Learn to make a PSA

Two free workshops are being offered this month to help Oahu teenagers and their teachers learn to create effective television public service announcements for entry into the 2005 Teen Video Awards contest.

The workshops, designed for contestants, are:

Media Messaging: Dave Randall and James Serano will help video makers clarify their messages and explain how to create a PSA to spread those messages. At HMSA Center's multipurpose room, 818 Keeaumoku St. Runs 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Video Editing: John Allen will offer tips for combining footage to put your PSA together. At Waianae High School Searider Productions, 85-251 Farrington Highway. Runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 22.

The workshops are sponsored by HMSA, the Hawaii Department of Education, Sassy/G magazine and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. To register, call 948-5084.

Aloha Run clinics

Participants in the 21st annual Great Aloha Run, scheduled for Presidents Day, Feb. 21, are invited to take part in weekly "In Training" runner's clinics at 7:30 a.m. every Sunday through Feb. 13 at the Kapiolani Park Bandstand.

Great Aloha Run co-founder Carole Kai Onouye said the workshops "are a wonderful excuse to see old friends" and "get in some much-needed exercise," in addition to training for the 8.15-mile fun run from the Aloha Tower Marketplace to Aloha Stadium.

The fee to participate in the run is $25 until Jan. 21, $30 after that date, and $40 at the Great Aloha Run Expo, held in conjunction with the run. Seniors and children will pay $18. A registration form can be downloaded at www.GreatAlohaRun.com.

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STAR-BULLETIN / 2003 Feeding the lion money for good luck is a tradition at the multicultural New Year's Ohana Festival, to be held at Moiliili Field on Sunday.

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Celebrate 2005

The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii is getting a jump-start on celebrating the Year of the Rooster, at its New Year 'Ohana Festival, taking place from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Moiliili Field.

There will be multicultural cuisine, cultural art displays and demonstrations, a craft fair, antiques and book sale, plus games, rides and keiki make-and-take activities reflecting the center's motto and festival theme: "Honoring our heritage. Embracing our diversity. Sharing our future."

Admission will be free. Call JCCH at 945-7633.

Exit the pleasure trap

Douglas Lisle, a former lecturer in psychology at Stanford University and currently the psychologist for "The McDougall Program," will speak on "The Pleasure Trap," explaining a recent revolution in motivational psychology that can help people break free from self-destructive ruts.

He will give three talks in the islands:

Jan. 12: At Cameron Center, 95 Mahalani St., Wailuku, Maui, at 7 p.m.

Jan. 13: At Castle Health & Wellness Center in Kailua, 7 p.m. Call 263-5400 to register.

Jan. 15: At Ala Moana Park McCoy Pavilion, 7 p.m.

Lisle says, "People who are chronically overweight, sick and ailing or junk-food junkies are not that way because they're lazy, undisciplined or stuck with bad genes." Rather, he calls them victims of the Pleasure Trap.

Call the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii at 944-VEGI (8344).

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