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October, 2023
EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
– Toby Kravet – 808-224-1065
Vice
President - Anita Hodges
Treasurer - Jonathan Carr
Secretary - Nelson Dang
Michiro Iwanaga
Alan Teramura
Caroline Sluyter
Mike Tsutsui
Carl See
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Newsletter Editor
Toby Kravet
(Click on Contacts for e mail addresses)
CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
Every Monday evening (except on holidays and, of course, during Hawaii Ski Week), at 4:30 PM, a group of ski club members and their friends play tennis at Keehi Lagoon Courts, off Lagoon Drive. Stay in shape and enjoy a "careful social hour" afterwards.
September 28 (Thursday) 5 PM Pau Hana at Murphy's Bar & Grill, 2 Merchant St., Honolulu.
October 5 (Thursday) Kick-Off to the new membership year at Rainbow Bay Marina, Pearl Harbor. Door prizes, Club tee shirts for sale, free food but BYOB. See below for more details and new information.
October 7 (Saturday) Volunteering to pack food at the Hawaii Food Bank. Please see article below for signup instructions and related information.
October 27 (Friday) 5 PM. Pau Hana at the aptly named Pau Hana Place, corner of Ala Moana Blvd. and Holomoana St., right over the bridge from Ala Moana Park and beside the Hawaii Prince Hotel. (See. Below)
November 2 (Thursday) 5 PM General Membership Meeting at Mangiamo, Navy - Marine Golf Course. A long time ago, in a universe far, far away, our club skied on Mauna Kea, and we are presently planning a presentation on this history at the meeting.
November 23 (Thanksgiving) The Ski Club has had a tradition, for many (except for the pandemic) years of having a contingent of members assisting the Salvation Army with serving a morning Thanksgiving meal to the needy at Blaisdell Center with a tailgate (just for us) before the serving. All Club members, not just those volunteering, are invited to the tailgate for a little early partying. No details yet, but stay tuned for the specifics and the call for volunteers.
December 16 (Saturday) Annual Christmas Party again at the Esplanade in Hawaii Kai with "Major Mahalos" to "Sam" Wright for her hospitality. Stay tuned for details.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE:
It takes a lot of dedicated people to make a voluntary organization such as ours function. Writing checks and updating membership lists, making calls, completing various government forms to keep us "legal," planning and coordinating events such as our upcoming Kick-Off Meeting, planning and coordinating our ski trips (the hardest job in the Club), are just some of the things we need to do month in and month out. Please give our hard-working Board of Directors a Mahalo when you next see or have occasion to contact them, and, by the way, please address questions about our trips to Alan Teramura, your membership status to Jonathan Carr, and any suggestions you might have (which we wholeheartedly welcome) to whichever Board Member is assigned to that subject area. See the "Contact Us" link on our website or hit the "Contacts" link right under the list of Board Members at the beginning of the Newsletter. Don't contact me if there's a specific Board Member assigned to the issue you wish to discuss as I might not have the most detailed or current information. Also, I'd like to publically thank our newest Board Member, Sandra Robbins, for coordinating with Murphy's Bar and Grill for this month's Pau Hana and Anita and Bill for personally checking out The Pau Hana Place for next month's. As Alan reports below, unless there are "dropouts," our trips to Steamboat and Furano are filled, but there are still some spots available for Rusutsu: The time to make a decision is now. Also, unless you have joined the club since April 1 of this year, in which case you are "good" until September 30 of 2024, you need to fill out the online membership form and pay by credit card or check mailed to the address on the form. You can also bring your check to the Kick-Off on October 5. A couple of people have had their credit cards rejected by the system, and I have no idea why, but if this happens to you, you might want to try a different browser if you have one. Finally, I wish to extend a warm welcome to new member Joseph Breuwet. Hope to see many of you at the Kick-Off and/or our other upcoming gatherings.
TOBY
UPCOMING SKI CLUB ACTIVITIES:
PAU HANA
AT
MURPHY'S BAR & GRILL
2 MERCHANT ST.
September 28
(Thursday) 5:00 pm
A long time
ago, in a universe far, far, away, think mid 1980s (when I first joined), the
Hawaii Ski Club, then known as the Ski Association of Hawaii (and a lot of
us still have those tee shirts), used to have its meetings at Murphy's. For
a bit of nostalgia as well as a current good time, we are returning to
Murphy's on Thursday, September 28 at 5 PM. While there may be parking on
the surrounding streets, a better bet is Harbor Court which is the building
right on the corner of Bethel and Merchant, kind of catty corner to
Murphy's. If you turn to the right, going Ewa, off Ala Moana Blvd. or Queen
St., where Queen ends on Ala Moana, you are on Bethel St. and the building
on your immediate right is Harbor Court with public parking above the 5th or
6th floor (I forget which). Parking at Harbor Court is .50 per half hour to
a maximum of $3.00. See you at Murphy's, Mahalo, Sandra, for the idea, and
wear a Ski Club tee shirt if you have one.
TOBY
ANNUAL KICK-OFF MEETING/COOKOUT
RAINBOW BAY MARINA
57 Arizona Memorial Drive
(next to Restaurant 604)
PEARL HARBOR
October 5 (Thursday) 5:00 PM
Come to our Annual
Kick-Off (to the new membership year) Meeting, where the food will be "on the house,"
at Rainbow Bay Marina, Pearl Harbor, Cabana B. This is
the cabana to the immediate right (looking makai) of where we had our July meeting.
Wear your Ski Club tee shirt and name tag from a previous trip if
you have them. Also, bring your eminently usable ski equipment and
clothing that you wish to sell or give away. We will have new old
style (cotton or cotton blend with multi-colored club logo) tee shirts
available for sale.
