Updated on: Thursday, September 22, 2005
Hurricane relief efforts in Hawai'i
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| MORE WAYS TO HELP
• The American Red Cross encourages people wishing to help to call (800) 435-7669 or go to www.redcross.org. • To determine whether fundraising events are sanctioned by the Red Cross, check www.hawaiiredcross.org. • The Red Cross has also established a Web site to link family members with missing relatives. Visit the "Family Links Registry" via www.redcross.org to register yourself, a missing relative or see the list of those who have registered. • For a copy of FEMA's "Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness," go to www.fema.gov/areyouready |
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• ST. PATRICK AIMS TO COLLECT $2,500
Students at St. Patrick School have collected $453 to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Some classes are planning a "walk-a-thon" and other events to reach the school's goal of $2,500. Earlier this year, the school raised $2,500 for tsunami relief.
• IROQUOIS POINT RESIDENTS GIVE
The Iroquois Point Island Club presented $5,000 to the American Red Cross at Sunday's Hurricane Katrina benefit concert at Kapono's. The club also raised funds at its monthly Ohana Sundays concert on the beach next to the 'Ewa Beach community. The Iroquois Point Island Club is a rental community of about 5,000 residents.
• KAILUA HIGH CONTRIBUTES $350
Kailua High School's Project Graduation 2007 donated $350 to the Hawai'i chapter of the American Red Cross. The money was part of the proceeds from a can and bottle recycling drive held at the school Sept. 3.
• FOUNDATION DONATES $100,000
The Schuler Family Foundation has donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts along the Gulf Coast.
• MID-PAC CONDUCTS ONE-WEEK DRIVE
Mid-Pacific Institute is conducting a one-week effort, through Saturday, to raise money for the American Red Cross. The school will sell aloha-grams, conduct bake sales and collect donations with fish nets during student drop-off and pickup hours.
The public is invited to visit the school's Manoa campus Saturday, from 8 a.m. to noon, for a white elephant sale and free car wash (donations accepted).
All proceeds go to Mid-Pacific's Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund Drive.
• Calligraphers to raise funds
Members of the Osaka Gakuin University calligraphy club will be featured in a Hurricane Katrina benefit exhibit/demonstration today and tomorrow at Kapi'olani Community College's cafeteria.
Five students and three teachers, who arrived yesterday from Osaka, will accept requests for caligraphy messages from noon to 2 p.m. each day in exchange for a hurricane-relief donation to the Hawai'i chapter of the American Red Cross.
The students from Japan will be assisted by 50 students of KCC's International Cafe. Linda Fujikawa, International Cafe coordinator, said the "Messages From the Heart" event will also include students accepting donations for messages on posters to be sent to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pacific Disaster Center in Kihei, Maui, has sent two specialists to Louisiana to support the Hurricane Katrina relief effort at St. Tammany Parish.
Emergency operations specialist George Buck and geospatial data analyst Mike Napier are assigned for at least two weeks to the St. Tammany Parish emergency operations center, said PDC executive director Allen Clark. The two men have been in Louisiana since Saturday.
"The PDC, which is connected by satellite communications to the field team, will provide additional support through imagery acquisition, processing and analysis," Clark said.
Buck and Napier also were involved in the joint task force response and recovery operations in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
PDC is managed by the East-West Center.
As of Monday, the Hawai'i chapter of the American Red Cross has received $830,000 in Hurricane Katrina donations.
The money is being forwarded to the national office for disbursement, said Cassandra Isidro, the chapter's chief operating officer. Monday's total reflects a $230,000 increase from Friday, Isidro noted.
Some money was used for about 15 local cases involving visitors from stricken areas who were stranded in Hawai'i or evacuees who have come to Hawai'i to stay with family, Isidro said.
A concert to benefit Hurricane Katrina relief efforts will be held from 3 p.m. to midnight Sunday at Kapono's in the Aloha Tower Marketplace.
Concert headliners will include C&K, Kalapana, Willie K. and Eric Gilliom, Amy Gilliom, Inoa Ole, Charles Brotman, Tony Silva (Da Braddahs), BET, Ooklah the Moc, Natural Vibes, Harold Kama Jr. and the Opihi Pickers.
