Honoka’a residents Miles Okumura and Lynn Higashi have been selected by AARP, the nonprofit organization for people 50 and older, to receive the 2024 AARP Hawai`iAndrus Award for Community Service, the Association’s most prestigious and visible state volunteer award for community service.
The AARP Foundation is recruiting friendly and service-oriented people throughout Hawai`i to join its Tax-Aide volunteer team. Tax-Aide is the nation’s largest free, volunteer-based tax assistance and preparation program. During the 2024 tax season, almost 28,000 volunteers served over 1.7 million taxpayers. Tax-Aide participants saved more than $1.3 billion in refunds and credits.
Ukulele virtuoso Taimane will perform in a free AARP Hawaii online concert celebrating family caregivers of older adults in recognition of National Family Caregivers Month in November. The concert can be seen on a Zoom link and simulcast on the AARP Hawai`i Facebook page on Friday, Nov. 6 at 6 p.m.
By popular demand, AARP Hawai`i and Windward Community College’s Uala Leaf Cafe are extending their free Fast, Healthy and Ono online cooking series with a series of new webinars on basic cooking techniques and cooking some of Hawai`i’s most popular ethnic dishes.
Slack-key guitar master Makana will perform a free online concert, sponsored by AARP Hawai`i, to raise awareness about solutions to kupuna hunger. The concert can be seen on a Zoom link and simulcast on the AARP Hawai`i Facebook page on Friday, Oct. 30 at 6 p.m.
Projects to beautify 11.5 miles of Farrington Highway, make an intersection near Ewa Beach Elementary School safer and to have schoolchildren reach out to isolated kupuna will receive 2020 Community Challenge grants totaling $42,000.
Census workers are now in the field, knocking on doors and trying to make sure everyone is counted and that Hawai`i doesn’t lose out on billions of dollars in federal funding.
AARP Hawai`i is holding a free webinar on Wednesday, Aug. 12 at 10 a.m. aimed at protecting kupuna from financial fraud and exploitation. Local and national experts on elder crimes will give tips and answer questions on how to protect yourself and loved ones from scams against older Americans.