O'ahu briefs
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CENTRAL
Board prepares candidate event
The Waipahu Neighborhood Board is sponsoring a candidate forum from 7 to 9 p.m. today at August Ahrens Elementary School.
The neighborhood board is holding the candidates event instead of its regular August meeting at the school, 94-1170 Waipahu St.
The board has sent invitations to candidates in races for governor, lieutenant governor, City Council, and state Senate and House.
For more information, contact the city Neighborhood Commission at 523-4919.
HONOLULU
Veterans tribute on USS Missouri
In commemoration of the 57th anniversary of the end of World War II, veterans, dignitaries and visitors will celebrate onboard the USS Missouri from 8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Sept. 2.
The ceremony, "America Triumphant," will be a tribute to all World War II veterans.
The event will take place on the fantail of the battleship, and Adm. Walter F. Doran, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, will deliver the keynote address.
On Sept. 2, 1945, more than 2,000 sailors and Marines stationed aboard the USS Missouri were on the battleship's fantail when U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur received surrender documents from Japanese officials.
Trolley service will be available from the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park for those without access to Ford Island.
For more information call 423-2263 or toll free at (877) MIGHTYMO.
Arts foundation hosts workshop
The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts will hold free workshops in August and September explaining how to fill out applications for its grants and proposal guidelines.
Grants for the fiscal year 2004 and 2005 will be made for programming in culture, the arts, history and/or the humanities beneficial to Hawai'i.
The following workshops will be held at 9 a.m.:
- Aug. 27 in Kailua, Kona at King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel.
- Aug. 30 on O'ahu at Honolulu Academy of Arts.
- Sept. 3 in Lihu'e, Kaua'i at the State Building.
- Sept. 10 in Maui at Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
- Sept. 13 on O'ahu at Kalanimoku Building.
- Sept. 14 on O'ahu at Kualoa-He'eia Ecumenical Youth Project.
A 9:30 a.m. Big Island workshop will be held Sept. 5 at the State Building in Hilo.
For more information call SFCA at 586-0302 or e-mail at june_anami@exec.state.hi.us.
First Hawaiian sends Guam aid
First Hawaiian Bank donated $25,000 to the Typhoon Chata'an Relief Fund of the American Red Cross to help the people on Guam recover from the July 5 storm that battered the island.
The bank previously announced that it would allow Guam customers to defer two months of payments for auto loans and other personal loans because of the hardships caused by Chata'an.
