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| Healthier Organizations for Everyone is named HOE (Hoy) to reflect the Hawaiian meaning "to paddle," when every person garners a critical role and is responsible for pulling their weight. Photo from Community First |
HEALTHIER ORGANIZATIONS FOR EVERYONE, a Covid testing program for businesses, was announced by Mayor Mitch Roth on Tuesday. Healthier Organizations for
Everyone, HOE - pronounced Hoy in Hawaiian, will be administered by County of Hawaiʻi in partnership with Community First through its Our Kuleana Pledge Partners to help prevent workplace spread through travel-related
testing.
Participating organizations are encouraged to provide a rapid test to all employees, vaccinated and
unvaccinated, before traveling off-island and collect rapid test results 24-hours before the employee's anticipated
return to the workplace. The statement from the county says, "Employees who receive a positive or inconclusive test result should inform their
employer before returning to the workplace. Employees who receive a negative rapid test result may return to
the workplace without additional testing."
"Our Kuleana Pledge Partners continue to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in our community through their
safe workplace practices. The HOE Program allows businesses to take their effort to another level, for their
organization, their family, and their community through this opportunity for testing employees who travel offisland."
Vanessa Carlson, Program Manager Community First, said that since the program's launch on Feb. 4, 18 partnerships have been created in agreement with the HOE testing
program. In addition, the first 100 businesses to sign up for the program will receive 20 free rapid tests procured
by Community First Hawaiʻi as part of an incentive to join the collective effort. Individual businesses are
responsible for purchasing all other tests per the program.
To learn more about this program, visit: www.hawaiicounty.gov/healthyorg.
Hawaiʻi
Community First is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit founded by the late Barry Taniguchi in 2014 to serve as a neutral
forum for the community to come together and as a catalyst for solutions to improve health and lower medical
costs on Hawaiʻi Island based on the community good.
The county statement says, "Through its programs, Community First hopes to shift the healthcare model from reactively treating disease to
proactively caring for the health of every person on Hawaiʻi Island."
It also says that the word hoe, pronounced "hoy" in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, "translates to paddle. In a canoe or waʻa, every person
garners a critical role and is responsible for pulling their weight. With each paddle stroke, the waʻa gets closer to
its desired destination. However, if every paddle does not move in perfect harmony, the journey becomes much
longer. Throughout this pandemic, we have seen every sector of our community paddling harmoniously, with
one common goal – protecting each other and keeping each other safe. That is why we have been able to glide
through the rough waters of this pandemic and are closer than ever to our destination. The word hoe can also
mean to travel and is suiting since the purpose of the business testing is travel related."
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NEWEST CANDIDATE ANNOUNCING FOR HAWAIʻI COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 6 is Jordan J Anger of Hawaiian Ocean View Estates. The district runs from north of Captain Cook through all of Kaʻū to include much of Volcano Village. Anger graduated from Konawaena in the class of '99 and has lived in Ocean View for eight years with his wife, Ayla, son, Gavin, and mother-in-law, Joy. Although Anger has no political background or affiliation, he says he has a strong background in business. "I've worked for a fortune 500 company, mom-and-pop businesses, and have helped with the creation and development of successful businesses on this island."
Anger said he looks forward to addressing issues impacting the Kaʻū community, stating: "I believe in this community and am concerned about the abandoned vehicles that have come to line our roadways, the ever-rising crime rates, and the fact that there are so few local jobs in District 6."
On Thursday, Feb. 3, Anger gave testimony before a state Senate Committee regarding SB3211. The bill was introduced by Sen. Dru Kanuha after his visit to Hawaiian Ocean View Estates in December 2021. The bill would appropriate funds to the County of Hawaiʻi for the plans, design, and construction of a police substation in HOVE. During his testimony, Anger said that since living in HOVE, "we have seen a dramatic increase in crime in the area... The need for a police substation in Hawaiian Ocean View Estates is felt by all in the community, those who have lived here for decades and those who are just moving to the area. Since moving here, we have witnessed abandoned cars being dumped, arson, stolen cars roaming around the area, cars without plates or windshields driving around with little consequence, drug usage, and we have read of countless burglaries, theft, and assaults." He concluded that, "it seems an awful unnecessary burden for the officers who work so hard in our community to have to travel all the way to the opposite end of Nāʻālehu to book and process. Our community in HOVE deserves the best response time our good officers can provide."
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| Jordon C. Anger, of Ocean View, has announced he is running for County Council. |
On Thursday, Feb. 3, Anger gave testimony before a state Senate Committee regarding SB3211. The bill was introduced by Sen. Dru Kanuha after his visit to Hawaiian Ocean View Estates in December 2021. The bill would appropriate funds to the County of Hawaiʻi for the plans, design, and construction of a police substation in HOVE. During his testimony, Anger said that since living in HOVE, "we have seen a dramatic increase in crime in the area... The need for a police substation in Hawaiian Ocean View Estates is felt by all in the community, those who have lived here for decades and those who are just moving to the area. Since moving here, we have witnessed abandoned cars being dumped, arson, stolen cars roaming around the area, cars without plates or windshields driving around with little consequence, drug usage, and we have read of countless burglaries, theft, and assaults." He concluded that, "it seems an awful unnecessary burden for the officers who work so hard in our community to have to travel all the way to the opposite end of Nāʻālehu to book and process. Our community in HOVE deserves the best response time our good officers can provide."
