Monday, June 2nd, 2025
Hospice Maui Molokai News Release
Volunteers provide important services to hospice organizations and the people they serve. By being a hospice volunteer, you can gain great personal satisfaction from knowing you have made an impact in another person’s life and have contributed to your community in a compassionate and caring way.
Hospice volunteers are essential members of the Hospice Team. Hospice volunteers provide companionship to people living with a serious illness who might be near the end of life. They help family caregivers in a variety of ways. Hospice also relies on volunteers to help with office work, fundraising, community outreach and other operational areas.…
Monday, June 2nd, 2025
Molokai History Project News Release
As you know, we have moved to a much larger space and a great location just across the street from Friendly Market. We are so appreciative of this wonderful location. It is much larger than our original space, so we have to make some changes. We are in need of greeters who have two hours a week that they can share with the History Project and our local residents and visitors who stop in every day. It is a fun two hours with friendly, interested visitors to chat with, a piano you can play to your heart’s content, beautiful displays that are informative and interesting, and a lovely relaxing space that says what a wonderful, full history Molokai shares with our beautiful state.…
Monday, June 2nd, 2025
Bayer Hawaii News Release
A total of ten Hawaii students, including Halena Peterson and Chloe Tancayo from Molokai, have received the 2025 Bayer Hawaii Life Sciences Scholarship. Peterson will be attending Montana State University to study Pre-Veterinary Medicine, and Tancayo will be attending University of Hawaii at Hilo where she will study Chemistry.
Recipients statewide were Leah Bautista, Leilehua High School, Keira Brown, Leilehua High School, Ciana Cooper, Maui High School, Sophia Kato, Maui High School, Halena Peterson, Molokai High School, Faith Shimabukuro, Mililani High School, Rylee Stout, Seabury Hall, Chloe Tancayo, Molokai High School, Jyliann Teocson, Waipahu High School, and Joshua Yasuda, Mid-Pacific Institute.…
Monday, June 2nd, 2025
By Jack Kiyonaga, Editor
It was a busy Mother’s Day weekend on Molokai with events happening across the island. In Ho’olehua, at the Lanikeha Center, almost 2,000 residents passed by to check out the happenings at the annual Molokai Resource Fair.
The fair tries to “go the extra mile,” explained Rosie Davis from the Molokai Homestead Farmers Alliance, who organizes the event. The fair’s information booths ranged from agriculture to emergency services to job training. Along with a free petting zoo and greased pig contest, the fair had music, food, games and more. Participants competed for grand prizes like tickets on Hawaiian Airlines and gift cards to Hiro’s ‘Ohana Grill while browsing craft booths or getting their nails done courtesy of Nail Bar Molokai.…
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
Community Contributed
By Keo Hanapi-Hirata
“Without our kupuna we would have forgotten our culture, without our ‘opio there will be no one to perpetuate our culture” a humble reminder from the creator, artist, and business owner of Kapa Curious, Kekai Daunhauer along with her ‘aina kupuna ‘Ohana o Ahupua’a o Ahaino.
On May 8, Molokai High School held their annual scholarship ceremony of which Kapa Curious and ‘Ohana Hanapi annually participates to award scholarships to our Molokai ‘opio that are graduating. This year the Kapa Curious scholarship and the Ahaino Scholarship gave six, $500 scholarship awards to graduating Molokai opio.
Keo Hanapi-Hirata along with her daughters, Hina and Kahenawai, presented their ‘Ohana scholarship awards.…
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