Senior Homes in Hawaii

Hawaii Senior News

• Community calendar (Honolulu Advertiser)

  HONOLULU COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY, meeting, 9 a.m. at Mānoa Gardens Elderly Housing Complex community center; featured speaker, author and researcher Ellie Nordyke, on Capt. James Cook's voyages and early roots in England.

• 3 Palolo women escape as fire consumes house (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)

  Three elderly women escaped injury from an early-morning fire yesterday that destroyed a two-story house in Palolo Valley.

• Sports Report (Hawaii Tribune-Herald)

  College-Prep Hoops Camp set Hawaii Island Hoops is accepting applications and registration for its 2010 College-Prep Basketball Camp, scheduled May 31-June 4 at Kekuaokalani Gym in Kailua-Kona.

• Budget cuts may be amplifying recession in Hawaii (Honolulu Advertiser)

  State spending cuts significantly have worsened the effects of the global economic downturn in the Islands, according to several Hawai'i economists who spoke to more than 150 advocates, lawmakers and others at the state Capitol yesterday.

• No more cuts, aid workers plead (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)

  As a Child Welfare Services specialist on the Big Island, Patrice Bell has seen spending restrictions and budget cuts reduce her office size by about one-third. Many have retired, while others have resigned rather than be at an office where lack of personnel puts the welfare of children at risk, she said.