LAST UPDATED: JULY 18, 2010
QUICK 'N DIRTY CLEANUP
SUNDAY, JULY 25
12 NOON - CHECK IN
Pull off at the entrance to Kapa`a Quarry Road @ Kalaniana`ole Highway
12:30 pm
INSTRUCTIONS & WORK AREA ASSIGNMENTS
Break into four-person teams, get gloves & supplies
12:30 pm to 2:30 pm - Q'NDC
Pick up trash & illegally dumped STUFF plus identify major dump sites
2:45 pm - HOSTED PAU HANA PARTY
Boardrider's Sports Bar - Hamakua Drive
Great food & a family-friendly atmosphere
SERVICE CREDIT FOR HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE STUDENTS GIVEN
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All volunteers will receive a plant from Hui Ku Maoli Ola Hawaiian Plant Specialists
Plus Drawing for gift certificates, coupons, UH sports & Regal Theatre tickets
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In order to make sure that WAA has enough supplies & to let Boardrider's know how many people are coming to the Pau Hana Party, pre-registration is required by calling 224-4496, 223-4481, or 247-6366. Be sure to include your name and contact information including a daytime phone number if you need to leave a message plus the number of people in your group.
Pre-registration deadline is Saturday, July 24, 12 noon
NOTE: Honolulu City Councilmember Ann Kobayashi who chairs the Public Infrastructure Committee has been invited to attend the event to see first-hand the services that community volunteers provide to the City as well as to discuss other concerns such as illegal dumping, post-workday disposal issues, and possible changes in both county ordinances & state statutes to address solid waste management issues.
In addition, ALL 2010 candidates regardless of party affiliation running for Windward O`ahu State Senate and State House seats have been invited to create four-person work teams who will be encouraged to wear the candidate's t-shirts and to post a sign in the area where they'll be working.
QUICK 'N DIRTY CLEANUPS are intensive workdays scheduled at least six times a year devoted to removing trash & illegally-dumped materials along roadsides & waterways as well as in parks and other public places. Major illegal dump sites are noted and the information is turned over to either state or county authorities for later removal - often with the cooperation of volunteer crews from local contracting firms.
The July 25 Q'NDC will send out crews along Kapa`a Quarry Road mauka of Kawainui Marsh . Each crew will clear out approximately 750 feet along both sides of the roadway during the two hours. At least 30 four-person crews will be needed to cover KQR from one end to the other.
We'll also need at least two trucks to pick up filled trash bags, tires, mattresses, and small appliances to bring them back to the collection sites. A helper will be assigned to each truck. The trucks will also bring around bottled water & water jugs for folks who have their own containers.
Two people who might have limited physical skills will also be needed to check in volunteers and to staff the wireless communications system in case of an emergency.
All volunteers must wear closed-toe shoes or boots with gripping soles for safety reasons. Slippers are a no-no. People are also encouraged to bring along a removable long-sleeved shirt & to wear long pants because it's often necessary to go into the bushes to pick up STUFF.
Afterwards, WAA will host a Pau Hana Party. All volunteers will receive a plant and be eligible for drawings for tickets to local theatres and University of Hawai`i athletic events. Service credits for high school & college students will also be available.
In order to make sure that WAA has enough supplies & to let Boardrider's know how many people are coming to the Pau Hana Party, pre-registration is required by calling 224-4496, 223-4481, or 247-6366. Be sure to include your name and contact information including a daytime phone number if you need to leave a message plus the number of people in your group.
WINDWARD AHUPUA`A ALLIANCE
WHO WE ARE & HOW WE GOT HERE
The Windward Ahupua`a Alliance, a 501c3 Hawai`i non-profit corporation, was established in July, 2002, to create the Ko`olau Greenbelt & Heritage Trails System in order to restore, protect & provide public access to the mauka (mountain) lands on the Windward side of O`ahu along the base of Na Ko`olau as well as to support locally-owned sustainable economic activities in the more developed areas. Its mandate, however, has expanded over the years well beyond these important regional issues.
WAA now works to educate & inform residents, visitors, businesses, policymakers at all levels of government, and the media about using SMART GROWTH principles which promote sustainability. In addition to planning how & where we will live, work & play, WAA also advocates on matters as diverse as developing new waste management programs; setting long-term watershed protection policies based upon ahupua`a concepts; creating locally-owned “green” economic development opportunities; supporting renewable energy standards to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and, mitigating the impacts of global warming & rising sea levels around the world.
WAA has also played a significant role in strengthening state statutes & county ordinances as well as administrative rules dealing with recycling & illegal dumping and funding state & county-level "legacy lands" laws.
Other major accomplishments include the state-wide BUST-A-DUMPER Campaign which grew out of WAA’s highly-successful community-based service projects. Another is setting up four RECYCLING FOR CHANGE programs to help underwrite WAA’s activities.
Over the past seven-plus years, WAA has established partnerships with over two dozen organizations, coordinated field trips to meet with people who are engaged in sustainable economic activities in agriculture, tourism & high technology, and co-sponsored or played an active role in seminars, workshops & conferences on a wide range of public policy issues including health, education, social justice, sustainable economic development, and workforce housing issues.
For more information about the organization and its mission, contact Shannon Wood at 808/247-6366.