To learn more about Anger's stance, visit his campaign page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JordanJAnger/.
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A post on Rep. Jeanne Kapelea's website,supporting working family legislation. |
Kapela represents the House of Representatives District from South Kona to Honu'apo.
According to a post on Kapele's website at www.capitol.hawaii.gov/memberpage.aspx?member=Kapela, the coalition has formed "to elevate legislative efforts aimed at improving economic conditions for
much of the local working class, including households with children."
Thirteen Democrats and the one Republican in the state House and Senate formed Working Families Caucus. They sponsored five bills, aiming to improve finances of lower-income residents through higher wage and benefits, plus changes in tax policy, says the post on Kapela's website.
Kapela, who represents Honu'apo into Captain Cook-Keauhou, led the formation of the caucus and serves as serves as chair. The post quotes her saying, “I think it’s about time that we push for, fight for and pass legislation that will uplift Hawaii’s working families.
According to a post on Kapele's website at www.capitol.hawaii.gov/memberpage.aspx?member=Kapela, the coalition has formed "to elevate legislative efforts aimed at improving economic conditions for
much of the local working class, including households with children."
Thirteen Democrats and the one Republican in the state House and Senate formed Working Families Caucus. They sponsored five bills, aiming to improve finances of lower-income residents through higher wage and benefits, plus changes in tax policy, says the post on Kapela's website.
Kapela, who represents Honu'apo into Captain Cook-Keauhou, led the formation of the caucus and serves as serves as chair. The post quotes her saying, “I think it’s about time that we push for, fight for and pass legislation that will uplift Hawaii’s working families.
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HAWAI'I HOCHI, FOUNDED IN 1912 as a Japanese language newspaper, has opened a new print house on O'ahu. Hawai'i Hochi is the longtime printer for The Kaʻū Calendar newspaper and many other publications with independent voices. Hawai'i Hochi, LTD. held a blessing on Feb. 4 for its new 20,000 square foot facility.
Hawai'i Hochi's parent company, Shizuoka Shimbun, based in Japan, prints the only Japanese language newspaper in Hawai'i. Its 110 year history in Hawai'i has included printing publications in Japanese and other languages for the Filipino, Hawaiian and other ethnic communities and specialty publications focusing on everything from fishing to surfing to church and school.
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| Kinzaburo Makino, who lived in Na'alehu, when he first arrived to the islands, founded Hawai'i Hochi in 1912. The company prints The Ka'u Calendar newspaper and many other publications. Photo from Hawai'i Hochi |
Taro Yoshida, president of Hawai'i Hochi, LTD, said, "I am happy to say that Hawaii Hochi will continue its 110-year tradition of serving the Japanese community in Hawaii and strengthening the bridge between Hawaii and Japan through its publications — the Hawaii Hochi and the Hawaii Herald — while expanding our offerings of various types of printing services."
The Hawai'i Hochi was founded by Frederick Kinzaburo Makino as an independent newspaper in December of 1912. A journalism history from University of Hawai'i states that Makino "printed the first copies of what he hoped would become the voice of the Japanese community in Hawai'i."
Makino was the son of an English merchant in Yokohama, Japan and a Japanese mother Kin Makino. His father died when he was young and his elder brother Joe Makino moved to Nāʻālehu and operated a store in Makino Camp. Kinzaburo Makino moved to Nāʻālehu when he was 21 and worked in his brothers store, until he became a bookkeeper for a sugar plantation. He moved on to Honolulu where he opened a drug store at Hotel Street and Nu'uanu Avenue and became a legal consultant for Japanese immigrants.
He involved himself in the Higher Wage Association, becoming its President and lobbying the Hawai'i Sugar Planters Association for higher pay. He was imprisoned for "conspiring to hinder plantation operations,' but pardoned after four months. With all of the Japanese and English language newspaper siding with the plantation on labor issues, Makino decided to publish Hawai'i Hochi.
The University of Hawai'i report says that the Hawai'i Hochi (Hawai'i News) "became that brave -- and often lonely -- voice, supporting, as writer Wayne Muromoto said, 'the common people, women's rights, nonintervention ... restraint of American and Japanese Imperialism, the growth of labor unions and the preservation of ethnic cultures and languages ....' Makino's Hochi outlived three major competitors and numerous weekly and occasional publications to survive as Hawai'i's only remaining Japanese language daily newspaper."
The expansion of Hawai'i Hochi today makes it possible in the future to print all of the pages for The Kaʻū Calendar and other small community and specialty publication in color.
The expansion of Hawai'i Hochi today makes it possible in the future to print all of the pages for The Kaʻū Calendar and other small community and specialty publication in color.
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| The late Brian DeLima |
"When it comes to Brian De Lima, many will remember him as a true servant leader. He lived to fight for his community, and provided a voice for those who felt they had none, in particular, as a champion and advocate of children with special needs. He served as a member of the Board of Education, Hawaiʻi County Council, and held leadership positions as part of the Democratic party of Hawaiʻi. Maria and I extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, especially his wife Paige, and daughters, Blaise and Blaire. We are forever grateful for his significant contributions to Hawaiʻi. He will be dearly missed."
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