Koke’e Natural History Museum is looking for volunteers in the fight against miconia. Museum officials and naturalists said the weedy tree, with large, dark-green leaves and purple undersides, can spread quickly and shade out all other vegetation, posing a serious
Koke’e Natural History Museum is looking for volunteers in the fight against
miconia.
Museum officials and naturalists said the weedy tree, with large,
dark-green leaves and purple undersides, can spread quickly and shade out all
other vegetation, posing a serious threat to Kaua’i’s native
forests.
Miconia has been found recently in the Wailua area and may be
growing elsewhere on the island. Sightings should be reported to 274-3069,
officials said, adding the volunteers for an eradication effort can contact the
museum at 335-9975 for additional information.
Ho’ike shows female
offenders’ symposium
Ho’ike Kaua’i Community Television will broadcast a
videotape of the Hawai’i Symposium on Female Offenders Dec. 29, 30 and 31 on
channel 13.
The symposium, conducted Nov. 29-Dec. 1 at Sheraton Kaua’i,
focused on treatment of women who have committed crimes.
Ho’ike can be
reached at 246-1556.
Aloha for
inauguration parade?
Anyone
want to represent Hawai’i in the official presidential inauguration parade in
Washington, D.C.?
The state’s campaign organization for President-elect
George W. Bush is looking for “an organized group – like a marching band or
hula halau – ” to be in the parade Jan. 20, said Barbara Marumoto, president of
Hawai’i Bush for President.
She said the group that goes won’t get much
financial help from the Bush campaign organization, and will have to overcome
the challenges of making transportation and hotel arrangements, “not to mention
the cold weather” in the nation’s capitol.
“Nevertheless, I know Hawai’i
folks would like to be represented and to share our aloha spirit with the
entire nation,” said Marumoto, who can be contacted at (808)
228-1438.
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