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE???
For nearly three years now, the Windward Ahupua`a Alliance has been examining its role as a multi-tasking non-profit organization - not just in the subjects it covers but also in terms of the types of work it does. Do we go back to putting out newsletters on a regular basis? Do we schedule our own community service projects or join up with other groups and let them do most of the planning? Do we continue to spend much of our organizational energies on public policy issues? Do we follow through on our entrepreneurial inclinations or go back to the days when our annual budget was maybe $1500 a year? Do we educate and inform the public, the media and government officials at all levels about sustainability or do we work on whatever falls into our laps?
Although we had planned to be much more active in 2010 than we've been for the previous couple of years as Jim Wood & I had to deal with some major medical issues, our failure to get folks to take an active role within the organization itself is making us wonder if it's time to turn out the lights and go home.
OUR TOP PRIORITY? People like you who are willing to be part of the leadership team.
We need help in every area from bringing WAA - and me - into the second decade of the 21st Century from a technological perspective using Facebook, Twitter, streaming video & a blog to staffing information booths at community events to working on public policy issues locally and nationally to raising money to planning & coordinating service projects to doing basic clerical stuff. Unfortunately, one has stepped up and volunteered.
Students, retirees, educators, professionals, business owners, and people like you who want to make a difference in how we live, work & play are nneded right here, right now. We cannot do this alone.
For more information, call Shannon Wood at 247-6366 ext. 1#.
PlANT A NATIVE TREE
PLEDGE DRIVE
At the end of 2009, the Windward Ahupua`a Alliance, a 501c3 non-profit, launched a new fund-raising drive which would not only benefit the organization but also everyone who lives here or comes to visit this beautiful place.
Here’s how the PlANT Pledge Drive works. First of all, please sign up by sending us the information listed below. We’ll then create a special donors’ list - privacy guaranteed - and will send out monthly e-mail reminders. For folks who prefer getting notices by regular mail, please check off that box.
Each month, we ask that you commit to sending $10 - or more if you can afford it - either by using PayPal or a credit/debit card or by dropping a check in the mail. Pledge payments can also be made bi-monthly, quarterly, or annually.
In addition to partially underwriting the costs of both major service projects as well as QUICK ‘N DIRTY CLEANUPs, funds raised through the pledge drive will be used to:
1. Cover the costs of educational outreach activities such as registration fees, materials & supplies as well as underwrite basic operating expenses including professional training, phones, Internet access, newsletter costs, etc;
2. Purchase a new computer & other digital media equipment so that WAA can be more effective in communicating with the public as well as with elected & administrative officials;
3. Pay stipends to interns;
4. Buy a fuel-efficient vehicle to transport supplies, equipment, tents/tables/chairs, and the boat & trailer for waterway cleanups from the storage facilities to the work sites around the island;
5. Hire staff to carry out WAA’s Mission, Vision & Mandates.
However, probably the most important aspect of this drive is that 10% of each pledge payment will be put into a separate PlANT A NATIVE TREE account.
We’ll keep track of each payment to the PlANT Fund and will let you know when enough money has been raised to buy a tree. We’ll also invite you to take part in the planting ceremony.
We’ll start with the schools and then move on to other public lands as well as churches, hospitals, long-term care home facilities, etc. Trees will be planted in all four counties.
Not only will these trees help mitigate climate change/global warming/rising sea levels but also they will provide shelter for the birds & shade for us humans plus enrich our visual environment.
Although WAA has set a long-term goal of planting X number of trees, we’ve decided not to release that figure since the Pledge Drive is not a contest nor even a challenge. Even one new tree is better than none.
Yes, you can also make donations directly to the PlANT Fund. A small fee will be taken out to cover administrative costs.
Remember – ALL donations are fully tax-deductible.
COPY & PASTE INTO YOUR E-MAIL PROGRAM
Send to info@waa-hawaii-org
Write PLEDGE SIGNUP INFORMATION in the Subject Line
OR
COPY & PRINT
FILL OUT THE REQUESTED INFORMATION
&
DROP IT IN MAIL - mailing address is at the top
FIRST NAME:
PREFERRED FIRST NAME (OPTIONAL:
LAST NAME:
PREFERRED TITLE (OPTIONAL):
MAILING ADDRESS LINE 1:
MAILING ADDRESS LINE 2:
CITY/STATE/ZIP:
DAY PHONE INCLUDING AREA CODE:
EVENING PHONE INCLUDING AREA CODE:
CELL PHONE INCLUDING AREA CODE:
PREFERRED E-MAIL ADDRESS:
OTHER E-MAIL ADDRESS (OPTIONAL):
AMOUNT OF MONTHLY PLEDGE:
PAYMENT FREQUENCY:
MONTHLY_______
BI-MONTHLY_______
QUARTERLY_______
BI-ANNUAL_______
ANNUAL_______
PREFERRED PAYMENT METHOD:
PAYPAL_______
CREDIT CARD_______
DEBIT CARD_______
CHECK/MONEY ORDER_______
PREFERRED CONTACT METHOD:
E-MAIL_______
REGULAR MAIL_______
Sometime around the 5th of the month following your initial donation and then around the same time each month thereafter, you’ll receive a notice about the current month’s pledge payment.
