Maui Business

Five Maui County seniors were awarded $22,000 in scholarships by the Wailea Community Association at a reception held in their honor at Tommy Bahamas Restaurant in The Shops at Wailea.

A Veterans Memorial Service will included in the activities on Saturday, May 23, at the 46th Annual Barrio Fiesta at the War Memorial Soccer Field. The Barrio Fiesta begins on Friday evening at 5 p.m.

Maui County ranked a bit higher than the state unemployment average at 4.1%, with individual Maui County Islands weighing in at a wide range of rates. Molokaʻi was at the top of the county’s unemployment rate at 7.7%. Maui Island was next highest at 4.1%, followed by Lānaʻi at 3.8%.

Wailuku’s average gas price is $3.38–two cents more than last Thursday’s price, 16 cents more than on this date last month and $1.07 less on this date last year, according to the AAA Hawaiʻi Weekend Gas Watch. Prices remain well under the all-time high of $4.98 per gallon, recorded on May 9, 2011.

OCEAN Organic Vodka’s new bottle design was selected for an international design award from a field of thousands of submissions.

Today Walmart announced that it is creating more job opportunities for transitioning US veterans in Hawaiʻi by guaranteeing a job offer to any eligible veteran who was honorably discharged from active duty since the original launch of the Veterans Welcome Home Commitment on Memorial Day 2013.

AARP Hawaiʻi and state agencies leading the fight against fraud will offer free public awareness Scam Jam workshops in Kīhei and Kahului on Saturday, May 30.

Skyline Eco-Adventures, the state’s award-winning zipline company and operator of the first zipline course in the US, has been recognized as a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame winner.

According to the third edition of United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings Senior Report: A Call to Action for Individuals and Their Communities, Hawaiʻi ranked fourth for senior health this year.

Maui Nui Botanical Gardens will host a Hawaiian Sugarcane Workshop–Nā Kō O Hawaiʻi Nei– on Saturday, May 23, from 9 a.m. to noon.

On April 1, 2015, Whole Foods Market partnered with Mālama Maui Nui (formerly known as Community Work Day Program) for a “5% Community Support Day.”

The Maui AIDS Foundation will receive $1,441,159 to provide tenant-based rental assistance to 45 households.

You may think that it’s a little crazy to swim with manta rays in the ocean, but lots of people think it’s a good idea. In fact, it is said to be a life-changing experience!

Skyline Eco-Adventures partnered with Trilogy, Cool Cat Cafe and Manaʻolana Pink Paddlers to support Trilogy’s Blue ʻAina campaign.

Participants from this year’s Startup Weekend Maui held over the weekend, May 15 to 17, proved it is possible to create a start-up business in just 54 hours.

Wailuku’s gas price during the past week averaged $3.36 per gallon–up 2 cents from last week, 13 cents more than on this date last month, $1.11 less than on this date last year, but still far below the all-time high of $4.98 per gallon reported four years ago on May 9, 2011.

The 2nd Annual Startup Weekend Maui kicked off on Friday, May 15, with nearly 30 entrepreneurs pitching business startup ideas in front of an enthusiastic audience of 80-plus like-minded individuals at the Maui Economic Development Board’s Malcolm Center in Kīhei.

Hawaiʻi State Sen. Russell Ruderman recently returned from Washington, D.C., where he was honored by the US Small Business Association as Business Person of the Year by the Hawaiʻi Region of the Small Business Association.

The president and CEO of The Kohala Center, Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer, received the Samuel M. Kamakau Book of the Year Award for No Makou ka Mana: Liberating the Nation at the 2015 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards presented by the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found the Hawaiʻi Health Connector to be non-compliant with the Affordable Care Act earlier this year.