 ThinkTek Hawaii, civil engagement lives here. Okay, and welcome to another edition of Hawaii in Uniform, I'm your host Calvin Griffin. And for those of you who may or may not have seen the program before here, we deal with veterans' military information. And we also show the interaction between the veterans and the military with the local community. We're going to hit the ground running this morning. We have two special guests. One is Pastor Bill Payne and also we have Mr. Rod Boucher who's going to join us in a few minutes. But for right now, Pastor Bill, I mean Pastor Payne, good afternoon or good morning. How are you doing today? Yes, good morning Calvin. I'm doing fantastic. Thank you for having me on your show. Great, yeah. I just want to let you know, the viewing audience know what organization you're with and you're with the, I'm sorry, with the Seventh Day Adventist? Yes, yes. Okay. I am the pastor for the Honolulu Central Seventh Day Adventist Church. Right. I know that there's something coming up, but there's a lot of activities out there to help the veterans in many different ways. But in August, there's something that's coming up that I understand that you want to let the community know what's going on. And you can tell us a little bit about that, sir. Yes. Thank you for the opportunity to share this. I was looking for a way in which we can serve our veterans as well as our homeless community. Those who are underinsured and uninsured. And this idea of doing a free clinic was brought to me. And this free clinic includes dental, medical, and vision. And so we know that it's difficult for our veterans to receive dental care because it's so expensive and many of them do not pay to get that done. And so this is one area that we are able to serve them. We know that the medical, they're able to go and get and sometimes vision as well. But this is a program that we wanted to do for veterans as well as our homeless population. Those are uninsured and underinsured. So we are going to set up about 15 dental stations where extraction will be taken place, cleaning will be taken place. And we are partnering with local dentists as well as some will be coming in from mainland. The organization that we're doing this with is called AMEN, Adventist Medical Network, Evangelism Network, I'm sorry, Adventist Medical Evangelism Network. And they have done this in American Samoa. They've done it on different places in mainland. They have serviced over 30,000 people. And it is a networking of doctors, dentists, optometrists, nurses, and local people who want to serve the community. All right. I know that you put out a call for volunteers in the medical field. Can you tell us a little bit more about that, sir? Yes. So we have a website that medical people, dentists, doctors, nurses, and optometrists can go on and they can register. And by registering, we do want them to register. By registering, then they will be protected under the liability insurance policy that we have. And so it's a malpractice coverage. But the website is www.amenfreeclinics.org. And if they go on that website, they can register as a volunteer. And they will look at the Honolulu location and they will see that on that website. And they can go through and do their registration. So that is amenfreeclinics.org. And so we're looking for people who are willing to be counselors, willing to translate, people who are social workers, people who want to do some counseling, lifestyle counselors. And also ministers and clergy. We invite anyone and everyone to come by. We're looking at 250, 300 people per day. And we want to service these individuals as best as we possibly can. And this is over four days. This will be August 23, which is a Thursday, and 24, a Friday, and then 26 and 27, which is a Sunday and Monday. Besides medical personnel, what other volunteers do you need? People like interpreters, people, individuals who are bilingual, that would help assist? We do have a large, let's say, a Micronesian community. We have a good Spanish community. We have different places, of course, here in Hawaii. We have a beautiful mix of Polynesian people and Japanese and Korean. And so we do invite anyone who have that need and who to come. And so we'll need, if they do not speak English really well, then we would need to have interpreters. So if they're those who want to come by and they dedicate four hours, or maybe a full day, we're going to be open from eight to four, and we just wanted to serve. Also, the Salvation Army will be bringing their big truck with donations, with items that people can peruse through and get clothing and different things that they might need. We have in the Hawaii vision, they're going to be bringing their big truck and their vision center. They're going to be here, and there are others who serve the veterans. We're going to have a number of booths set up where as people are waiting to be served or they have been served, they can walk around and go to different places where they can get additional services. Great. Okay. Pastor, what we're going to do, we're going to do a follow-up program on this, help to get the information out. Of course, you have a lot of different sources that are willing to help. But we'll be back in touch with you if you'd like to come and join us on a program. We'd love to have you. But for right now, could you just give us your number one more time? And so our viewers can give me calls to see what they can help to assist. My office number is 808-524-1352. And the website to go on is www.amenpreclinics.org. Great. Okay. Well, Pastor, thank you very much. Of course, it's going to help a lot of people out. And it just, of course, goes to show the spirit of giving here in the state of Hawaii, and also those who are helping to support our military and veterans. