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November, 2015
EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President – Toby Kravet – 808-224-1065
Vice President – Jonathan Carr
Treasurer - Geoff Chu
Secretary - Paul Ferguson
Rene "Fergie" Ferguson
Roy Manzoku
Bill Hodges
Alan Teramura
Scott
Parmley
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Club Historian
Jo Yee
Newsletter Editor
Toby Kravet
(Click on Contacts for e mail addresses)
CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
Additional events, such as concerts, hikes, excursions, may be added. Watch your email for possible updates.
Every Monday evening (except on holidays): 4:30 P.M. A group of ski
club members and their friends play
tennis at Keehi Lagoon courts, off Lagoon
Drive. Stay in shape and share refreshments afterwards!
October 30 (Friday) 2:00 PM: Pau Hana at Tropix Bar and Grill, Pearlridge Center.
November 5 (Thursday) 5:30 PM: General Membership Meeting at Schooner's.
November 19 (Thursday) 5:30 PM: Board Meeting at Henry Loui's.
November 26 (Thanksgiving Thursday) Time: TBA, probably around 10: 30 A.M. Help the Salvation Army serve a traditional Thanksgiving dinner to the needy at Blaisdell Center. There is also a potluck for all Club members, not just those who are volunteering. Since this is at lunctime, you will have plenty of time to get to your personal destinations for the holiday. More details to follow.
December 3 (Thursday) 5:30 PM: General Membership Meeting at Schooners.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE:
The Kickoff Meeting at Rainbow Bay Marina, Pearl Harbor, came off without a hitch last month even though we had to move it from the larger area at the Bowfin Submarine Museum just a few weeks before the event, had concerns about whether the group would fit into the area provided at Rainbow Bay, and had been "blessed" with rain, off and on, for several days right up until the hour we began. Thank you Mother Nature, thank you Paul (Ferguson) for securing the venue and bringing the grill, thank you Geoff (Chu) for bringing the food, paper goods, and, as always, barbecue your skills, and thank you to everyone who came. You all seemed to be having a good time (and so did I when I wasn't getting flustered with distributing the raffle tickets).
Welcome aboard to all new members who joined at the meeting or didn't come but sent in their memberships via U.S. Mail. Please excuse us if you didn't get an immediate confirmation or waited a few weeks to see the cancelled check show up in your bank statement. Many years ago, when one of our officers worked right around the corner and another lived "right up the hill" from the Aiea Post Office, we checked the box more frequently. While it's a little less convenient now, it makes more sense for the Club to have a permanent address than to keep changing it with each change in officers. Also, we don't go to the bank until we have a "critical mass" of transactions so please bear with us. Also, you can always contact Geoff to check on membership or payment status or any other Board Member by clicking on "Contacts" above (if you are reading this online) or by going to the contact page on our website. You can also call me at (808) 224-1065.
If you are reading this on our website but haven't been getting the Newsletter or periodic announcements via email or if you know of someone else in this situation, please let me know. There are oversights from time to time and email glitches which we can't correct unless we know about them.
Finally, it's broken record time: If you are an old member who intends to renew but has been procrastinating (life can get in the way), please do so ASAP. Following the December issue of the Newsletter, which will go out during the last week of November, we will be eliminating, from the email list, all members for the 2014-2015 year who have not renewed by that time.
A hui hou,
TOBY
UPCOMING SKI CLUB ACTIVITIES:
PAU HANA AT TR0PIX BAR AND GRILL
PEARLRIDGE CENTER
October 30
(Friday) 2:00 P.M.
BLUE TROPIX BAR AND GRILL IS THE REVISED VENUE FOR THE
OCTOBER SKI CLUB PAU HANA! It's conveniently located in Pearl Ridge where
Denny's used to be, across the street from Chili's and American Savings Bank.
If you are turning in from Kamehameha Highway, it is on the right hand side just
before the pedestrian overpass. If you are coming from Honolulu side,
however, you might encounter less traffic by coming into Aiea on Moanalua Rd.
and taking a left down Pali Momi. There's lots of parking, including the
roof-top and Sears. LIVE MUSIC, a pool table, a dart room, about 20 TVs and
$3.00 draft beer all day! Happy hour specials as well. It opens at 2pm and a few
of us will be there to hold some seating near the pool table. So come on down
and get an early start for the Halloween weekend. Oh yes, the food here is ono,
too! The address is 98-151 Pali Momi, Aiea, HI 96701. Check out Blue Tropix on
Yahoo.
