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We’ll be meeting at the Mānoa Cliff Trailhead (Round Top Drive) at 9:00 am, then hike to the restoration area (about 1.5 mile). We will then work, mostly weeding, until lunchtime… you can do light work or more strenuous work. Everyone is welcome.

Date: Sunday Sept, 23rdTime: 9:00am – 12:00pm Be sure to bring: your own tools if you have them (clippers, loppers, saws)footwear for muddy trailswaterfoodrain protectiongloves (if you…
Read more… September Event: Manoa Cliff Restoration Day

For the month of August, our official activities are coinciding with the NIC wellness contest. We’ve been hard at work donating shoes to Shoes for Soles in our office donation box as well as setting up a blood donation day for our staff.

We’ll resume our out of office events in September.

On July 14 we met up once again to pick up trash at Sandy Beach. Rosie, who had been out all night till 4am running with a friend to celebrate his birthday by running his age in miles (33), was the first to arrive and somehow summoned up the energy for the workday after a short rest on the beach.

It was another great turnout and the event was put…
Read more… Sandy Beach Cleanup: Summary

RevoluSun and Surfrider Foundation are asking for volunteers to help clean up pounds of trash at Sandy Beach. HIC did this as our first event and we had a blast. There were prizes, raffles, and secret things hidden in the sand to find, hundreds of people came out and it was amazing to see so many people taking care of our beautiful island. For anyone that wants to, Rosie will…
Read more… July 14th Beach Cleanup

Well… June was a sad month. We lost our beloved Cheeky. But we also did a lot of good.

The Heeaia restoration ended up getting cancelled and we will be rescheduling for a later date.

For the DLNR Trail Clearing, Rosie was the only one from HIC in attendance but it was a fantastic day. They spent roughly 5 hours doing hard labor in the mountains clearing a trail that…
Read more… June Event Recap

The official event for June will be a He’eia Stream Restoration near Kaneohe. Lynn will be the leader on this one as Rosie will be off clearing some trails with DLNR this same day.

Also, there is another beach cleanup on Sunday if anyone would like to go as an unofficial event. Beach cleanups are a blast, we had a great time at our first one and even got free…
Read more… June Events

Just a quick wrap up from the events in May.

Saturday

Rosie’s H.U.R.T. group put on a ‘Run for George!’ event Saturday morning. They ended up raising almost $7,000, every cent of which went to her buddy George who is battling cancer. About 75 runners come out and Rosie baked some impressive ‘George’ cake pops all while helping her friend Steve organize where the event. She also wore the famed…
Read more… Summary of May “George-a-pa-looza!”