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. Griffin, and we look forward to seeing you soon. Great. Okay. Give them a call. There's so much to be done over here. Thanks. Spirit of Aloha as well, and good and all that good stuff in here. Speaking of Aloha. Aloha. Rodney. Thank you for coming on the program. Thank you for having me. May I call you Rodney? A little bit about yourself in here. I know that you're a former military also. Yes. 24 years in the Navy, retired Master Chief. Took me from ships, submarines, NATO, special operations, naval special operations support. And then I had my last three and a half years here on beautiful Oahu, and met my wife, and that sealed the deal on staying here. Okay. Here on the program, Leo, would you talk about trying to enlighten people to some of the things that the veterans and the military are involved in as far as with the communities? And of course, the one big thing that you're involved in is with the Red Cross and also with the CERT program, which is the Community Emergency Response Team. Could you tell my viewers a little bit about that and how they could benefit from your knowledge? The Red Cross is everywhere. The Hawaii State Chapter has been very active. I've been involved with the Red Cross for my entire career, working as a water safety lifeguard, and then also my day job as communications electronics for the Navy. We were always involved with the Red Cross. That led me into here when I decided to stay here. I got more involved with the Red Cross working at the shelters that we open up for hurricanes, natural disasters, or whatever. And then now logistically, we're shipping a lot of stuff off to the big island that they need in support, of which I wanted to thank you for being there yesterday and loading in your sweat equity. It's a first aid kit. You might have needed it yesterday. But today it's for helping us yesterday load up a container that is being shipped off to the big island for their support for the Red Cross over there. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. The Red Cross led me into CERT, which is Community Emergency Response Team Training, which was discussed before. And it is involved with giving people enough knowledge base to help themselves in reference to them and their families first, as much knowledge as possible ahead of time. Then you help your community as best as you can and you build your teams off of that. There are multiple teams of volunteers in the community. Many of them are military veterans. We discussed a little bit more about the schools, the Manoa and UH West Oahu's student veterans. But the CERT program is something that everybody can get involved. It's free. It's 20 to 22 hours of training that is given via the Department of Emergency Management CERT teams. I'm one of the Leeward coordinators and then there's other coordinators throughout the island of Oahu as well as for the other islands, which are active on Kauai and the Big Island now due to the situations with the flooding and the lava flows in the earthquakes. I know one thing that's coming up right now, RIMPAC, which happens every two years. So you're involved in that also and also with the CERT teams coming on as role players as far as with the victims. The RIMPAC exercise has been very generous as far as the medical side, the medical reserve core, something that ties into the past or earlier. And we're working with the Leeward CERT program as well as the Windward CERT program. We're working with RIMPAC. They're going to provide Medevac for some of our survivors, our role players, our CERT team members. We're going to have exercises at different parks. And we're going to do a CERT triage of our medical survivors. And then the Medevacs come in and take them to the location for RIMPAC. They'll further triage and support them. And then they'll be brought back to our communities, whether Windward and Eva. And then we'll finish out the exercise with them. That's on July 12th. And the public is welcome to come and observe. To catch all, it's from 06 to 0800 in the morning. So it's before traffic, it's too bad. And if you want more information, I can provide you the information for that. About the CERT program, there's, within limits, there's no, within reasonable limits. As far as age, because there's many different skill sets that are needed. Could you talk a little bit about that also as far as... What we try to tell people or what's part of the mandate is there's a job for everybody that's available. You don't have to be within a certain age group. You don't have to be, it's available for ADA, American Disabilities Act, disabilities. Everybody can have a job in it. You might not be going through a door to help survivors in search and rescue. But you can be helping with the logistics, the administration side of making, keeping track and helping survivors. And that's what CERT does. We're there to help our community. And we primarily are there to help our families and ourselves first, take care of ourselves and our family first. Then you go ahead and help your community, your neighborhoods. And that's what the CERT teams do. They do provide some information in some pamphlets and stuff that are available on Honolulu.gov backslash d-e-m. Lots of good information. It talks about where the CERT training is being held throughout the island of Oahu and of which you've participated and graduated yourself. You survived the CERT training. Speaking of surviving, we're going to have to take a short break. We'll come back. We'll continue. And like CERT is getting as much information as we can about the program. Stay tuned to Hawaii Uniform. We'll be back soon. Hello, everyone. Think Tech Hawaii is broadcasting in Japanese. Hello, Hawaii. I'm Kosto Kunisue Ikari. I'm broadcasting from 2 p.m. every Monday. I'm broadcasting from the Japanese community, the Japanese community in Hawaii, for useful information, news, and stuff like that. Hello, Hawaii. I'm broadcasting from 2 p.m. every