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TheBuzz
Unemployment is no fun when there are mouths to feed. It's no bargain either for sensitive employers who see no other choice but to thrust people into unemployment lines. Help available for parents
who lost jobsWIC can take out some of the sting for both sides.
The state Department of Health Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children provides special checks for the purchase of nourishing foods by pregnant women, breastfeeding and new mothers and households within a certain income range that include children age 5 and under.
Hawaii WIC Services Program Support Section Chief Susan Uyehara said the agency wants to "work with employers to get enrollment information into the hands of current and exiting employees by providing bulk quantities of our brochures."
The local WIC Web site is: www.hawaiiwic.com.
Jewelry sale fund-raiser
Muse IX Design owner/designer Lynda Caris is adding a special element to her trunk sale Friday and Saturday at Neiman Marcus.The local jewelry artisan will donate a share of her percentage of sales to the New York Firefighters' 911 Disaster Relief Fund.
Citing the hundreds of losses among the New York Fire Department's own ranks and its continuing work at "ground zero," Caris said she felt compelled to send the fruits of her fund-raiser their way.
Caris describes her jewelry as, "a little couture, one-of-a-kind-pieces, an elegant pagan look."
From her take she will donate 50 percent of sales from earrings, and 25 percent of sales from necklaces sold during the trunk show, which is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
"Sales from the showcase are included in the donation to the relief fund," she said.
TV news
The parent company of Honolulu television stations KHON and KGMB will own the two stations awhile longer, after receiving its third temporary waiver to operate both stations in the same market. "We did receive our extension that begins in October and lasts through the end of March 2002," KHON Vice President and General Manager Bill Spellman said.Federal Communications Commission rules would require the company to sell one of the stations, but the waiver extends the dual ownership.
The Indiana-based Emmis Communications purchased KGMB last year from Lee Enterprises Inc. as part of a $562.5 million, 15-station deal.
Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
Call 529-4302, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., No. 7-210,
Honolulu, HI 96813. She can also be reached
at: eengle@starbulletin.com