It’s time for the Dragon Family Rally! Honokaa Elementary School will hold its “Let’s Start the Year With a Bang!” this Thursday, Aug. 16, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the school cafeteria. Come one, come all and celebrate the start of another great year. Bring the whole family for a whole lot of fun.
It’s time for the Dragon Family Rally! Honokaa Elementary School will hold its “Let’s Start the Year With a Bang!” this Thursday, Aug. 16, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the school cafeteria. Come one, come all and celebrate the start of another great year. Bring the whole family for a whole lot of fun.
Principal Rachelle Matsumura would like to share the incredible results of last year’s scores that your sons and daughters worked so hard to gain. Everyone is so proud of your child’s improvements. Come to share how “we,” the school and you, can all work together again to have another amazing year.
To make it an extra special treat, it’s Free Movie Night. Join together for the movie “Dolphin Tale” on the front lawn of the elementary library. Bring mats or towels to sit on, and a flashlight to find your way back to your cars. The sixth-graders will have a snack concession.
This is sponsored by the Parent Community Networking Center, Primary School Adjustment Program and Honokaa Elementary Association. Please let Hilda Yagong know by Tuesday, Aug. 14, if you plan to come. Call 775-8820, ext. 225, or fill in the paper sent home with your child. See you all there.
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All parents and guardians are cordially invited to Honokaa High and Intermediate School’s open house on Tuesday, Aug. 21. Dinner will be provided, along with entertainment and a chance to meet with your child’s teachers. The schedule of the afternoon early evening events follows: 4 to 5:15 p.m. — dinner, entertainment and informational displays; 5:15 to 7:30 p.m. — a special schedule will allow you to visit with each of your child’s teachers in their classrooms to learn more about what is going on in each class.
There will be van transportation available to take you to the upper part of the campus, if needed. Principal Glenn Gray and Vice Principals Alan Brown and Trisha Burns hope to see you all here for the open house.
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Preserve your family history for future generation in this upcoming class. Memory Explorations: A Journey of Self-Discovery will be held at the North Hawaii Education and Research Center in Honokaa on Thursdays, Aug. 16-30, from 5 to 7 p.m.. Memoirs don’t necessarily come in book form. A variety of media will be used to inspire, talk story, discover and share. Come explore ways to recreate and preserve your stories. Tuition is $50. Call NHERC at 775-8890 to register.
Led Kaapana’s mastery of stringed instruments, particularly slack key guitar, and his extraordinary baritone and leo ki‘eki‘e (falsetto) voices, have made him a musical legend. On Friday, Aug. 31, at Hotel Honokaa Club he is performing his magic from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. He has been thrilling audiences for more than 40 years. With easygoing style and kolohe (rascal) charm, he has built a loyal corps of Led Heads from Brussels to his birthplace on the Big Island.
Recognition by his peers earned Led four Grammy nominations in his own right and two wins on slack key compilations. Like so many Hawaiians, Led grew up in a musical family. In the tiny black sand bay village of Kalapana, there were few distractions.
“We didn’t have electricity, no television, not even much radio,” says Led. “So we entertained ourselves. You could go to any house and everybody was playing music.” Often everybody was playing music at a backyard party, many of which lasted for days.
“People played in shifts, taking over when somebody went to sleep,” Led recalls. “You’d fall asleep to the music, wake up … and the music was still playing. That was the best alarm clock I ever had!”
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Here are a few grant and training resources that are available to nonprofits in our community. The Joseph & Vera Long Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations involved with health care, education and conservation in the communities of Northern California and Hawaii. The foundation’s mission is to support organizations involved with health care, education and conservation. Applications will be accepted from through Sept. 10. For more information, go to http://www.jvlf.org/Grants.html.
The Hawaii People’s Fund provides grants to progressive grassroots social change organizations working in Hawaii. The next deadline is Sept. 1. To learn more about this fund, go to http://www.hawaiipeoplesfund.org/grantmaking/. Bank of America will host a webinar in its Nonprofit Impact Series on Thursday, Aug. 23, at 2 p.m. (EDT). This series is designed to use technology to meet the needs of community and rural markets, as well as assist the broader nonprofit community in improving their organizational effectiveness and enhancing their leadership skills.
Each webinar will be aimed at addressing the critical issues affecting nonprofit organizations today, such as: Attracting High Net Worth Donors, Best Practices of Highly Effective Organizations, Financial Literacy, and Skills Based Volunteerism. Renee Baiorunos (Community Wealth Ventures) will present a program entitled “Social Enterprise” to help leaders think in new ways about how to diversify their funding stream by generating their own revenue. The presentation will provide an introduction to social enterprise, outlining why and how organizations pursue social enterprise and providing an overview of the process for developing a social enterprise. To register, visit www.cybergrants.com/boa/webinars.html.
Carol Yurth’s column is published every Sunday and spotlights activities on the Hilo-Hamakua coast. She welcomes items for her column. Reach her by mail (46-1240 Kalehua Road, Honokaa HI 96727) at least 10 days before the requested publication date, call her at 775-7101, or e-mail waiukahe@interpac.net.