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BGCBI offering fall break program

BGCBI offering fall break program

Looking for a fun, safe, educational and nurturing experience for your child while school is on fall break?

Boys &Girls Club of the Big Island Hilo Club will provide caring, trained, adult mentors and fun, life-enhancing lessons during its fall intersession program from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 10-14. The intersession fee is $100 per child; $75 for each additional sibling. Add $10 if not a current BGCBI member.

The registration deadline is Oct. 7. For more information, visit www.BGCBI.com or call 961-5536.

Public invited to HPA musical

Fourth- and fifth-graders at Hawaii Preparatory Academy will present “How Democracy Came to the Beehive” at 1:45 p.m. Oct. 7 at Gates Performing Arts Center on the school’s Upper Campus.

The performance is free and open to the public.

In this curriculum-based musical, the Queen Bee decides to leave the hive and brings in consultants from the Hawaiian forest to help the hive decide on a new governmental model. HPA’s Lower School music teacher Georgia Polakova directs.

For more information, call 885-2501 or 885-2500.

Welcome Center hosting quilters

The newly opened Welcome Center at the Historic Spencer House in Waimea announces its first community event, “The Art of Traditional Hawaiian Quilting.”

A free talk and demonstration by UpCountry Quilters Ku‘ulei Badua, Sharon Balai, Irene Kubo and Kathy Tanaka will take place from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday.

The Historic Spencer House is located at the KTA Shopping Center in the heart of Waimea town. For more information, call 895-0056.