Kathy Miyake of Central Pacific Bank was installed to a two-year term as president of the Kaua‘i United Way before more than 100 people who attended the 68th Annual Meeting and Mahalo Celebration recently at Duke’s Canoe Club at Kalapaki
Kathy Miyake of Central Pacific Bank was installed to a two-year term as president of the Kaua‘i United Way before more than 100 people who attended the 68th Annual Meeting and Mahalo Celebration recently at Duke’s Canoe Club at Kalapaki Beach.
“Kaua‘i United Way’s Annual Meeting and Mahalo Celebration is intended, in large part, to congratulate and thank the community for coming together for a successful Annual Campaign,” said Scott Giarman, director of the KUW, in a news release. “This year’s event is hosted jointly by the A&B Foundation and the Kukui‘ula Development Co.”
A $20,000 contribution to the Campaign was done by the A&B Foundation representatives, resulting in the 2010 Annual Campaign reaching 96.5 percent of its goal, compared with 95.1 percent of a smaller goal in the prior year. This reflects the increased need in the community, the KUW release states.
Joining Miyake at the leadership helm of KUW, Mark Marshall of the Kaua‘i Civil Defense Agency takes over as vice president, Kirk Nakamoto of the Bank of Hawai‘i assumes the treasurer’s role and Maureen Tabura of the Kaua‘i Community College Nursing Program is the new secretary.
The new leadership team replaces the outgoing team led by former president Gerald Ako.
Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative, Costco Wholesale, Enterprise Holdings, Kaua‘i Marriott Resort and Beach Club, the Grand Hyatt Kaua‘i Resort and Spa, King Auto Center, St. Regis Princeville Resort, Kaua‘i Coffee Company, Kukui‘ula Development Co., the Kaua‘i Lagoons Resort Co., Koga Engineering and Construction, Oceanic Time Warner Cable, the Sheraton Kaua‘i Resort, Hawaiian Telcom and T.D. Food Groups represent the Top 15 employee groups.
Employee groups with 100 percent employee participation include A&B Properties, Amerian Savings Bank, Gary’s Service, HGEA, Local 152, Kaua‘i Beach Resort, Kaua‘i Government Employees Federal Credit Union, the Kaua‘i Lagoons Resort and Golf Club, Kaua‘i Visitors Bureau, Kukui‘ula Development, Oceanic Time Warner Cable, Palm’s Hawai‘i Architecture, Royal Hawaiian Movers, Territorial Savings and Loans, Aloha Beach Resort, Central Pacific Bank, General Dynamics, ILWU, Local 142, Kaua‘i Beverage and Ice Cream, Kaua‘i Island Finance, Kaua‘i Marriott Resort and Beach club, Koga Engineering and Construction, McBryde Federal Credit Union, Oceanit, Smith’s Motor Boat Service and The Gas Company.
Doug Sears, the general manager of the Grand Hyatt Kaua‘i as well as a co-chair of the 2010 Campaign with Ron Wiley, was awarded the Founders Award, the highest honor offered by KUW.
The Founders Award is dedicated to the memory of a small group of visionary Kaua‘i community leaders — Elsie and Mabel Wilcox, A. Hebard Case, Lindsay Faye, Andrew Gross and Bernard D. Pratt — who, in 1943, determined to “transmit the community not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.” This was done by establishing the precursor organization which has become known as Kaua‘i United Way.
The intent of the founding group was to “develop, strengthen and make socially more effective, the operation of such services and to promote cooperation, efficiency, and economy in the operation of organizations to the end that the general welfare of the people of Kaua‘i County would be advanced and that dependency, delinquency and defectiveness and such social conditions as tend to create them may be reduced and ultimately eliminated,” the KUW release states.
KUW continues to honor these sentiments and objectives by providing a framework for the Kaua‘i community to care for itself. KUW’s mission is providing leadership to unite the people of Kaua‘i by sharing resources to care for one another.
The Founders Award is presented annually to a member of the KUW Board of Directors who best exemplifies the spirit of the Founders of KUW as determined by a secret vote.
Ako (2010), Barbara Nagamine (2009), Tabura (2008), Yoshiko “Dimples” Kano (2007), Wiley (2006), Mike Kano (2005), Peter Yukimura (2004) and Carol Furtado (2003) have been recipients of the Founders Award, previously.
“Doug’s extraordinarily broad influence, coupled with his gentle but firm persuasiveness has been immensely valuable in enabling us to put together extremely valuable prize packages as wellas increasingly expanding the general appealof the Annual Campaign,” Giarman said. “In addition to his devoted work with KUW, Doug is a statewide leader of the Visitor Industry, including Kaua‘i’s Charity Walk. He supports Koloa Youth Baseball, Special Olympics, Make A Wish and several other Kaua‘i charities and serves as a member of the Kaua‘i Chamber of Commerce, the Kaua‘i Economic Development Board and the Mayor’s Task Force on Crime.”