Monday. Hello, everyone. I'm Kosto Kunisue Ikari. Aloha. I'm broadcasting from 2 p.m. every Monday. I'm broadcasting from 2 p.m. on Mondays every two weeks on Think Tech. Aloha. You're back with Hawaii Uniform. I'm your host Calvin Griffin. We have Mr. Rodney Boucher, with the CERT team and also with the Red Cross, who's enlightening us on what's happening in the community and how you can join them to make things better. I know one of the things that stress is preparedness the different government programs, even with FEMA, the Red Cross, and also with Homeland Security. That's one thing they do stress as far as being prepared for the unexpected, you know. And one thing here in Hawaii with the different, you know, the melting pot, as you would call it, whatever it is, you know, we do have a lot of people that do want to give back, and so we need many different cultures, cultures, and speaking of which, I'm quite sure, like I said, with all the different activities going on and the different languages, I guess you do also look for or recruit people who are multilingual? Yes, Jeff. Absolutely. Yeah. What you discussed previously, we work with the Foreign Language Service, which is here in Honolulu. They provide linguistic translation skills. They've been to our cert training, and they've provided us with facets to help develop the different language barriers or break down the barriers so that the training can continue in other people's normal language if English is not their first language or second language. What we do try to do, I'm a volunteer with the Eva Emergency Preparedness Committee, and we started back in 2011 when a wind shear effect took down all our power in Ava Beach for, in some cases, 48, 72, 96 hours, and that created a vacuum as far as need. And what we did, we worked with the Department of Emergency Management, and we did with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, and we come up with different things. The main thing is you make a plan, you build a kit, and you stay informed. When you make a plan, we ask people to make an emergency plan. This is available at that site at honolulu.gov.dem, and it's available throughout different agencies, HawaiiEmergencyManagement.gov, as well. And that's what it does. It gives you a chance to make a plan where you have all your contacts for all your family. People at work, people at school, people at home, people in transit. So you write down all the information. You write down where, if you have an emergency at home, where do you meet? Outside the home, away from the danger. If you're spread throughout the island, then you go and you have a certain focal point. It talks about the fact that the cell phones will probably be inundated, which they were last year for the tropical storms, as well as even sooner, as far as what's happened with the big island, et cetera. So we talk about having an out-of-state contact that you can work with, which happened to us with the earthquake on the big island back in 2006, I believe, and it knocked out power here. I was on a Hawaiian air flight stuck on the rampart. My wife was in baggage claim for five hours. We communicated through my sister in Arizona, because even though we were 200 yards apart or less, we couldn't talk to each other. So it's very important to build that plan and practice that plan as the other part of that. A lot of people, unfortunately, are not really aware of what could happen when communication goes down. It's very stressful. And I know earlier you mentioned about being part of a search team, which you want to do is take care of your family first. The thing is, it's not being selfish. The thing is alleviating the stress on those who are trained to try to go ahead and serve the others in the community. But I think that one of the things is that with the, again, being prepared, because some of us are maybe fortunate enough to be able to have different storage, emergency things on hand anyhow, but for those who are not, what it is when you are prepared with your family and yourself and you have those things on hand, is less of a stress on the system when people who really can do need it anyhow. We are on an island of over a million plus, including our visitors when they come in. There is very functionality now that I've been dealing with some logistics issues. It's very hard for me to think about having enough supplies that last for any long-duration situation. The situation in Kauai or the Big Island are the perfect examples this year of what can happen and what you need to build on. We ask people to have two weeks of preparedness items and you start with one day's item with one person. To deal that, you have to plan for water and food and you work off of that. If I do one person per gallon of water, this container holds six gallons. It's 50 pounds when it's full and there's certain things you want to do to make sure, but you can put tap water in it, fill it up and that's your six day supply for one person. If you have two, three, four people in your family, you need to plan for that against the timeline of instead of six days, you might have three days. If you have enough of these containers, you don't need to go out and buy cases and cases and cases of bottled water. But if that's what you do, that's what you do. The thing in reference to being prepared is you make sure that you and your family are safe first. When your family feels safe, if you are gone and you feel satisfied that the air can support themselves, that is the key issue in what everything we do, whether it's Red Cross, they say the same thing as CERT does, as any Hawaii EMA, Hawaii Emergency Management, Previous Civil Defense or FEMA, they always say that you have to take care of your family first. One thing about enlightening or informing people, the sooner you train them, the better often. I know that you, before, make sure we have enough time to talk about this, there