Communities focus on outreach while assisting elderly in vaccine signups
Communities focus on outreach while assisting elderly in vaccine signups By HNN Staff | March 6, 2021 at 4:23 PM HST - Updated March 6 at 5:49 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Earlier this week, health officials reported more than 391,000 doses of the COVID vaccine have already been administered statewide. And inoculation efforts continued around the state this weekend.
On Maui, 11 student volunteers from Seaburry Hall helped kupuna book vaccine appointments on Saturday. The school partnered with Maui Health and the County to help man the Kupuna Help Desk.
The resource was available for several hours at the J. Walter Cameron Center in Wailuku.
Margaret Calandra, 84, vividly remembers how she met her late husband, Jerry, more than 60 years ago.
She and her girlfriends were in Brooklyn, New York, trying to go to Far Rockaway Beach in Queens. The vehicle Jerry was in stopped to pick them up.
After the beach trip, Margaret Calandra said, Jerry asked her out on a date. She turned him down. He kept asking, and she finally said yes.
Six months later, they were engaged. Six months after that, they got married.
“He was fun,” she said with a laugh.
The couple stayed together for 63 years. They would have celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary in June. Jerry died on Feb. 4.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Following the U.S. Supreme Court s ruling that churches in California can once again open doors for in-person services, South Lake Tahoe places of worship have started to reopen.
The state s Blueprint Tier 1 prohibition of indoor worship services was challenged by three churches in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Prior to the challenge, a ban on indoor services led many churches to provide virtual services, while others defied orders and had indoor services even when the guidelines prohibited them.
The Court did rule against removing limits on capacity.
For counties in the widespread, or purple tier, churches can open indoors with masks, social distancing, cleaning protocols, and other modifications and activities must be limited to 25 percent of capacity. Moving to the red tier would keep the same guidance but going down to the yellow tier would expand occupancy to 50 percent.
The Livingstone Magistrate Court has acquitted a Drug Enforcement Commission Assistant Investigations Officer who was facing two counts of corrupt practices.
The acquittal came as a result of the failure by the prosecution to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Andrew Pikiti was facing two counts of corrupt practices contrary to section 19(1), as read with section 41 of the Anti-Corruption Act Number 3 of 2012.
Pikiti appeared before Senior Resident Magistrate William Banda for judgment in the matter.
In count one, particulars of the offense were that Pikiti, on dates unknown but between 1st September 2015 and 23rd October 2015, in Livingstone, did corruptly receive K500 gratification from Joseph Moyo, as inducement for himself in order to facilitate the stoppage of money laundering criminal investigations by the DEC against Moyo.
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