It’s hard work — rounding up the crew has been challenging for two years now — but it’s work that matters.

The annual Point-in-Time count of people who are living homeless takes place next week. Volunteers are urgently needed to deliver the tally that helps the state get funding it needs to provide services.

Partners In Care is the nonprofit running the overall count; volunteer by visiting partnersincare-oahu.org. The Institute for Human Services is working in East Oahu. Go to ihshawaii.org/events/2018-annual-point-in-time-count for that project. Your counting counts for a lot.

Strike or no, Sony Open ratings go up

This is good news, right?

The final round of the Sony Open attracted its largest audience in a decade. Viewers on the frozen mainland get vicarious thrills from seeing the sun-kissed fairway. There was no football on another channel to distract, for at least some of it.

The robust viewership came despite reduced coverage due to the strike by the unionized TV crews at the Waialae Country Club Course, seeking a new contract with the Golf Channel.

Good ratings are good news … though maybe not for the union’s cause.