Volunteers build beds for keiki

• By Pat Gee
• July 15, 2024

There’s nothing like the comfort of your own bed, whether it’s at the end of a long day or even coming home from a fancy vacation. Read more

Impact SmallBiz program taking applicants business booster program starts

• By Pat Gee
• July 13, 2024

The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii is launching its first business accelerator program, Impact SmallBiz, to help small businesses and early-stage entrepreneurs succeed. Read more

Volcanic marker to return from national museum

• By Pat Gee
• July 8, 2024

The volcanic pohaku (rock) named Kanepo will return to its home on Hawaii island after two decades representing the western cardinal point of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall. Read more

Fostering animals from Hawaiian Humane Society fulfills caregivers

• By Pat Gee
• July 7, 2024

The programs — such as Lap Crashers (for cats) and Couch Crashers (for dogs) — also give people a chance to figure out if their home and lifestyle are a “good fit” for the animal. Read more

Limu culture classes to start this fall

• By Pat Gee
• July 1, 2024

Windward Community College has announced the launch of its new limu culture studies program this fall, combining traditional Native Hawaiian knowledge with Western scientific methods to prepare students for careers in algae cultivation, production and biomanufacturing. Read more

School pantry program helps keep keiki fed during summer

• By Pat Gee
• July 1, 2024

The Hawaii Foodbank is providing food to pantries at 35 Oahu schools to supplement the meals of students who don’t get enough food at home. Read more

Teens to offer free tech help to kupuna

• By Pat Gee
• June 28, 2024

Kupuna who are clueless about technology are welcome to bring their phones, laptops and other devices for assistance from Tech Savvy Teens, who will be at Windward Mall’s Center Court from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Read more

Keiki in the Kitchen to feature at Hawaii State Farm Fair

• By Pat Gee
• June 25, 2024

The Hawaii Food & Wine Festival’s popular HMAA Presents Keiki in the Kitchen event is pairing up this year with the Hawaii State Farm Fair on Aug. 3 and 4 at Whitmore Village in Wahiawa. Read more

Hawaii students learn English by writing about immigration

• By Pat Gee
• June 17, 2024

Heartfelt experiences about leaving their native countries and adjusting to a new life in Hawaii are a common thread entwining stories that have been written by students at Waipahu High School to improve their English-language skills. Read more

100th Battalion soldiers’ values motivate youth

• By Pat Gee
• June 10, 2024

How did Hawaii’s first group of nisei soldiers — who averaged only 5 feet, 4 inches tall and 125 pounds — of the 100th Infantry Battalion in World War II become one of the most decorated military units in U.S. history? Read more

Lahaina Methodists remember fire victims

• By Pat Gee
• May 25, 2024

On Sunday the congregation of the Lahaina United Methodist Church, which was decimated by fire in August, will recite a unison prayer to remember the town’s 101 wildfire victims on the eve of Memorial Day. Read more

An Oahu teacher writes rap tunes to teach kids grammar

• By Pat Gee
• May 13, 2024

Can you remember the difference between a regular and an irregular verb, name the seven relative pronouns or identify the object of a preposition? Read more

Program has caregivers accompany kupuna on outings

• By Pat Gee
• May 6, 2024

Vivia, a service line under Ho‘okele Home Care, recently began offering kupuna clients transportation to appointments along with the personal assistance they need once they get there. Read more

Silver Alert program helps find missing kupuna

• By Pat Gee
• April 22, 2024

It’s been 11 months of anguish since Patricia Arde’s 86-year-old father wandered off and vanished in Kapolei near Home Depot and Costco. Read more

WorkHawai‘i takes job-related services to libraries

• By Pat Gee
• April 22, 2024

Since February, Work Hawai‘i has helped over 200 people apply for housing and employment, sign up for classes to improve their job skills and receive other services after catching their eye at public libraries. Read more

Senior prom brings together Island Pacific students and kupuna

• By Pat Gee
• April 20, 2024

It was a senior prom in more ways than one when kupuna from the ‘Ilima at Leihano senior living community danced and made friends with students from Island Pacific Academy on Wednesday night. Read more

Maui mobile ministry takes its support directly to the unsheltered

• By Pat Gee
• April 15, 2024

Church volunteers on Maui who have operated a van since 2014 to distribute food and supplies to the homeless have seen the number of unsheltered people more than double since the catastrophic wildfires. Read more

Hawaii welcomes French students learning about Nisei soldiers

• By Pat Gee
• April 8, 2024

The gratitude and aloha that grew between citizens of Bruyeres, France, and the veterans of the legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team is still going strong 80 years after the Hawaii-born soldiers valiantly liberated the small town from years of German occupation in World War II. Read more

Hauula teen wins Prudential Emerging Visionary award

• By Pat Gee
• April 7, 2024

Bottles4College became an nonprofit in 2021 but Genshu Price said he started the program when he was 10 years old. Read more

Nonprofit raises $1.2M to help Maui’s restaurant workers

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• April 7, 2024

Donations will continue to be accepted until April 30. Read more

Still flying high at 100

• By Pat Gee
• March 26, 2024

For most of his 100 years, John Gleeson has loved to fly, and he still gets to feel the wind beneath his wings as he glides over the North Shore every now and then. Read more