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October 2020 No. 10/2020 President's Monthly Monku OCTOBER 2020 NO. 10/2020 CANDIDATES FOR 2021-2022 EBOD PRESIDENT’S MONTHLY MONKU ELECTION FINALIZED by Ann Kabasawa With the expiration of the nomination deadline at 12 I can’t believe it is already October and we are pm on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, the Nomination still living through another month of COVID Committee reported that the following 100th members in restrictions here in Hawaii. Unfortunately, this good standing have qualified to seek election to the 2021 means that the Clubhouse and Office will remain -2022 Executive Board of Directors: closed until further notice. If you need to speak to For President: ANN KABASAWA (incumbent) someone about 100th business or need to visit the For First Vice-President: HARRY NAKAYAMA Clubhouse, please email me at (incumbent) [email protected] or call me at (808) 781- For Second Vice-President: TSURUMI HAMASU 8540. (incumbent) 100th members should have received a letter For Treasurer: BEVERLY SHIROMA (incumbent) from me in the mail regarding the changes that had to be made to the usual nomination and election For Secretary: WARREN YAMAMOTO procedures for the 2021-2022 Executive Board of (incumbent. As there were no other nominees for the Directors also due to COVID. Some of these office of Secretary, the Board of Directors waived the changes were also published in last month’s PPP. two consecutive term limitation for each EBOD office, Thank you to the Nomination Committee members allowing Mr. Yamamoto to seek a third term as (SUSAN HASHIMOTO, JAMES NOGAWA, Secretary.) APRIL NAKAYAMA, JAN SAKODA) and the Personal statements from each candidate will be current Board of Directors for their hard work under published in the November 2020 Puka-Puka Parade. an emergency situation. Thank you also for those There will be no in person voting this year and no members who stepped up and have agreed to run for voting by proxy. Voting will be entirely by mail. office. Members will receive a ballot in the mail and a ballot Even though the Clubhouse is closed, work is will also be published in the print and email version of ongoing at our apartment building next door the November 2020 PPP. Completed ballots must be including the major railing project. It will be a while returned by mail and received by the Nomination before everything that needs to be repaired is Committee at the Clubhouse on or before 12 pm on completed. Thank you to our property manager Election Day, Saturday, November 7. The Clubhouse JOHN COVINGTON of Newmark Grubb who is will be closed that day. working hard to find good tenants for our vacant If you have any questions or comments about the apartments. If you know someone who is looking upcoming election, please contact the Nomination for a new home, please contact John directly Committee at [email protected]. at [email protected] or at (808) 441-0538. Continued on page 2 PRESIDENT’S MONTHLY MONKU SAYONARA AND DOOMO Continued from page 1 ARIGATOO, TAKASHI TSUESHITA I hope you had the opportunity to watch the Nisei Veterans Legacy’s 2020 Memorial Service which aired on Olelo in Hawaii I was so sad to receive an email from during the last weekend of September. This online program was EVELYN TSUDA, the wife of Baker livestreamed as a replacement for the Annual Joint Memorial Company veteran RIKIO “RIKI” Service honoring our World War II Japanese Americans usually TSUDA, that the wife of TAKASHI held in person at Punchbowl Cemetery. If you missed it, you can TSUESHITA of Japan had informed her watch is on Olelo Community Media’s YouTube channel at that he had passed away on May 14, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-hNt7hBnek. The Memorial Here’s what I wrote about him in the Service is about 35 minutes in length and starts at the 8 minute October 2006 PPP: mark so fast-forward through the Olelo messaging to get there. It “Thank you to Evelyn Tsuda for letting can also be seen on Olelo Community Media’s Facebook page at me know about Mr. Takashi Tsueshita. He https://www.facebook.com/olelocommunity/ flew in from Yokohama, Japan specifically videos/1572133726322653/. to attend the Joint Memorial Service. He The Maunalani Nursing and Rehabilitation Center has taken told Evelyn that he was very impressed by care of many of our 100th veterans including my dad, RAY the Service and that he was very happy to NOSAKA, and current resident EDWARD IKUMA who is have been able to come to Hawaii for it. He featured on pages 5-6 of the PPP. For many years, members of said this was the one thing he wanted to do our Club and the 100th/442d Color Guard and soldiers have on his trip. Some of our readers may participated in the annual Veterans Day Celebration at Maunalani recognize Mr. Tsueshita’s name as he has but due to COVID, this event has been cancelled this year. visited the Clubhouse on several occasions Making it even worse is that the veterans have been isolated from to ‘talk story’ with the veterans. He has their friends and family members since the start of the pandemic conducted interviews with a number of for health and safety reasons. 