Call the Hawaii County Office of Aging at 961-8600 to make reservations and to obtain nomination applications. Paishon speaking at visitors center ADVERTISING The Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station’s free monthly program, Malalo o ka Po Lani, will feature guest
Paishon speaking
at visitors center
The Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station’s free monthly program, Malalo o ka Po Lani, will feature guest speaker Chadd Paishon, navigator and executive director of Na Kalai Waa, and hosts Leilehua Yuen and Manu Josiah as they take the audience on a journey of exploration into the concept of the island as a canoe and the canoe as an island. Attendees will learn how the Hawaiian night sky served Native Hawaiian ancestors as calendar, map and library in a presentation titled “Sailing by the Stars.”
The program begins at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Mauna Kea Visitors Information Station. A stargazing program follows.
For more information, visit ifa.hawaii.edu/info/vis or call 961-2180.
Golden teaching tempura cooking class
Abbey Golden is teaching a tempura party cooking class from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Feb. 28 at Hale Halawai on Alii Drive in Kailua-Kona.
Golden will demonstrate the secrets of light, crisp vegetable tempura with dipping sauce; the basics of sushi rolls with nontraditional fillings; and a green salad with miso-ginger dressing. This class is vegetarian — participants will learn ways to use raw fish in sushi, but the group will not be eating raw fish.
The class, sponsored by Hawaii County Department of Parks and Recreation Culture and Arts division, is $15, which includes recipes and food tasting.
Call Bert at 961-8706 to register for the class.
Dinner and auction
benefit soccer team
Kolby Martin’s soccer team, The Underdogs, is sponsoring a Keei Cafe dinner night and silent auction. Team members will be serving meals and cleaning up. The dinner is from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 4.
The dinner begins with organic greens with balsamic vinaigrette served with grape tomatoes and feta cheese. The choice of entrees are an 8-ounce prime rib, au jus sauce, creamy horseradish, choice of mashed potatoes or white rice and vegetable medley; fresh catch with a lemon caper butter sauce, choice of mashed potatoes or rice and vegetable medley; or stuffed chicken breast with mushroom gravy, choice of mashed potatoes or rice, and vegetable medley. Dessert is New York-style cheesecake with seasonal sauce. Coffee, tea or ice tea are included with dinner. There will be a no-host cash bar available.
Tickets are $35 and can be purchased by calling Kolby or Amy Martin at 443-6543 and leave a message how many tickets the caller would like and the time he would like to come. This is a tax-deductible donation for the U14 Boys Select Soccer Team to help with expenses for an up-coming tournament in Oahu.
Call 322-9992 for reservations. There is limited seating.
Concert benefits Honokaa music program
Musica Sinfonietta, the Asker Children and Youth Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Stoyanov, will present a fundraising concert for the Honokaa High School music program beginning at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Honokaa People’s Theatre. Admission is $5 for students and seniors and $7 for general admission at the door.
The Big Island concert tour will feature the orchestral masterpiece, “Norwegian Dance No. 2” by Edward Grieg. In collaboration with the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s Kapili Choir, Musica Sinfonietta will also perform sacred Western European masterworks: Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “Te Deum” (an 11-movement French Baroque cantata for chorus and orchestra), Franz Schubert’s “Mass in G” and George Frideric Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” from the oratorio, “Messiah.”
Musica Sinfonietta musicians, ages 12 to 18, play string, wind and percussion instruments. The group was founded in 1964 and most of the musicians have trained at the Asker kulturskole (School of Music and Performing Arts). Their visit to Hawaii will include contact with Waiakea, Kamehameha and Kealakehe High Schools, and a special afternoon educational event is planned with Gary Washburn’s music students from Honokaa High.
Stoyanov has a master’s degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music in addition to education from the conservatory in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Barrat Due Institute of Music in Oslo, Norway. He has participated in the Jehudi Menuhin Academy in France and has won violin competitions. Musica Sinfonietta has given concerts in and outside Norway, including in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Stockholm for the celebration of the sixth birthday of H.R.H. Princess Ingrid Alexandra.
Outstanding Older Americans sought
Nominations for outstanding older Americans for the Outstanding Older Americans Awards are being accepted until March 5.
The annual Outstanding Older Americans Awards luncheon will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. May 3 at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, Hapuna Ballroom. Tickets are $25. Private air-conditioned buses will be provided and seating is limited to first 300 individuals.
Call the Hawaii County Office of Aging at 961-8600 to make reservations and to obtain nomination applications.
