Come and celebrate the 10th annual Music Festival at Laupahoehoe Point on Saturday. Performances will include these groups:
Come and celebrate the 10th annual Music Festival at Laupahoehoe Point on Saturday. Performances will include these groups:
• Halau O Ke Anuenue.
• Ho‘onanea.
• Positive Motion.
• Laupahoehoe Community Public Charter School Band.
• Times 5 and many more.
There will be lots of food vendors with ono foods such as smoke meat, pork and cabbage, laulau, hot dogs, chili nacho, shrimp chips, shave ice, pork and peas. The many craft vendors will be selling jewelry, leather items, school gear, music fest shirts, etc. Also, look for the keiki games.
Items for the annual silent auction can be viewed at http://thehui.weebly.com/.
Sponsors are Walter Electric/La‘akea Solar, Haunga Constructions, C/A Generators, Aiona Car Sales and Pacific Media Group.
Tickets are $12 pre-sale and $15 at the gate. Children 10 and younger are free. Check out www.laupahoehoemusicfestival.org for tickets and additional information about the festival.
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The Honokaa High Jazz Band made its annual tour of Oahu last week in celebration of National Jazz Appreciation Month.
Band members had a jam-packed schedule.
On the 16th, the band’s day started at 3:30 a.m. travelling to Honolulu. After arriving at 9:30 a.m., the band performed at the Navy Pacific Fleet Band Headquarters. That evening, band members appeared on the Ala Moana Center stage. Friday morning, a select band was featured on the Hawaii News Now Morning Show followed by a performance at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind. In the evening, the band performed at 15 Craigside.
On Saturday, the band performed at the Wet and Wild Waterpark as the 5 millionth person stepped through the gate, after which band members enjoyed the park. That evening, they appeared at the Royal Hawaiian Center. As the tour came to a close, the band performed for the Hawaii School Teachers Association conference at the Convention Center before returning to Honokaa.
Under the leadership of Gary Washburn, the year has been very fulfilling with many performances. The band’s 2014 CD is available at the high school.
Washburn wants to send a mahalo nui loa to Sue Dela Cruz and all the parents and public for the support that makes the jazz band program successful. Yours truly wants to add Honokaa High and Intermediate is so honored and so very fortunate to have this Grammy winning outstanding leader in our community and at our school for our students.
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Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s 21st Biennial Scholarship Auction is slated for Saturday in the Hapuna Ballroom at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel.
Hosted cocktails and auction preview begin at 5 p.m., with dinner at 6:15 p.m. The main event opens at 7:15 p.m., with Wendy McClain of McClain’s Auctions presiding.
The HPA auctions were born in 1974 when Anna Lindsey Perry-Fiske, a member of the HPA Board of Directors and owner of Anna Ranch in Waimea, and Bernard Nogues, HPA director of admission and financial aid, joined forces to help create a viable scholarship aid program at HPA.
The last two auctions in 2011 and 2013 raised a total of more than $1 million to benefit the school’s financial aid program. The school owns all auction items and 100 percent of the proceeds go directly to HPA students. Currently, 283 students (45 percent of all students enrolled) receive assistance from the program; 258 (91 percent) of these students are from Hawaii.
This year’s auction is co-chaired by Laurie Ainslie, board of trustees member and former board chair, and Nogues, now director emeritus of Isaacs Art Center.
A trademark of the HPA Scholarship Auction is the quality of items presented for sale.
Mollie Hustace, director of the auction and the Isaacs Art Center, anticipates much interest in a few paintings by the Volcano School artists, including Jules Tavernier’s “Kilauea Eruption by Moonlight,” an oil on canvas signed and dated 1887, David Howard Hitchcock’s “Punalu‘u, Windward Oahu,” an oil on canvas signed and dated 1918, and Alfred Gurrey Sr.’s “Ala Moana Beach,” an oil on canvas dated 1915.
Featured items also include a dramatic seascape by Joseph Henry Sharp, the celebrated Western art painter; a nostalgic rendition of Makena on Maui by Lloyd Sexton; an elegant watercolor by Madge Tennent; and works by other celebrated artists of the last 100 years, including John Kelly, Shirley Russell, Ben Norris, Hajime Okuda, Juliette May Fraser and Harry Wishard. Other auction highlights include antique and modern koa furniture and bowls, books on Oceania, antique kapa samples and extraordinary vacation packages.
All auction items are available online for preview at http://isaacsartcenter.hpa.edu/.
“The event will be an exciting gala celebrating HPA’s many achievements,” Hustace said. “It will be a most enchanting evening.”
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The Hawaii Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will present a “Customer Service for All — Locals &Visitors Workshop” from 8:30-10 a.m. Thursday at the County of Hawaii – Office of Aging Conference Room, 1055 Kinoole St., in Hilo.
Front-line service personnel, leaders and managers are encouraged to attend this workshop to learn valuable customer service skills to include improving cultural awareness to recognize, honor and serve various customers and applying cultural expertise flexibly to meet customer needs. The guest speaker is Dr. C. Kimo Alameda.
Fee is $10. To register, visit www.hisbdc.org. Deadline is Tuesday. For more information, call 933-0776.
To reach the Kokua Way, call 936-0067 or email waiukahenutz@gmail.com.