter months. Now that racing is over, and the three-day paddling week is gone, our burn rate of calories drops drastically, so we must lower our intake of carbohydrates—simply we need to eat less than we did during the season. This is also the time to work on strength and muscle conditioning. If you have a workout routine, continue it for 2 or 3 days a week. If you don’t have a routine, start one, and make it so you can sustain it for the next 5 months. Ensure you have a mix of muscle strengthening and anaerobic exercises, and do it for no less than 45 minutes per workout. Ideally, your workout session should go twice that, one and a half hours of stretching, weight lifting, walking/running/stepping/cycling/swimming. As we have done in the past, our hui wa’a will gather for an end-of-season pa’ina (party). This year it will be on Saturday, November 22nd, at Priscilla & Stan’s home, for a potluck, starting around 6:00 PM. Mark your calendar
Our club’s new sound system is available for club members to rent at $35/day. It’s a very compact and easily transportable system with a few accessories to provide a good starter sound system to support the typical family and club functions our club members usually get involved. Club members are reminded they must be with the system throughout the rental. Contact Stan Dahlin to reserve it. Online with Wakinikona Rob Dahlin,Club Secretary, reminds the membership of the club website at www.wakinikona.com. Our new electronic newsletter is available to all interested members and helps reduce the costs of printing and postage. You receive this version online with color photos, informative articles, and links to websites for more information while you are online. If you are interested in becoming an e-newsletter recipient, please contact Rob and he’ll expedite your order in time for the next newsletter. Please include your e-mail address in the body of the e-mail so that it is easy to read. Additionally, we need your suggestions to improve the look and feel of our website. Send comments or suggestions to Rob at the address above. |
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