October 2015 1640 Lanakila Ave., Honolulu, HI 96817

Telephone: (808) 847-1322

Visit us online at:

www.CatholicCharitiesHawaii.org & look for our link to Lanakila Multi-

Purpose Senior Center (LMPSC)

A program of Catholic Charities Hawai’i funded in part by the State Executive Office on Aging (EOA) via contract with EOA and the C&C of Honolulu, Elderly Affairs Division

Message from Yuet Mui Kong, Program Coordinator:

LANAKILA KUPUNA NEWS

Autumn is here!

I had a great time with our senior members at the Helemano Moon Festival: Health and Wellness Fair for Seniors. Mahalo to Ho-Ming & Susanna Cheung Foundation for sponsoring the lunch and trans-portation for our seniors.

October 4 to 10, 2015 is Fire Prevention Week. This year’s theme is, “Hear the Beep Where You Sleep: Every Bedroom Needs a Working Smoke Alarm.” Sign up for the American Red Cross “Smoke Alarms for Everyone” Program. See below for more information.

All club and class events have been CANCELLED on Thurs-day, October 22nd. HPHA needs the entire basketball parking lot.

Changes have been made to some of the activities and activity dates in this quarter. Please check inside the newsletter and posted flyers in the Center for the changes.

Aloha!

Mountain Pacific Health Series: Diabetes

Management Located in Library Annex

Information and Hand Outs!

October 6, 13 & 20 (10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

November 17 (10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

December 8 & 15 (10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

SMOKE ALARM

CHECKLIST

Smoke alarm on every floor

Smoke alarm in every bed-room

Know the sound of your smoke alarms

Smoke alarms are tested once a month

Clean your smoke alarms regularly with a brush or vac-uum to eliminate dust, debris and insects that can cause false alarms

Change batteries every year for the battery powered smoke alarms

Change smoke alarms if they are more than 10 years old

SMOKE ALARM CHECK & INSTALLATION

The biggest disaster threat in the U.S. isn’t floods or hurri-canes. It is FIRE.

In Hawaii, volunteers respond to disasters every 4 days and over 90% of these disasters are fire-related.

67% of Oahu homes where fires resulted in a death did not have working smoke alarms.

Having a working smoke alarm in your home will increase your chances of survival from a fire by more than 50%.

The American Red Cross Hawaii State Chapter will schedule an appoint-ment to provide you with FREE home fire prevention and safety tips, and fire alarm check and installation.

SIGN UP AT THE FRONT COUNTER

Upcoming Events

Tues. 10/6 Mountain Pacific Diabetes Seminar (10:00)

Wed. 10/7 GLC: MAC 24/7

Tues. 10/13 Mountain Pacific Diabetes Seminar (10:00)

Wed. 10/14 Program Committee (8:30)

Thurs. 10/15 Can Food Drive Begins

Fri. 10/16 Excursion Sea Life Park (9:00)

Tues. 10/20 Mountain Pacific Diabetes Seminar (10:00)

Thurs. 10/22 CLUBS & CLASSES CANCELLED:

HPHA using the basketball parking lot

Tues. 10/27 COA Site Visit to Lanakila

Wed. 10/28 New Member Orientation (10:00)

D o n a t i o n s Received: July, 2015—August 2015

P i k a k e ( $ 1 0 0 0 + )

Anonymous

O h i ’ a a L e h u a ( $ 5 0 0 + )

H i b i s c u s ( $ 1 0 0 + )

Mr. and Mrs. Daly Stevens Mrs. Nobuko Hamada Mrs. Dorothy Miyata

Mr. James Ogata Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wong

Mr. David Young Chinese Cultural Club

B i r d o f P a r a d i s e ( $ 5 0 + )

Mrs. Irene Nitta Mrs. Lydia Tsuha

A n t h u r i u m ( $ 4 9 & u n d e r )

Mrs. Cathy Bautista Mrs. Christy Fujii

Mrs. Cathy Kaneshiro Mrs. Grace Kimura

Mrs. Peggy Lee Mrs. Sun Sil Mattos Mrs. Masako Oda

Ms. Sueno Sakamaki Mrs. Sharon Shiraki Mrs. Yoshiko Sickels

Mrs. Yaeko Smith Mrs. Lorraine Tamashiro

Mrs. Betty Wasa Mrs. Hideko Yagi

Mr. Glenn Yamasaki Mrs. Wilma Yee

Ms. Janice Yokooji Anonymous

T h a n k y o u f o r y o u r g e n e r o s i t y !

