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Gerry Ching, a community volunteer who helped raise more than $1 million for Catholic Charities, will be honored by the Junior League of Honolulu at a luncheon Saturday at the Sheraton Waikiki hotel.
Ching was the first Chinese woman to be admitted to the Junior League in 1968, the organization said in a news release. Ching also founded the Waialae Iki Ridge Community Association.
For more information, see juniorleagueofhonolulu.org.
Apple’s cash stash fuels talk of acquisition
SAN FRANCISCO >> As Apple’s stash of cash grows, so does the possibility that the company will use some of the money for a huge acquisition that would expand its empire beyond iPhones and other gadgets. The guessing game primarily has focused on potential acquisitions of video streaming service Netflix and electric car maker Tesla Motors. But in recent months the takeover talk has swirled around whether Apple might do something even more dramatic by trying to buy Walt Disney Co.
Visa crackdown threatens seasonal help
PROVIDENCE, R.I. >> Innkeepers, restaurateurs and landscapers around the U.S. say they are struggling to find seasonal help and turning down business in some cases because the government tightened up on visas for temporary foreign workers. At issue are H-2B temporary visas, which are issued for workers holding down seasonal, nonagricultural jobs. The U.S. caps the number at 66,000 per fiscal year. Some workers return year after year, and Congress has let them do so in the past without being counted toward the limit. No such exception was passed for 2017 at the end of last year, after the presidential election.
ON THE MOVE
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has named David K. Laeha the agency’s new chief financial officer and resource management director starting May 16. He has more than 25 years of accounting and financial management experience, including working for Fortune 500 firms such as GTE and IBM as well as the Hawaii Community Foundation and Hawaiian Natural Water Co. Since 2002 Laeha has also operated his own consulting firm, CFO Hawaii LLC.
Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing has announced that Pamela W. Bunn has been elected stockholder/director. Bunn’s law practice focuses on appellate law, commercial litigation and real estate law. Since 2011 she has been an of-counsel attorney at AHFI and previously served as a partner at Paul Johnson Park & Niles.
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