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Maui County residents still need help paying the bills even as the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission last week extended the temporary ban on disconnections for electricity, water and other utilities.
“While the moratorium offers some relief to these households for the time being, it doesn’t eliminate the large debts owed,” said Cassi Yamashita, community services director at Maui Economic Opportunity.
The nonprofit has a program to assist low-income households with bills from Hawaiian Electric Co. or Hawaii Gas.
“Many of the applications we are seeing are from households who have not been able to pay their bills for months, some almost a year,” Yamashita said. “The same can be said about rental or mortgage assistance applications.”
Coupons for fresh produce available for seniors
By Staff | Mar 12, 2021
WAILUKU Applications are currently being accepted for the 2021 Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program, which provides low-income seniors with fresh produce from Maui farmers’ markets. Each participant will receive ten $5 coupons, worth a total of $50, to exchange for unprocessed locally grown fruits, vegetables, herbs and honey from an authorized farmer or farmer’s market. The buying period runs from April 1 to Oct. 31, 2021. The program is administered on Maui by Maui Economic Opportunity. To qualify, an applicant must be at least 60 years old, a resident of Maui and have a maximum household income of $27,417 for a single person, $37,074 for two people and $9,657 for each additional household member, including children.
Project provides more than $150,000 for workers impacted by COVID-19
By Staff | Feb 12, 2021
KAPALUA The Montage Kapalua Bay Pono Project provided $157,950 in assistance for essential needs to 127 workers who were laid off in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 related shutdown of the resort. The Pono Project, which ran from May 2020 through early January 2021, was funded by donations from the Montage Kapalua Bay condominium owners in partnership with the Hawaii Community Foundation and the Montage Kapalua Bay Associate Support Fund. The Montage Kapalua Bay condominium owners set up the Pono Project specifically to help workers who were employed and furloughed when the pandemic forced the closure of the Montage.
Everything Old Is New Again
December 22, 2020
Story by Kathy Collins
A dollar sign embedded in the pavement marks the entrance to National Dollar Store in this 1960 photo of Main Street, Wailuku. Today the building is home to the Maui Academy of Performing Arts. Happily, the dollar sign remains. WAYNE TANAKA PHOTO COURTESY OF GAIL TANAKA; COURTESY OF GOOGLE STREET
Having grown up here in the 1950s and ’60s, I sometimes okay, often wax nostalgic about the Maui of my youth, when the resident population was a quarter of today’s, folks waited patiently on two lane roads for drivers headed in opposite directions to finish chatting, and TV shows arrived by plane a week after airing on the mainland. Time has brought many changes, but vestiges of that sweeter, simpler Maui remain, among them several venerable buildings that have been preserved, restored and brilliantly repurposed. These grand old dames brimming with new life comfort and inspire me. As an aging structure myself, I’m
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