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Caregivers for elderly get details on services
Community resources available for people who are caregivers to the elderly or disabled will be explained in a free seminar Oct. 9 at St. Andrew's Cathedral.The program, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tenney Theatre, will include talks on respite care, legal issues, Alzheimer's disease and the spirituality of aging. There will be an opportunity to meet in small groups to share experiences and ask questions.
The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Free parking is available at the cathedral at the corner of South Beretania and Queen Emma streets.
Communicating nicely is focus of workshop
The free workshop being offered next month by the Bahai Faith will share ways to recover from being an angry or accusatory speaker or a judgmental listener.Christa Morf, a trainer in nonviolent communication, will speak. "The Language of the Heart" seminar will be given at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at the National Spiritual Center of the Bahais of the Hawaiian Islands, 3264 Allan Place. It is open to the public.
Morf, who has been a family counselor for 14 years, teaches ways to develop skills to express feelings using honesty and empathy free from blame and interpretation.
Church choirs to sing Hawaiian hymns
A variety of traditional Hawaiian hymns and recent Hawaiian-English compositions will be performed by several island church choirs in an Oct. 8 concert at Our Lady of Peace Cathedral, 1184 Bishop St.The "Lokomaikai Aha Himeni" at 7 p.m. will be free and open to the public.
It is the 11th concert organized by the Hawaiian Arts and Liturgical Inculturation Awareness Committee, which was organized to encourage church musicians to compose Hawaiian language music and Catholic churches to include Hawaiian culture in liturgy.
Information is available from Margaret Peters at 261-3410 or Darlene Ah Yo at 735-0259.
Bargains, food abound at church fund-raisers
Next Saturday will be a good day for treasure seekers and bargain hunters as churches begin the fall fund-raising season of sales.» Central Union Church, 1660 S. Beretania St., will sell furniture, books, used clothing, computers, household items and plants in the annual Fall Super Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Thrift Shop will be open. Light refreshments will be sold. Church mission projects will benefit.
» At Olive United Methodist Church, 108 California Ave., Wahiawa, the food is a main attraction. On the menu at the annual bazaar from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. will be Korean bentos, Korean sushi, seafood jun and kimchee, Samoan plate lunches and barbecued chicken. Baked goods, plants, crafts and rummage sale items also will be on sale to benefit church projects.