I n - K i n d D o n a t i o n s

Received: July 21 ~ August 20, 2015

Arakaki, Sally

Hamada, Nobuko

Kawada, Masako

Kainuma, Carolyn

Kopke, Mary

Koyama, Florence

Miyashiro, Kameko

Nagamine, Doris

Nakata, Sakae

Oda, Karen

Okuma, Grace

Okuma, Stella

Park, Grace

Sasano, Alice

Shimabukuro, Sally

Sugihara, Jean

Sugiyama, Jean

Takai, Yurie

Takakuwa, Mii

Hromi Bauermann

Gilbert Brown

Lucy Ige

Evelyn Iha

Cathy Kaneshiro

Irene Kiyabu

Michele Kondo

Yiu Yuen Leung

Karen Oda

Sueno Sakamaki

Yoshiko Sickels

Yaeko Smith

Lorraine Tamashiro

Hideko Yagi

NEW MEMBERS!

Takara, Doris

Tanaka, Aileen

Tatsuta, Jane

Tomomitsu, June

Tomomitsu, Kay

Tsutsumi, Alice

Watanabe, Emiko

Wauke, Doris

Wong, Joyce

Yanagawa, Rose

Yoshida, Emiko

Teresa Agno

Rosita Aguilar

Mildred Akamine

Marge Amano

Blossom Andrade

Shareen Asagi

Grace Asato

Virginia Au

Shigeru Awakuni

Harry Bjornson

Jean Bjornson

Magdalena Bruno

Leonardo Bulda

Mary Cadiente

Juanita Camit

Chuen Wing Chan

Teresa Chang

Mildred Chong

Pauline Choy

Delphine Chun

Katherine Chun

Marie Daido

Eugene Dilda

Mary Ann Dudoit

Miyuki Ebisu

Lorraine Fay

Violeta Fe Benito

Cecilia Fong

Ellen Fujimoto

Matsue Fujioka

Takako Fujiwara

Sandra Fukuda

Hisayo Fukuda

Hisako Furuike

Lillian Gima

Nobuko Hamada

Marian Hayashida

Henry Hee

Tomie Higa

Diana Hopkins

Jie Cong Huang

Stella Imose

Toshiko Inouye

Mabel Ishimoto

Sumiko Isokane

Takashi Ito

Chun Ja Jitchaku

Kikuo Kageno

Robert Kaneshige

Jean Kaneshiro

Karite Kap

Fumie Kawano

Grace Kikuyama

Jung Sook Kim

Song Suk Kim

Janice Kitashima

Sharon Kobashi-gawa

Robert Kodama

George Koide

Beatrice Kong

Mae Kuboyama

Paula Sue Kurashige

Beatrice Lau

Hannah Lee

Velma Lee

Yiu Yuen Leung

Jacqueline Lowe

Aileen Lum

Fred Lum

Lita Lum

Mitsuko Lum

Rosa Marquez

Helene Masinag

Masato Matsui

Eleanor Mau-Okimoto

Ethel Mimori

Yaeko Miyahira

Robert Miyamoto

Jane Mizumoto

Umeko Mogi

Jane Morreira

Hisae Nakahodo

Franklin Nakano

Masae Numata

Theodora Obina

Susan Ogami-Van Camp

Violet Ogata

Tsuruko Okimoto

Gilbert Olayan

Helen Onoye

Carmen Orpilla

Clarence Pacarro

Jung Ok Park

Rosita Pasalo

Marie Perry

L. Kuuipo Ramos

Asae Rosales

Rita Schmid

Elaine Sensui

Karen Shishido

Cecile Smith

Carol Takaesu

Kay Takaesu

Yasuko Takeuchi

James Tanaka

Kang Ming Tang

No Thi Thai

Tuitogama’atoe Tu-itama

Katherine Uchihara

Matsue Uehara

Emiko Watanabe

Alfred Wong

Joyce Wong

Midgieann Wright

Ying Jian Xu

Hideko Yagi

Masue Yamada

Joan Yamane

Teiko Yamane

Irene Yamashita

Guo Kang Yang

Emiko Yasuda

Marion Yasui

Alyce Yogi

Janet Yokoe

Janice Yokooji

Geraldine Young

Xiang Lan Zhong

Yuet Mui

Kong

Program

Coordinator

Room 7 847-1322

Ext. 29

Cookie

Irvine

Program

Admin

Room 7 847-1322

Ext. 28

Iris

Hiramoto

Membership

Specialist

Room 4 847-1322

Ext. 24

Justin

Trubiani

Program

Specialist

Room 3 847-1322

Ext. 22

Staff Contact Information:

