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.
Being a family caregiver is one of the toughest and most rewarding things that anyone can do for a parent or loved one. There’s generally no pay. The hours are long and the work is demanding.
Veterans and and their families learned about benefits they earned and how to protect themselves against fraud during a free Veterans Jamboree seminar on Oct. 19 at Weinberg Hall at Keehi Lagoon.
AARP Hawaii is seeking volunteers to bolster outreach and advocacy for the state’s older residents, who face high prescription drug prices and other pressures.
A $20,000 AARP Livable Communities Community Challenge Grant is helping to make Kaua`i a better place to live one brush stroke and one shovel at a time.
Brett Johnson was one of America’s most wanted online criminals. He set up websites to sell items online, collected the money and never delivered the merchandise. He created Shadowcrew, a precursor to the Dark Web, where criminals could buy and sell stolen identities. Tax return fraud, insurance fraud, money laundering … Johnson was involved in all of it until he was caught, served prison time and eventually turned his life around.