This week is senior volunteer week, and it's not too late to help out. Got time on your hands? Dolores Hansen did. "I volunteered to serve the community, and I love it!" says the advisory council chairwoman for senior volunteer programs. Through the Senior Companions Program and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, people 55 and older can share their experience and skills (minimum 20 hours a week) in many ways, such as advocacy through Family Court, tutoring at school Head Start centers, being an ambassador of aloha at Bishop Museum or teaching adults how to read and write. For those who are looking to get back in the job force, Senior Respite offers training services for people who need an extra boost.

Senior Companions and Senior Respite: 586-5192.
Retired Senior Volunteer Program: 586-5191.

— Lesa Griffith

HAPPENING

30TH LEI DAY GOING NOSTALGIC

The Brothers Cazimero's Lei Day concert on May 1 marks its 30th anniversary this year at the Waikiki Shell. Robert and Roland Cazimero will take a nostalgic turn for the milestone. Producer Jon de Mello says the show "will be one of the biggest and best we've ever produced." So start preparing your picnic baskets. As usual, guest performers and hula halau are kept a secret till show time. The concert begins at 7 p.m.; gates open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets: $45 for pool seating, $30 for terrace seating and $20 for lawn seating, children under 10 are free on the lawn. To buy tickets, call (877) 750-4400 or go to www.ticketmaster.com.

— Wayne Harada

FINAL WORD

"Hip-hop gave (Don) Imus the language. He wouldn't have known what a 'ho' was if it weren't for rap records."

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting | author of "Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women"