Wine & Canvas, which combines painting with cocktails, is launching its mobile business in Hawaii next month.
The business brings its paint party to area venues, corporate gatherings and private residents. No artistic experience is required.
Wine & Canvas sets up everything in advance of an event — providing the brushes, canvas, paints and aprons. It also takes care of the cleanup afterward.
The business, which opened its first location in Indianapolis in April 2010, is now located in 54 metropolitan areas across the United States.
The normal price is $45 per person with the option of purchasing food and drinks. There is a $10 off coupon if you “like” Canvas Hawaii on its Facebook page.
Melanie Richardson, along with daughter Katrina, will operate Wine & Canvas Hawaii. For more information, go to www.wineandcanvas.com or contact Richardson at 445-2475.
Honolulu ranks 37th among livable cities
Honolulu rose to 37th on the 2016 list of the Top 100 U.S. cities in which to live, according to Livability.com.
The ranking represents a significant jump from its 58th-place rank on the 2015 list, but the change is not explained by researchers.
The analysis places Honolulu’s median household income at $59,359, and its median home price at $550,900.
However, the U.S. Census Bureau lists Honolulu County’s median annual household income at $72,764 from 2009 to 2013. Also, the Honolulu Board of Realtors’ most recent report on Oahu home sales found the median home price was $699,000, down slightly from $710,000 in July.
For the Livability.com analysis, more than 2,100 cities with populations between 20,000 and 350,000 were evaluated. The study analyzed 40 data points in categories including economics, housing, amenities, infrastructure, demographics, social and civic capital, education and health care. The top livable city, according to the analysis released Monday, is Rochester, Minn.
Hawaii drivers least likely to hit deer
For the ninth consecutive year, Hawaii drivers have been found least likely in the U.S. to hit a deer while on the road.
An annual study by insurance company State Farm found that the odds of a Hawaii driver hitting a deer are 1 in 8,765, a significant change from the 2014 study when the odds were 1 in 10,281.
State Farm’s 2014 report said Hawaii drivers were three times more likely to get struck by lightning sometime during their lives than they were to hit a deer through the course of the year.
Nationally the average odds for 2015 were 1 in 169. But for West Virginia, which has topped the list for nine years, the odds of a driver hitting a deer, elk or moose are 1 in 44.
The national average cost per claim is $4,135, up 6 percent from the $3,888 average in 2014.
Other states with the highest likelihood of such insurance claims are second-ranked Montana; No. 3, Iowa; No. 4, Pennsylvania; and No. 5, South Dakota, with odds of 1 in 73, which is 12.3 percent more likely than a year ago.
In 2013, 191 traffic deaths resulted from collisions with animals, primarily deer, State Farm said in a statement.
In the new review, Hawaii drivers’ likelihood rose by 17.3 percent since 2014, according to the State Farm list, though no reason for the increase was quantified.
Trump sells Miss Universe Organization
Donald Trump has sold the Miss Universe Organization to talent agency WME-IMG, the company announced Monday.
The sale, the financial terms of which were not disclosed, came after a rough summer for the organization’s Miss USA beauty pageant, in which two television partners dropped the broadcast in response to comments Trump made about illegal immigrants during his presidential campaign.
NBC, a part owner of the Miss Universe Organization, backed out of the broadcast and also said that Trump would not be welcomed back as the host of “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Trump filed a $500 million lawsuit against the pageant’s other television partner, the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.
On Friday, NBC confirmed that it had sold its stake in the Miss Universe Organization to Trump. It appears that sale was just the prelude for Trump spinning off the entire organization — which includes the Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe pageants — to WME-IMG.
ON THE MOVE
Montessori Community School has appointed the following new members to its board of trustees:
>> Alexina Chai is the director of human resources at American Savings Bank. Her experience includes serving in organization development, talent management, human resources and human capital consulting at American Express, Aon Hewitt and UnitedHealth Group.
>> Mark Duda co-owns several Hawaii businesses, including Distributed Energy Partners. Duda also serves as president of Hawaii PV Coalition.
>> Todd Funasaki serves as vice president of business and marketing development at health care technology firms TeamPraxis and Sagely, with more than 18 years of enterprise data management experience.
>> Fran Gendrano is the principal broker at real estate brokerage and property management firm KFG Properties. She previously chaired and vice-chaired several committees at the State of Hawaii’s Real Estate Commission to help govern the real estate industry.
