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Native Hawaiian Education Council seeks volunteers from all islands
NHEC News Release The Native Hawaiian Education Council (NHEC) is seeking individuals interested in developing and perpetuating excellence in Native Hawaiian education to serve on the NHEC. NHEC was established by the Native Hawaiian Education Act to assess the extent to which education programs meet the needs of Native Hawaiians; to coordinate educational services to [...]
Local schools improve but still earn low grades on annual report card
For over a decade, Honolulu Magazine has published its comprehensive report card for each of Hawaii’s 255 public schools, ranking them with data collected from the Department of Education. If schoolchildren brought home the grades given to Molokai’s six public schools, parents would probably start handing out groundings. Grades ranged from a “C+” to an [...]
The MOM Hui on Molokai Grassroots Benefit Concert to create Molokai Community Scholarship Fund
The MOM Hui News Release The MOM Hui on Molokai has organized its first Grassroots Benefit Concert to help raise money for a Molokai Community Scholarship Fund. The concert on July 5, 6 p.m. at Kaunakakai Ball Park, is planned as an annual event. As a result of this event, The Mom Hui on Molokai [...]
Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows seek applicants for 2013-14 leadership program
Maui’s Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows program recently completed its sixth year and is now seeking applicants for the 2013-14 session, including applicants from Molokai to be tomorrow’s leaders of Maui County. A Decisions Maui and Focus Maui Nui initiative, the program is a yearlong endeavor designed to promote and train community-identified future leaders of Maui [...]
Makani Kai to fly to Molokai five times daily starting tomorrow
Only three weeks ago after the people of Molokai learned that they would lose air service from Pacific Wings, another airlines has announced it will begin service to the airport in Ho’olehua. Before Pacific Wings has its last flight out of Molokai on June 15, Makani Kai Air will have already begun its five daily [...]
Rakugo Japanese-storytelling performance at Molokai Public Library
Hawaii State Public Library System News Release Bento Rakugo will be featured performers for “Dig into Reading,” the 2013 HSPLS Children’s Summer Reading Program, at 11 selected public libraries on the Big Island, Lanai, Molokai, and Oahu from June 5 to July 17. Admission is free. The performance comes to the Molokai Public Library in [...]
Maui County offers $1,000 stipend, free booth space for ‘Made in Hawaii’ product show
Mayor’s Office of Economic Development News Release The County of Maui Mayor’s Office of Economic Development and INNOVATE Hawaii today announced the availability of funding for locally-made product companies in Maui, Molokai and Lanai to exhibit at the Made in Hawaii Festival. The festival will be held Aug. 16-18 at the Neal S. Blaisdell Exhibition [...]
Lions roar: Free vision screening helps 408 local keiki
Molokai Lions Club News Release An event took place that quietly swept through Molokai during the first week of February with little fanfare and no media coverage! A total of 633 children and adults were affected when the Molokai Lions Club did their yearly school vision screening and operated the Retina Vision Van (Project Vision [...]
The summer slide is one ride our keikis do not want to take
By Geneva Castro’Lichtenstein, M.Ed Is the summer slide the new ride at the playground at One Ali`i? Is it the water slide at a keiki’s birthday party? Nope. The summer slide is what happens to our keiki’s reading skills over summer break. With today, May 30, the last day of school at Kualapu’u Elementary School [...]
Kalaupapa Historical Park receives national attention at Asian American and Pacific Islander forum
The isolated two-mile square peninsula jutting off Molokai’s north shore was the focus of attention at a forum sponsored by the White House and the Department of Interior May 9 in Washington, D.C. The forum on Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage at the Yates Auditorium inside the Department of the Interior was attended by [...]
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