are programs geared towards the younger groups like children or pre, well, not preschool, but actually, there is not so much preschool, but in, we do presentations to cake eat at the different schools. And one of my favorite jokes is that I bring this out. This is the front pages within a phone book. And the question always comes up from the kids is, what's a phone book? In today's world, social media-wise, it's different. But for the people that still remember what a phone book is, the information is there, and if you still get a phone book, then please take it and use it and be aware of it, that it's disaster preparedness guide. It has a lot of good information, contacts, emails, phone lines, and where to call for more information. It's always available. We do a lot of programs with the Red Cross. They have Red Cross clubs. And CERT is also doing that within high schools. We work with the JROTCs, the different civic clubs within schools, so that they build their knowledge. If we've learned, or at least I have learned, that if you deal with the children first, the young adults, they will get their parents involved. And that goes into what happens when we have our, when EVA has their preparedness fair on September 8th, if I can plug it. September 8th, Saturday, we have a EVA, get ready EVA preparedness fair. And we will be giving away thousands of dollars of preparedness items, courtesy of our sponsors and our grants. We're a non-profit, and they allow us to give this stuff out for free as well as give the training circumstances. Like the CERT training, Red Cross, CPR, AED training that comes up. We navigate through all the different agencies, and especially Red Cross and Hawaii Heart Foundation, to give out these different training cycles. And one of those is all the stuff is always available online as well to deal with things. There are some great manuals, booklets that are available throughout the community. Hawaii Electric has a great preparedness guide. I'll bring it out here shortly. But this is the homeowner's handbook that the UHC grant publicizes. It's online, it's available online, social media, as well as UHC grant. Or UHManoa.edu, and you can link to there. But we saved $400, my wife and I saved $400, using that book to put hurricane clips on our roof to our wall foundation. And once we justified that and showed it and they came out and verified it, we saved $400 on our home insurance. Which is very fundamentally something that everybody should and can look at. Because we immediately used the $400, but it's still good to have that claim to be. As far as preparedness, one thing, I just got to ask this dumb question. With all the visitors that come over here, do you work with the hotels or the tourist industry, like say, to enlighten them to what they need to do, to make sure that, again, that there's not an over where the local populace or the response is not overburdened by the visitors that are here? Yes, throughout the visitors association, they have a committee that deals with preparedness. Of which they were very active, dealing with the Kauai floods. And now with the Big Island. They're working with the hotel industries throughout there. And they work very closely with us through CERT, but primarily through the Department of Emergency Management and the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. They have a membership into these, both organizations. So that we know that our volunteers, our visitors, are coming here to enjoy themselves. They might not necessarily be coming with 14 day supply or awareness other than hitting the beach or whatever their activities are. So each hotel, the vast majority of hotels, provide this information on their broadcast channels. As well as written information on their doors as well as in their complex as their rooms. And it's always available. And many of the hotels have upgraded since Tropical Scor-Zell. And the circumstances we had from 2016. So it's very beneficial that our hotel industry is working very proactively with the different agencies and community groups. Right. And I would like to say that part of those community groups is our neighborhood boards. Through Oahu specifically, I was a member for five years. And it's very beneficial to have your elected representatives be involved in preparedness. And many of them are. And I'm very thankful for those. Great. Okay, we're getting down to the wire. We got less than a minute in the house. So I give you a chance to go ahead. The contact numbers you want to put out again. Right. If you go to honolulu.gov backslash d-e-m at the website provides a vast majority of information that you that I've put out here, including making a plan. You build your kit information and how to stay informed. And that could be just a little AM FM radio that can be plugged into whatever you need to do. Or it can be your social media contacts outlets. Good. Okay. We'll do a follow-up and quite sure you've got other ways of getting the word out there. But of course, here at Think Tech, we try to do what we can to be more community minded anyhow. But I want to thank you for coming on the program. Definitely. And like I said, you check into the different programs. And I want to thank you for your time. I know you're very busy with the situation and the why. I mean, with the big island and everything else. Well, you were involved with that very much yesterday. And how are you back? Very minimal. I'm fine. If I may, a shout out to the American Red Cross. If you go to that website or just Google American Red Cross, you'll find more information if you wish to volunteer, which the Red Cross always needs volunteers, specifically within your own communities. Okay. We're down to the wire. I think we've got about five seconds left. So we're doing that period of time. Thank you for coming on the program. Thank you for viewing in. Thank you. And God bless until that time.