100th Infantry veterans including Maunalani is asking the public to let our veterans know that MARTIN TOHARA. Mr. Tsueshita they have not been forgotten and to uplift their spirits by sending devotes a lot of his time researching World a photograph or a short video “shout out” expressing that you are War II Nisei veterans because he believes it thinking about them. The photos and videos will be shown to the is important to make the people of Japan Maunalani residents and also will be displayed on Maunalani’s aware of their many accomplishments. It is website (https://maunalaninursing.org/) and Facebook page interesting to note that Mr. Tsueshita taught (https://www.facebook.com/maunalaninursing/). Please email himself English by listening to the radio your photos or videos to [email protected] by Friday, and watching television! Wonder if we October 30. If you have any questions, please call Community could learn Japanese the same way?” Life Director CZARINA at 695-2072, Recreation Manager Mr. Tsueshita’s name frequently ARCELI at 695-2813 or MARISSA at Hospitality at 695-2860 appeared in the list of donors published in or visit the Maunlani website listed above. the PPP and he spent every minute of his Usually at this time of year, my husband CLYDE trips to Hawaii at the Clubhouse. Evelyn SUGIMOTO and I are preparing for the Las Vegas Mini- shared photos he sent her of him in the Reunion and for the Go For Broke National Education Center’s studio doing a weekly radio show in Japan Evening of Aloha in Los Angeles. However, this year is very about the 100th and the other Japanese different with the cancellation of the Mini-Reunion and the EOA Americans World War II veterans. I take now a Virtual Gala scheduled for Saturday, November 14 from out his self-published book about the 100th 4 pm to 5 pm PST or 1 pm to 2 pm Hawaii Time. Living 100th in Japanese from the Library whenever veterans can be a part of the EOA by joining in the FREE “Living there are unexpected visitors from Japan Nisei WWII Photo Tribute” or friends and family of veterans may who don’t understand my plantation pidgin purchase a $500 pre-show “Thank a Veteran” digital ad by Japanese. October 30. More on page 7 of the PPP. Aloha Tsueshita-san! I am sure you are To everyone in our extended One Puka Puka family all over enjoying a warm beer and a bag of pupus the world, please take good care and stay well. with our One Puka Puka boys in Nirvana! SUPPORT THE MATSUNAGA Conflict Resolution, a Peace Corps Prep Certificate, INSTITUTE WITH YOUR WRITTEN and a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution. TESTIMONY The Matsunaga Institute has placed students with Email received from the Matsunaga Institute on dozens of governmental and non-governmental September 21, 2020 organizations and initiatives around Hawai'i. It has The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s (UHM) worked in the community to nurture and support Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Hawaiian places of learning. For the purposes of Resolution (Matsunaga Institute) will soon celebrate programming and special projects, it has built ongoing its 35th anniversary. From the beginning, the relationships with numerous local, national, and Institute was an academic community designed to international organizations, including the develop and share knowledge about the root causes Pacific Historic Parks, East West Center, DANIEL K. of violence, conditions of peace, and ways to use INOUYE Institute for Security Studies, Nobel Peace nonviolent means for resolving conflicts. Prize Forum, Ceeds of Peace, Institute for Climate and After the passing of Hawai'i Senator and 100th Peace, educational institutions in Hiroshima Infantry Battalion and Nagasaki, and the United States Institute for World War II Peace, to name a few. veteran (Dog The Matsunaga Institute continues to work actively Company) with the community. During the pandemic crisis, we SPARK M. have been in constant contact with our students, MATSUNAGA alumni, and organizational partners. These dialogues in 1990, the led to a series of online interactive webinars around Institute was “Building a Beloved Community” (learn about renamed in his community building), “Cultural Talk Story Series honor. The name (learn about indigenous communities near and far), celebrates Senator “The Beginning and End of the Bomb talk story Matsunaga's series” (learn about resilient stories from WWII), and vision to promote alternative dispute resolution skills.
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