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Over 2,000 food boxes were distributed Tuesday during the Show Aloha Challenge event at Aloha Stadium.
Keeping food distributions going
The need to feed is inexhaustible. Summer is changing some established routines, including the food distributions at Aloha Stadium: The last one there will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday. Along with food, families get instructions on how they can find resources in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile, schools are seeking new places for the Grab-and-Go meals to be handed out to keiki while schools are preparing to reopen. For more information on the sites so far, click the Grab-and-Go link at hawaiipublicschools.org.
Affordable housing in Kailua
Opposition to plans for a 4-story, largely low-income rental apartment complex on the edge of Coconut Grove — a single-family housing neighborhood in Kailua — evokes a disheartening sense of deja vu.
Ikaika Anderson, the City Council representative for the area, said that since he joined the Council in 2009, three affordable-housing projects proposed in Kailua were thwarted after community opposition over location.
“What we heard is: ‘Go build it somewhere else’,” he said. With monthly rents under $1,500 next to impossible to find in the area, the proposed 76-unit Kawainui Street Apartments deserves full consideration.
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