Volunteering

On Saturday, Rosie met up with the Sierra Club and Na Ala Hele once again to do some trail work on Manoa falls, for the second week in a row.

The day started very similarly to last Saturday except the work group was much smaller. Made up of a regular group of Sierra Club volunteers and some of the H.U.R.T. folks, they quickly got to work. It was also National…
Read more… June Event: Trail Work in Manoa

On Saturday, Rosie met up with the Sierra Club and Na Ala Hele to do some trail work on Manoa falls. She hadn’t been back to this trail since running the H.U.R.T. 100 in January and much had changed. The goal of the day was basically to hike out with all of the remnants of a boardwalk and other miscellaneous debris that were removed and just sitting by the side…
Read more… Saturday Work Day: Sierra Club

Just wanted to keep a quick tally of our HIC work day. Nathan was the sole HIC peep to attend this workday and big thanks to three of Rosie’s best buddies for attending. It was a pre-marathon day of fun for them all and we got a tremendous amount accomplished. We pulled huge amounts of mangrove seedlings and cleared an entire area of the pond.

Hour tally: 20 hours Prep…
Read more… Waikalualoko Fishpond Report

Ahhh finally a volunteer day that allowed for ample sleep in time on a Saturday! We started the day around 10:30 meeting up at Turtle Bay as far North as you can go on Oahu. The resort area was massive but luckily there were blue flags abound and signs so it was easy to find the meetup spot. We all parked and made our way over to the tent and…
Read more… Turtle Bay Beach Cleanup: Report

We hope everyone had a great of time at the fishpond! It was a very well organized event. Unfortunately most of us had trouble finding the location and all ended up at Kaneohe beach park, where we asked for instructions from a local guy sitting in his car. It was definitely a bad area but we made it safely out! Continuing on, we left in a giant line of cars…
Read more… Waikalualoko Fishpond Work Day: Report

Hi all,

We’ll be at the fishpond on 2/9 at 8am. Teams typically will remove limu from pond, pull mangrove keiki, cut mature mangrove, pass mangrove to chipper etc.

What to bring

Covered shoes or tabisClothing you don’t mind getting dirtySunscreenHat (optional)Water bottle and lunch bag (optional)Change of clothes and towel (optional)

What’s included

Pizza lunchIgloos of ice water and compostable cups at each work site.

WLFPS does not…
Read more… Waikalualoko Fishpond Work Day: February 9th

Phew it’s been a busy few days around here with the volunteering efforts. Deanna volunteered to drive us to drop off both the family items plus the SPCA donations. Leaving work at 1:30, we first stopped at the warehouse to drop off our adopt a family gifts. From there, we started to head to Kapolei where the SPCA is located. For those of you unaware, this is a bit of…
Read more… SPCA Coin Drive: Final Results

Well the gifts are all wrapped and delivered to our adopt a family. We sponsored a young family of 8. Deanna and I did a joint trip to the warehouse to drop off the items (as well as to the SPCA to drop off the goodies and cash but that is another blog post… coming soon).

Our family received Hello Kitty and educational toys galore. This also marked my first…
Read more… Adopt a Family: 2012

Saturday November 17, 2012 was the work day on the farm. Megan and Sean arrived at the Naked Cow Dairy at 8am and began by signing a waiver before being given instructions for the day. Ultimately, the farm wanted to clear out an unused area of their farm to make room for planting grass and their chicken coop since eventually they will have a stand to sell the eggs produced…
Read more… Naked Cow Dairy Work Day

HIC took part in Movember for the second year in a row and we raised $325!

Thanks to Russell, Ben, Patrick, Sean, Jordon and Gordon for taking part.