Medicare Open Enrollment Scams X. A person claims to be from Medicare or other health plan/agency, and wants to send you a new ID card. X. Someone calls to ask for your Medicare/SS# to give you a refund. X. A sales agent misleads/pressures you to sign up for a plan that you don’t need or isn’t right for you. What you should do: Protect your Medicare and SS#. Don’t give it out to

strangers. Detect attempts to scam you. Report scams and unethical insurance sales agents to

the Hawaii Senior Medicare Patrol at 1-800-296-9422.

+ You

www.ncoa.org/Flu

THURSDAY, 10/22 ALL Clubs & Classes

CANCELLED Due to HPHA event

BASKETBALL COURT

PARKING CLOSED

Bom Dia everyone…May this newsletter find you all well and thriving. Mahalo to members: Moana, Rose, Ellen, Betty, Puna, Alice, and Fely for the Sing Along presentation on Monday the 21st for the Japanese Cultural Club. Non Portuguese Cultural Club members: Pat, Sally, and Margarita also participated. It was a great “World Peace Day”. Ate Ja...

Events: 10/7-2016 Nominations 10/14-Spinal Injury Speaker 10/21-Meeting 10/28-Excursion Royal Palace

Portuguese Cultural Club by Puna Frank

Chinese Cultural Club by Dorothy Mau

Cultural Club News

Chinese Cultural Club is a very happy club. Members attend meetings every Friday. After all business is completed, they have singers, Mrs. Wong Yu Kun, Mr. Li Neng and Mrs. Shirley Lau sing opera songs or Chinese love songs. Although Chinese Full Moon was on September 27, 2015 this year, we are going to celebrate Full Moon and birthday members from July, August, September and October at Fook Yuen Restaurant. One Full Moon legend tells us Chang Er swallowed the magic pill of immortality. She floated up into heaven. Her hus-band Hou Yi tossed her jade rabbit up to her. Thus, she sits with her rabbit in the moon. People say that when the moon is full you can see them there. Events: 10/2 - Meeting 10/9 - Meeting 10/16 – Meeting 10/23 – Meeting 10/30-Meeting

Korean Cultural Club by Toni Lee

September is like a fresh start of the year since school starts full time and we're faced with traffic again Despite that, our members look forward to attending our Monday activities. On Sept. 14, we heard from representatives of Island Hospice who educated us on the quality of care that they offer. On the 21, we enjoyed sing-along with Moana's ukulele group and impromptu hula/line dance by our members. Brought back memories of "the good old days". On the 28th, we enjoyed the magical show of Mr. Takeshi. We all left still wondering how the bowling ball fell from a sketch he drew. Hmmmm. Looking forward to an exciting October where will hear educational information from Mr . Curt Kiriu, Pres. of CK Inde-pendent Living Builders. Also, information from Ms. Mari Nakamura from the Neurotrauma Registry - Traumatic Brain Injury. The following week, Kumu Harmony will show case her hula dancers from Lanakila. In addition, October birth-days will be celebrated, especially for our 90th birthday celebrants who are: Teresa Chang, Kikuo Kageno, Mae Kuboyama and Masato Matsui. Happy Birthday! Please join us on Oct. 26 for Karaoke/Japanese dance by Sensei Nobuko Yamagu-chi and her dancers. Happy Halloween on Saturday, Oct. 31. Events: 10/5 - CK Independent Living Builders 10/12 - Neurotrauma Registry - Traumatic Brain Injury 10/19 - Kumu Harmony's Hula/Birthday; 10/26 - Karaoke/Japanese Dance - Sensei Nobuko Yamaguchi

Japanese Cultural Club by Clarice Kumura

No Report

Events: 10/1 – Meeting 10/8 - Meeting 10/15 – Meeting 10/22 – Meeting 10/29—Meeting

