Business workshop focuses on franchises
A workshop will explain how to select and buy a franchise or how to franchise an existing business on a regional or nationwide basis.
The class is from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday at Gateway Center, Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority.
The workshop is hosted by Hawaii Small Business Center and presented by Scott March, Kari Waldhaus and Christie Crawford. Cost is $20.
Registration: hisbdc.org. Info: 327-3680.
Event honors women veterans
The Kona Vet Center will host open house and potluck to honor women veterans.
The event is from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Monday at Hale Kui Plaza, 73-4976 Kamanu St. Suite 207, Kailua-Kona.
Reservations: Jan Fradenburg, 329-0574.
Hawaiian Airlines most punctual airline in May
Hawaiian Airlines completed the month of May as the U.S. airline industry’s top-ranked carrier for on-time performance, as reported recently by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Hawaiian Airlines’ flights arrived on schedule 92.1 percent of the time, earning the DOT’s top ranking for punctuality. Hawaiian also ranked third in fewest flight cancellations for the month of May with 0.3 percent, representing 17 cancellations out of 6,432 flights.
Hawaiian Electric supports science education
The Hawaiian Electric Companies have donated $20,000 to several educational programs, including the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium for the Pan Pacific VEX (high school) and VEX IQ (elementary and middle school) Championships Oct. 7-9, to be held at the Kamehameha Schools Kapalama Campus.
Funds will also support Hawaiian Electric Company’s Hawaii State High School and Middle School VEX Championships, featuring the high school event on Jan. 5, 2017, at Keaau High School, and the middle school event on Jan. 7, 2017 at Stevenson Middle School on Oahu. The event will qualify teams to participate in the 2017 Worlds VEX Championships.
Hawaiian Electric has supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning in Hawaii for more than 30 years and contributed more than $1 million during that time.