Recipe Board – Notice
This is the third Hawai‘i Herald issue that features recipes rather than upcoming events. Why? Because with “stay home” the name of the game to fight COVID-19, there isn’t much of anything going on....
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Hui O Laulima Accepting Applicants for 2021 Cultural Grants
Hui O Laulima’s Cultural Grants Committee is currently accepting applications for its 2021 Cultural Grant program. The grants are aimed at supporting the applicants’ efforts to preserve and perpetuate...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – GFBNEC, Essay and Poetry Contest
To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Go For Broke National Education Center presents its 2020 High School and College Essay and Poetry Contest. In addition to cash prizes, four...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Kizunaloha Coalition for Recovery Efforts
The KizunAloha coalition, composed of more than 20 companies, government agencies and nonprofits based in Hawai‘i and Japan, recently unveiled a communications campaign designed to support future and...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – An Oral History Project: Hawaii Life in the Time of COVID-19
Has the coronavirus pandemic devastated or overturned your life? Are you stuck at home with but naught to do, hoping to leverage the shutdown by starting to learn more about your parents, grandparents...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – HI State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Accepting...
Experienced artists who can demonstrate a track record of exhibitions, installations, and/or commissions, especially those skilled at creating “three dimensional freestanding sculpture, two dimensional...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – State Recovery Navigator Website Offers Resources for COVID-19
Hawaiʻi residents, companies, and contractors now have a free “one-stop shop” for local and national economic resources to help them survive COVID-19 — including employment, tax, finance and banking,...
View ArticleSpotlight – The Herald Welcomes Ida Yoshinaga
Jodie Chiemi Ching It’s been a month and a half since the retired editor’s name, Karleen Chinen, appeared on the masthead of The Hawai‘i Herald. Fortunately for me, she stayed around to answer...
View ArticleLead Story – Obon: The Graves at Bellows Air Force Station
Rev. Bert Sumikawa Helps Descendants Honor Ancestors at the Bellows Japanese Cemetery Gregg K. Kakesako Special to The Hawai‘i Herald This year, obon — the 500-year-old Japanese Buddhist custom...
View ArticleBulletin Board – Maui Hazardous Household Waste Collection
WHO/WHAT: The Maui County Dept. of Environmental Management will collect household hazardous waste items from Maui residents (homes only, not firms), including: aerosols, antifreeze, car batteries,...
View ArticleBulletin Board – Cherry Blossom Festival Virtual Silent Auction
WHO/WHAT: The 68th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival will hold a Silent Auction online. In June, the CBF’s sponsor, the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce, will select the CBF court in a closed...
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Bulletin Board – Go for Broke Monument’s 1srt Streamed Anniversary Celebration
WHO/WHAT: The Go For Broke National Education Center will hold the 21st anniversary of its Go For Broke Monument via streaming services. The moving ceremony features keynote Kisa Ito, granddaughter of...
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Bulletin Board – Tsuru Rising! Virtual Protest to Close the Camps
WHO/WHAT: Tsuru for Solidarity will host a virtual protest for its one-year anniversary. The online, two-day educational event renews the demand to stop cruelly imprisoning families in detention and...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Takitanis Give $218,000 to College-Bound, High-School Students
The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation, named after the issei businessman from Yamaguchi and his wife – who met and wed on Maui then together co-founded Hawaiian Host chocolates in Kaimukī – donated...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – JASH Virtual Programs and Resources
During the coronavirus lockdown, the Japan- America Society of Hawai‘i staff — in lieu of hosting JASH’s many “face-to-face” events — curated a webpage of high-quality online resources for community...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Buy Local Via Food-A-Go-Go Farms
“Support local farmers!” is the current digital war cry of Hawai‘i Agricultural Foundation executive director Denise Yamaguchi, the longtime non-profit leader, spouse of notable restauranteur Roy and...
View ArticleCommunity Focus – Free Ukulele Practice Videos for the (Quarantined) Family
From April 5, Roy Sakuma Studios has offered lighthearted, weekly “Ukulele Practice Videos” on its website and YouTube channel at no cost to the public. Families who want to teach their children (or...
View ArticleSpotlight – UJSH: “Renkyo No Ayumi” Commemorative Book
United Japanese Society of Hawaii Holds Online General Membership Meeting Jodie Chiemi Ching The United Japanese Society of Hawaii’s annual general membership meeting was called to order by Rev....
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Bulletin Board – HISAM from Home, Free Kids Art Class
WHO/WHAT: The Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts is hosting the HiSAM (Hawaiʻi State Art Museum) From Home Free Art Class for Kids in an online Zoom class led by highly trained Artistic...
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Bulletin Board – JANM Digital Film Festival: “Madame Fujima Kansuma” Film Q&A
WHO/WHAT: The Japanese American National Museum presents a Q&A session for the film “Madame Fujima Kansuma,” featuring the life of a Japanese American kabuki dancer and teacher who began a...
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