Posted on: Monday, March 3, 2008
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Advertiser Staff
Paepae o He'eia, a nonprofit organization based at He'eia Fishpond, was recently awarded $65,250 by the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The money will support efforts to refurbish He'eia Fishpond's seawall by involving the community in workdays. Workday goals will include removal of 7,000 square feet of invasive mangrove, repair to 250 linear feet of He'eia's seawall and sluice gate. For more information, call 236-6178.
Workers at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard set an in-house record of charity donations for the seventh year in a row, pledging $693,263 during the Combined Federal Campaign. The amount shipyard workers donated during the 2007 drive was the most ever contributed in the past 16 years at the Pearl Harbor command.
Kumu Kahua Theatre has accepted a $25,000 gift from the estate of the late actor/director and University of Hawai'i professor Roger Long. A large portion of the funds will be added to the Playwrights Endowment Fund in honor of Long's appreciation of Kumu Kahua's cultivation of new playwrights.
Hawaii Self Storage recently loaded 500 books onto the Hawaii Literacy Bookmobile after collecting 4,096 new and gently used books and educational games as part of its annual book drive bookmobile benefit. The bookmobile lends books and educational games to people who may not be able to get to a library.
Hale Na'au Pono (Waianae Coast Community Mental Health Center) has been awarded $150,000 by the Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund of Hawai'i Community Foundation in support of a two-year tobacco cessation program that is targeting the mentally ill on the Wai'anae Coast.
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