HCC hosting passport fair ADVERTISING HCC hosting passport fair Hawaii Community College will be accepting U.S. passport applications at a special Passport Acceptance Fair from 8 a.m.-noon Dec. 3 at the campus, 1175 Manono St. Appointments are available every 30
HCC hosting passport fair
HCC hosting passport fair
Hawaii Community College will be accepting U.S. passport applications at a special Passport Acceptance Fair from 8 a.m.-noon Dec. 3 at the campus, 1175 Manono St.
Appointments are available every 30 minutes. To request an appointment, email your name, phone number and preferred appointment time to PassportFair@state.gov. Walk-in customers will be accommodated as time permits.
The HCC Office of Continuing Education and Training accepts passport applications from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information or to request an appointment, call OCET at 934-2700. For details about passport application requirements, visit travel.state.gov or call the National Passport Information Center toll-free at 1-877-487-2778.
Vermicomposting lecture offered
The United Nations Association of the USA Hawaii Island Chapter in collaboration with UH-Hilo International Student Services and Intercultural Education Program will be presenting a free lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday at UH-Hilo Campus Center Room 301.
The title of this presentation is “Food Waste Management by Vermicomposting.” The speaker will be professor Norman Q. Arancon, Ph.D., of the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management.
During the past two decades, the use of earthworms to degrade organic wastes, referred to as vermicomposting, offered alternative and innovative methods of managing a variety of organic wastes such as animal manures, shredded cardboard and industrial wastes.
Arancon will discuss other prototypes of systems such as windrows and complex input systems such as automated continuous flow digesters.
For more information about the presentation, contact Rosemarie Muller at rcmuller27@hotmail.com.
Honor roll
• Lopaka O’Connor of Papaikou recently was named an Ervin Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Ervin Scholars Program awards scholarships to incoming first-year students who demonstrate exceptional intellectual and leadership achievements, and who have shown a commitment to community service and bringing diverse people together.
The award is for full- and partial-tuition scholarships and is renewable for all four years of undergraduate study. Tuition for the 2016-17 academic year is $48,950.
• Wentworth Military Academy and College in Lexington, Mo., announced that Alexis Amon-Wilkins of Hilo was named to the president’s list for the midterm fall 2016-17 academic year.
• Simpson University in Redding, Calif., welcomed Brett Komatsu of Hilo as one of the more than 180 new students entering in the fall.
