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Media Release Healing Our Island Community Fund mini-grants are still available through the Hawaii County Resource Center (HCRC), a program of the Department of Research and Development. This fund, obtained through a state Grant-in-Aid, is designed to make funding available to grassroots groups that ordinarily have no access to traditional grant sources. The Healing Our [...]
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I added a new blog to my ‘Roll this morning: My Hawaiian Home Devany Vickery-Davidson is a new resident here on the Big Island. She comes here from the mainland with an extensive background in cooking as well as a great knowledge of pottery and other arts and crafts. She has another blog that she [...]
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2009 Regular Session Bills Introduced from the Bills and Documents site on the Legislatures homepage.: * Senate Bills Introduced * House Bills Introduced
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I blogged earlier about how much I have a distaste for people that allow their dogs to roam free w/out fenced in yards. My wife has a permanent scar on her face from being attacked by a dog on her own street. It is people that “Tethered” their dog by keeping them tied up most [...]
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Hat tip to Nancy Cook Lauer at All Hawaii News. The 2009 Hawaii Pork Report has been released and you can view it here. Something of note for Big Island residents: “Alarm over the rapid spread of the coqui frog, especially on the Big Island, has inspired a multitude of projects such as the Stop [...]
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Earlier, I posted the video of the confession of the murderer that killed Puna Resident Gary Poretsky. Here is footage of him getting lead into court there in Thailand as well as a few other things: Sixty one year old former Perth resident William Thomas Douglas was sentenced to four years jail for the murder [...]
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It’s been a while… Audio a must:
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Last week on Tuesday, we had really high levels of VOG here in Pahoa. I had never seen it this bad before. When I dropped my son off at school, they mentioned that Civil Defense had put Pahoa school on stand-by for possible evacuation and that if Pahoa School got evacuated… the preschool would as [...]
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I previously blogged about the murder of Gary Poretsky here, here, here, here, here and here. Gary Bruce Poretsky, a 46-year-old resident of Hawaii was shot to death in the Northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai in the early morning of March 22, 2008 by Australian man William Thomas Douglas. Douglas turned himself in to [...]
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Media Release For years Hawai’i Island communities and organizations have hosted festivals and events that showcase island culture and arts, and those public celebrations generate millions of dollars annually in economic activity. Now the County of Hawai’i is launching a research effort to get a better fix on just how much business is being generated [...]
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I’ve been adjusting some of my feeds and links on my blog the last few days. I’ve removed the pictures from the left side and combined them with some of the movies I’ve posted to make a new page at the top. I added a couple new blogs that are worth checking out: Barbara Uechi [...]
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My son has a great time at his school. Sometimes he just has too much fun. There is a grass hill at his school and the kids like to roll down the hill. Problem is that my son keeps getting small little grass cuts all over his body which is making him itchy. I’ve told [...]
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A lawsuit seeking basic government documents has been filed in Federal District Court against the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Department of Commerce by the Conservation Council for Hawaii, The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance, KAHEA; and the LOST FISH Coalition. The lawsuit was filed to gain access [...]
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Public Safety Chair Faye Hanohano will hold info meeting with experts on medical cannabis, Wed, 10:00 a.m. State Capitol, Room 312. Hat tip to Georgette Deemer Here is some of the PENDING legislation: Senate Bill 418 and House Bill 967: Amends the term “medical marijuana” to “medical cannabis”; transfers the administration of the program from [...]
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Media Release – Pictures Provided by County A tsunami wasn’t really on the way, but the County was preparing for one anyway on Tuesday morning. It was Hawaii County’s first island-wide tsunami alert exercise, a test of the county’s response to a tsunami warning. A few minor glitches occurred, but that was part of the [...]
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*Statehood Day bump* Just saw this cool clip on youtube: “I was just a little girl of 4 years when my mother took this movie of a helicopter landing in Honolulu with news of statehood for Hawaii. In 2009, it will be the 50th anniversary of statehood. My dad, a sailor with the US Navy [...]
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I just noticed the following resolution that Councilman Jacobsen introduced was recently adoped: Res. 826-08 Urges the Director of the Department of Environmental Management to Develop an Ordinance and Implement a Plan to Prohibit Food Paper and Compostable Organics from Hawaii County Landfills by 2012 {Proposes that the County ban food paper and compostable organics [...]
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Hat tip to Richard Ha: Rat Lungworm Meeting this Saturday, Jan. 31, at noon at SPACE in Kalapana Seaview Estates. We hope to have many well-informed people attending as the purpose of this meeting is informational. Zsolt Halda, who has just been released from the hospital, will be there. *update* Jane Whitefield gives us these [...]
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