Children without health insurance are eligible for free vaccinations under the state's Vax Hawai'i program, a service to help ensure children receive proper immunizations.

Parents are urged to call Aloha United Way's 2-1-1 information hotline to find a clinic or provider. According to the state Department of Health, about 120,000 families in Hawai'i are without heath insurance and more than 22,000 children do not get shots on time and are left unprotected against measles, whooping cough, hepatitis B and other dangerous diseases.

For more information call 586-8332 on O'ahu or call 1-800-933-4382 from Neighbor Islands. Or visit www.vaxhawaii.com

WINDWARD

OUTREACH OFFER TO HOMELESS PEOPLE

The Windward Homeless Coalition will conduct an outreach in Kailua from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Windward United Church of Christ, 28 Kane'ohe Bay Drive.

The project is for people who are homeless and need assistance with employment referral, housing, health, legal issues, food, childcare and other social services.

Coalition partners will interview those seeking assistance to identify their most urgent needs. Most people will be referred to a service provider on site.

The coalition also will distribute basic needs and personal hygiene bags. For more information, call 239-5754.

SALT LAKE

CAR SHOW TO AID HELPING HANDS

Scion Evolution Hawai'i, a local car club, will present a School Supply Drive and After Dark Show Off to support Helping Hands Hawai'i's Ready to Learn program.

The car show will be at the old Costco Center in Salt Lake at Tires Direct from 5 to 6 p.m. Aug. 6. It will be free to the public, but attendees are asked to donate at least one school supply per person for admission. A $10 donation is asked of those entering a car.

For more information, contact Marshall Lum at eight08bids@aol.com or 753-2938.

IROQUOIS POINT

SCHOOL COLLECTING HI 5¢ CONTAINERS

Iroquois Point Cooperative Preschool in 'Ewa Beach is holding a HI 5¢ collection drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow at the school bus shelter across from 5105 Iroquois Ave. The nonprofit school is holding its second redeemable-container drive to raise money for new classrooms.

To get there, drive south on Fort Weaver Road, turn left onto North Road, turn right into the Iroquois Point Island Club community and follow the green signs to the Iroquois Point Rental Office. For more information, call 680-9649 or 499-1279.

WAIKIKI

REPAIRED LIBRARY REOPENS TODAY

The Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library will reopen at 10 a.m. today after being closed since July 20 for roof maintenance.

Officials closed the library as a precaution because fumes from a chemical sealant may have posed a health risk to employees and patrons, said Paul Mark, spokesman for the state library system.

BIG ISLAND

STREETS RESUME ONE-WAY PATTERN

HILO — With some schools back in session, Big Island police are reminding Hilo motorists that one-way traffic patterns have resumed on portions of Waianuenue Avenue and Kapi'olani Street.

The one-way patterns took effect yesterday as schools opened for the fall semester.

From 7:15 to 8 a.m. on school days, traffic on Waianuenue Avenue between Komohana Street and Kamehameha Avenue is one-way headed makai.

During the same hours, traffic along Kapi'olani Street between Waianuenue Avenue and Haili Street is one-way heading in the Puna direction.

Police reminded motorists to be on the lookout for students walking to and from school.

SCHOOL CHANGES TO BE DISCUSSED

HILO — Changes in public education in Waimea will be the focus of the Waimea Community Association's next town meeting on Aug. 4. The public is welcome.

Waimea-area public schools will make presentations at the meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the Waimea Family YMCA's Kahilu Town Hall.

The meeting will begin with remarks by Art Souza, former Waikoloa Elementary and Honoka'a High School principal who is now the state Department of Education's West Hawai'i complex superintendent.

The schools making presentations will include Waimea Elementary, a traditional public school led by a new principal, Marcie McClelland.

Waimea Middle School, which in 2003 became Hawai'i's first public conversion charter school, also will offer information. It is a partnership with Kamehameha Schools that operates under the nonprofit Ho'okako'o Corp., and is led by a new chief executive officer, Bert Campbell.

Also represented will be Kanu 'O Ka 'Aina New Century Public Charter School. Now in its sixth year, Kanu was the first Hawaiian-focused startup charter school to be authorized by the state Board of Education.