If you are a new member since April 1 of this year, you are already
current through next year and don't need to rejoin. If you are joining right now or renewing
and haven't already paid by
credit card or mailed in your check for the 2023-2024 year, you can bring
your check to this meeting, but don't forget to
first complete the digital
membership form accessed through our website. If you
haven't been to Rainbow Bay
Marina, it is the outdoor picnic area with cabanas on the right hand side
(facing towards the ocean) of Restaurant 604. For those of you who unfamiliar with the
area, enter Pearl Harbor off Kamehameha Highway as if you were going to the
Arizona Memorial, take a right on the inner road (Arizona Memorial Place),
and drive approximately 1/4 mile. As soon as you go under the Ford
Island viaduct, you are there. You
can park behind the restaurant. This
is BYOB, and please carry out your drink containers rather than
deposit of them in the refuse receptacles at the venue or we will forfeit
the return of a
$100.00 deposit we gave them for cleanup.
Please
email me pres@hawaiisnowskiclub.com
TOBY
VOLUNTEERING TO PACK FOOD
AT
THE HAWAII FOOD BANK
2611
KILIHAU ST.
HONOLULU, HI. 96819
October 7 (Saturday) 8 AM - 12
PM
The Food 4 Keiki (F4K) program provides bags of food for our school pantry
program across Oahu and Kaua`i. On Saturday, October 7th, 8 am – 12 pm we
will be packing about 7,000 bags of food at our warehouse, 2611 Kilihau St,
Honolulu, HI 96819and we anticipate the packing will run for the full 4-hour
shift. Please arrive with enough time to find parking and sign in before the
briefing at 8 am. ALL VOLUNTEERS are required to fill out the online
volunteer application form if they have not done so before:
https://www.volgistics.com/appform/348316126
.
Please email me,
mike@hawaiisnowskiclub.com
once the form has been completed and submitted so I can keep track of the
count for our club.
(And wear a Ski Club tee shirt if you have one---We want to "show our colors." --Toby)
MIKE
PAU HANA
AT
PAU HANA PLACE
CORNER OF ALA MOANA BLVD. &
HOLOMANA ST.
October 27 (Friday) 5 PM
This is the casual outdoor site with food trucks where the Ala Wai Canal meets the ocean on the Ewa side of the Hawaii Prince Hotel, right over the bridge on Ala Moana Blvd. from Ala Moana Park. Some of us old timers might recognize it as the site of the old boat repair service and marine fuel dock as well as the site which was going to be developed as a wedding chapel after the boat repair service and fuel dock were demolished. Anyhow, thanks to Anita and Bill who checked it out last week, there is parking right there, good selections at the food trucks, and entertainment which begins at 5:30. It is presently BYOB so bring your own beverages, alcoholic or otherwise, and if we get wind of this changing in the interim, we will let you know. See you there-----and wear your Ski Club tee shirt if you have one.
TOBY
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
MANGIAMO BY 604
NAVY MARINE GOLF COURSE
943
VALKENBURGH ST.
November 2 (Thursday) 5 PM
We're back to our normal venue, Mangiamo, for our November General Membership Meeting. Although the meeting won't begin until 5:30 PM, we'd like you to get there a bit earlier so you can get situated and order your food and drink. If you haven't yet been to Mangiamo, it is opposite the airport and off of Valkenburgh Street which runs between Nimitz Highway (under the viaduct) and Radford Drive. Drive almost all the way to Radford Drive and you'll see the entrance to the right. Mangiamo is on the second floor of the golf course's club house. See you there, hopefully in your Ski Club tee shirt.
TOBY
SKI TRIPS FOR 2024:
If you are still interested in going on one of
our HSC trips this coming 2024 ski season and haven't yet registered please
read the following updates. This is especially important for those who have
been waiting to make their reservation but haven't done so yet. The Japan
ski trips are again popular this year. We currently have a total of 73
reservations to Furano, Rusutsu or the combination of going to both Furano
and Rusutsu.
Update of
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Ski Trip January 19-27, 2024. NEARLY SOLD OUT.
We
presently have 48 HSC members who have registered for this trip and have
only one double occupancy room left at the Gravity Haus Hotel. We also have
three men looking for a fourth to share a 2 bedroom 2 bath condo in a nearby
building. Details, prices and registration information for the Steamboat
Springs Ski Trip can be found in the August, 2023 Newsletter.
Furano
February 10-18, 2024. SOLD OUT.
We have 36
reservations to this central Hokkaido ski resort. Unfortunately due to the
high demand, the Shin Prince Furano Hotel is currently completely sold out
of additional rooms during the week that we will be there, which coincides
with Chinese New Year on February 10, 2024. At this time we can only
waitlist people in case of cancellations.
Rusutsu
February 17-25, 2024.
We currently have 37
reservations to go to Rusutsu, Japan's largest and most popular Hokkaido ski
resort. That leaves us with only 10 double occupancy rooms left. If you are
still thinking about going to Rusutsu, you must register and pay for your
trip by October 30, approximately a month from now. After this date any
unfilled rooms must be returned to the hotel as specified by the terms of
the contract. Details of the Rusutsu trip, cost and registration information
can be found in the Trips tab on our HSC website.
ALAN
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HAWAII SKI CLUB IS ON FACEBOOK
Facebook is the best way to keep current on the Hawaii Ski Club. On your Facebook page on your computer, type "Hawaii Ski Club" into the search box on the top left. On your mobile device, tap the magnifying glass at the top to get the search box. Pictures from Ski Club activities and other items are posted as they are submitted. You can submit your own Ski Club pictures and other items you wish posted by emailing them to anita@hawaiisnowskiclub.com
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