There's still time to put your hui together for tickets to the Honolulu Symphony's 12th Annual Symphony Ball, March 21 at the Kalakaua Ballroom of the Hawai'i Convention Center, at which the orchestra's two maestros — principal conductor Andreas Delfs and pops principal conductor Matt Catingub — will both conduct the orchestra for the first time. Award-winning chef Beverly Gannon of Hali'imaile General Store, Maui, will oversee the cuisine.

This benefit for the Honolulu Symphony and its outreach programs is reserved by the table, with tables available at $3,000 to $25,000. Get more information at www.honolulusymphony.com or 469-4144.

— Advertiser Staff

BE PREPARED DISASTER-PROOF YOUR FAMILY NOW

Found yourself unprepared when O'ahu lost power? Keep in mind anything's possible: 60 percent of Americans will be affected by a natural disaster at some point in their lives, the American Academy of Pediatrics' Healthy Children magazine says. Preparing for the worst now can help you and your kids get through it. The academy advises: Make a plan. Decide now where you'll go if you have to evacuate. And prepare a disaster kit: Include water, ready-to-eat foods, infant formula and diapers, a change of clothes, battery-powered radio and flashlights, first-aid kit, immunization records and personal identification.

— Staff and News Services

FINAL WORD

"No mater how much changes, some things stay the same on this show. I get to wear the same clothes 24 episodes in a row, and Jack gets to be the original maverick."

Kiefer Sutherland | on "24" (premiering at 8 p.m. Sunday on Fox), in TV Guide