Page 1 - MidWeek Windward - Jan 19, 2022

FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 19, 2022
TAKING CHARGE
Kahuku High graduate Spencer Goo will operate a Chick-fil-A location. SEE PAGE 2
HELPING YOUTH
Waimānalo-based Hawai‘i Job Corps donates to assist young people. SEE PAGE 6
Windward Display Shows Tobacco Toll
A PUBLICATION OF
AN EDITION OF
Coalition for a Tobacco-free Hawai‘i Youth Council member Misa Layne holds slippers that are being collected at Windward Mall through Jan. 30 to bring attention to the negative effects of smoking and vaping. DON ROBBINS PHOTO
MBY DON ROBBINS
embers of the Coalition for a To- bacco-free Hawai‘i Youth Council unveiled a display at Windward
Mall in Kāne‘ohe on Jan. 9 with the mission of collecting 21,000 pairs of new slippers to bring attention to their message that the lead- ing cause of preventable death in the U.S. is smoking. The display will be at the mall through Jan. 30.
Each pair of slippers represents one of the 21,000 children alive today in Hawai‘i who will ultimately die from smoking unless the existing smoking rates decrease, the coali- tion states.
The Youth Council is asking organizations and individuals to help them reach their goal by dropping off slippers at the Windward Mall Center Court display.
People are encouraged to write the name of a loved one who has been negatively impacted by smoking or vaping on a small piece of paper, and attach it to the slipper when adding them to the display.
Following public displays, all slippers
SEE PAGE 4
Made for more high expectations
Urgent Care Hawaii is now a part of Adventist Health Castle's care network.