School taking kindness challenge
School taking kindness challenge
Waiakea Intermediate School encourages community members and businesses to participate in the nationwide Great Kindness Challenge from Jan. 25-29 by performing kind deeds.
The Great Kindness Challenge is a positive, proactive bullying prevention initiative. Waiakea Intermediate is challenging students to perform 50 acts of kindness on campus during the week.
To expand the concept of kindness beyond the school environment, the school also will collect toys, stuffed animals, small blankets, pillows and basic hygiene items to benefit the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of East Hawaii.
To make a donation, drop items off at the Waiakea Intermediate counseling office between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Jan. 25-29. For more information, contact Heather Colbert at 981-7231.
Chorus rehearsals begin Monday
The Hilo Community Chorus will begin rehearsing Monday for a spring choral concert.
Rehearsals start at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Hawaii at Hilo rehearsal room next to the Performing Arts Center and continue each Monday until concert time.
The choral concert will feature Dan Forrest’s “Requiem for the Living” and Luigi Cherubini’s “Requiem in C minor.”
The nonprofit Hilo Community Chorus is nonauditioned community-based chorus directed by Tom McAlexander and accompanied by Walter Greenwood. Anyone who loves to sing choral music and is willing to devote two hours each week for rehearsals is welcome to join.
For more information, call McAlexander at 985-7192 or email tommac@hawaii.rr.com.
Viking alumni dance Jan. 29
“Once a Viking, Always a Viking!”
The Hilo High School Alumni Association invites all Viking alumni to an alumni homecoming dance from 6:30-10 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Hilo Naniloa Poly Room.
There will be pupu, no-host cocktails and entertainment by Hilo’s own Vizion 20/20.
Tickets are $25 pre-sale and $30 at the door. To purchase tickets, email hhsalumassn@gmail.com or call Dwayne Mukai at 935-3506. Tickets also are available at Agasa Music &Furniture Store, Big Island Optical Inc., Hilo Style, Shearz and The Most Irresistible Shop.
Fermentation demo at library
To jump-start a new year of healthy eating and living, Anna Peach, owner of Squash and Awe Farm, will offer a demonstration of simple fermentation at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at North Kohala Public Library.
“Fermentation is so easy,” Peach says. “I have no secrets. We keep this knowledge alive by sharing it.”
For more information about the program, contact the North Kohala Library at 889-6655.