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LAHAINA — Using funds generated by the Rotary District 5,000 Foundation Maui Fires Relief effort, the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset recently presented a $10,0

Older adults and their families are invited to attend the 50th Maui County Senior Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, at Maui Mall Village in Kahului.

The $400,000 (over three years) National Science Foundation grant recently awarded to Jefferson College was the school’s first-ever significant NSF grant.

The Maui Police Department’s Crisis Intervention Team has 16 new members who last week completed 40 hours of training.

A new pop-up homeless shelter on Maui with air- conditioned group tents, free meals, health services and planned movie nights has drawn considerable use a week after opening to serve people who were homeless in Lahaina before the town was leveled Aug. 8 by fire.

Elected officials and community leaders  joined together on Saturday, Sept. 30, at Puʻuhonua o Nēnē, a temporary shelter, to bless the newly established facility for Maui Wildfire survivors who were homeless pre-disaster.

The state, in partnership with the nonprofit Project Vision Hawai‘i, has opened Puʻuhonua o Nēnē, a temporary shelter for Maui wildfire survivors who were experiencing homelessness before the disaster. The temporary shelter, located at the corner of Hāna Highway and Mayor Elmer F. Carvalho Way in Kahului opened on Friday, Sept. 29.

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Maui Wildfire Disaster updates for Aug. 30 are posted HERE. Maui police plan to release an updated list on Friday, of unaccounted for individuals from the Lahaina wildfire disaster. Multiple lists were merged into a pool of more than 1,000 names earlier in the investigation.  That was narrowed to 388 last week to focus on individuals where a first and last name was available as well as a verified contact number for the person who reported them missing.

Organizations helping those impacted by the Maui wildfires will be at the Lahaina Civic Center on Thursday, August 31, from 1 - 7 p.m.