Aloha Club celebrates with group ukulele performance

by Leah Perrotti

LW contributor

The newly formed Leisure World Aloha Club celebrated the end of the semester with a culmination ceremony on June 14. Over 70 friends and family members attended the celebration.

Twenty-eight “Beginning and Beyond Beginning” students performed several songs they learned to play during the spring semester.

The beginning students received their ukulele class completion certificates.

The Aloha Club “ohana” (Hawaiian word for family) learns about Hawaiian music, food, language, dance, culture and promotes acts of kindness for residents and for others beyond LW’s walls.

The Aloha Club embodies the “Aloha Spirit.” Aloha is a word that means much more than just a single salutation— Aloha is a way of life.

It is the coordination of mind and heart within each person. It means to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to know the unknowable.

Every word that is uttered and very single action, be it large or small, must first come from a compassionate heart and be supported by a thoughtful mind. The Aloha Club brings love into the hearts of others with the hope to make the LW community and world a better place.

The Aloha Club welcomes new members. A new beginning ukulele class will begin in August. A waitlist is forming now with a maximum of 25 students in the class.

First year students like accompanist Liberty Harvey (l) received certificates from teacher Larry Yamashiro (r).

The ukulele players performed to a packed house. Everyone dined on a Hawaiian themed feast afterward.