Honokaa High and Intermediate School will host its 12th Anniversary Relay For Life event, One Starry Night, for the community from 6 p.m. Friday, May 11, to 6 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, at the Honokaa High School field.
Honokaa High and Intermediate School will host its 12th Anniversary Relay For Life event, One Starry Night, for the community from 6 p.m. Friday, May 11, to 6 a.m. on Saturday, May 12, at the Honokaa High School field.
The tri-chairs for the event are Shaye Baldos, Alyssa Fujii and Kelsey Lactaoen. Relay For Life honors cancer survivors and remembers those who have lost the battle while raising money to fight this dreaded disease.
This event continues to celebrate survivorship, remember those who have lost the battle and fight back by raising money to fight cancer, making a donation, pledging to make changes in our lives or many other ways.
You can be part of this school-community event by starting a team, joining a team, making a monetary donation. To make an online donations, visit www.relayforlife.org/honokaahshi.
At Relay there will be great entertainment, a silent auction, a luminary ceremony and the popular Keiki Karnival with games, bouncers and much more. They need your help to make this event happen. Please consider spending the evening at the event. One of the goals of the event is to honor cancer survivors. If you or someone you know is a cancer survivor and would like to join us for our survivor dinner and our survivor lap, please call Angella Brandt or Danielle Warren at 775-8800, ext. 264.
We would also like to recognize caregivers at the event, and they are invited to participate in the opening lap. If you are a caregiver now, or have been one in the past, you are invited to attend. For information visit our website at www.relayforlife.org/honokaahshi
Saturday, April 21, was a special day for the Hamakua community. The 1st Annual Hamakua Youth Foundation, HYC, Hula Festival turned out to be a huge success. Over 300 youth and adults, including an appreciative enthusiastic audience, dancers and musicians of all ages from 4 years old to kupuna, and an all-volunteer production company joined in a celebration of Hawaiian culture and community at the Honokaa People’s Theater.
This is all about the community coming together in support of the Hamakua Youth Center and its mission to provide a safe place and healthy alternative for the youth of the community. The audience enjoyed performances from Halau O Po`ohala, Halua Na Lei Punahele, Halau Hula Helele`i Pua O Waipio, dancers from the Honokaa Schools Hawaiian Studies program, HYC’s soloist Andrea Gonzales, and kupuna soloists Kumu Aloha DelaRosa and Honokaa’s own Grace Walker.
Almost everyone stayed for the entire three-hour program, which ended with Lanakila Manguail leading the entire theater in singing “Hawaii Aloha,” with all present holding hands.
The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation East Hawaii Region is looking for dedicated community minded individuals to join in collaboratively creating the future of East Hawaii’s public hospital system. If you are interested, please send a statement of your interest in this voluntary position and your resume to: East Hawaii Regional Board, Attn: Administration, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Hilo Medical Center, 1190 Waianuenue Ave. Hilo, HI 96720.
Sen. Malama Solomon is inviting Hawaii Island residents to these community meetings to discuss the 2012 legislative outcomes and benefits. With the 2012 Legislature concluding on Thursday, May 3, you are welcome to attend one of a series of community meetings to discuss projects and policies that respond to community concerns and priorities to the benefit of the district.
Joining her at the meetings will be staff from several important state departments to answer questions and program implementation timing and strategies. This will include representatives of the state Departments of Agriculture, Land and Natural Resources, Transportation, Education, Hawaiian Home Lands, University of Hawaii and Hawaii Healthcare Systems Corp.
“This is an ideal time for community representatives to talk with me and these state agencies because 2013 is what is called ‘the biennium budget year.’ This is when major Capitol Improvement Projects (CIP) are funded. It is urgent that community groups with new projects lobby the departments now to convey their priorities. This is also an ideal time to track existing CIP projects to know exactly where they are and if they need a little extra push to get or keep them moving forward,” said Solomon.
Everyone is invited and there will be time for questions and answers. All meetings will start at 5:30 p.m.: Monday, May 7, at Papaikou’s Kalanianaole School cafeteria; Tuesday, May 8, at Honokaa High School cafeteria; Wednesday, May 9, Laupahoehoe Public Library; Thursday, May 10, at Waimea School cafeteria; Monday, May 14, North Kohala Library in Kapaau; Tuesday, May 15, at NELHA Gateway Center, and Thursday, May 17, at Waikoloa Elementary and Middle School cafeteria.
For more information, call Solomon at 974-4000, ext. 67335, or email: SenSolomon@capitol.hawaii.gov.
North Hawaii Education & Research Center has these summer Lifelong Learning Classes. Two classes taught by Patrick Niemeyer, both on Tuesdays from 5-7 p.m. The first is Basic Soils for Hawaii Agriculture — May 29-June 19, followed by Crop & Pasture Grass Production for Hawaii Agriculture — June 26-July 17.
In addition, a class with Jan Wizinowich, Legacy: Turning Memories into Memoirs, is on Thursdays, May 24-June 7, 10 a.m.- noon; and Jeani Navarro with Basic Grant Writing on Saturday, June 23, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Class will be held in Keaau. Registration is required in advance. Please call 775-8890 to register.
Island Faith Center invites the public to a Mother’s Day celebration with Native American performer and minister Cheryl Bear on Sunday, May 13, at 9:30 a.m. at the Papaaloa Gym (makai at the 24-mile marker on the Hamakua Coast). The celebration includes special indigenous Christian ministry in music with drums and native regalia by Cheryl Bear and her team, ministry of the word by her husband, Randy, special gifts for all moms, and a potluck luncheon.
After the morning service, the celebration will continue with a concert at Laupahoehoe Point. Cheryl is a member of the Bear clan of the Nadleh Whut’en tribe in British Columbia, Canada. Her CDs have garnered three honors in the Aboriginal People’s Choice Awards.
“It promises to be a wonderful day of celebration for the whole family,” says Mary Jo Stevenson Fullen, pastor of Island Faith Center. Contact her at 345-2456, or email maryjo@islandfaithcenter.org.