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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.
As it advocates for a paid family-leave bill, AARP Hawai‘i is looking for personal stories about the challenges unpaid caregivers face.
Savings Possible Thanks to the Prescription Drug Law Championed by AARP
Latest AARP research attaches $2.6 billion value to the estimated 144 million hours of unpaid care that family caregivers provided in 2021.
AARP Hawai`i and the AARP Fraud Watch Network are warning consumers about a variation of the “Do me a favor” scam that leads to social media accounts being hijacked and friends being targeted as the next victims.
Performance tells the story of World War II Nisei soldiers, many of whom were from Hawai`i
KAUNAKAKAI, Molokai -- During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guzeiji Soto Mission of Molokai sat mostly empty. Their minister couldn’t fly in from Oahu for services and they had to cancel their popular bon dance. But an $11,500 AARP Community Challenge grant has giving the temple a new life as a gathering place for the community.
AARP members and military veterans can refresh their paletes with paletas, a South American frozen fruit treat, and get information on AARP activities in East Hawai`i at a free Paletas in the Park member and veterans appreciation event in Hilo on Saturday, Feb. 25 from 10 a.m. to noon.
Thirty-seven million Americans are hooked on the sport, swatting small plastic balls, on converted tennis courts all over Oahu to play pickle ball. If you want to join them, AARP Hawai`i is holding an “Introduction to Pickle Ball” class at the gym at Waimanalo District Park on Friday, Feb. 24.
To help lessen the impact of social isolation on Valentine’s Day, Wish of a Lifetime from AARP’s 10th annual Cupid Crew and AARP Hawai`i will hand deliver about 6,400 roses and more than 800 hand-made Valentine’s Day cards to kupuna on Oahu, Maui and Hawai`i island. It’s part of a national effort to deliver more than 100,000 roses and nearly 250,000 cards to fight social isolation.
Orchids seem boundless in Hawaii, but how to grow them and get them to bloom are mysteries to many. Get seven tips to help beginning and experienced gardeners grow healthy, flowering orchids at a free AARP Hawai`i webinar on Feb. 15.
Applications for the 2023 Community Challenge Grants are being accepted through March 15, 2023, 11 a.m. Hawai`i Tim (5:00 p.m. ET)
Kupuna can learn to embrace technology rather than fear it at free webinars offered by AARP Hawai`i and Senior Planet (www.seniorplanet.org) through March 17.
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