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
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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
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