Seniors to attend movie day
The Kailua-Kona Seniors will attend a movie day at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26 at West Hawaii Civic Center, Building A.
The event is open to all seniors. “Charade,” a 1963 movie starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and Walter Matthau will be shown. There will be no meeting at Hale Halawai this week.
Info: BJ at 325-0545 or Kelly at 323-4340.
Read Aloud Shakespeare group meets
Read Aloud Shakespeare, a group that meets once a month in Keauhou to read The Bard’s plays, will gather from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The group will begin “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Shakespeare fans are invited to bring copies of the plays and join the group taking turns reading the parts. No previous Shakespeare or acting ability required.
Call Joy Vogelgesang at 557-0694 by noon Wednesday for information.
Learn to preserve and store quilts, textiles
The Kona Historical Society is offering a free workshop, “Preserving and Storing Hawaiian Quilts and Textiles,” from 2-3:30 p.m. Thursday at the West Hawaii Civic Center. The workshop will be facilitated by three speakers: Linda Hee, textile conservator; Deborah Dunn, preservation expert; and Loretta G.H. Woodard, quilt scholar.
Workshop guests are invited to bring quilts, kimono, futon or any other precious textile that requires extra care. Seating is extremely limited for this event. Reservations: 323-3222.
These presenters are also being featured during the Hanohano O Kona lecture series on Wednesday at the West Hawaii Civic Center and will be speaking about Hawaii Island’s quilting communities.
Military Auxiliary Radio System test planned
From Sunday through Nov. 1, members of the Military Auxiliary Radio System (both branches) will conduct a quarterly Department of Defense Contingency Communications exercise. The purpose of this quarterly exercise is to train Amateur Radio operators (“hams”) how to provide communications following a “very bad day” scenario when traditional forms of communication will likely be unavailable.
While the simultaneous loss of all communications nationwide in not likely, for training purposes, the group is assuming such an outage. Hawaii Amateur Radio operators belonging to the Military Auxiliary Radio System will participate in the nationwide exercise.
Info: Darren Holbrook, handymanowl@gmail.com, KH6OWL, ARRL Public Information Officer, Honolulu, 224-0344 or Russell Roberts, kh6jrm@arrl.net, KH6JRM, ARRL Public Information Coordinator Hawaii County ARRL Pacific Section, 936-1147 or 962-6304.
Applications sought for STEM classroom grants
THINK Fund at Hawaii Community Foundation has funding available for STEM classroom grants through Donorschoose.org for the 2016-17 school year.
The classroom grants support projects that boost Hawaii Island public and public charter school third through 12th-grade students in STEM learning; can include materials, supplies and on-island field trips and can be up to but not more than $2,500.
Projects can be posted at any time at Donorschoose.org and requests are reviewed weekly. If a project is selected for funding it usually takes less than three weeks for the students to receive materials in their classroom.
To apply, teachers should post their grant need on Donorschoose.org