Tag Archive | "mayor billy kenoi"
Posted on 1:27 am, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Tags: bike to work week, bike works kona, mayor billy kenoi, peaoples advocacy for trails hawaii
Mayor Billy Kenoi played his part Tuesday in Bike to Work Week. The mayor, kitted out with a bike and helmet on loan from Bike Works Kona, pedaled early Tuesday from the Kona Industrial Area to his offices at Hanama Place. Laura Dierenfield, executive director for Peoples Advocacy for Trails Hawaii (PATH), said Kenoi set […]
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Posted on 4:12 am, Thursday, May 13, 2010. Tags: laakea yoshida, mayor billy kenoi, oxford university, uh-hilo, university of hawaii
MEDIA RELEASE Mayor Billy Kenoi will deliver the keynote address at the University of Hawaii at Hilo’s spring commencement 9 a.m. Saturday, May 15 at Edith Kanakaole Stadium. A total of 476 students have petitioned for various degrees and/or certificates. The undergraduates and their respective colleges include: College of Arts and Sciences (373), Agriculture, Forestry […]
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Posted on 11:40 pm, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Tags: chief harry kubojiri, kenneth keliipio, manuel cadinha, mayor billy kenoi, police week, ronald shige jitchaku, william red oili
Four slain Big Island officers remembered during ‘Police Week’
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Posted on 11:47 am, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Tags: budget, council, Hawaii County, mayor billy kenoi
“This balanced budget includes estimated revenues and appropriations of $376,001,627 and includes the operations of eleven of the County’s special funds as well as the General Fund. It is $11,044,576 lower than this year’s budget, and is $27,203,371 or 6.74 percent lower than the budget in effect when I took office.”
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Posted on 1:57 am, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Tags: habitat for humanity west hawaii, mayor billy kenoi, restore, tom whittemore
Mayor Billy Kenoi spoke Tuesday, April 27 at the 3rd Annual Kokua Ohana Event for Habitat for Humanity West Hawaii. The event was at the Habitat for Humanity Restore at 73-5576 Kauhola Street in the Kaloko Industrial Area. Among the items for resale were a designer couch w/pillows and two oversized chairs, a corner shower […]
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Posted on 6:04 pm, Friday, April 9, 2010. Tags: bobby command, jal, japan airlines, mayor billy kenoi
Karin Stanton | Hawaii 24/7 Contributing Editor Japan Airlines has included its Kona flight on a list of casualties as the airline tries to work its way out of bankruptcy. State, county and tourism industry leaders, however, are working to save the direct link between Japan and the Big Island. Last week, reports from Japan […]
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Posted on 3:44 am, Saturday, April 3, 2010. Tags: county building, mayor billy kenoi, warren lee
MEDIA RELEASE Recent news articles (Hawaii Tribune-Herald and West Hawaii Today, March 27, 2010) incorrectly described County plans to spend $400,000 in connection with the County Building renovations, according to Mayor Billy Kenoi’s office. The articles indicated the money would be spent on “furniture and window treatments,†at the new County office building, which is […]
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Posted on 4:06 pm, Saturday, March 27, 2010. Tags: budget, county council, hawaii county band, mayor billy kenoi
Big Island Mayor Billy Kenoi has issued the following statement on his proposed 2010-11 county budget: Crafting a County budget is a series of decisions. When times are good, the choices are easy. When times are tough, they are difficult. Since announcing my proposed Hawaii County budget for Fiscal Year 2010-11, most of the discussion […]
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Posted on 4:02 am, Friday, March 12, 2010. Tags: children's savings project, hawaii alliance for community based economic development, hawaii community federal credit union, hawaii first federal credit union, mayor billy kenoi, michael cheang
MEDIA RELEASE Children at Konawaena Elementary School and Kanu o ka Aina New Century Public Charter School are now able to open a savings account and start saving for their future. In a partnership between Dr. Michael Cheang of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, local credit unions (Hawaii First Federal Credit Union and Hawaii […]
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Posted on 9:25 pm, Saturday, March 6, 2010. Tags: Basketball, daggers, mayor billy kenoi, pahoa, state tournament
Mayor Billy Kenoi will welcome back the state champion Pahoa High School boy’s basketball team Sunday, March 7 at Hilo International Airport. The team is expected to arrive on Hawaiian Airlines Flight #382 at 10:55 a.m., following Saturday’s victory over Kailua (Oahu) that earned them the state Division II Boys Basketball Championship. Kenoi will deliver […]
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Posted on 11:58 pm, Monday, March 1, 2010. Tags: alcatel-lucent submarine cable systems, edouard fritch, french polynesia, honotua, mayor billy kenoi, office des postes and telecommunications, sen. kalani english, tahiti, wavecom solutions
Connection will bolster economic opportunities and educational exchanges between French Polynesia and Hawaii, the U.S. mainland and the rest of world
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Posted on 9:27 pm, Monday, March 1, 2010. Tags: bob fitzgerald, chile, earthquake, george applegate, mayor billy kenoi, tsunami
Karin Stanton | Hawaii 24/7 Contributing Editor The tsunami sirens went off again at 11:45 a.m. Monday. The regular monthly test likely was more a source of comfort than an irritant to many on the Big Island. Just two days earlier, the sirens blasted for a very different reason – a tsunami was coming, hammering […]
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Posted on 7:36 pm, Saturday, February 27, 2010. Tags: charles mccreery, chile, earthquake, mayor billy kenoi, tsunami
Karin Stanton | Hawaii 24/7 Contributing Editor By 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, Hawaii County officials were gathered in the Civil Defense headquarters in Hilo, anxiously waiting for the next tsunami update. Slightly more than 16 hours later, they were all still there, anxiously waiting to hear whether the danger truly had passed by Hawaii’s […]
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Posted on 1:42 pm, Saturday, February 27, 2010. Tags: charles mccreery, chile, earthquake, mayor billy kenoi, pacific tsunami warning center, tsunami
Director of Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Charles McCreery ready to cancel watch for Hawaii. “We’re not seeing anything alarming. The wave was not any bigger than we expected. In fact, it might have been a little smaller,” McCreery said. “We’re all in agreement out here, we can end this thing for Hawaii.” Mayor Billy Kenoi, […]
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