Adult tutors Free of charge Kaua‘i Community School for Adults The school provides free tutoring for any adult over 18. Help in basic math, reading, writing or speaking is available. Every effort is made to provide a tutor in the
Adult tutors
Free of charge
Kaua‘i Community School for Adults
The school provides free tutoring for any adult over 18. Help in basic math, reading, writing or speaking is available. Every effort is made to provide a tutor in the area where the person lives. Tutors are available island-wide. Among volunteer tutors who recently completed the literacy tutor training are Claudia Dresser, Cira deCastillo, Diane Sands and Patricia White. Call, 274-3390.
Jam Room for teens
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fridays
Kukui Grove Shopping Center
The Jam Room is next to Gamestop in the shopping center. Open stage and open mic for singers, hip-hop dancers, breakers, hula, ‘ukulele, rappers and slam poets. There will be birthday cake and refreshments in celebration of Daphne’s 18th birthday. Preview songs from her upcoming CD. This is a free and twitter-friendly event.
Menehune
Mingle Night
6 p.m. Tuesday
Waimea Theatre
All parents and guardians of Waimea High School ninth grade students are invited to attend both the Freshmen Blue and White Teams. The times are from 6 to 7 p.m. for meet and greet and then from 7 to 7:30 p.m. a freshmen video will be shown. All freshmen and their families are welcome to meet the team teachers and then watch a video starring Waimea High School’s very own class of 2013 as they face their first weeks at Waimea High School. Admission is free; concessions will be available. For more information contact, wendi_russell@notes.k12.hi.us or 338-6810 ext. 145.
Kapa‘a High School
Parent meetings
6 p.m. Tuesays in September
Parent meetings for each grade level are scheduled for the following Tuesdays in September: Sept. 1, seniors; Sept. 8, juniors and sophomores; Sept. 15, freshmen.
Meetings will be held in the school library. This is an opportunity for parents to meet teachers from each department. The evening’s agenda will include information regarding PTSA membership and activities, review of General Learner Outcomes (GLO), class level activities and career and college planning presented by counselors. For more information call Robyn, 821-4401, ext. 129.
Still photography class
8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 19
KCC automotive classroom 101
Steve Watkins will lead a class designed for still camera enthusiasts. Learn to create eye-appealing photos using proven composition and exposure techniques. Bring your “point and shoot” or single lens reflex camera, instruction book and laptop (if you have one) to class. After the first half of class, you will take your own photographs to apply new skills. During the second part of class, review your work and discuss ways to refine new skills. At the end of the course, there will be an opportunity to discuss specific questions about your camera or technical challenges. To register call 245-8318. Cost, $69.
Miss Island Mokihana
Deadline extended
Pageant Oct. 10
Miss Island Mokihana Scholarship Organization will host the first ever Miss Island Mokihana Scholarship Pageant. The organization is looking for young ladies who currently live on Kaua‘i and either attend school (high school senior or college) or working on a full-time basis. Interested contestants must be at least 17 years-old (as of October 10, 2009) and no older than 24 on December 31, 2010. A complete list of requirements will be made available at time of inquiry. The main reason for this program is to offer tuition scholarship assistance to the women who participate.
In these tough economic times these young women are electing to go directly into the workforce and not seek their dreams of higher education. This pageant will give these women the opportunity to attain tuition scholarship assistance. The Miss Island Mokihana Scholarship Pageant will be held October 10, 2009 at the Historic Waimea Theater. The Miss Island Mokihana Scholarship Pageant serves as a preliminary pageant to Miss Hawai‘i which will be held on O‘ahu June 2010. For more information on becoming a sponsor or contestant contact Avery Kano, info@missislandmokihana.org or call him, 639-1301.
Native Hawaiian education
Money for programs
Hawai‘i is set to receive more than $7.6 million for Native Hawaiian education initiatives including cultural programs, curriculum expansion, tutoring, and resource development, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye announced this week.
The funds come through a series of 14 grants from the U.S. Department of Education.
Programs like the Ka Paalana Project, which extends educational resources and instruction to Native Hawaiian families combating homelessness, received more than $500,000 through the grants awarded.
The Tutu and Me program received $705,030 to continue work addressing the early childhood needs of Native Hawaiian children and their caregivers in 22 underserved communities, with the hope that the program will prepare the students to enter the formal education system.
The grants also include $1,016,255 for the University of Hawai‘i’s Heluhelu Maoli program, which seeks to develop school wide reading programs, improve mathematics instruction and implement targeted reading interventions.
