Queens’ MarketPlace plans holiday events
Queens’ MarketPlace plans holiday events
Queens’ MarketPlace welcomes everyone to come and enjoy holiday activities, including free family photo opportunities with Santa Claus and a holiday village in miniatures.
Located between Bike Works Beach & Sport and Quiksilver, the Holiday Village is unique to Queens’ MarketPlace, presented for the first time as a gift to the community to enrich the holiday shopping experience. The Holiday Village can be seen daily, 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
St. Nick is coming to the center, ready to greet every child in The Rotunda for holiday photos. Families are invited to bring their own cameras and wish-lists, and visit Santa Claus during the following times: 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through Dec. 21 and noon to 2 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 22 and 23.
For more information, visit queensmarketplace.net or call 886-8822.
Kunz heading national board
The directors of the American Board of Addiction Medicine and The ABAM Foundation have appointed Kevin B. Kunz, MD., MPH, FASAM, as their new executive. Kunz will replace Dr. James Callahan who has served in this capacity from 2008 to the present.
Kunz practices addiction medicine in Kona and is assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He served as ABAM and ABAM Foundation president (2008 to 2011), and as specialty director (preventive medicine) (2008 to the present), a position he will vacate when assuming his new responsibilities on Jan. 1.
Kunz will collaborate with the directors to promote the training and certification of an expanding number of physicians in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of addictive disorders.
iTEAM seeks sponsors, mentors
The iTEAM-invention team has launched its programs on the Big Island for children ages 8 to 18. The free admission events have children and mentors interact in a hands-on approach while taking apart old, used appliances and devices they bring, then design and create a new fantasy invention with the parts. Tools, materials and decorations are provided.
Owners Zee Knapp, executive director, and Ernie Bernard,recycle-reuse-reduce specialist, and a team of 25 adult inventor-mentors and junior mentors-in-training have conducted invention day programs at Home Depot and The Salvation Army on the big Island.
Knapp was the Southern California regional coordinator for Camp Invention, the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a national judge of invention fairs. Her book, “Super Invention Fair Projects,” was a best-seller at Scholastic Book fairs.
For more information, to volunteer as an inventor-mentor or sponsor an event, call 331-0806 (office message), or (714) 423-4755.