About Town: 3-12-17

Subscribe Now Choose a package that suits your preferences.
Start Free Account Get access to 7 premium stories every month for FREE!
Already a Subscriber? Current print subscriber? Activate your complimentary Digital account.

Workshop designed to help women navigate life

Workshop designed to help women navigate life

Are you going back to school or work or embarking on a different life transition? An upcoming workshop in Kona called “Women in Transition: Moving Forward” offers tools needed to make the life change successful.

The event is from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Hawaii Community College – Palamanui. It will feature inspirational speakers, informative and educational breakout sessions.

Registration is $10 and includes a light breakfast.

Info: Carrie Kuwada Phipps, 969-8808.

Hawaiian heritage plant talk coming up

The Kailua-Kona Library will host a presentation by the Community Seed Library called Canoe Plant Food and Medicine from 10-11 a.m. Saturday.

Hawaiian heritage plants brought by early Polynesian settlers as sources of food and medicine are legacy plants with culinary and healing uses today. The Same Canoe Local Food Challenge is raising awareness of island-grown canoe crops to help build appreciation, grow consumer demand and encourage local farmers and gardeners to increase production of these heritage plants.

The talk will include a slide show, free tasting and recipe sharing.

Sponsored by Friends of the Libraries, Kona, the program is free to the public but donations are welcome.

Info: 327-4327.