UH “Kids First! Film Festival”
WHO/WHAT: The highly anticipated UH Manoa “KIDS FIRST! Film Festival” enters its 11th summer, with 40 live-action and animated films from 13 countries for children and youth from 4 to 15+ years of age.
WHEN/WHERE: Sundays,...
Chinowa Blessing For People and Pets
WHO/WHAT: Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha-Hawaii Dazaifu celebrates all creatures at its annual Chinowa blessing for people and pets. Leashed or caged pets and people of all faiths are welcome to receive a complimentary blessing, or...
Hakuoh University Handbell Choir Returns for 26th Hawaii Concerts
Hakuoh University’s popular Handbell Choir returned to Honolulu in March to present two public concerts. The choir members, who ring seven octaves of handbells, performed at Palikü Theatre at Windward Community College and at Central Union Church. Hakuoh University’s music director, Professor Hirotaka Arai, established the handbell choir in 1988. He continues to arrange handbell....
Your Social Security – Planning Will Help You See Green in Retirement
YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY By Jane Yamamoto-Burigsay
Dear Frances – We Should All “Execute Our Independence”
DEAR FRANCES By Frances H. Kakugawa Dear Linda, You have over-thanked me with this poem. Thank you for all the “ifs” that we caregivers live with day after day. When they are so eloquently presented, they turn our hour-by-hour life as caregivers into poetry. Thank you for taking us inward into our own. Frances Readers....
Historical Fiction – “Picture Bride”, A Family Saga
HISTORICAL FICTION By Michael G. Malaghan Chapter 99 As Haru strolled down Fort Street with Kenta, sleeping, secured to her back, she thought of herself as Alice in Wonderland finding herself in a strange world after falling down a rabbit hole. She marveled at the many cars on the street. It was not just the....