Keiki Heroes campaign empowers children to stay healthy during COVID-19 pandemic
Boys and Girls Club assists Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home with meals
In an effort to assist front-line health care professionals who continue to selflessly risk their own health during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Boys and Girls Club of the Big Island is providing hot meals for them so they can continue to focus on the level of care now required.
Learn papermaking techniques at Volcano Art Center
Join artist Mary Milelzcik for the “Introduction to Papermaking” workshop from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 12 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village.
Let’s Talk Food: Popcorn 101
Volcano Watch: Underneath Kilauea’s new landscape, the magma plumbing keeps working
Tropical Gardening: Legal mood enhancers such as chocolate nothing new in Hawaii
Hands-on telemedicine; Hope Services Street Medicine program assists homeless with health care during pandemic
At every level of society, people experience barriers to accessing health care.
Let’s Talk Food: Secret restaurant recipes
Volcano Watch: Geodesy — a history of measuring the shape of Hawaiian volcanoes
Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding the Earth’s geometric shape, gravity field, and orientation in space — and how these change through time. Many geodesists today map shorelines, determine land boundaries, and improve transportation and navigation.
Tropical Gardening: In times like these, consider a bamboo trek
VAC announces quilt show Viewer’s Choice award
Volcano Art Center is proud to announce the Viewer’s Choice award from the third biennial quilt show, Quilts in the Forest – Winds of Change. The award goes to Phan Nguyen Barker for her work titled “Light and Shadow.”
Wong’s Repair is walking to end Alzheimer’s
When Greg Wong, 56, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in 2017, his wife Janelle felt completely overwhelmed, afraid and alone. Her life as she knew it would be forever changed.
Na ʻAumakua on display at VAC Gallery
The Volcano Art Center is proud to announce that its 2020 exhibition schedule will resume after many COVID-19 related disruptions. The Hawai‘i Nei Invitational Exhibition, this year titled, Na ‘Aumakua, will be on display 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday through Sept. 13 at the VAC gallery in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Hometown Heroes: Fund donates $40,000 to support four Big Island schools
The Hawaii Learning Resource Fund at Hawaii Community Foundation recently distributed $40,000 to help four Hawaii Island schools address COVID-19 impacts in the coming school year. The recipient schools are Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School, Waimea Elementary School, Kanu O Ka ‘Aina New Century Public Charter School and Waimea Country School.
Let’s Talk Food: Beef tendons
My friend Amy asked me to write about tendons as her friend said she eats it because growing up in Waipio Valley, her mother fed her that so she would have no problem walking up and down the steep road.
Volcano Watch: Doppler radar in Ka‘u is more than a weather radar
Driving Highway 11 from Volcano to Wai‘ohinu on sunny, vog-free days, it’s hard to miss that bright white soccer ball on the slope of Mauna Loa above Pahala Town.
Tropical Gardening: Plant tropical Asian fruit trees and experience the Old World
AAUW awards four scholarships
The American Association of University Women — Hilo Branch recently awarded four scholarships to women attending the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii Community College.
Despite virus, generations of family make sure matriarch’s 100th birthday is a blast
Lyman Museum presents ‘The Growing Volcanic Risk at Kilauea and Mauna Loa’
From May 3 to early August 2018, Kilauea volcano erupted from two sites with a pattern and vigor not seen in the past 200 years.
