Tuesday, March 22, 2011

TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

While it's great fun to quote one of our favorite Toy Story characters, detecting asteroids is serious business, as we learned from guest speaker Dr. John Tonry of UH IfA. Mahalo John for keeping a telescopic eye out for us.



Ciao! Chao! Chow! April 9, 6pm, Pacific Club.
Purchase your tickets for our biggest fundraiser of the year! Tickets: $75. See Bill Gaeth. Silent auction donations needed. See Jerry Hofwolt.

Support eGlobal Family, April 17
Celebrate the Khmer New Year and support Future Light Orphanage. Food and entertainment will be provided by Hawaii's local Khmer community. Tickets: $50 adults, $30 children. See Rob Hail.

Weinberg Project: April 23
We're building a natural playground! Put on your Honolulu Sunrise T-shirt for our project at Keiki O Ka Aina Preschool. We'll need 25 Rotarians to volunteer from 8am - noon. Sign up with Jan Taketa or Charlie Du Boyce.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

EGYPT: AN INSIDE PERSPECTIVE

Mahalo to guest speaker Past District 5000 Governor Ayman El-Dakhakhni of the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset. Ayman was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He provided insight on Egypt's pivotal role in the Middle East.




Honolulu Sunrise was pleased to welcome prospective members Danielle Sagun and Gideon Naiditch sitting with Joe Rice; Joe Wolf from Rotary Club of Diamond Head; Paul Juresak of Honolulu Sunset; and Girl Scouts Anna Archibald, Grace Schnetzler and Julia Schnetzler with John Ball.







Mahalo to front desk dynamic duo Ed Cassella and Allen Kamemoto.

Coming up March 21
Dr. John Tonry, UH Institute of Astronomy, ATLAS: Detection and warning for small asteroid impacts.