Posted on: Monday, September 6, 2004
For the Environment
Advertiser Staff
TRAINING FOR WAIMEA DOCENTS
Waimea Valley Audubon Center is looking for docents to share the park's botanical and cultural wonders. A volunteer training orientation will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday. Call Kelly Perry at 638-9199.
ALA WAI BOAT HARBOR CLEANUP
Help the Sierra Club make the harbor a point of pride, and foster the return of sea life by using scoopers and nets to gather up flotsam and jetsam. Volunteers should meet at 8 a.m. Saturday at the harbor master's office. Wear sturdy shoes with gripping soles and bring a hat, thick rubber gloves, sunscreen and water. Contact Deborah Blair at 737-0168.
CLEANUP DAY FOR HAWAIIAN BEACHES
Volunteers are needed to clear appliances, furniture, abandoned cars and other garbage illegally dumped along "Beach Road" at the end of Kahakai Boulevard in Hawaiian Beaches on the Big Island. Recycle Hawai'i organizes the cleanup as part of a project paid for by the federal Rural Utilities Service, county Department of Environmental Management and Matson Navigation's Ka Ipu 'Aina program. A second cleanup day will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 18. Food and drinks will be provided. For more information and directions, call (808) 985-8725, or e-mail howard@recyclehawaii.org. HARDY HALEAKALA VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT
Remove blackberry and other invasive plant species and prepare cabin for painting on a four-day service trip to Haleakala Crater. Hike into Paliku Sept. 16, work Sept. 17-18, hike out Sept. 19. Volunteers will sleep in cabins equipped with bunks, firewood, dishes and cooking utensils. Bring first day's water, sun/rain protection, work gloves, comfortable boots or walking shoes, sleeping bag, extra socks, meal contributions (coordinated by leader), personal first-aid supplies, a weeding tool, if possible, flashlight, candles and warm clothing. Park entrance fee waived for volunteers. Contact Farley Jacob at (808) 248-7660 or e-mail farley@shaka.com. POUHALA MARSH CLEANUP
The Hawai'i Nature is cleaning up and restoring the largest remaining wetland habitat in Pearl Harbor.
Volunteers are needed to pull pickleweed from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on the following Saturdays: Sept. 25, Oct. 16, Nov. 13 and Dec. 4. Bring work gloves, water, hat, sunscreen, towel and change of clothes; covered footwear and long pants required. Contact Pauline Kawamata at 955-0100, ext. 18.
• • • GREEN NOTES BUILD A COMPOST TUMBLER
Classes on how to build your own compost tumbler to break down greenwaste into compost rapidly will be held 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Kea'au Recycling & Reuse Center. The fee is $10. Contact Recycle Hawai'i at (808) 969-2012.
NEW OIL RECYCLING SITE
South Point U-Cart has taken over from Ocean View Service as the used motor oil collection site in the Big Island's Ocean View community.
The new location is at mile marker 78 at Prince Kuhio Boulevard; call (808) 929-9666. No more than three gallons of used motor oil per person will be accepted at each site. No solvents, gasoline, water, chlorine, brake fluid, thinners, paints or antifreeze. A clean plastic container with a screw-top lid, such as a milk or juice jug, is suggested to transport used motor oil. Dropping off motor oil without registering your name and address is illegal. For more information, call Recycle Hawai'i at (808) 961-2676 or (808) 329-2886, or visit www.recyclehawaii.org. PHONE BOOK RECYCLING
Old telephone books can be dropped in any of the Community Recycling Center bins located throughout O'ahu through September. Pick-up is available for anyone with 400 or more phone books by calling Island Recycling at 845-1188.
FREE MULCH ON BIG ISLAND
Help yourself to free mulch from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily at a new public pick-up area adjacent to the Kealakehe Transfer Station, or from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the Hilo Transfer Station. The county Department of Environmental Management sponsors the program. Loading assistance is available only at the Hilo location for $10 to $40, depending on vehicle size. Deliveries of large truckloads to homes, businesses or farms can be arranged by calling Big Island Recycling at (808) 306-1876.
For a free listing of your event, submit details and contact information to "For the Environment," P.O. Box 156, Wailuku HI 96793, fax to (808) 242-1520 or e-mail cwilson@honoluluadvertiser.com.
