Girl Scout cookie desserts support scouts
Two Hawaii Island restaurants are offering limited-time-only desserts featuring Girl Scout cookies and $1 from each dessert sold will be donated to the Girl Scouts.
Huggo’s is offering a Thin Mint Chocolate Mousse Pie garnished with a Thin Mint cookie. Lava Lava Beach Club is featuring a version of a “goodie jar” with vanilla bean-caramel mousse, marshmallow fluff, macadamia nuts and butterscotch on a crushed Samoas cookie crust.
Tutu’s House Friday programs announced
Tutu’s House in Waimea offers a chair yoga class from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. every Friday for those with disabilities, weight challenges, inflexibility or who cannot get on the floor. The class is also good for beginners.
Also, a mindfulness-based stress reduction class from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Fridays uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and movement as tools to help individuals become mindful and tap into their own inner resources to enhance health and well-being. Comfortable clothing is recommended.
Programs at Tutu’s House are free. Donations are accepted. Call 885-6777 to register.
Presentation on ocean garbage plastic given in Honokaa
Environmental activist Charles Moore will present footage and findings from his 2014 research voyage on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at 7 p.m. Saturday at Honokaa People’s Theatre.
Joining him for a talk-story session will be Rick Anthony, a key figure in the international Zero Waste Movement.
The program will also include a screening of “Plastic Paradise,” an award-winning 2013 documentary by Angela Sun that delves into plastic pollution on Midway Island and beyond.
Moore is known for his ground-breaking studies of the garbage patch. In the summer of 2014, he led his 10th expedition into the mid-ocean gyre where plastic debris collects. They found pollution had worsened since the last voyage in 2009, partly because of the Japanese tsunami.
Moore’s team hopes to determine whether toxic chemicals are being transferred into the food chain from plastic debris.
Moore is founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, which gathers and disseminates information about plastic pollution, emphasizing programs for youth. Visit algalita.org for more information.
For more information, call 987-0558. Admission is $6.