Posted on: Friday, October 29, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Tax help group seeks volunteers
Advertiser Staff
AARP-Tax-Aide is seeking volunteers to provide free tax preparation service for middle and low-income taxpayers, with special attention to seniors. Volunteers will receive free training on the latest tax laws, in cooperation with the IRS. Please call: Big Island (959-4771); Kaua'i (335-3677 or 246-4500); Maui (572-8633); O'ahu (955-5776).
Volunteers with the community group Malama o Manoa will remove trash and litter from Manoa Stream from 9 to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow as part of the city's Adopt-A-Stream program.
Malama's adopted portion runs from the Woodlawn Drive bridge near Longs Drugs up to the Kahaloa Street bridge near Manoa Gardens at the district park.
Volunteers should meet at the Woodlawn Drive bridge.
For more information, call George Arizumi at 988-5069 or Eric DeCarlo at 988-5028.
A food distribution sponsored by the Hawai'i Foodbank is planned for Nov. 12 at the Boys & Girls Club of Hawai'i's Hale Pono clubhouse at 91-884 Fort Weaver Road. Food items will be distributed to senior citizens from 3 to 3:45 p.m., to families of five or more from 3:45 to 4:15 p.m., and to others from 4:15 p.m. until items are gone.
A "Movie on the Wall" event will be presented at the same site at 7 p.m.
Taro buds are expected to be planted Monday by Wai'anae's Leeward Enhanced Classroom students, who have been working on Hawai'i's Plantation Village's taro patch restoration project at Waipahu Cultural Garden Park.
O'ahu correctional inmates and Clifford Wong, a Windward O'ahu taro farmer, have been clearing the weeds to restore the taro patch and fishpond, said Plantation Village executive director Floren Elman Singh.
The Leeward Enhanced Classroom will maintain the taro patch and use it for hands-on learning activities and general tours to promote awareness of native Hawaiian agricultural practices.
The Plantation Village also has scheduled its quarterly cleanup for Dec. 11 from 7:30 a.m. to noon. Volunteers are needed to do landscaping work and cleaning the historic homes. Lunch will be provided for clean-up workers but they must RSVP by calling 677-0110. Volunteers are asked to bring gardening or cleaning supplies.
The state is opening a special pig-hunting season from Nov. 1 to Jan. 31, 2005 in the Makiki-Tantalus area across to Manoa Valley.
The Department of Land and Natural Resources said the pig-hunting season is being opened because of the recent damage caused by feral pigs to the Honolulu Mauka trail system and surrounding Honolulu Forest Reserve.
Hunting for feral pigs will be allowed by permit on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays only, from sunrise to sunset. Hikers will be allowed on area trails, but they are advised to leave their pet dogs at home during control hours and not to interfere with hunting activities.
Call the DLNR Waimano baseyard at 453-6110.
Applications are being sought for the 2005-2006 Imi Ho'ola Post-Baccalaureate Program in the University of Hawai'i's John A. Burns School of Medicine. The program provides a year of educational experiences that help prepare participants for the challenges of medical school. Eligible candidates are those with disadvantaged backgrounds who are highly motivated.
Since the program began in 1973, it has provided opportunities for medical school for 380 individuals from Hawai'i, Guam, Micronesia and American Samoa.
To apply, call Roy Inouye or Nanette Judd at 956-3466, or write to: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Imi Ho'ola Post-Baccalaureate Program, 1960 East-West Road, Biomed C-203, Honolulu, HI 96822.
Sign-ups are under way for a new session of an evening class in "Song Writing" offered by recording artist, songwriter and entertainer Stan Rubens. Rubens, who has published more than 45 songs and released four albums, teaches through McKinley Community School for Adults.
Classes will run for five weeks from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday nights from Nov. 9 to Dec. 7. The cost is $20. For information and registration, call 594-0541.
The Republican Party's 17th and 18th representative districts will discuss if the election has changed the Republican Party influence in Hawai'i, at 8 a.m. Nov. 6 at the Kuapa Isle Clubhouse on Opihikao Place in Hawai'i Kai.
Sens. Fred Hemmings and Sam Slom will provide the analysis. For more information call 395-3765.
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — Families and professionals who deal with Alzheimer's disease are invited to a free workshop from 8 a.m. to noon Nov. 18 at the Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center in Lihu'e. The registration deadline is Nov. 5. To register, call Gina Kaulukukui or Liana Soong at (808) 245-7277.
Manoa Stream work tomorrow
Food giveaway planned Nov. 12
Wai'anae class set to plant taro
State to open pig-hunting
Pre-med prep program offered
'Song Writing' class offered
Republican forum Nov. 6
Forum Nov. 18 on Alzheimer's
