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I just blogged earlier today about the Big Islands $40,000 Civil Defense phone plan that Australia is adopting… where was the Civil Defense plan tonight? The Waikoloa area of the Big Island is getting hit hard with rains. Our own county civil defense on the Big Island has given no warning that I can find. [...]
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Hat tip to BIVN: “We salute you Spongebob”
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Kudos to Nancy Cook Lauer over at All Hawaii News for blogging about the legislatures considering “Marijuana Stamps”. The Hawaii House today advanced a bill that would issue cannabis distribution stamps to participants in the state’s medical marijuana program… …Under the program, a farmer puts up some land for secure growing facilities and a certified [...]
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Hat tip to Georgette Deemer over at the Hawaii House Blog. She alerts us to how easy it is to submit testimony to the Legislature now. Submitting testimony to the Hawaii State Legislature is now as simple as a click of a mouse. If you go to the capitol website, you will be able to [...]
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Project Niu is a K-12 science curriculum that provides students and teachers with hands-on, project-based experiences with the technologies used in remotely monitoring the ocean. Through deploying and tracking a high tech “message in a bottle” as it drifts out to sea, students develop an understanding of mankind’s impact on the watershed while forming personal [...]
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The recent disaster of the Fires in Australia have lead officials to look back at the Big Island Phone Alert system. In October of last year, the Big Island Civil Defense implemented a phone alert system throughout the Big Island of Hawaii. The Hawai’i County Civil Defense Agency has just acquired a new Mass Emergency [...]
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Wow… Liza over at A Maui Blog is offering tickets to the Twestival for some lucky Oahu residents because she isn’t able to make it herself due to unforeseen circumstances… I highly suggest if you live on Oahu and your a Twitter user… and you’re broke like me but want to attend the Twestival on [...]
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On February 3rd, the Council Representatives listened to probably the same thing I listened to at the Pahoa meeting for public input on the Counties Zero Waste plan. This is what three of the Council members commented on the plan according to the minutes of the meeting: Pete Hoffman – doesn’t want two plans (Zero [...]
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I’m sure the county will pass Res. 53-09 on February 18th, which would allow the Waiakea Fire Station to receive this donation. The Daniel R. Sayre Memorial Foundation has donated a 2008 Toyota Tacoma Crew Cab, 4 door 4 wheel drive pick-up truck to the Waiakea Fire Station. The value of the truck was $28,856.02. [...]
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A state commission will meet next week to discuss whether it should continue pursuing ethics charges against Judge Thomas E. Stringer Sr. now that he has resigned from the 2nd District Court of Appeal. Stringer, 64, was scheduled to give a deposition Friday to state Judicial Qualifications Commission prosecutors about his financial dealings with a [...]
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Media Release The County of Hawaii Department of Parks and Recreation announces that the Pahoa Aquatic Center will be closed to the public on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 thru Friday, February 20, 2009 and will re-open on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 9:00 am. This short-term closure is necessary for department staff and engineering consultants [...]
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*Update #2* Now the results have swung a bit more here are the current results: Yes 63% (17 votes) No 30% (8 votes) Only on Hawaiian Homelands 7% (2 votes) Total Votes: 27 Voting is still open for those who haven’t voted. The voting service that I’m using only allows one vote per IP address, [...]
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We all know the correlation between the tanking economy and rising crime rates. When I moved from the Big Island to Oahu about 15 years ago, I noticed that the police record in the local papers only had about 5-10 names in them each day. Now that I have moved back to the Big Island, [...]
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The Domestic Violence Action Center in Honolulu was the recipient of a $325,000 grant from The Kresge Foundation. The state of the economy did not deter the trustees of The Kresge Foundation from awarding $63.6 million in grants at its fourth-quarter board meeting in December, making the quarter, together with the $181 million in grants [...]
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The owners of Boulder’s venerable mountainside Flagstaff House restaurant said Wednesday they are opening a restaurant and bar at a Hawaii beach hotel. Monettes — named for the Flagstaff House owners, brothers Mark and Scott Monette — is slated to open in March at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, in Kamuela on the island of [...]
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