There will be no Filipino Cultural Club meeting on Saturday, October 10th. Please attend our meeting on Saturday, Oc-tober 24th. We will be celebrating birthdays for the month of October! Check back soon for pictures of our club’s anni-versary celebration. Salamat! Events: 10/10 – No Meeting 10/24 – Birthday Celebration

Filipino Cultural Club of Honolulu by Puna Frank

Haitai Gusuyo! Kugwachi(September) was a short but wirikisan(enjoyable) month. First, Elsie’s Karaoke entertained us with songs and even made our members use their brains as they asked questions and gave out prizes for our correct an-swers. You even got a prize for being the oldest. What a treat! Continuing with the theme of “using our jianda(brains)”, Kaiser Permanente presented BRAIN GYM FOR SENIORS lead by Cindy Ogata. She did many exercises that seniors can do to improve not only memory and clear thinking but also balance. Remember the “buttons” exercise?

Also big KAMSA HAM NIDA! To Toni Lee of the Korean Cultural Club for inviting Lanakila members to Helemano Plantation Moon Festival Senior Fair. The Korean Club performed as did Sensei Toguchi-Nakasone’s Okinawan Dance Group.

The last Thursday ended with Nankurai Naisha not only entertaining our birthday celebrants but all of us with their per-formance. A group with jinbun(talent). Dikiton(well done)!

Juugwachi(October) is upon us with a full month of exciting meetings.

Events: 10/1-Island Prayz Band 10/8-HPC Food 10/15—SMP Healthcare Fraud

10/22-No Meeting 10/29-Bingo

Okinawan Nenchosha Club by Diane kawakami

Our President Frances Dela Cruz is still on the Big Island caring for her ill son. She tells me that she may be back some-time in October. It will be so nice to see her again. We are all saddened about Sharon Tulba’s husband, Lawrence Tulba, who passed away. When he came to our meeting he always sat in the same chair, always. We will miss him. John Burrows also has a request! I, John Burrows want and need one hundred new members to join the Hawaiian Club. We need more people with lots of aloha. Open to everyone, bring a smile we need you. Events: 10/6 – Meeting 10/13 – Meeting 10/20 – No Meeting 10/27 – Meeting

Hawaiian Cultural Club By Betty Parker

IMPORTANT UPCOMING CHANGES

ACTIVITY NEW DATE

Show N’ Sell Tues., November 3

Program Committee Meeting Wed., November 4

Class registration week of November 16 to 20

PAB Meeting Wed., November 18

Thanksgiving Program CANCELLED Christmas Program Wed., December 16

September was a fun month at Lanakila Multi-Purpose Senior Center. Here is a quick recap of some of the awesome events :

September 17th, 9 a.m. - Lanakila Seniors attend the Hele-mano Planation Moon Festival. Thank you to Toni Lee’s boss who was able to provide two school buses for us to take a total of over 150 people to the event. Korean and Okina-wan Dancers from the center also gave outstanding perfor-mances.

Mountain Pacific Health Series: Diabetes Management Located in Library Annex

Information and Hand Outs!

October 6, 13 & 20 (10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

November 17 (10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

December 8 & 15 (10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

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Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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Mountain Pacific

Diabetes Seminar(10:00)

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GLC: MAC 24/7

Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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Mountain Pacific

Diabetes Seminar(10:00)

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Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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Can Food Drive Begins

Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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Excursion: Sea Life Park (9:00)

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Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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Mountain Pacific

Diabetes Seminar(10:00)

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Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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CLUBS & CLASSES CAN-CELLED

NO Parking in Basketball Lot

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FCC (8:30)

25 26

Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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New Member

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Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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Blood Pressure Screenings (9:00)

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October 2015

Center Hours

Monday - Friday

7:30 am - 3:00 pm

Saturday (2x/month)

8:30 am - 11:30 am

Lanakila Multi-Purpose Senior Center

1640 Lanakila Avenue

Honolulu, Hawaii 96817

(808) 847 - 1322

Center Staff

Yuet Mui Kong…… Program Coordinator

Justin Trubiani…….…. Program Specialist

Iris Hiramoto…..….Membership Specialist

Cookie Irvine……..Program Support Asst.

Lodi Tapawan…………...……..Custodian

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