About Town 12-1-13

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Waimea flea market set for Saturday

The first Saturday Flea Market takes place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the New Hope Fellowship gymnasium in Waimea. Funds raised benefit the gymnasium improvement fund.

Vendor space is available. Call Skip at 989-4422.

Aquatic Resources offices closed Tuesday through Thursday

All Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Aquatic Resources offices statewide will be closed for an internal DAR planning workshop from Tuesday through Thursday. Offices will reopen Friday.

Fishing licenses will not be issued during these three days. Front office services, including bottomfish vessel registration, net registration and poster sales, will resume on Friday.

Commercial fisheries licenses and permits and bottomfish vessel registration may be obtained online at dlnr.ehawaii.gov/cmls-public/app/welcome.html.

To report a resource violation, call the DOCARE hotline at 643-DLNR or 643-3567.

To report Japan tsunami marine debris, call 587-0400.

For more information about the DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources, visit state.hi.us/dlnr/dar.

Book club meets Wednesday in Waimea

The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Community Book Club will hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Dyer Memorial Library, upper campus. Community Book Club meetings are free and open to the public. The current book selection is “Beautiful Ruins” by Jess Walter. Light refreshments will be served and participants are invited to bring a snack to share.

The next meeting will discuss “The Burgess Boys” by Elizabeth Strout on Feb. 26.

For more information, contact Jaime Johnson at jjohnson@hpa.edu.

Free video production class offered

Na Leo O Hawaii offers a free video production orientation from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at its facility in Kaiwi Square, 74-5565 Luhia St., Suite C1-A, Kailua-Kona.

Na Leo O Hawaii, Inc. is the nonprofit corporation established to manage the public, educational and government cable access channels in Hawaii County. For more information and reservations, call 329-9617.

Seniors celebrating members’ birthdays

The Kailua-Kona Seniors will play board games, sketch and celebrate members’ birthdays that occur in November and December at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Hale Halawai in Kailua-Kona.

For more information, call Bev at 325-6993 or Claire at 756-5352.