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Maui Economic Opportunity blessed a new electric-powered bus and Level 2 charging stations Thursday morning as the nonprofit that runs the Maui Bus paratransit and the county’s specialized Human Services transportation systems laid the foundation for an EV future.

South Maui Gardens was filled with hope and community spirit as the Rotary Club of Kīhei-Wailea and the Rotary Satellite Club of Kīhei-Wailea hosted a special Peace Pole dedication on World Peace Day on Sept. 21.

The Rotary Club of Kīhei-Wailea and the Rotary Satellite Club of Kīhei-Wailea will host a Peace Pole dedication ceremony this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024, at 9 a.m. This will be the first joint project between the two Rotary clubs in South Maui. The public is invited to attend this occasion at South Maui Gardens, 35 Auhana Road, Kīhei.

Artist, Dale Zarrella, a Maui-based sculptor and painter unveils his newest masterpiece at Fairmont Kea Lani’s lobby this afternoon, July 4, at 2 p.m. He has been working on the 8-foot “Wailea Mermaid” sculpture for more than 11 years and is finally ready to share her with the public.

The 14th annual ‘Paddle for Life’ event raised $134,512 to support Maui’s cancer patients and survivors from Oct. 8-9, 2022.

Dedicated paddlers and supporters will be making a 22-mile, round-trip open ocean journey from North Kīhei around Molokini and back to benefit the Pacific Cancer Foundation, Oct. 8-9, 2022.

Cancer survivors and supporters will paddle six-person outrigger canoes from North Kīhei to Molokini and back on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022 for the 14th annual “Paddle for Life” fundraiser.

Three dozen Maui kūpuna depart this weekend to compete in the first 75-and-older division at the 2022 World Sprints.

A new mosaic mural of Hawaiian waterbirds and shorebirds and created by Oʻahu-based artist Leah K. Riggs now hangs in the Education Pavilion of the Keālia Pond National Wildlife Refuge in Kīhei.

The Kimokeo Foundation and Maui Economic Opportunity provided dry goods for kupuna in need on Lānaʻi in late January – around the same time when there was a disruption in food surplus shipments to the island.

Grammy and Nā Hōkū Hanohano award winner, George Kahumoku Jr. is the special live entertainment guest at the Sunset Market in Wailea Village, June 17.

Three new low cost, low energy, green infrastructure systems are being constructed this summer to purify water coming out of the Kīhei Wastewater Reclamation Facility. These new systems will harness the power of plants, soil and microbial activity to purify wastewater to approach drinking water standards, dramatically expanding its potential uses and reducing the need for disposal via injection wells.

Olympic swimming hopeful Nicholas Dworet should have been celebrating his 21st birthday Wednesday, but instead family, friends and strangers honored the memory of the Parkland school shooting victim Hawaiian style at Lanikai Beach on Oʻahu. The ceremony featured hula dancing, a young Maui musician’s original song, a ¼-mile-long lei from Maui and a blessing from Hawaiʻi spiritual leader Kimokeo Kapahulehua.

Last yearʻs Paddle for Life raised over $240,000 for Mauiʻs cancer community.

For the 11th year consecutive year, cancer patients, survivors and supporters will gather at Hanakaʻōʻō Beach and traverse the ʻAuʻau Channel to the shores of Mānele Bay on Lānaʻi.

Nominees include: Carolee “Aunty Doll” Aricayos; Louise Corpuz; Arleen Gerbig; George Kahamoku, Jr.; Kimokeo Kapahulehua; Maggie Masicampo; Takeo Miyaguchi; Alice “Ali” Thompson; and Dorothy Tolliver.

This year’s 10th Anniversary edition of Pacific Cancer Foundation’s Paddle for Life event raised more than $240,000. “This is fabulous news but in actuality the true success of this event is the beauty of our cancer community coming together,” said PCF executive director Nancy La Joy.

“He wa’a he moku, he moku he wa’a.” (The canoe is our island, the island is our canoe) –ʻōlelo noʻeau (traditional saying)

Join Maui Now for updates from the two-day round-trip paddle between Maui and Lānaʻi. We have set a $10,000 goal in the hopes of helping the Pacific Cancer Foundation toward their larger efforts to raise $250,000.

Kapahulehua said, “I never hesitated, and my answer was of course, ‘we’re all in this together’.” His passion and vision was simply to encourage and help cancer survivors and support them in a voyage they could participate in annually. While the event has grown and evolved over the years, the vision remains steadfast