Night club two-step lessons offered in Waimea
The Waimea Ballroom Dance Club announces six weeks of night club two-step lessons. Class will be held from 7 to 8 p.m., followed by a half-hour practice mixer every Monday starting Nov. 2. Registration will be at 6:30 p.m. on the first two weeks of class only.
No partner is necessary. Lance Oliver will be the instructor. Cost is $20 for all six lessons.
Call Peter at 885-4776 for details.
Class teaches how to stay healthy through the holidays
Vivienne Aronowitz, registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator, will lead “How to Thrive during the Holidays and Beyond” from 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Tutus House, 64-1032 Mamalahoa Highway Suite 305 in Waimea.
Attendees will learn how to prevent weight gain through the holidays, how to enjoy the holidays and be healthy at the same time and about New Year’s resolutions.
Free youth soccer clinic offered in Hilo
Boys and girls age 6 to 14 are invited to a free soccer clinic that will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Dr. Frances F.C. Wong Stadium in Hilo.
The free clinic is open to the first 200 keiki who register. Soccer fundamentals such as dribbling, passing and shooting skills will be taught.
Each child must make reservations online at soccer.youthsportsclinics.com. Select the Hawaii market and enter the password kickit to complete the free registration process. A signed waiver form, available from the same website, also is required. Waiver forms will be offered at the event.
Concessions will not be available, so family members are encouraged to bring their own refreshments. All participants will receive a clinic T-shirt and a post-clinic snack.
For more information about the Chevy Youth Soccer Instructional Clinic, contact Beth Heyer at 770-407-8565 or bheyer@gmdealerprograms.com.
For more information, contact Jason Armstrong, public information officer, at 961-8311 or jarmstrong@hawaiicounty.gov.
Center recruiting teachers for HI-MEET
Hawaii Island teachers and their students will have opportunities this year to leave the classroom and study firsthand the island’s ahupuaa, or traditional Hawaiian mountain-to-sea land divisions.
The Kohala Center is recruiting teachers for its Hawaii Island Meaningful Environmental Education for Teachers program, an innovative, hands-on, science-based program that focuses on bay and watershed education in ahupuaa along Hawaii Island’s leeward coast and Kohala Mountain.
The deadline to apply is Nov. 6. Prospective applicants can receive more information and application materials online at kohalacenter.org/hi-meet or contact Ilene Grossman at The Kohala Center at igrossman@kohalacenter.org or 887-6411. Teachers who participated in past programs are eligible and encouraged to apply again. The program focuses on intermediate and high school teachers in Kailua-Kona, North and South Kohala and Honokaa including public, charter and private schools.
Students will learn about their ahupuaa through classroom presentations and field trips, and identify and implement a scientific research project on topics such as coral reefs, forest flora and fauna, water quality, climate change, non-point source pollution, runoff, sedimentation, and marine debris. The program will culminate in a year-end conference at which students and teachers can share their research work and learning.
Staff from The Kohala Center will provide technical, logistical and programmatic support to 16 selected teachers from Hawaii Island during the academic year. Scientists and cultural experts working in these areas will also participate in the program through classroom presentations and project support.
This project is supported by NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training Program funding. Mini-grants will be available to participating teachers to purchase project-related supplies, and the program will fund transportation and substitute teacher costs associated with their projects.
Hawaii Community College scholarship fundraiser set
Hawaii Community College is celebrating its 75th anniversary during academic year 2015-16 and it will celebrate by hosting the Friends Scholarship Fundraiser and 75th Anniversary Celebration.
The event will be held Nov. 7 at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Sodexo Dining Room from 6 to 9 p.m. Doors open at 5:30. Tickets are on sale until Friday.
The event will include a silent auction, door prizes and entertainment, including a vintage fashion show by Hana Hou. Net proceeds from the event will help Hawaii Community College Alumni and Friends establish an endowment that will provide student scholarships.
For online ticket sales, visit uhfoundation.org/HawaiiCC75 or contact Anne Chung at 934-2547 or archung@hawaii.edu.