West Oahu Highlights

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Below are highlights of what’s coming up in West Oahu.

* NEIGHBORS Aiea Neighborhood Board meets at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 10 at Aiea Library, Ewa meets at 7 p.m. Aug. 13 at Ewa Beach Library, Pearl City at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 25 at Highlands Intermediate School cafeteria, MakakiloKapolei-Honokai Hale at 7 p.m. Aug. 26 at Kapolei High School cafeteria and Waipahu at 7 p.m. Aug. 27 at the FilCom Center. Call 768-3710.

* HOMEBUYERS TALK Prudential Locations presents a free seminar for first-time home buyers at 5:30 p.m.Aug. 11 at Pearl Country Club. Call 735-5300.

* LITTLE LEAGUE Ewa Little League Baseball registers new and former players ages 5-12 for its upcoming 2010 season from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 14-15 at Ewa Beach Community Park. Fee is $135 for T-ball and Coach Pitch divisions; $155 for Minors and Majors. Call Coach Steve at 754-0880 or e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

* FAMILY FUN Wet ‘n’ Wild Hawaii throws a Family Fun Day from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 15, with hula hoop games, water balloon toss, a karaoke contest, prizes and more. Also, paintball target shooting for all ages goes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 15-16. Call 674-WAVE.

* MA’O GALA Reservations are due by Aug. 15 for the annual Leeward Community College and MA’O Organic Farms benefit, set for 6 p.m. Sept. 5 at Hawaii State Art Museum. Tickets are $125. Call 696-5569.

* POUHALA MARSH Hawaii Nature Center volunteers clean up Waipahu’s Pouhala Marsh from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Aug. 15. Call Pauline at 955-0100, ext. 18 to offer help.

* CANS Pearlridge Center’s annual Canstruction kicks off from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 15 when 10 teams of architects build giant structures out of cans of food in Uptown as a promotion for Hawaii Foodbank. The structures remain on display for voting through Aug. 29. Call 488-0981.

* MISSOURI FILM Battleship Missouri Memorial invites the public to its “Friends and Films on the Fantail"from 5 to 9 p.m.Aug. 15 featuring The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. Ship tours also are planned. Admission is $40 for non-members or $75 for a family of four. Proceeds go to support the preservation of the historic World War II battleship. Call 455-1600, ext. 244.

* BLOOD DRIVES Hawaii Blood Bank has donor drives from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 15 at LDS Makakilo Stake Center, 92-900 Makakilo Drive; from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 16 at Waikele Center by Leonard’s malassada truck; and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 17 at Home Depot Pearl City. Call 845-9966.

* ON STAGE Harmony entertains at 1 p.m. followed by Taliilagi Polynesian Production at 2:30 on Aug. 16 at Pearlridge Downtown. Call 488-9081.

* COUNTRY WALK Reserve tickets by Aug. 17 for Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii’s annual “Walk in the Country” benefit, set for 5 p.m. Aug. 22 at Lanikuhonua in Ko Olina. Tickets cost $250. Call 949-4203.

* WAIPAHU ‘59 REUNION Waipahu High School’s Class of 1959 plans a 50-year reunion for 5:30 p.m. Aug. 19 at the Royal Hawaiian Center showroom, a golf tourney Aug. 20 at Waikele Golf Course, a “mystery tour” of Hawaii’s Plantation Village Aug. 21 and a banquet at 6 p.m. Aug. 22 at Ala Moana Hotel’s Garden Lanai. Call 677-4501.

* FINANCE WORKSHOP Financial experts Kelvin Ching, Eli Zolla and Irving Katz discuss ways to recession-proof assets and retirement savings from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 20 at Oahu Veterans Center in Foster Village. Call 371-6853.

* GENEALOGY WORKSHOP Fran McFarland of the Honolulu County Genealogical Society demonstrates the genealogy research tools HeritageQuest, AncestryLibrary, Familysearch.org, Hawaii Microfilm Collection and more at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 22 at Kapolei Library. Call 693-7050.

* AUKAKE CLASSIC

Special Olympics Hawaii hosts its annual Aukake Classic State Bocce and Soccer Tournament Aug. 22-23 at Waiau District Park in Pearl City with a multi-division soccer tournament, individual soccer skills competition and both traditional and Unified bocce doubles competition. Call 943-8808.

* CANE HAUL RUN The inaugural Waipahu Cane Haul 5K Run/Walk starts at 7 a.m. Aug. 23 on Waipahu Street, followed by a festival at Hawaii’s Plantation Village from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Early race registration ($20) is from Aug. 4-17. Call 354-3663.

* BALLROOM DANCE Hawaii Ballroom Dance Association in Kapolei has classes in waltz, samba and Cuban rumba from 7 to 9 p.m. Mondays through Aug. 24. Call 781-2076. * AIEA REUNION The Aiea Elementary and Intermediate School class of 1959 marks its 50-year reunion at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 29 at Sam Snead’s Tavern, 943 Valkenburgh St. A buffet dinner and live entertainment are planned. Call 625-8777.

* BON DANCE Aiea Hongwanji Buddhist Temple has its bon dance at 7 p.m. Aug. 29 at 99-186 Puakala St. Call 488-5685.

* BOOK SALE Friends of Kapolei Library marks the library’s fifth anniversary with a book sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 29. Bulk purchase sale starts at 4 p.m. Proceeds support library programs. Call 693-7050.

Ongoing

* FAIR VENDORS Kapolei High School PCNC seeks vendors, crafters, businesses and nonprofits to support its community fair Nov. 13-14. Call Lolita Takeda at 692-8200, ext. 2246 or e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

* KEIKI STORYTIME Pearl City Library offers two Storytime programs for keiki and parents at 9:30 a.m. this month. Children age 3-5 are invited on Wednesdays Aug. 12-Sept. 2 for stories, songs and activities in the Adult Reading Room. Thursdays Aug. 13-Sept. 3 is a Puzzletime activity for toddlers ages 1 to 3. Call 453-6566. * RECYCLING CENTER Reynolds Recycling’s HI-5 redemption center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at Nanakuli Village, 89-102 Farrington Hwy. Call 487-2802.

* FIT CLUB Fit Club Hawaii has adult exercise classes from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. every Monday at Iroquois Point Elementary School, Room P14. Fee is $1 per class. Call 561-3837 or visit http://www.fitclubhawaii.com.

* NIGHT BOWLING Aiea Bowl on Aiea Heights Drive offers weekly nighttime themes for the public with entertainment, glow bowling, deejays, pupus and drink specials, and prizes from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Moonlight Mondays, Her Way Thursdays, Funtastic Fridays and Super Duper Saturdays (9 p.m. to closing). There’s no cover on Friday and Saturday. For more information, call 488-6854.