$100K grant aids Foodbank keiki program

The Hawaii Foodbank has received a $100,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation’s Hawaii State Giving Council, allowing the food bank to continue weekly and holiday food distributions via backpacks to keiki at risk of hunger.

The program serves close to 90 percent of the students at Princess Kaiulani Elementary School in Honolulu, which is about 365 children of the 411-student population.

"Our staff was facing the reality of cutting food distributions from every Friday to just once a month before Walmart stepped up and provided the funds for us to continue on a weekly basis," Hawaii Foodbank CEO Dick Grimm said.

IN THE NEWS

Hawaii ranks high for multiple job holders

Hawaii ranks in the top third of all states for the number of workers holding down more than one job, according to a report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
An estimated 6.2 percent of Hawaii workers reported having more than one job in 2012, tying with Kansas for the 13th-highest rate nationally, according to the report. South Dakota topped the list with a multiple job-holding rate of 9.5 percent, while Florida had the lowest rate at 3.4 percent. The national average for workers holding more than one job was 4.9 percent. The U.S. multiple job-holding rate has declined gradually or remained flat each year since peaking at 6.2 percent in 1996.

ON THE MOVE

Bank of Hawaii has rehired Brian H. Uemori as senior vice president and wholesale credit administrator. He previously worked at the bank from 2000 to 2011, serving as a commercial banking loan officer. He worked as a controller for Commercial Plumbing for the past two years.

Central Pacific Bank has promoted Jason Williams to vice president and investment consultant of Central Pacific Investment Services Division.
He has more than 15 years of investment and financial planning experience, including having been with CPB since 2006.

TELEVISION RATINGS

The November Nielsen ratings for local news programs were released Thursday. The survey covers Oct. 31 to Nov. 27. The numbers given for each station are household rating/share. The rating is the percentage of all TV households in Hawaii tuned in to a particular show. The share is the percentage of people watching TV at that time who are tuned in to a particular show.

*Airs at 6:30 p.m.
**Airs at 9 p.m.
(a) Hawaii News Now is simulcast on KGMB and KHNL from 5 to 7 a.m., 5 to 5:30 p.m. and 10 to 10:30 p.m.
(b) KITV airs an hourlong newscast at 10 p.m. weekdays.
*** KITV’s second half-hour of late news
Source: Nielsen Media

CORRECTION: The graphic above showed November Nielsen ratings for local television news programs. The headline on an earlier version of this story and on the story on Page B8 Saturday said they were radio ratings.

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