Meditation events offered
“Walking Meditation in the Wild” in North Kohala with Gavin Harrison will be held from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Saturday at Iole, the Historic Bond Homestead, 53-496 Iole Road, Kapaau. Participants should bring a hat, hiking shoes, sunscreen, bottled water, towel or cushion for rest stops, raingear and mosquito repellent. For more information, contact info@iolehawaii.com or 889-5151.
A second event, Awakening to the Deepest Truth of Who We Are, also with Gavin Harrison, is set for 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Waimea Events Salon, 66-1664 Waiaka St., Waimea. This will be a sitting and walking meditation with dialogue. Experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. Participants should bring a meditation cushion, chairs are available. For more information, contact Matilda Tompson at 885-9206 or tompsonp001@hawaii.rr.com.
A donation of $10 to $15 is suggested.
Kona Pacific Charter school hosts craft fair
The seventh-grade class of Kona Pacific Public Charter school is holding a Waldorf-inspired holiday craft fair fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the school. Attendees may take a puppet journey, help build a gnome garden and listen to holiday choral music. The event also includes craft stations and tasty treats. For more information visit kppcscom.
Free household hazardous waste collection planned
Hazardous household waste will be collected from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Kealakehe transfer station.
Business, government, nonprofit and farm waste and electronic waste is not accepted.Acceptable waste includes automotive fluids, used batteries, fluorescent lights, latex paint and pesticides. For a list of acceptable and unacceptable items, visit hawaiizerowaste.org.
For more information, call Chris Chin-Chance at 961-8554 or email to recycle3@co.hawaii.hi.us.
Wreath making class scheduled
Waimea Outdoor Circle’s annual wreath making class will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Ulu Laau, the Waimea Nature Park. All materials are included as well as coffee and home-baked cookies. Cost is $45 for a large wreath and $35 for a small one. Participants should reserve a spot in advance by calling 443-4482 and leaving a message or emailingwochawaii@gmail.com. Gift cards are available.
Annual celebrate seniors Christmas luncheon scheduled
Auntie’s Angels will host a Christmas luncheon for about 100 low-income seniors living at Hualalai Elderly Housing, from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday. The event will include donated hams that will be served by volunteers. The charity still needs items for the dessert table and donated $5 gift cards from area stores to be given to the seniors. Entertainment of keiki hula will be provided by the Island Breeze Halau.
For more information or to donate, call Auntie Jan at 329-7897.
APAC offers new music, acting classes
In January, Aloha Performing Arts Company will welcome a new instructor, Megan Hodge, who will teach several new classes.
Hodge will revive APAC’s Keiki Theatre Class for 3- to 7-year-olds, which will meet from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m Wednesdays for six weeks beginning Jan. 7. Tuition is $40.
“Music Skills—Starting from Scratch” is designed by Hodge to be an easy and fun overview of music theory for the beginner. It will focus on the skills required in musical theater.Meetings will be from 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 10, 17, 24 and 31. Tuition is $40.
“Audition Skills,” a four-part class that will focus on learning and improving the skills involved in auditioning for a play or musical, and will also be taught by Hodge. By the final session, all participants should have at least one complete audition set prepared for use. The class will be held from 10 a.m to noon Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28. Tuition is $40.
“Show Choir!” is an ongoing group which will meet from 3:45 to 5:45 p.m. every Monday beginning Jan. 9. Hodge has designed the group for children ages 6 to 12. Performances will be scheduled toward the end of each semester. Tuition is based on $10 per class meeting.
Jerry Tracy continues his “Tuesday Troupers” class for 8- to 12-year-old performers from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays Jan. 6 through Feb. 10. Students will work on maintaining and developing the tools and skills required in performing on stage. Tuition is $60.
APAC’s “Intergenerational Acting Class” will resume Jan. 8, under the direction of Felicity Johnson. The class, which will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursdays, will run through Feb. 12. Ages 13 and older are welcome. No experience is required. Tuition is $60.
Classes will be held at Aloha Theatre in Kainaliu. In addition, Roxanne Fox continues as adviser for Aloha Teen Theatre, which meets from 4 to 6:30 p.m. every Friday at the APAC Loft, across the street from Aloha Theatre. Participation is free and open to ages 13 through 19.
For more information about any class, call 322-9924.
Civil Air Patrol to be awarded Congressional Gold Medal
On Dec. 10, Civil Air Patrol will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on Capitol Hill in honor of its founding members’ role in protecting the homeland against deadly German U-boat attacks during World War II and carrying out other vital wartime domestic missions. The ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. in Statuary Hall at the Capitol. About 40 veterans and dozens of members of their families as well as the families of deceased veterans will be in attendance.
Some 200,000 men, women and teenagers from all walks of life, including future Tuskegee Airmen and aspiring pilots, participated in Civil Air Patrol during the war years, largely without recognition or reward.
The organization was founded Dec. 1, 1941, six days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. During the war, members of the Civil Air Patrol’s coastal patrols, flying their own or borrowed aircraft, flew 24 million miles from March 1942 to August 1943 over the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in order to ward off German U-boat attacks against U.S. shipping, especially domestic oil tankers bound for Europe. They did so at the request of the U.S. Petroleum Industry War Council, because the U.S. Navy lacked the resources to guard against the submarine attacks and provide escorts for commercial convoys.
The patrols spotted 173 U-boats and attacked 57. They also escorted more than 5,600 convoys and reported 17 floating mines, 36 bodies, 91 ships in distress and 363 survivors in the water.
In all, 65 Civil Air Patrol members lost their lives in the line of duty by the end of the war.
More information about Civil Air Patrol can be found at capgoldmedal.com.