Fatherhood class offered in October
Fatherhood class offered in October
Family Support Hawaii will offer a 12-week session of the nationally accredited 24/7 DAD Program from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on consecutive Mondays starting Oct. 12. Dinner will be served to all participants and materials will be provided.
Earl Betts Jr., a certified trainer of the program and a local father of two will lead the course. He believes in supporting men to develop and apply the fathering skills needed to be a positive influence to their children. Some topics to be covered include the characteristics of a 24/7 DAD, dealing with anger, family ties, sex, love and relationships, improving communication skills and having fun with the kids.
Call Family Support Hawaii at 334-4162 for more information or to sign up for the course or email Betts at ebetts@fsswh.org or Toni Symons, community programs manager at tsymons@fsswh.org.
Kona Library Book Club meets
The Kona Library Book Club will meet at 11 a.m. Tuesday on the lanai of the Kailua-Kona Public Library.
This month’s selection is “The Palace Walk” by Naguib Mahfouz. Set in Cairo near the end of World War I, 1988 Nobel Prize-winner Mahfouz’s family drama explores deep fissures in the patriarchal structure of one household. The novel depicts an Egypt lurching into the modern age from 1917 to the 1950s.
The club will meet in October to discuss “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand.
FOLK launching Community Seed Library
The Friends of the Libraries, Kona invites the public to a launch of the Community Seed Library at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The project will allow the sharing of seeds for the future. Attendees will learn about the storage capabilities of seeds and the best ways to save them so they will have the highest viability at planting time. To get involved with this project, present a program of interest or for more information, contact Natalie at 508-264-7335 or email nehamah47@gmail.com.
Hawaii Meth Project at Rotary Wednesday
The Hawaii Meth Project is a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing methamphetamine use through public service messaging, public policy and community outreach. Tanya Hardin, prevention education manager, will discuss the Hawaii Meth Project’s collaborative efforts to educate Hawaii’s teens and young adults by arming them with facts about the risks and dangers of methamphetamine abuse during the Rotary Club of Kona Sunrise meeting Wednesday.
Members meet from 7 to 8 a.m. every Wednesday at Humpy’s in the Coconut Grove Marketplace on Alii Drive. Breakfast is $12 per person.
For more information, contact Carol Salis at 756-6029 or carol.salis@boh.com.
HVNP plans September programs
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has announced its program schedule for September. All programs are free, but park entrance fees apply. A $2 donation helps support park programs.
Kupaoa will play a Hawaiian music concert from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Kilauea Visitor Center auditorium. Husband-and-wife duo, Kellen and Lihau Paik have been performing as Kupaoa for about a decade and have been honored with multiple Na Hoku Hanohano awards. As lifelong students of Hawaiian language, they enjoy composing and performing their own original songs, in addition to the time-honored favorites.
Children of all ages and their families are invited to learn how to make their own hu kukui, or Hawaiian top, with kukui nuts during an Ohana Day at the park’s Kahuku unit. The program is offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 19. Call 985-6019 by Sept. 3 to sign up for this program and a free lunch for keiki. Attendees should bring water, sunscreen, hat and long pants and enter the Kahuku unit on the mauka side of Highway 11 near mile marker 70.5 and meet near the parking area.
At an ohe kapala class, park rangers will demonstrate how to craft beautiful designs on a bamboo stamp to embellish cloth from 10 a.m to noon Wednesday, Sept. 23 on the Kilauea Visitor Center lanai.
Free entry to the park will be given Sept. 26 to celebrate National Public Lands Day, which is the largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands in the United States. Check the events page on the park website as the date gets closer to see what volunteer opportunities are available in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Research plant pathologist Lisa Keith of the Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Flint Hughes, research ecologist with U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry and J.B. Friday, of University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources will give an update on a disease that is causing rapid ohia death. The talk is offered from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29 at Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium.