• KKCR spring pledge drive • Jimmy’s Sales installs photovoltaic system • Calling all chefs for a culinary challenge KKCR spring pledge drive KKCR Kaua‘i Community Radio will be celebrating “I mua! Moving forward together with community” during its Spring
• KKCR spring pledge drive • Jimmy’s Sales installs photovoltaic system • Calling all chefs for a culinary challenge
KKCR spring pledge drive
KKCR Kaua‘i Community Radio will be celebrating “I mua! Moving forward together with community” during its Spring 2010 Membership and Pledge Drive starting at noon on Earth Day, April 22, and concluding at noon on May 2. The goal is to raise the $65,000 needed to sustain KKCR operations and to keep the station on air for another 6 months.
Throughout the on-air Pledge Drive, listeners can call the station to pledge support at various levels and receive a choice of several “Mahalo” gifts such as Hawaiian Air miles, t-shirts, the new “Talk Story” CDs featuring John Cruz, father Ernie Cruz, and brother Ernie Cruz Junior, and more. One of the most popular choices is the option to support one or more of 6 partner non-profits with on-air underwriting messages. For every $100 pledged to KKCR, the station will run an underwriting message for a month for the non-profit chosen by the caller from among the six partners. The goal will be to get at least one complete year’s worth of underwriting messages for each of the featured non-profits: The Malie Foundation, Ka’ie’ie Foundation, Hanalei Watershed Hui, Kaua’i Food Bank, Malama Pono, and Kaua‘i Humane Society. In addition, the Directors of these non-profits will be visiting KKCR throughout the drive to talk about their organizations.
To keep the Spring 2010 fundraising fresh and interesting, KKCR will be offering two new opportunities for those who donate. First, everyone who pledges $25 or more will be entered into daily drawings for a special premium Mahalo gift donated by one of the local businesses — a new one to be announced each day. Second, everyone who pledges $100 or more will be entered into a final grand gift award drawing at the end of the drive for a 7-night stay at the Koro Sun Resort & Rainforest Spa in Fiji, donated to KKCR by one of its members.
Visit www.kkcr.org or call 826-7774 for more information or to donate.
Jimmy’s Sales installs photovoltaic system
On April 2nd, Jimmy’s Sales in Puhi industrial park announced they had officially gone green. Jimmy’s — in business on Kauai since 1959 — is a distributor of general wholesale products and is family owned and operated by Myles Azeka.
The business installed a 30-kilowatt photovoltaic system from Universolar, capable of generating $2,000 of electric power every month. The Azeka’s new solar system will provide 115 percent of their overall electric needs.
Calling all chefs for a culinary challenge
Inspired by the chef-vs-chef competitive television cook-off ‘Iron Chef America’ on Food Network, Shells Restaurant at the Sheraton Kaua‘i Resort launches a new culinary “Chef’s Challenge” each Wednesday during dinner. Only one chef will reign supreme.
Shells Restaurant’s Executive Chef Ben Takahashi is spearheading the culinary challenge that includes a set of base ingredients comprised of such items as A‘akukui Ranch free range all natural grass fed beef, island raised Kekaha shrimp, fresh ahi, Mahi Mahi, Kilauea jabong, monchong, shutome, Oma‘o arugula, pickled ginger, green onions, caviar and Champagne. Currently teams are comprised of Sheraton Kaua‘i Chefs.
Once the winner has been crowned, professional culinarians from Kaua‘i will be invited to compete. The competing chefs are challenged to utilize their unique culinary philosophies to create their signature combination specials and to cook and plate their dishes in the restaurant dining room in front of the restaurant audience. The “Chefs Challenge” dinner special may be ordered each Wednesday night, priced at $38 per person for a half portion from each competitor chef.
Based on guest survey cards, the winning chef will be selected and announced every Wednesday night at 10 p.m. Finalists will be announced in front of 6,000 people at the July 17 Sunset Ho‘olaule‘a at the Sheraton Kaua‘i Resort.
One chef will be crowned the Kaua‘i’s culinary champion and will receive a party for fifty guests hosted by Sheraton Kaua‘i Resort and as well as promotion throughout Sheraton Kaua‘i Resort.
This culinary challenge is being extended for a limited time to all professional culinarians on Kaua‘i who would like to compete. Chefs may contact Executive Chef Ben Takahashi at 742-4005 (or by e-mail at ben.takahashi@sheraton.com) for an application and contest rules.
