The county’s Employee Council message on Thursday was short and sweet as volunteers canvassed the campus at the Kaniko‘o Rice Camp Senior Housing.
The EC, which includes county workers, was busy delivering gift baskets, cards and plants to the 90 residents that call Kaniko‘o home, just in time for Thanksgiving. The project is the Thanksgiving Give Back Project and the objective is to remember kupuna.
The normally quiet campus came to life for an hour with barking from dogs roused from their afternoon siesta on Thursday as a pair of The Kauai Bus motored into the main parking lot with its load of gift baskets and volunteer canvassers. Volunteer canvassers, including Interim Police Chief Elliott Kalani Ke, Fire Chief Michael Gibson, and scores of police and firefighters joining other EC volunteers to make short work of the load of gift baskets.
“The message is short,” said Johnette Chun of the Employee Council. “We want people to know — don’t forget kupuna.”
The Employee Council of county associates creates morale-building fellowship activities for the county’s employees and their families, such as the recent Halloween event at the Moikeha Building and surrounding Lihue Civic Center.
Source: The Garden Island