A team of four high school students from Maui Huliau Foundation’s youth filmmaking program recently won the Silver Award for their film submission to the 2018 Ocean Awareness Contest. Sponsored by Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs, the Boston-based nonprofit created the contest to teach ...
Youths in grades 3-12 learned painting techniques Feb. 17 during the Maui Plein Air Youth Outdoor Paint Out at Campbell Park in Lahaina. Their instructor was artist Darice Machel McGuire, owner of E-Art Studio. Maui Arts League and Honu and Frida’s restaurants sponsored the free painting ...
Zenshin Daiko will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Saturday by taking a trip to Japan. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to teaching taiko to children and sharing it with the community. Zenshin Daiko has performed all over Maui and the Neighbor Islands and in California, Wisconsin, ...
Photo workshop set on mountain Haleakala National Park’s 2019 Artist in Residence, astrophotographer Stan Honda, will hold a public night sky photography workshop at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Headquarters Visitor Center in the park’s Summit District (7,000-foot elevation). The New ...
Foundations and entities who contributed recently to Maui County community nonprofits and others are as follows: Grade school students at St. Anthony School participated in the Kids Heart Challenge and the school raised more than $11,000 for the American Heart Association. St. Anthony ...
SEABURY HALL Upper School Third Quarter Head of School’s List 3.7-Plus Grade-Point Average Grade 12 — Alana Battad, Cleo Borthwick, Maile Dougherty, Lucy Dustman, Evan Elsasser, Sean Fleetham, Noah Garcia, Robert Gibbons, Lona Girardin, Carver Glomb, Jessica Griffiths, Ethan ...
A packed house gathered to network and listen to Michael Powers at the Feb. 6 Maui TechOhana event presented by the Maui Economic Development Board and Hawaii Technology Development Corp. The event sold out two weeks prior with huge interest by the Maui tech community to learn and absorb from ...
King Kamehameha III Elementary School in Lahaina will celebrate its annual Ho‘ike at 8:30 a.m. Friday on the school campus. The students who will represent the king and queen at this year’s festivities are King Ka‘eo Furtado, son of Michael Furtado and Malia Wong, and Queen Ella ...
Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center presented its Angel Award to Anne-Marie Forsythe during its Art Affair on Feb. 23. The event recognizes champions in the community for their extraordinary contributions with an the Angel Award. Past recipients have included George Allan, Bob Flint, Joe and Bev ...
Nicole “nico” Fisher, marketing and community outreach coordinator of Akaku Maui Community Media, will be guest speaker at the noon to 1 p.m. meeting on Monday of the Rotary Club of Kahului at Tante’s Island Cuisine in Kahului. Fisher will speak about Akaku resources via a presentation ...
Mercer “Chubby” Vicens was named the 2018 Volunteer of the Year during the Maui Economic Opportunity annual volunteer luncheon on Feb. 14 at the MEO Family Center. This event is held every year on Valentine’s Day to honor and thank all of the many volunteers who assist MEO with its ...
Wild animal welfare subject of free talk “The Clear Case for Compassionate Conservation: Living in a World Where All Animals Matter,” a talk by Liv Baker, Ph.D., will be presented at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the J. Walter Cameron Center in Wailuku. Compassionate Conservation is an emerging, ...
From Maui’s coastlines to our mountain slopes, the naio tree provides shelter for native animals and helps prevent erosion. Naio is a shape-shifter: It can be a crawling prostrate shrub or an 80-foot-tall towering tree. It’s versatile and adaptable. Along the shore, naio plants easily ...
The Maui Chapter of the Hawaii Society of Professional Engineers announced that the Iao Intermediate School team coached by Lynette Zakabi and assistant coaches Michael and Quinton Wong took first-place team honors at its annual MATHCOUNTS Chapter Competition on Feb. 9 at Maui Waena ...
BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL Second Quarter Principal’s Commendation List 4.0-Plus Grade-Point Average Note: (+) denotes students with grade-point average above 4.0 because of student work in Advanced Placement, college-level classes. Grade 9 — Tiana Maxine Agres, Nicole Asianah Antiado, ...
Maui Seasons for Peace will present its annual Maui Peace Hero Awards event from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the University of Hawaii Maui College Pa‘ina Building on the ground floor. Maui Peace Heroes are “ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” Selected to receive the award at the ...
The LahainaTown Action Committee presented its Volunteer and Business of the Year Awards during its annual meeting on Jan. 28 at the Pioneer Inn Courtyard in Lahaina. Hawaii Gelato was named 2018 Business of the Year, and Waiola Church was named 2018 Volunteer of the Year. “Both recipients ...
Maui Cycle Exploration will have a guided ride and potluck from 7:45 to approximately 11 a.m. Saturday. Participants will ride from Kalama Park Pavilion to ‘Ahihi-Kina‘u Natural Area Reserve and back, concluding with a social potluck at the pavilion. The route will include scenic stops ...
Maui’s Megan Powers was one of five individuals and four organizations recognized by Gov. David Ige and legislative leaders as Hawai‘i Invasive Species Committee Most Valuable Players for 2019. Powers received the the Maui County MVP award for her work as a respected member of an organic ...
Imua Family Services’ Early Childhood Development Conference will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Imua Family Services’ Early Childhood Development Center, 161 S. Wakea Ave. in Kahului. The conference will provide training for preschool and kindergarten teachers, early childhood ...