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Posted in Hawaii on Apr 22nd, 2010
Happy Earth Day! Since the first Earth Day in 1970, people have been using April 22 to celebrate our planet and hold environment-related activities. I even found video footage of news coverage on that first Earth Day (originally shared by @thereisawayjose on Twitter). According to Wikipedia, April 22 was a strategic choice:
in order to maximize [...]
Posted in Politics-Goverment on Apr 16th, 2010
Despite all the efforts to be culturally appropriate (i.e. reaching out to our Hawaiian and other local ethnic groups), Hawaii?s Census response rate is still one of the lowest in the U.S. It?s actually the sixth lowest, according to Craig Gima at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The Census Bureau even has a special video just to [...]
Posted in Hawaii on Apr 13th, 2010
I share the following information as a board member of the Friends of the Makiki Community Library, the non-profit group that operates this library. Please note that the Makiki Community Library is NOT part of the Hawaii State Public Library System. Therefore, we must fundraise money to operate with our small, part-time staff and many [...]
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