BILL AND TOBY
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
SCHOONER'S RESTAURANT
57 ARIZONA MEMORIAL PLACE
PEARL HARBOR
November 5 (Thursday) 5:30 PM
Come to Schooners for our November General Membership
Meeting where, in a most pleasant addition to our normal diet of food, drinks,
schmoozing, and announcements, Board Member Alan Teramura with, perhaps, some
assistance from another member, will be providing some pointers on the
care and tuning of skis. Though there are no Sunset Specials for
dinner, there are specials on pupus until 6 PM, and some of us can make a meal of
pupus. We usually start arriving at 5:00 PM to get a head start on the
food. For those of you who haven't yet been to
Schooners, it's right near the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Turn off Kamehameha Highway towards the water as if you were going to
visit the Arizona Memorial, take a right on the inner road (Arizona Memorial
Place) and drive .25 mile. After you go under the Ford Island overpass, you will
see the restaurant on your left (ocean side) with plenty of free parking. See
you there.
TOBY
TRADITIONAL THANKSGIVING VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY
SERVING AN EARLY THANKSGIVING DINNER TO THE NEEDY
November 26 (Thursday)
The ski club will again participate in serving lunch at the Blaisdell Center on Thanksgiving Day, November 26. Please let me know, roy@hawaiisnowskiclub.com , if you will join in this event, and give me your shirt size and preference for job assignment. The assignments choices are: Waitperson: Serve meals to diners, Food Runner: Bring food from kitchen to serving line (heavy containers), and Pie Runner: Bring pies to serving line. Volunteers will have own potluck "brunch" in an area adjacent to the parking structure, and all Ski Club Members, not just those volunteering, are invited to join the potluck. The shift begins at 11: 30 A.M., but volunteers need to be there by 11:15 A.M. for a briefing. The time for potluck will be announced by email.
ROY
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY
The Esplanade, 500 Lunalilo Home Road
December 19 (Saturday) time 6:00 P.M.
Early scheduling pays off: Sylvia "Sam" Wright has managed to reserve the recreation room/terrace at the Esplanade for our traditional Ski Club Christmas Party on the same date as the annual Boat Parade. If you haven't seen a boat parade before, you're in for a treat: The boat owners, who are competing for prizes, bend over backwards to decorate their boats with Christmas lights, disguise them as space ships, pirate ships, etc., and costume the crews accordingly. We will be able to take a break from eating, drinking, and gift giving to watch the decorated boats sail by the terrace. This is potluck, BYOB, and, of course, the traditional grab bag gift exchange. Bring a grab-bag gift with approximate value of $15.00 if you wish to participate in the exchange. You are given a raffle ticket, and when your number is called, you have the option of choosing a gift from the "pile" or one that has already been chosen, thereby forcing the original chooser to choose from the pile again: In previous years, the circumstances with some gifts have been beyond hilarious. To get to the Esplanade, turn left off Kalanianaole Highway at Lunalilio Home Road, the last traffic light before the highway goes up the hill towards Hanauma Bay. Drive in the mountain direction approximately .6 of a mile and look for the looming white building complex on the left. While there is limited to no parking, except for unloading, at the building, there is normally plenty of street parking available. The recreation area is right on the ground level beside the lobby.
TOBY
HAWAII SKI WEEK, 2016
January 29 - February
6
We will be going to Park City, Utah for the 2016 Hawaii Ski
Week. As many of you know, Vail Resorts has purchased the Park City Mountain
Resort. This summer they plan to install an 8 passenger gondola to connect Park
City with Canyons Resort, already managed by Vail Resorts. This will create, in
their words, the largest ski area in the United States, with over 7,300 acres of
terrain. They also plan a new restaurant at the Park City gondola terminus
(bottom of Silverload lift), and upgrades to the King Kong and Motherlode lifts.
