Learn to write a business plan
The West Hawaii Small Business Development Center will present its How to Write a Business Plan Workshop from 9-11:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Hale Iako building Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority.
Business plans help business owners focus their vision, communicate it to lenders and other business partners, and test drive it for any flaws that need correction. The workshop will cover developing a mission, outlining a market plan, projecting sales and expenses and staffing.
Dennis Boyd MPA, the West Hawaii SBDC Center Director, will be the presenter.
Registration is $20 and space is limited. Register: www.hisbdc.org at the events and workshops link. Info: 327-3680.
Group to make dresses for low income children
The Waikoloa Village and Kona Chapters of Dress a Girl Around the World will join forces for an “Easter Time With Love” sewing project to make dresses for girls ages 2-8 of lower income families on the Big Island to be distributed April 10.
Donations of cotton fabric in assorted springtime colors or funds to purchase fabric may be dropped off between 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. any Wednesday at the Waikoloa Community Room or from 1-4 p.m. any Monday at Living Stones Church on Alii Drive.
Chapter members don’t need to know how to sew. There are a variety of tasks that assist the sewing teams. Last year, the combined chapters made more than 7,000 dresses that were distributed to girls on Hawaii Island and were also sent to various countries including Haiti, Uganda, Malaysia and the Philippines.
A social and kick-off event is planned from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Discount Fabric Warehouse in Kona.
Info: Lynn Greer, 557-8052.
Student contest promotes respect, harmony
For nearly a decade, Hawaii’s youth in schools and community organizations from Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu and Hawaii Island have participated in the E Ola Pono Campaign. It challenges student groups to create activities and projects that promote respect, harmony and peace for everyone at their school or community.
Pono, a way of being and doing in Hawaiian culture, guides people to to do what is right. The E Ola Pono Campaign offers students an opportunity to positively influence peers and promote safe, respect-filled schools and communities. The deadline for final campaign submissions is March 3.
Info: www.growingponoschools.com/campaign-home.
Lecture explores makahiki traditions
Cultural practitioner Shane Akoni Nelson will discuss the various functions of the makahiki season, its importance to society prior to 1820, and how its traditions continue. His lecture, “Makahiki Traditions,” is from 5:30-7 p.m. Wednesday at the West Hawaii Civic Center, 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway in Kailua-Kona. It is sponsored in memory of Roland Dupree.
Nelson, also a producer and scriptwriter, is dedicated to the empowerment of Hawaiian people, particularly to those in South Kona on Hawaii Island.
The talk is part of Kona Historical Society’s Hanohano O Kona Lecture Series and is free.
Info: Kona Historical Society, 323-3222, konahistorical.org.
Libraries closed for Presidents’ Day
All public libraries will be closed Saturday through Monday in observance of Presidents’ Day.
Info: www.librarieshawaii.org/visit/updates/holiday-schedule/.