Feb 16 Meeting

Aloha Family,

We hashed out a few more reunion details at our last meeting - especially the itinerary. See below for our notes.

I just received word that we may need to postpone the reunion until 2015, but these details are good to hold on to no matter what happens. 


Deadline to confirm reunion attendance: June 10

Activities:

Thursday 7/10 - Welcome everyone to Hilo throughout the day and meet at Grandpa and Grandma's grave site to start things off.  Reconvene at G/G's home for dinner and reconnecting.

Meet at 5:30 at Homelani half hour
- Sing
- bring flowers
- family photo
- theme?
- ask aunties
Dinner
Go through reunion itinerary
Pau

Friday 7/11 - Gather at the Stake Center or Ponahawai Chapel for family history workshops, fun and games for kids, and hang out.  Free time in the afternoon.  Open to suggestions.

-Breakfast on your own
-Meet at Ponahawai 9am
-family tree
-Set up computers for Family History workshop
-Family powerpoint presentations per family
-presentation board for each family

Invite the friends and extended family for lunch.

Afternoon - Free time

6pm Family movie night - each family put together a five minute presentation

Have Teylon taking pictures

Saturday 7/12 - Rent a bus and travel to the family's historic sites in the greater Hilo area.  Free time in the afternoon.
Dinner, talent show, and open mic for testimonies or sharing whatever.  Close.
Breakfast on your own
Meet at Ponahawai 9am
Bus pick up
9-12

Volcano
Mauna loa
Grandpa/Grandma’s work place
Where Grandpa turned around on the day of the tsunami
Old Kea’au chapel location
Ask the aunties

12:00 lunch
Service Project at family house
-bamboo fishing

Free Time

6pm dinner - invite extended family

Assignments:

Meals - Aukai
Facilities/Decoration - Kunio and Debbie
Workshops
-Family Tree
-T-shirt printing
-each family line has same shirt
-custom stamp?
-heat press?
-Hilo songs
-weaving
-macadamia nut cracking
Excursion - Tammy
Programs - Dad
Activities - Joelle

Next meeting: 3/2 1pm

Welcome to the Manono Street Meyers Blog!

Aloha Family!

Now that the holidays are behind us, reunion planning is in full swing! We decided to start a blog for those who don't have or don't check Facebook. I'll be posting here as often as I have updates. We plan on meeting every two weeks up until the reunion. I'll be updating the Facebook page with these posts, but if you want, send me your email and I'll add you as a subscriber to this blog so you can receive updates straight to your email inbox. Let's keep all comments on the blog rather than Facebook so that everyone can see them. 

Please send me the emails of any family members you have so I can add them as well. I'm not in touch with everybody so I'm counting on you guys to get the word out.

Here are the things we discussed last week:

The dates for the reunion are set for July 10-12. We put together a VERY rough itinerary that can be changed. Since this is our first reunion, we want to keep things as simple as possible. We're open to any suggestions you have.

Thursday 7/10 - Welcome everyone to Hilo throughout the day and meet at Grandpa and Grandma's grave site to start things off.  Reconvene at G/G's home for dinner and reconnecting.

Friday 7/11 - Gather at the Stake Center or Ponahawai Chapel for family history workshops, fun and games for kids, and hang out.  Free time in the afternoon.  Open to suggestions.
Family and Friends Night - invite G/G's, Aunty Valerie, and Aunty Miki's friends over for dinner and story telling, probably at a chapel.  Kailimai's, Veloria's, Callawag's, etc.

Saturday 7/12 - Rent a bus and travel to the family's historic sites in the greater Hilo area.  Free time in the afternoon.
Dinner, talent show, and open mic for testimonies or sharing whatever.  Close.

Things that we need to begin resolving include:
 - accommodations
 - meals
 - cost per family / person
 - t-shirts (?)
 - activities
 - head count

We'll be meeting again on 2/16/14 at G/G's house at 6 p.m. HT.  Everyone is welcome to join by skype or phone.

We are so excited about having this our first family reunion for the William and Chiyo Meyers' Ohana and look forward to working with you all and then seeing you all in July!  Please don't hesitate to share your mana`o as we go full blast on planning.

ACTION STEPS

1) Click this link and fill out the form. This is for contact info and head count. If you're not sure you can make it, at least submit your contact/family info so we can stay in touch.

2) Leave a comment below just so we can make sure everything's working properly. Say hi, share your thoughts about what we've discussed so far, etc. Select "name/url" when submitting your comment.

Mahalo!

Joelle