Ski.com will be providing discounted lift tickets, obviously good on both
mountains. The adult 5 day ticket will be $330 and the senior 5 day lift ticket
will be $250. Ski.com will also provide one day lift tickets for Deer Valley for
those of you who want to spend the day there. These tickets will cost $90, which
is a good discount from this year’s $115 window price. As we mentioned earlier,
you may want to purchase an epic pass from Vail Resorts for the season. These
will also be available from Ski.com, but we don’t know the details on this now.
Because you ski club members have stated categorically that ski-in/ski-out
access is a priority, we have chosen to stay primarily at The Lodge at the
Mountain Village. In addition to ski-in/ski-out access, the Lodge is 20 yards
from the Payday Lift, a 6 person high speed lift. There is a mini mall next door
with 4 ski shops and some restaurants. The Lodge offers hotel rooms, studio
suites, and 2, 3 and 4 bedroom condos. We have reserved one 4 bedroom condo,
four 3 bedroom condos and 4 hotel rooms. The hotel rooms have refrigerators and
coffee makers. We say we are staying “primarily” at the Lodge because they do
not offer hotel rooms with two beds. For our singles we have reserved some hotel
rooms across the street at the Shadow Ridge Resort Hotel. These rooms will have
two queen beds. The Park City free shuttle bus stops at the Lodge, and the Lodge
also offers free point to point on demand shuttle service. Main Street, Park
City, with all its shops and restaurants is about 1/2 mile away. The Lodge
features an indoor/outdoor swimming pool, numerous hot tubs, free wireless
internet, a fitness center and their own ice rink (for a fee). The Lodge has
plenty of meeting space for our traditional reception, pot luck and farewell
pizza party.
Our non-stop flights to Salt Lake City are as follows:
• Delta-1104 V Depart: HNL 1/29/2016 09:55 pm Arrive: SLC 1/30/2016 07:11 am
• Delta-1105 V Depart: SLC 2/6/2016 11:55 am Arrive: HNL 2/6/2016 03:35 pm
Since we are arriving so early, and it is only an hour and a half to Park
City, one could ski on Saturday, our arrival day. That would give you seven days
of skiing.
Of course, transfers to and from the airport are included.
Park City is more expensive than Steamboat. We will be paying about $300 to $400
more for a full package. The full package price (air, transfer, 7 nights
lodging, 5 day lift ticket) will range from $1,800 to $2,000.
This year
we would like to try something different for registration. You will be able to
register and pay for the trip online directly with Ski.com, and pay them
directly by check or credit card. This will relieve the trip committee of some
work, although we will still be responsible for roommate assignments. Pray for snow.
THE TRIP COMMITTEE
PAST SKI CLUB ACTIVITIES:
VOLUNTEER PAINTING PROJECT
FERN ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL
On Saturday Morning, October 24, thirteen Ski Clubbers turned out at Fern Elementary School in Kalihi to reprise the painting project at Linapuni School only a few short weeks before. This was not on the schedule in last month's newsletter because our help was solicited after the publication date. Even with the short notice, via an email announcement, we picked up three more volunteers than last month and, with extra help from other groups who had been asked, finished in a little over an hour. This mean an earlier lunch (brunch?) than last month, again at Jerry's Pizza across from the Kapalama Post Office: A number of us really like that place! Too bad all our volunteer projects aren't in Kalihi near Jerry's.
TOBY
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
FREE TEE SHIRTS FOR NEW MEMBERSHIPS
Effective May 15, 2014, for a limited period of time, one free Ski Club tee shirt will be given to all new "Memberships," i.e. one per Membership, individual or family.
THE HAWAII SKI CLUB IS ON FACEBOOK
If you are on Facebook, add the HSC as a “friend.” You will be up-to-date with recent HSC activities that members upload. The HSC Facebook page has photos from members on ski trips and at Club activities. You can also include your personal photos and announcements relating to the club for all HSC members to view.
FREE PADDED SKI BAG
Lori Auhll wants to give away her Marker padded ski bag which holds 2 pairs of skis. You can contact Lori at 521-2458.
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Contributions from the membership to future newsletters are encouraged and will be greatly appreciated: Please e mail them to Toby (see Contacts) no later than 9 calendar days from the end of the month. Thanx much.
Updated club info available at http://www.hawaiisnowskiclub.com/