Presentation by Karen Pellegrin  Ph.D., M.B.A., and Director of Continuing/Distance Education and Strategic Planning with the Center for Rural Health Science, UH College of Pharmacy Presentation by Kristin Knudson  M.P.H., Assistant Director of the Hawai’i/Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center at UH-Manoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine

  A presentation of HBO Documentary Films and the Institute of Medicine in Association with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, in partnership with Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and Kaiser Permanente. Local support provided by PATH – Peoples Advocacy for Trails Hawaii and Sustainable Initiatives, LLC. Parker [...]

Click this link to see the presentation by HCHC CEO Ken Wood at the community meeting held at Parker School on May 1, 2012. Chart notes from the  community meeting held at Parker School on May 1, 2012. North Hawaii Community Hospital announces that it will only accept new maternal care patients who live within its defined [...]

A subject close to every paniolo’s heart – music – will be featured at the Paniolo Preservation Society’s next Paniolo Talk Story Night at historic Pukalani Stables – beginning at 5 p.m., this Sat., April 28, 2012. Just as the horse and kaula ili (lariat) are essential to our Hawaiian cowboys, so is music!  PPS, with support of [...]

  Waimea’s efforts to control the spread of coqui frogs in the community have been jumpstarted by the award of a $10,000 grant to Coqui-Free Waimea (CFW), said Laura Dierenfield on behalf of the Waimea Preservation Association, the local non-profit that is acting as fiscal agent for the project. The grant was awarded by the [...]

  Understanding why, and learning what you can do about it The goals of the May 3 meeting of the Waimea Community Association are to: -Provide an overview of the health care workforce situation in Hawaii in general, concentrating on the Big Island, and North Hawaii specifically. -Understand the advantages and problems that a physician [...]

The Hawai’i County Department of Environmental Management, Solid Waste Division & Recycling Section will sponsor a 2-hour long composting workshop at Waimea Nature Park on Saturday, April 21, from 10:00 a.m. to noon. Everyone who attends the complete session will receive a free compost bin. Composting bins may not be immediately available after the completion [...]

The Big Island Bulb Blitz is a community-led effort, sponsored by the Blue Plant Foundation, to bring the benefits of energy efficiency to Big Island homes. Residents are encouraged to bring their old incandescent bulbs to a Waimea Community Association meeting on April 5 or May 3, where program participants will swap them for free, energy-saving CFLs. Blue [...]

When groundbreaking did not take place in January or February, as scheduled, the Waimea Community Association’s Planning and Design Review Committee asked consultant for Longs about the status of the proposed store. They responded, “The project is going through a re-approval process with the corporate offices due to changes in the budget. We are currently showing [...]