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The Hawaiian State legislature has declared 2009 the Year of the Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO). Master Sgt. Barbara Rubio, U.S. Army Pacific Chief Paralegal, was just one NCO on-hand at the proclamation ceremony:
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Earlier I posted a blog about the residents of “Taylor Camp” that got quite a bit of interest from a few people. I just checked a few of my back tweets and Ragnar Carlson Editor of the Honolulu Weekly, left me this tweet: @damontucker our Taylor Camp piece from last summer, FYI http://tinyurl.com/c4b4gj about 5 [...]
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Recent Chicago/San Francisco Island transplant Devany Vickery-Davidson has been taking this island by storm lately. She has become very active in a number of different things and one of her aspirations is to eventually open a cooking school right here on the island. As a writer for “Edible Magazine” she definitely has the skills to [...]
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COUNTY OF HAWAI`I INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN UPDATE Present: Barbara Bell, Paul Buklarewicz, Christine Dochin, Mike Kaha, Alex Leonard, Steve Okoji, Shon Pahio, Russell Ruderman, Ted Vorfeld Absent: Mike Gleason, Jes Foster, Nimr Tamimi Staff Present: Lono Tyson, Ivan Torigoe, Mike Dworsky, Linda Peters, Angela Kang, Craig Kawaguchi, Wally Lau, Suzanne Andrade Consultants: Dan [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Big Island, Environment, Hawaii, Sustainable Living, Technology | Tagged: Hawaii County Solid Waste Plan | 1 Comment »
Just noticed this article. Remember that this is just what is being told online: Hawaii – Soldiers have been training at the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) for decades. It’s the largest Department of Defense installation in Hawaii, and has a 51,000-acre impact area which is over 10 times the size of the one at Schofield [...]
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I tried to kill two birds with one stone this morning with a trip into town to see my mom. I stopped off at UH Hilo… To see a certain professor, about a clean elections march and demonstartion that is coming up NEXT TUESDAY… but all I found was a closed door and a few [...]
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Just found the Youtube site where they are loading up the 50 Voices of Statehood videos. I’ll just post a couple here and then direct you over to the rest of them: HARRY KIM: GEORGE ARIYOSHI: JIM BURNS: WALTER DODDS: PAT SAIKI: It appears that they are loading them up now as I blog this… [...]
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A few weeks back, someone asked about “Taylor Camp” once again on a message board. This is the third time that I have heard the subject brought up, so I figured I’d write a little blog about the subject. I just did a Wikipedia search on the subject and surprisingly nothing came up on the [...]
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Hat tip to Big Island on the Cheap: The Big Island Association of Nurserymen (BIAN) presents its 29th annual Plant Sale. Friday, March 6th from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. and Saturday, March 7th from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Hilo’s Edith Kanaka‘ole Stadium.
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The other day I added “On The Cheap” as one of the feeds on my blog. Little did I know that the official site wasn’t even actually up and running for business just yet… So you folks reading my blog are getting “Say Cheap” a few days early as kind of a “beta” test. I [...]
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Aaron Stene recently submitted a Letter to the Editor to the Big Island Weakly. I know he didn’t make the headline in the paper… but I got a kick out of it: Bloggers are people, too Wednesday, March 4, 2009 10:29 AM HST I was thoroughly disgusted to find out that the Hawai’i County Department [...]
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