Girl Scouts hold car wash, bottle drive ADVERTISING Girl Scouts hold car wash, bottle drive Girl Scout troop 2028 will hold a fundraising car wash and can and bottle drive from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Kailua-Kona Kmart.
Girl Scouts hold car wash, bottle drive
Girl Scout troop 2028 will hold a fundraising car wash and can and bottle drive from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Kailua-Kona Kmart.
Info: Penny Brumbaugh, 557-1939
Korean War Veterans meet
The Korean War Veterans Association of West Hawaii Chapter 279 meets at 10 a.m. Saturday at The Kona Vet Center, 73-4876 Kamanu St., Suite 207 in the Kaloko Industrial Area.
Membership is open to any person who has seen honorable service in any of the Armed Forces of the United States within Korea including territorial waters and airspace from Sept. 3, 1945 to present, or outside of Korea June 25, 1950, to Jan. 31, 1955. Associate members are also welcome.
Info: Vice President Ronald Cole, 327-9304, David Simon 769-4427.
Food safety certification class offered
TOBE Co. Food Safety will hold a ServSafe certification class at 8 a.m. Tuesday at King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel.
Most students will be finished with the exam by about 5 p.m. Since TOBE Co. is an approved trainer in the Employment and Training Fund program, 50 percent tuition assistance may be available through this state-run program. To find out if you qualify, call Tom at 235-0797.
ServSafe, the food safety training curriculum developed by the National Restaurant Association, is considered the gold standard for restaurant food safety training. Anyone who passes the test will receive ServSafe Certification and will meet all upcoming training requirements the state Health Department may mandate. The class is expected to sell out.
Register: Tom Frigge, 235-0797, TFrigge@TOBECoFoodSafety.com.
Free parenting class planned
The next session of Kamalama, a parenting education course offered by the Neighborhood Place of Kona, will be held from Tuesday through June 14. Kamalama introduces traditional Hawaiian values that reflect universal positive parenting principles and concepts of living pono, or morally correct.
Classes focus on the principle that parents or caregivers are their children’s first teachers and emphasize the responsibility of teaching and role-modeling proper values and behaviors.
Kamalama is a 10-week course with classes held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday. A certificate of completion is awarded to those who attend and participate in each class. There is no cost.
Info: 331-8777.
Fundraiser supports Waimea Middle School garden
Malaai, the culinary garden of Waimea Middle School is holding an Art and Sol Auction and fundraiser from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m Sunday at Kahilu Theatre.
The event includes a silent and live auction with a broad range of items, including a curly koa treble clef settee, rare wauke kapa hand-pounded pieces, baskets of Waimea produce and a private tour of OK Farms.
Funds raised will help sustain the Malaai school garden, which provides learning experiences for all of the school’s students. Students have grown, harvested, weighed and recorded more than 700 pounds of produce and herbs and have learned to make garden-grown salads and healthy snacks for 4,500 servings.
Art and Sol tickets are $50, which includes pupu paired with wines. A VNP (Very Nice Person) ticket is $100, $50 of which is a direct donation.
Tickets: malaai.org, Alethea Lai, 989-7861, email alethea@malaai.org.
East Hawaii officer, firefighter honored
The Aloha Exchange Club of East Hawaii recognized Officer Ryan Pagan as “Officer of the Year” and Captain Garrett Kim as “Firefighter of the Year” in a dinner ceremony March 24.
Officer Pagan, who joined the police department in 2008, is a patrol officer assigned to the South Hilo District. Kim has worked for the fire department for 15 years and is assigned to the Kaumana Fire Station. Pagan was awarded was for rescuing an elderly woman, who, along with her husband, had been reported missing. After several days of searching, Pagan found the 88-year-old woman and the body of the 93-year-old man in a ravine down the street from a house owned by a relative.
Capt. Kim was honored for spearheading several programs that benefit the fire department and the community. He obtained the grant money, instructors, and developed the class outline for the fire department’s Fire Ground Survival Program. He led the group to obtain grant money and development of the Firefighter Peer Fitness Program. He has been an advocate for raising awareness of cancer prevention within the fire department. He has also served as planning section chief in the fire department’s assistance to the county’s response to dengue fever.
