They may be down, but they’re not out. Lime, the company that recently backed out of Honolulu, is showing new signs of life — financial determination, anyway — in the race with competitor Bird to dominate the nascent urban scooter market.

Not long ago, there was no such thing. But now Lime has raised a $250 million investment by Google Ventures. It’s clear that the winner in this business model — deposit scooters in cities first, deal with the fallout later — is the one that shows up first. If they make another go in this city, will they get pushback again? It may depend on who’s mayor.

East Oahu food pantry reopening is good news

Recovery from April’s massive flooding on Kauai and East Oahu is continuing, slowly but surely. One welcome sign of recovery is today’s reopening of the Angel Network Charities food pantry in Aina Haina, which feeds over 2,500 people monthly and is the Hawaii Foodbank’s largest food outlet in East Oahu. For nearly two months, the severely damaged pantry, owned and operated by Calvary by the Sea Lutheran Church, has been closed for repairs. Today, with shelves restocked with donations from the community, it resumes food distribution on the first Thursday and second Friday of each month.

Donations are welcome. See FoodbankHawaii.org or call 836-3600; or see sites.google.com/view/angel-network-charities-inc or call 377-1841.