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Sayre awards program moves to Fairmont Orchid

The Daniel Robert Sayre Memorial Foundation will hold its Ninth Annual Awards Program and Silent Auction for the Hawaii County Fire Department at 5 p.m. Sept. 2 in the Grand Ballroom of the Fairmont Orchid. This is the first year the event will be held at the resort.

“Our success has caused us to outgrow our former venues and I am very pleased that Fairmont offered to host this year’s event as well as to partner with our foundation to help provide life-saving emergency/rescue equipment for the HCFD,” said Laura Mallery-Sayre. “It is very heart-warming for me to discover that Fairmont is so community-oriented. I think that is rare and very special.”

Frank Sayre and Laura Mallery-Sayre founded the Daniel Robert Sayre Memorial Foundation under the auspices of the Hawaii Community Foundation after they lost their son to a tragic hiking accident.

Brewers Festival raises more than $28,000

The 2006 Brewers Festival planning committee and the Bill Healy Foundation recently presented grant awards to festival beneficiaries. The sold-out event, which took place on March 11 in Kailua-Kona, raised $28,600 for nine local nonprofit organizations.

Tropical Reforestation and Ecosystem Education Center, the event’s primary beneficiary for the past eight years, received $6,050. Innovations Public Charter School Foundation and Society for Kona’s Education and Art (SKEA) each received $5,000. Recycle Hawaii, on board as a participant and beneficiary since the first Kona Brewers Festival 11 years ago, received $3,750. The ACF Chefs de Cuisine Kona Kohala Chapter’s culinary student scholarship program received $3,600. Visitor Aloha Society Hawaii (VASH), West Hawaii, was presented with $2,500. The festival also made a $700 donation to the Ahuena Heiau, located near the festival grounds.

Since its inception in 1996, the event has raised $225,000 for Big Island nonprofit organizations.