February 2007 | Small Business News
Maui Divers Throws Birthday Party for NextStep Kids
Story By Malia Zimmerman, HawaiiReporter.com
Photo by Keely Luke Photographíe
Bobbie Slater recruited employees from fellow Small Business Hawaii member Maui Divers Jewelry this Saturday, December 30, to throw a birthday party for six children with December birthdays living in the Kakaako Next Step homeless shelter.
These include Ariana, 2; Yumi, 5; Rexlyn, 9; Nallen, 5; Tisa, 10; and Cedric, 14. SBH members Mike Palcic and Julia Allen of Mac Mouse Club stopped by during the party to share their tasty popcorn with more than 320 people living in the shelter.
Tammy Kubo, owner of Hawaii Pet Nanny, yet another SBH member, has organized these birthday parties on the last Saturday of every month since the sheltered opened last May. Every child who celebrates a birthday in that month is honored at the birthday party with a present and cake. All 100 children living in the shelter are invited to attend and participate in crafts, other fun events and a movie showing.
In addition to bringing several enthusiastic volunteers and terrific ocean themed arts and crafts to the December birthday party, Maui Divers donated $1,000 to the shelter, $700 of which went to the shelter store where residents can get at no charge any basic supplies they need.
Slater did her part by ensuring every one of the 100 children in the shelter received a hand-made goodie bag filled with school supplies, books, healthy snacks, bubbles and other surprises. The goodie bags, made of colorful Hawaiian material, were hand-sewn by Pat Wassel. Books were provided at wholesale prices by Best Press.
Maui Divers volunteers, who spent two hours at the shelter Saturday, said they enjoyed being with the kids who live there and giving back to the community.
For more information on how to sponsor a birthday party at the shelter, contact Tammy Kubo at (808) 536-1239 or mailto:kubot002@hawaii.rr.com.
JA Hawaii Announces 2007 Business Hall of Fame Laureates
by Steven Grant
Since 1990, the Junior Achievement Hawaii Business Hall of Fame has honored the state’s most distinguished businessmen and women for their outstanding contributions to free enterprise and the promise of a better, stronger society.
In 2007, four business leaders will be welcomed as Laureates into the Junior Achievement Hawaii Business Hall of Fame in an induction ceremony to be held Wednesday, March 8, 2007 at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.
Hawaii Business Hall of Fame laureates for 2007 are: Dwayne Steele (Legacy Laureate) of Grace Pacific Construction; Paul Loo of Morgan Stanley; Joe Nicolai of JN Automotive Group and Harold Tanouye of Green Point Nurseries.
These four honorees join a distinguished group of 60 men and women who have been inducted into the Hawaii Business Hall of Fame since its founding in 1990. A committee comprised of Hawaii Business Roundtable; Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii; Small Business Hawaii and Hawaii Council on Economic Education selected the Laureates. Past inductees include Lex Brodie, Mitch D’Olier; Robin Campaniano; Chatt Wright and Richard Kelley M.D. among others.
Junior Achievement of Hawaii Inc., founded in 1957 to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of their lives. With the mission of insuring that all Hawaii’s children have basic understanding of the free-enterprise system, we have created a working partnership among the business, military, and education communities. We are active and have offices on Island of Oahu, Maui and Hawaii. Junior Achievement is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, to which contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Contact Steven Grant, president, JA Hawaii, at 808-545-1777 or on the web at http://www.jahawaii.com/
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