Mardi Gras comes
to Life Care Center ADVERTISING Mardi Gras comes
to Life Care Center Life Care Center of Hilo residents and staff invite the public to their Mardi Gras celebration at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 28 at the center, located at 944
Mardi Gras comes
to Life Care Center
Life Care Center of Hilo residents and staff invite the public to their Mardi Gras celebration at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 28 at the center, located at 944 W. Kawailani St.
Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday” and the last day of a season called Carnival, characterized by merrymaking, feasting and dancing. Mardi Gras is the culmination of festivities and features parades and masquerades.
Life Care Center’s celebration will feature malasadas and refreshments for participants and entertainment by Dean, Leona &Friends.
For more information, call 959-9151 or visit lifecarecenterofhilo.com.
Hilo Woman’s Club offers lifesaving class
The Hilo Woman’s Club was chosen as one of the nonprofit organizations to receive an automated external defibrillator from the Hilo Medical Center Foundation’s Be a Lifesaver Hawaii Program.
As part of the program’s campaign effort, the Hilo Woman’s Club invites the public to a free lifesaving bystander chest-compression-only CPR and AED training session from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Feb. 28.
The program aims to raise awareness about sudden cardiac arrest and trains the local community in hands-on experience with bystander chest-compression-only CPR in an effort to increase survival rates throughout Hawaii Island.
The Hilo Woman’s Club is located at 7 Lele St. To attend or for more information, contact the club at 935-9838.
Orchidland residents will meet Tuesday
The Orchidland Community Association Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Eagles Club in Keaau.
Lot owners and interested individuals are welcome to attend.
For information about the agenda, contact Barbara Arthurs at 966-6141 or babsarthurs@gmail.com.
Service, therapy dog training available
The East Hawaii Dog Psychology Center is offering 100 percent refundable tuition for service and therapy dog certification classes.
“The high cost, often over $10,000, of a trained service dog keep too many East Hawaii residents from having the service dog they need to help them at home and while out in the world,” said trainer Carl Oguss. “We are here to help, offering a full refund of the $250 cost of this certification program.”
Earning the refund is simple, Oguss said: Participants and their dogs must attend all classes and try their best with all homework assignments.
The certification program spans between three and four months (depending on the needs of each group’s member humans and dogs) of weekly meetings, with training homework assignments in between.
For registration and information, contact Oguss at easthawaiidogpsychologycenter@yahoo.com or call 933-9763 (no texts).
