Taste of Hawaii June 5

Taste of Hawaii – the Ultimate Sunday Brunch – is an annual fund raising event for the Kauai community that Ray and I enjoy attending every year. The folks at the Rotary Club of Kapa’a work really hard at planning and producing this event. Thanks to the generosity of the chefs, beverage companies and musicians who donate their services and product, you definitely get your money’s worth attending this upscale, delicious, festive event. June 5, 2011 is the 23rd year for this popular happening.

The Rotary Club of Kapa’a is a volunteer, non-profit group of business people dedicated to the motto “Service Above Self.” Net proceeds from Taste of Hawaii goes to help worthy non-profit groups and to fund scholarships for high school and community college students. A portion of the money collected goes abroad where, working in partnership with Rotary clubs in Third World countries, they help fund basic necessities of life such as water wells to provide clean drinking water and toilet and hand-washing stations for rural schools.

Taste of Hawaii has been voted the best community event several years running by The Garden Island readers. You may wonder why it is called Taste of Hawaii and not Taste of Kauai. It is because 40+ of Hawaii’s best chefs, 15+ beverage stations (beer, fine wines, water, soft drinks, coffee and specialty coffee drinks and smoothies) 10+ music groups.

Held at Smith’s Tropical Paradise

Sunday June 5th, 2011
11:30am – 4:00pm

Buy your tickets for Admission
$75 in advance (pick up at will-call)
$85 at the gate

Important parking information

Support Taste of Hawaii on Facebook

The Fan Page

The Event Page

A Partial List of Fund Recipients from Taste of Hawaii Events

Youth Service:
 Academic Scholarships to college bound high school students
 Culinary Arts Scholarships for Kauai, Hawaii, Maui, Leeward and Kapiolani Community
Colleges
 Four-way essay Test contest for 5th Graders (savings bonds to winners)
 Kapaa Elementary Reading is Fun program
 Kapaa High School Interact Club
 Kauai Community College Roteract Club
 Low Ropes course tuition
 Music Scholarships to college bound high school seniors
 Recruitment and selection of Hawaii Rotary Youth Foundation Scholarship Recipients
 Scholarships for vocational studies for community college students
 Sponsorship to Rotary Youth Leadership Association Camp
 Tradewinds student journalism program
Community Service:
 American Lung Association
 Boys and Girls Club of Kapaa
 Boy Scouts of America
 Child & Family Services
 East Kauai Family Summit
 Friendship House
 Garden Angels
 Good Beginnings Alliance
 Halau Heiura
 Hale Ho’omalu Food Pantry
 Hale Opio Kauai foster home program
 Hawaii Children’s Theatre
 Ho’okuma Alaka’i
 Kapaa High School Football Team
 Kapaa Middle School Choir
 Kamalani Bridge Pavilion reconstruction
 Kauai Children’s Discovery Museum
 Kauai Hospice
 Ku Kilakila
 Lihue Baseball League
 Lydgate Park Tree Planting Day
 Mahelona Hospital
 Mokihana Aquatics
 Project Graduation- Kapaa High School
 Project Graduation- Kauai High School
 United Way
 YWCA Kauai
International Service:
 Bathrooms for rural schools in India and
the South Pacific
 Corrective facial surgery for children
born with cleft lips and cleft palates
 Computers for rural schools in India
 Homes for poor South Pacific islanders
 Japanese student exchange with Higashi-
Osaka
 Mid-day meals to poor students in India
 Medical van and water wells in India
 Polio Plus Program
 Wheelchairs for crippled adults and
children in third world countries
 Tsunami Relief

Taste of Hawaii 2010 Video from KVIC Channel 3