Posted on: Friday, September 24, 2004
Seniors: Get into the 'Good Life' this weekend
Advertiser Staff
This weekend's Hawaii Senior Fair/Good Life Expo, by the numbers:
Advertiser library photo • 2003` Hawaii Senior Fair/ The Good Life Expo 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today through Sunday Blaisdell Exhibition Hall Free; 832-7878 • 20,000: Attendance last year. • 200-plus: Booths, including financial planners, long-term care, health insurance, retirement homes and health booths, etc. • 4,000-5,000: Flu shots given out last year. • 200-300: Used eyeglasses collected through the Lion's Club Foundation drive at the EyeSight Hawaii's booth last year. • 1,500: Kupuna IDs created last year by the state attorney general's office and Honolulu Police Department, offering a picture ID with extra identification, including an emergency contact name and phone number. • 200-plus: Free eye exams for seniors provided by Dr. Eryle Okamura last year. • 1: Free trip to Las Vegas prize giveaway.
• 20: Honolulu city & county crafts booths. • 2,500: Zippy's keychains to be given out this year.
• 2,000/4,000: AARP voter guides explaining various positions candidates have on issues that relate to elders, at the presidential and state levels.
• 50-plus: Age of participants.
Alice Morisako of Moanalua and George Lum of Diamond Head received their Kupuna ID cards at the 2003 Hawaii Senior Fair.
Senior Expo
