Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 16, Number 2, 1 Pepeluali 1999 — FEBRUARY NEWS BRIEFS [ARTICLE]

FEBRUARY NEWS BRIEFS

$10 med eheek The Physician Center at Mililani Shopping Center is offering $10 office visits to any patient without heahh insuranee. The UH Family Practice Residency Program is making this offer available to the first 3,000 people who make appointments. The fee covers any in-office testing or procedures performed by the center's physicians. However, the cost does not cover medications or tests done outside of the center. Any additional office visit is $10. For information, eall 6273200. "Ola nā Iwi" Edward Halealoha Ayau of Hui Mālama i nā Kūpuna o Hawai'i nei recently announced "Project Ola nā Iwi," organizing Kanaka Maoh communities on O'ahu to participate in the reburial of iwi. Involved are the leaming and making of kapa and lauhala baskets, as well as aspects of cultrual protocol of reinterring iwi kupuna. The need for assistance is immediate. Hawaiian individuals, fam-

ilies or ganizations wishing to participate whould eall 5997721 or email Halealoha@hawaii.rr.comm. KS drug free E Ola Pono, or "Live the Proper Way," a federally funded program, has begun its 1999 community education and awareness program. E Ola Pono is a substance abuse and violence prevention program developed by the staff of Native Hawaiian Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Program (NHSDFSCP) and administered by Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate. The program is designed for all ages. Hawaiian values are emphasized. For more information, eall NHSDFSCP at 842-8508. NHEA The Native Hawaiian Education Association, a newly formed organization, is looking for Hawaiian educators who have a connection to, and who are interested in, teaching Hawaiian students. Informational meetings are scheduled

^ '".'■«'"WM for Feb. 12 in Wailuku, Maui at the Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center 5 p.m. - 8 p.m., and Feb. 19 at Kapolei, in the Laulima Room, Campbell Estate 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. The goal of the association is to bring together Hawaiian educators to network, lobby, and discuss issues of eoneem. For more information eall Dr. David K. Sing in Elilo at (808) 974-7678. Business training ALU LIKE's Business Development Center announces training programs in entrepreneurship and business planning on various islands. The six-week entrepreneurship course provides information specific to business attitudes, marketing, organization, financial management, business planning and management. It will be held on Kaua'i on Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Feb. 27 - April 3; and in Honolulu on Mondays and Thursdays, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Feb. 22 - Apiil 1 and April 12 - May 20. The five-week business plan workshop is for individuals who have completed the entrepreneurship course or for estabhshed small business owners. It

is scheduled on Kaua'i on Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Apiil 10 I - May 8; and in Honolulu, on Mondays and Thursdays, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Feb. 16 - March 19 and Apiil 12 - May 13. Thefeeforthe entrepreneurship course is $50; for the business plan workshop it is $100. For more informa- | tion eall ALU LIKE at 535- : 6776 or, toll free from the : neighbor islands, at 1-800-459- ; 3969. Communication Sandwich Isles Communications, ine. (SIC), the only loeal- ; ly-owned Native Hawaiian : telecommunications company, received a $40.9 million loan to : continue building a modern : telecommunications infrastruc- : mre on neighbor island Hawaiian Home Lands. Christopher A. MeLean of the United States Department of Agriculture said, "I wish to eongramlate Sandwich Isles Communications for being the only USDA/RUS financed rural tele- : phone carrier for the State of Hawai'i and for bringing advanced telecommunication ī services to the Hawahan Home Lands."

SIC's $250 mihion project : saves the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) a significant amount of money because it uses only federal and : private funds. In the past, DHHL had to pay for telecommunieahon infrastructure. The money saved ean now go "to open up more Hawaiian Home Lands for beneficiaries," interim DHHL Director Ray Soon said. SFCA weleome The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts welcomed Miehael Schuster as its new Folk Arts Program Coordinator. The program encourages the promotion, preservation and : continuity of traditional per- : forming and visual arts and : crafts practiced by Hawai'i's many ethnic groups. Schuster will make reviving apprenticeship awards, whieh support artists who pass on their expertise to future generations, as his top priority. According to : Schuster's predecessor Lynn : Martin, the majority of artists receiving support through the Folk Arts Program practice traditional Hawaiian arts and crafts. ■