Hefty To-do List For New HK Chamber
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Del.icio.usThe newly formed Hawaii Kai Chamber of Commerce has set goals to pull the community together and to stimulate business through its website, community events, business lunches, business dinners and monthly meetings.
“Our slogan is ‘Together we achieve so much more,’” declared president Noble Turner. Since the group launched in June, its board has been meeting at 6 p.m. every Thursday at Outback Steakhouse in Hawaii Kai to discuss what they would like to do.
“One of the things we want to do,“Turner added, “is to have people mingling and munching at a monthly Friday night festival at Maunalua Bay with lunch trucks lined up in that area and live music. Maybe later on we can do it twice a month.”
The chamber will host its first major dinner at 6 p.m. Nov. 9 at Roy’s Restaurant in Hawaii Kai. Live music and door prizes are a part of the gala. Tickets are $75 per person. The group also plans to coordinate a regatta in March, sponsor Fourth of July fireworks at Maunalua Bay, help out with the annual Christmas parade, and join forces to support the Taste of East Honolulu.
There is a push on for more members, Turner said, noting that each board member has a list of people they have been assigned to approach.
Benefits include listing in a hard-copy directory and on the website, member referrals and networking. Membership fee is $250 for an individual; $500 for a small business; $1,000 for corporate booster; $2,500 for corporate sponsor.
Officers serving a one-year term are president Turner of Noble Turner Realty International, vice president David Shope of All Pool and Spa, treasurer Bill MacDonald of Makapuu Pool Service and secretary Lisa van den Heuvel, a Realtor with Turner Realty. Delorese Gregoire of Winners’ Camp on Kamehame Ridge handles public relations. Other members are Dean Otsuki of Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii, Kenric Russell of Little Hawaii Car Rental, Jeff and Courtney Krantz of SeaBreeze Water Sports, and registered piano technician Willem Blees.
Kaiser High School students and students from Winners’ Camp designed the website, which you can log onto at www.hawaiikaicofc.com For more information, call 233-2001.
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