Free Medicare counseling offered
The State Health Insurance Assistance Program will offer free, unbiased Medicare, Medigap, and Medicare Advantage information and counseling from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at West Hawaii Civic Center, Building D.
Trained counselors will also available to help with questions regarding Medicare health coverage from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday and Oct. 22 at West Hawaii Community Health Center and from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday at Waimea Senior Center.
For more information or to set up a presentation for a group, call 888-875-9229 or email help@hawaiiship.org.
Kona Interfaith Meditation Society meets
The Kona Interfaith Meditation Society will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday.
The program will include a continuation of the Jack Kornfield video on “The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness,” as well as discussion, a period of silence and refreshments.
The meeting is held at Hawaiian Queen Coffee Garden, 75-1048 Henry St. A meditation class will be offered at 5 p.m. To reserve a space, email prefpeace@gmail.com. For more information call Farley at 896-3920.
Sex assault addressed at Tutus’ House
YWCA Sex Assault Support Services hosts documentary film “Brave Miss World” at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Tutu’s House in Waimea.
A panel discussion with Mitch Roth, prosecuting attorney, Lorraine Davis and Kirsten Westra from YWCA’s Sex Assault Support Services will follow the screening.
Israeli beauty queen Linor Abargail was abducted and raped in Milan, Italy two months before being crowned Miss World in 1998. Ten years later, she’s ready to talk about it—and to encourage others to speak out. Linor encourages others to stand against sexual violence by putting an end to their silence. She travels to speak with teens in South Africa and visits U.S. college campuses.
For more information, visit tutushouse.org.
Rotary Club announces weekly meeting schedule
Riley Smith, Lanihau Properties president and CEO will discuss the Keauhou Aquifer during the Rotary Club of Kona Mauka meeting from 1 to 2 p.m Tuesday at Teshima’s. For more information, contact Larry Kniffin at 557-1178 or maukarotary2014@gmail.com.
On Wednesday, the Rotary Club of Kona Sunrise will host Donna Whitaker from Hawaii Humane Society from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m. at Humpy’s. For more information, contact Mike May at 756-5565 or miketransworld@hawaii.rr.com.
Rotary Club of Kona will focus on club business during its meeting from noon to 1 p.m. Oct. 16 at the Courtyard Marriott’s King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel. For more information, contact Liz Heiman at 960-7353 or liz@regardingsales.com.
Native Hawaiian scholars selected for Mellon-Hawaii fellowships
Four Native Hawaiian scholars have been selected as 2014-2015 Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows to pursue original research and advance their academic careers.
· Doctoral Fellow Noelani Puniwai, Ph.D. candidate in the Natural Resources and Environmental Management program at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Puniwai evaluates how and why different ocean user groups socially construct and delineate marine space just as coastal areas are ecologically delineated through definitions of functional space.
· Doctoral Fellow Liza Keanuenueokalani Williams, Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Department at New York University. Williams’ research focuses on ways tourism, the military and the prison industrial complex shape cultural politics for Kanaka Maoli both historically and in the contemporary moment.
· Postdoctoral Fellow Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Ph.D., interdisciplinary environmental research, Stanford University. Lincoln’s research interests examine combining traditional and modern knowledge of land management to evaluate corporate and policy decisions from a social utility, rather than an economic basis.
· Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Ilima Luning, Ph.D., cultural and educational specialist in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the project coordinator of the Mohala Na Pua Program at the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence. Her research involves understanding a Hawaiian ethnotheory of learning through analyzing Hawaiian cultural practitioners’ and classroom educators’ teaching philosophies, cultural goals, values, and purposes of learning in a modern Hawaiian context.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Kohala Center, with the support of Kamehameha Schools, established the fellowship program in 2008. The Kohala Center administers the program.
Applications are now being accepted for next year’s program. Applications and information are available at mellonhawaii.org or by calling The Kohala Center at 887-6411. The deadline to apply is Feb. 27Hawaiian Islands School of
Massage reunion planned
A 26-year alumni anniversary gathering of Kona’s Hawaiian Islands School of Massage will be held from 5 p.m. to midnight Oct. 18 at the community center at Christ Church Episcopal in Kealakekua.
All former students, teachers and their families are invited. The school, which closed in 2010, has graduated more than 900 students since 1983.
Tickets are $35. RSVP by calling Lynn Wind at 990-3224.