HAWAI'I BRIEFS
County solicits solutions
Advertiser Staff
WAILUKU, Maui — "Solution boxes" are being placed at various county sites around Maui to enable citizens to offer advice about how to make the government more efficient.
The boxes are not meant to receive complaints, said Mayor Alan Arakawa.
"Complaints and suggestions we've got in spades," Arakawa said. "What we don't have is all the answers. We've got so many bright, concerned members of our community who have real, concrete ideas as to how to solve problems that may exist in county services, and we want them to contribute their creativity to real problem solving."
The boxes were built at no charge to the county by Pukalani resident Yasu Kono. They are at the County Service Center in the Maui Mall, the Upcountry Aquatics Center in Pukalani, the Kihei Aquatics Center, the Lahaina Civic Center and in the second-floor lobby of the Kalana O Maui building in Wailuku. They will be checked on a regular basis, and at the end of the year, recognition will be given to the best solutions.
PEARL CITY
Car sales to help local high school
$100 from any new or used vehicle sold Saturday and Sunday at Cutter Ford/Isuzu, 98-015 Kamehameha Highway in 'Aiea, will be donated to Pearl City High School's Project Graduation 2006 committee. Pearl City High seniors will be at the car dealership both days from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. selling waffle hot dogs.
MILILANI
7th-graders aid nonprofit groups
A group of seventh-graders from Mililani Middle School are selling "Got Pride?" light-blue colored bracelets as a community service project with proceeds going to four nonprofit organizations. The 110 students are assigned to Team Ha'aheo of the multitract school's Laulima tract.
The bracelets are priced at $2 each. Students selected Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish Foundation, American Red Cross and Hawaiian Humane Society as organizations they will be raising money for, according to their teacher Carolyn C.P. Alameida.
The bracelets can be purchased at Mililani Mauka School, 95-1140 Lehiwa Drive, or Bikewerx at The Town Center of Mililani.
EAST HONOLULU
Author Choy, 92, to share secrets
Health enthusiast and author Carolyn Choy will be the featured speaker at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the 'Aina Haina Public Library.
The 92-year-old Choy will share some of her secrets for a long, healthy life through diet and exercise. She also will talk about healthful benefits of Chinese herbs that are used in easy-to-prepare recipes found in her book "Health Through Chinese Foods."
The library is at 5246 Kalaniana'ole Highway. For more information call the library at 377-2456.
HONOLULU
Performers aid heart research
Henry Kapono Ka'aihue, Amy Hanaiali'i Gilliom and Frank Delima will be among featured performers at the "Hawaiians at Heart" benefit concert for the American Heart Association on Sunday at Aloha Tower Marketplace.
Other performers are Jordan Segundo, Imai & Friends, Mahealani Keale, The Surfers in memory of Alan Naluai, Nalani Olds and Bill Kaiwa.
Proceeds from the concert, sponsored by Kapono's and the American Heart Association, will fund heart-related research, public and professional education, and community service programs in Hawai'i, said Elena Baligio of the American Heart Association. The four-hour concert starts at 4 p.m.
For information on discount presale tickets priced at $20 per person, call Christine Cook of the American Heart Association at 538-7021, Ext. 24.
Admission cost on the day of the concert is $25 per person.
Correction: Cutter Ford/Isuzu in 'Aiea is donating $100 for every new or used vehicle sold tomorrow and Sunday to the Pearl City High School Project Graduation fund. The amount to be donated was incorrect in a previous version of this story.