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at any Ticketmaster Outlet, Ticketmaster.com, Star Markets, Blaisdell box office and BYU box office or by calling the restaurant at 536-2161.
All ages are invited to attend until 9 p.m., when the concert will turn into a 21-and-older venue.
Proceeds from ticket sales and food-and-beverage sales will be given to the Hawai'i chapter of the American Red Cross and to The Salvation Army for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
• Damien students raising money
Damien Memorial School students are attempting to collect several thousand dollars in the next 10 days for 127 Mississippi school children left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.
Money raised by the Damien students will be used to buy clothes, school supplies, rent portable classrooms and add faculty at St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School in Jackson where the Mississippi students were enrolled.
Contact Roxane Goo in the school's development office at 841-0195.
• Vigil planned for Friday afternoon
The Church of the Crossroads will hold a prayer vigil for Hurricane Katrina victims from 3 to 6 p.m. on Friday.
For more information, call 949-2220.
• Local Red Cross collects $600,000
The Hawai'i chapter of the American Red Cross has collected about $600,000 for victims of Hurricane Katrina as of late yesterday afternoon.
Cassandra Isidro, chief operating officer of the Hawai'i chapter, said she believes Hawai'i residents have given more than that because the chapter has been referring people to the national Red Cross Web site and its phone numbers.
"Hawai'i has been a lot more generous than what we've seen in hand here," Isidro said.
To donate money through the Hawai'i chapter, phone 734-2101 or see www.hawaiiredcross.org.
• Details are still being worked out for additional fundraisers, but the City and County of Honolulu raised more than $2,100 for Hurricane Katrina victims on Monday evening at Queen's Surf Beach, where the Parade of Baseball Champions through Waikiki ended. The city's drive, Operation Katrina Kokua, will continue. "We're not done yet," said Mark Matsunaga, spokesman for Mayor Mufi Hannemann. "We'll be doing more, and we'll have details later."
• Firm aids law students
The Honolulu law firm of Winer Meheula & Devens LLP is trying to assist nine first year New Orleans law students from Tulane and Loyola Law Schools whose educations have been disrupted by Hurricane Katrina.
Firm partner Andrew Winer said while law schools around the country have been accepting second and third year transfers, first year law students have been difficult to place.
The firm has hired one of the students, believes it can place four more, and is seeking assistance from other local firms and organizations to provide employment and aid for the rest.
The University of Hawai'i has agreed to help out with housing.
PLACES TO DONATE
• The Red Cross encourages people wishing to help to go directly to the (800) HELP-NOW line or www.redcross.org to make an online donation. To determine whether fundraising events are sanctioned by the Red Cross, check www.hawaiiredcross.org.
Donations can be made at any branch of these four banks: First Hawaiian Bank, Bank of Hawaii, Central Pacific Bank and Hawai'i National Bank.
• A donation box to receive checks payable to The Salvation Army — Katrina Relief has been set up in the House Clerk's Office at the state Capitol. Senate President Robert Bunda and House Speaker Calvin Say urged legislators and staff to consider monetary donations.
• The Hawaiian Humane Society has established a fund for the rescue efforts of thousands of animal victims throughout Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and Louisiana. Send donations to: "Katrina Animals," Hawaiian Humane Society, 2700 Wai'alae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96826. Donations will be used to help rescue and reunite animals with their owners.
• Aloha United Way's "211" information and referral line will help callers find out what relief efforts are under way as well as where they might find out information about or contact missing loved ones. AUW organizers are helping Mississippi establish a similar help line.
• SHOPO, the state's police officers' union, is working to raise money in conjunction with the National Association of Police Organizations to help police officers who have lost their homes in New Orleans and other areas. Make checks out to: NAPO's Relief Fund and send them to the SHOPO office, 1717 Hoe St., Honolulu, HI 96819-3125.
• Foodland and Sack N Save stores statewide will accept donations to the "Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund" at checkout as part of Give Aloha, Foodland's annual Community Matching Gifts program. Foodland Super Market Ltd. and the Western Union Foundation will match a portion of each donation.
