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By Andy Gross - The Garden Island
The tall man had a short tenure.
After less than a year on the job, Randy Gingras has resigned as president of the Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce, Chamber leaders announced earlier this week.
Gingras' resignation is effective Saturday, Oct. 15.
Gingras said he was moving on to new opportunities in the private sector.
The taciturn Gingras, who took office in December, 2004, did not provide any other explanation for his departure.
Gingras said he gave official notice to Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce leadership last week.
"On behalf of the board of directors, we bid Randy a fond aloha, and thank him for his dedication and service to the Chamber and Kaua'i's business community," said Darnney L. Proud-foot, chair of Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.
"We wish him the very best in his future endeavors."
As part of a prepared statement, Gingras said, "I thank the board for having the opportunity to have served with so many dedicated individuals that choose to serve the community of Kaua'i."
Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce Board Member Joy Miura Koerte said that, at this point, the Chamber leadership has no interim replacement for Gingras. She said board members would form a search committee to find a new president.
Koerte described the parting as "amicable." She said Gingras did not reveal what he might be doing. In the interim, she said board members would take more active rolls in maintaining operations.
Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce leaders held their quarterly-general-membership meeting Tuesday at the Princeville Resort (hotel).
Prior to joining the Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce, Gingras served as the interim fund administrator of the Hawaii Community Loan Fund in Honolulu. Before that, he was the director of finance and operations at the Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development.
Notably, he was the center director of the Hawaii Small Business Development Center on Kaua'i for eight years, and the recipient of the 1997 U.S. Small Business Administration Financial Services Advocate of the Year Award for the County of Kaua'i.
The Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to its mission to promote, develop and improve commerce, quality growth, and economic stability in the County of Kaua'i, according to Chamber leaders.
"We look forward to continuing to provide our members and the community with the utmost service and value. And, as always, working together to make a difference," Proudfoot said.
Leaders of the Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce have been serving members of Kaua'i's business community since 1913. Membership includes more than 650 business and professional men and women, representing 450 Kaua'i firms, who give freely of their time and talents to advance the commercial, financial, industrial, civic and social well-being of the County of Kaua'i and state of Hawai'i, Proudfoot said.
For more information, please call 245-7363, or see the Web site, www.kauaichamber.org.
Andy Gross, business editor, may be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 251) or agross@kauaipubco.com
After less than a year on the job, Randy Gingras has resigned as president of the Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce, Chamber leaders announced earlier this week.
Gingras' resignation is effective Saturday, Oct. 15.
Gingras said he was moving on to new opportunities in the private sector.
The taciturn Gingras, who took office in December, 2004, did not provide any other explanation for his departure.
Gingras said he gave official notice to Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce leadership last week.
"On behalf of the board of directors, we bid Randy a fond aloha, and thank him for his dedication and service to the Chamber and Kaua'i's business community," said Darnney L. Proud-foot, chair of Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.
"We wish him the very best in his future endeavors."
As part of a prepared statement, Gingras said, "I thank the board for having the opportunity to have served with so many dedicated individuals that choose to serve the community of Kaua'i."
Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce Board Member Joy Miura Koerte said that, at this point, the Chamber leadership has no interim replacement for Gingras. She said board members would form a search committee to find a new president.
Koerte described the parting as "amicable." She said Gingras did not reveal what he might be doing. In the interim, she said board members would take more active rolls in maintaining operations.
Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce leaders held their quarterly-general-membership meeting Tuesday at the Princeville Resort (hotel).
Prior to joining the Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce, Gingras served as the interim fund administrator of the Hawaii Community Loan Fund in Honolulu. Before that, he was the director of finance and operations at the Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development.
Notably, he was the center director of the Hawaii Small Business Development Center on Kaua'i for eight years, and the recipient of the 1997 U.S. Small Business Administration Financial Services Advocate of the Year Award for the County of Kaua'i.
The Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to its mission to promote, develop and improve commerce, quality growth, and economic stability in the County of Kaua'i, according to Chamber leaders.
"We look forward to continuing to provide our members and the community with the utmost service and value. And, as always, working together to make a difference," Proudfoot said.
Leaders of the Kaua'i Chamber of Commerce have been serving members of Kaua'i's business community since 1913. Membership includes more than 650 business and professional men and women, representing 450 Kaua'i firms, who give freely of their time and talents to advance the commercial, financial, industrial, civic and social well-being of the County of Kaua'i and state of Hawai'i, Proudfoot said.
For more information, please call 245-7363, or see the Web site, www.kauaichamber.org.
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Ronald Pray wrote on Oct 17, 2009 5:14 AM:
I am a former U.S. Coast Guard Search and rescue team member at Barbers Point. I never read the scathing November 28 article about a rescue I did in 1977 while on leave.
In November of 1977 I had visited Kauai on leave and hiked the Na Pali coast to go camping. On the trail I saw some hikers in front of me ignore the cries of a man saying he was poisoned by mushrooms he had eaten. I know that there are many poisonous varieties from the orange mushrooms to the copelandia varieties which are deadly. I stopped and he was vomitting and telling me that he was dying. I laid my sleeping bag down onto the ground and made him comfortable then lit my coleman stove and cooked him soup to eat. He ate the soup and continued vomitting. He said that he needed immediate attention. I ecouraged him to vommit everything out of his stomache.
I asked him if he would be OK while I ran back to Haena for help and he said please do that.
I ran from his location sometimes skipping the zig-zags in the trails steep inclines jumping straight down to the trail below. I had injured my Achilles tendon by twisting my ankle which put me on light duty upon returning to Barbers Point.
I then knocked on the first door I found and asked them to contact the U.S. Coast Guard that there was a man stranded on the trail who needed immediate attention.
The Fire Department went in on the trail and found the man walking out on his own. This is why the writer in 1977 claimed that I had misread the situation and that is why he called my rescue "The Rescue that wasn't". I believe that had that man died, his death would have been on my ticket and given that rescuing folks was my business I had a responsibility to perform.
We may never know what part my inducing vomiting played in the recovery of this man. I'd like to believe that it played a major role in his quick recovery.
I am proud that I stood for the highest traditions of the U.S. Coast Guard on that fateful day on the Na Pali Coast.To this day, I have a lump in my Achilles Tendon which hurts on certain days to remind me of that day I ran into that man.
Malama Pono,
Former 3rd Class Petty Officer Ronald Pray "