Kokua Line: On-line lessons instruct kupuna about engineering

Question: Do they however have these courses training laptop principles for senior citizens? You wrote about it a couple a long time back. I have a smartphone now, but I do not use it for a lot.

Remedy: The free of charge, in-particular person, summer months application to which you referred has been suspended considering the fact that the pandemic there had been no in-individual classes previous summer season or the summer right before.

Even so, we are mindful of a different free system, supplied on the internet as a result of AARP Hawaii, that may possibly supply some of what you want to discover. The online webinars will come about Fridays at 10 a.m. from April 22 to May possibly 27, a news launch explained. They’ll be taught by More mature Adults Technology Providers, also known OATS or Senior World, a nonprofit team affiliated with AARP.

To sign up for the 1st webinar, “All Factors Zoom,” go to 808ne.ws/422zoom. Or, go to aarp.org/hi, click on “Hawaii Approaching Events” and scroll down right until you see the know-how classes.

The initial webinar will trainer consumers how to use Zoom, a videoconferencing computer software. Participants will learn how to use Zoom in a assortment of techniques and how to look finest on video and maintain security, which should be a substantial priority for any one on the web.

Subsequent classes scheduled for April 29 and May possibly 6, 13, 20 and 27 will include internet streaming and clever TVs, on the internet health resources, employing Google maps, using social media and guarding personal info on-line.

Individuals will have to preregister to receive the Zoom connection just before each webinar. The get started time for every course is 10 a.m. in Hawaii, not the later Alaska time observed on some webinar descriptions. You don’t have to be an AARP member to signal up, or a kupuna for that subject, while the substance is made for more mature folks.

Q: I e-filed my tax returns March 1 and received my federal refund ideal away, but nothing at all however from the state. How extensive is it supposed to get?

A: Taxpayers who are because of a refund on their Hawaii personalized cash flow tax return “can be expecting a refund in just 7 to 8 months if they filed electronically and nine to 10 months if they mailed their tax return. It will consider an extra two weeks for the taxpayer to get a paper examine if they did not choose in for immediate deposit,” claimed Joshua Mapanao, a spokesperson for the condition Section of Taxation.

Q: How a great deal will it value for that roundabout by the Hygienic Store?

A: The task is anticipated to price $5.4 million, in accordance to the state Office of Transportation. To be obvious, construction function to install a roundabout at the intersection of Kamehameha and Kahekili highways in Kahaluu is not predicted to get started until finally February.

Q: I considered Honolulu banned Styrofoam takeout containers, but I however see them all about the position. Why?

A: The ban on the sale and use of polystyrene foam foodware in Honolulu County that experienced been scheduled to get effect Jan. 1 was set off until Sept. 5, thanks to an exemption sought by the food stuff serv­ice marketplace and granted by the municipal government. Eating places have experienced in the course of the pandemic, with functions and provide chains disrupted.

The city’s Section of Environmental Providers agreed that demanding compliance now “would trigger hardship to the food services sector.”

Summer season positions

Honolulu County’s Office of Parks and Recreation desires to seek the services of about 500 “responsible, experienced and enthusiastic” older people to employees Summer months Enjoyable, its recreational day care software for children ages 6 (by Aug. 1) to 13. The pay out ranges from $15 to $17.58 an hour, depending on the situation most positions are total time for the duration of the plan. For more information and to implement, go to little bit.ly/ dprsummerhire.

Write to Kokua Line at Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., Suite 7-500, Honolulu, Hi 96813 phone 808-529-4773 or e mail [email protected].