• PEACE, DRUMS AND ROCK & ROLL
  Join the Parade & Festival for United Nations International Day of Peace
  Sunday, September 18, 2011

HONOKAA, HAWAII‐THE BIG ISLAND—Taiko drums, marching bands, bon dance, jazz, rock & roll, hula and more—Honokaa town is tuning up for the 5th Annual Parade & Festival for the United Nations International Day of Peace, Sunday, September 18, 2011. Stepping off at 11 a.m. from Honokaa High School, the Peace Day Parade is a “moving stage” of music, dance and entertainment with a message.

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• CHILDREN’S PEACE POSTER EXHIBIT AT WAILOA ART & CULTURAL CENTER, HILO
  September 2‐29, 2011

HAWAII‐THE BIG ISLAND—The Wailoa Art & Cultural Center in Hilo will open a colorful new exhibit of creative children’s Peace Posters on Friday, September 2, in its Fountain Gallery. Selected from hundreds of entries from previous years, the collection is provided by the Peace Committee of Honokaa Honpa Hongwanji as an outreach for their annual Parade & Festival for the United Nations International Day of Peace (taking place this year on Sunday, September 18).

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• The Peace and LOVE in Honoka’a
  Peace Parade to Honor Peace Corps Couples and Volunteers
  Photo by Sarah Anderson

On October 14, 1960, at 2:00 in the morning, Senator John F. Kennedy addressed students on the steps of the University of Michigan Union.

“How many of you who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service and spend your lives traveling around the world? On your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one year or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country, I think will depend the answer whether a free society can compete. I think it can!” (...)

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