Maui Business

The Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce will host its November Business Talk Story on Tuesday, Nov. 10, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Maui Tropical Plantation in Waikapū.

King Kekaualike High School Project Grad 2016 organizers would like to remind parents and students that KKHS Project Grad early registration and payment of $90 is due by Nov. 2. After that date, the fee is $100. Student may pick up the forms at the school office, or at Miss Kihara’s or Mr. Arakawa’s classrooms. Drop the filled-out forms at Mrs. Frerking’s office.

The SHAKA Movement is hosting a free presentation by Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America. “Empowered Moms, Healthy Kids – Our Right to Know is Our Right to Health!” will be held on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Maui Arts & Cultual Center’s McCoy Studio.

The Maui Memorial Medical Center Auxiliary will host its annual Harvest Sale on Monday, Nov. 9, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Wailuku Tower lobby.

Maui Family Support Services Inc. received $8,214.38 as a result of Ohana Fuels’ “Fuel Up, Do Good” program during the second quarter of 2015. Maui Ohana Fuels donated a portion of fuel sales to the raise funds and also provided materials for three car washes held in April, May and June. Proceeds from the car washes also benefitted MFSS.

Workshops are presented at the Maui County Business Resource Center, a County of Maui facility, located in the Maui Mall across Pizza Hut, in Ste. B-9. Seating for all workshops is limited, and all workshops are subject to change or cancellation. Workshops are free unless noted otherwise.

Subaru Hawai‘i will donate $250 to six local nonprofits, including Maui’s Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund, Maui Humane Society and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Maui for each new 2015 or 2016 Subaru vehicle sold (up to $30,000).

The California-based airline, Virgin America, launches service from San Francisco to Honolulu on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015; and from San Francisco to Kahului, Maui on Dec. 3, 2015

Visitor arrivals on Maui increased 4.3% to 177,925 visitors in September compared to the same month last year. Higher daily spending increased by 1.1% to $207 per person, increasing visitor expenditure growth by 5.7 percent to $279.1 million.

Sunny Savage, forager and author of Wild Food Plants of Hawai‘i, is brining her “eat one wild food every day” message on her historic, wild-food book tour across the Hawaiian Islands this November.

The inaugural Holiday Crafts at Kēōkea Marketplace event will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 8 and Dec. 13 at mile marker 17 on Kula Highway at Ka‘amana Street, a quarter-mile past Grandma’s Coffeehouse.

MauiAccommodations.com, a Maui-based site for book-direct accommodations on the island, has introduced a new twice-monthly blog entitled “All About Maui,” covering various timely Maui travel topics for visitors, which are written by a local resident.

By recycling a refrigerator or freezer, residents on O‘ahu can save approximately $283 annually on their energy costs based on an average of 33 cents per kilowatt hour. Refrigerators and freezers built prior to 1993 can be two to three times more expensive to operate than new ENERGY STAR® models.

Net income for the nine months ending Sept. 30, 2015, was $172.5 million, up 4.6 percent over the comparable period of 2014.

Maui Economic Opportunity Inc. will hold a Family Engagement and Cultural Effectiveness Conference event on Oct. 28 through 30, 2015, at the Westin Maui in Lahaina. It is expected that 250 Head Start and Early Head Start professionals from the Mainland US, to the Outer Pacific Islands and Hawai‘i will attend.

The Condominium Council of Maui is holding a trade show and seminar—”Water, Reclaimed Water and Landscaping,” at King Kamehameha Golf Club on Nov. 12. The trade show will include more than 35 vendors featuring new innovations in the industry, gifts and prizes. Chris Hart & Associates consultants will offer information about community water conservation.

The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui will offer a three-day workshop to learn and practice the art of building with bamboo on Oct. 31 (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.), Nov. 14 (9 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and Nov. 21 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.).

The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui is holding a special book signing event at UH Maui College Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., featuring Thinking Like an Island: Navigating a Sustainable Future in Hawai‘i, a new release by UH Press.

Tori Richard Ltd. has recently relocated their store within The Shops at Wailea to the ground floor near the East Wing. The 1,721-square-foot store invites leisurely shopping with an open layout and a fresh color scheme of Pacific blue, mustard yellow and white that appeals to both men and women.

This year’s theme for the Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce’s Business Fest, “Pono: Environmental and Social Values in Business,” will explore the links between a healthy environment and business plus the opportunities associated with the IUCN World Conservation Congress coming to Hawaiʻi in September 2016.