• The Hawai'i Foodbank is partnering with national Affiliate America's Second Harvest to aid survivors. Contributions may be made directly to: Hawai'i Foodbank, 2611 Kilihau St. Honolulu, HI 96819. Make checks payable to Hawai'i Foodbank with a reference to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
• The city has launched Operation Katrina Kokua, a drive to raise money to help victims of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast and in the Southeast.
• Maui Candlelight Cafe and Cinema is taking donations.
• Members of the cast of ABC's "Lost" will sign autographs in exchange for donations to the American Red Cross from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, across from the Tapa Bar.
• Local award-winning artist Alex Steelsmith will give free prints of two of his works — titled "Beginnings" and "Elysium" — to donors who send him $75 or more for the American Red Cross through September. Make checks payable to the American Red Cross and note Hurricane 2005 Relief on the check and send it to Katrina Relief Fund, Steelsmith Publishing, 150 Hamakua Drive, No. 800, Kailua, HI 96734.
• Tiki's Grill & Bar, in the ResortQuest (Aston) Waikiki Beach Hotel, will be donating 10 percent of lunch sales Saturday and Sunday to the American Red Cross disaster relief fund. Donations from customers, made out to the American Red Cross, also will be accepted.
• Local malls, including Ala Moana Center, Victoria Ward Centers, Windward Mall, Prince Kuhio Plaza, Queen Ka'ahumanu Center and Whalers Village, will display Hurricane Katrina relief donation sites. The sites will include American Red Cross envelopes to allow shoppers to mail donations.
• Hawai'i residents displaced from their universities and colleges by Katrina are being admitted with tuition waivers to one of the University of Hawai'i campuses for the semester. UH-Manoa has made arrangements with four students from Tulane University and one from Loyola University of New Orleans to enroll temporarily for the semester.
Hawai'i families with students on the Mainland displaced by the hurricane can make similar arrangements by calling one of the UH campuses. Phone numbers are available at www.hawaii.edu.
• Hawai'i Pacific University students, athletes and cheerleaders will be collecting donations at Salvation Army kettles today through Sept. 16. The kettles will be on the corner of Bishop Street and King Street, the corner of King Street and Fort Street Mall and at 1188 Fort Street Mall, in front of the Student Life Office. Students also will be collecting donations on the Windward Hawai'i Loa Campus on the same days from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Restaurants around the state will join an industrywide "Dine For America" initiative on Oct. 5 through the Hawai'i Restaurant Association, in conjunction with the National Restaurant Association. Eating establishments will donate all or part of their sales that day, make a donation for each sale of a specific item, or provide Red Cross donation canisters for patrons. One hundred percent of the money raised will go to Katrina victims via the Red Cross. To participate, or for more information, call 944-9105 or visit the NRA's Web site at www.restaurant.org.
• Market City tenants team with Salvation Army
Tenants at the Market City Shopping Center are working with the Salvation Army to collect funds for Hurricane Katrina relief.
The Salvation Army's red donation buckets are in each store. Checks made out to Salvation Army, memo section: Hurricane Katrina Relief, may be brought to the Market Management Office Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The center is at 2929 Kapi'olani Blvd.
HURRICANE RELIEF EVENTS
• Restaurants pitching in (Oct. 5)
The Hawai'i Restaurant Association will participate in the National Restaurant Association Dine for America on Oct. 5. On that date, restaurants across the country will raise funds to support the Red Cross Disaster relief Fund for Katrina victims.
Operators will donate all or part of their sales proceeds, or provide canisters for guests to contribute.
To participate visit the HRA website at www.hawaiirestaurants.org or call 944-9105.
• Dixie Grill raises $3,300 (Oct. 5)
Dixie Grill, 404 Ward Ave., said it raised $3,300 for Hurricane Katrina victims through the sale of chicken plate lunches on Labor Day. Volunteers and staff helped with the sale. Ward's will participate in HRA's Dine for America event on Oct. 5.
• Nanakuli to host 'Voices of Hope' (Oct. 1)
Nanakuli High School students are holding a special performance of "Entitled: Voices of Hope" on Oct. 1 to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief. The musical revue show includes numbers from the performing arts students' "On the Radio" show. The show begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5.
Call (808) 668-5823 extension 351.
