Compiled by Assistant Editor Alfredo G. Evangelista. Send your community briefs to info@filamvoice.com.
Binhi at Ani
Celebrate your special events at Binhi at Ani Filipino Community Center. The Center can be rented on Mondays through Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. for $1,400 (which includes the cleaning fee) plus GET and a $500 security deposit or from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. for $1,200 (which includes the cleaning fee) plus GET and a $500 security deposit.
On Sundays, the Center can be rented from 1:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. for $1,050 (which includes the cleaning fee) plus GET and a $500 security deposit.
If alcohol is provided and/or served, there is an additional fee of $300 and you must hire two licensed bartenders.
If alcohol is BYOB or placed in coolers, there is an additional fee of $500.
The office is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays by appointment only. Telephone (808) 877-7880.
A Bayanihan Christmas: Aggie Cabebe Scholarship Fundraiser will be held on Saturday, Dec. 6 at Binhi at Ani Filipino Community Center. Table Sponsor (premium seats for 10) are available for $1,000 while individual seats for the buffet dinner are available at $50 each. The Dinner is to sustain the memory of Aggie Cabebe—a remarkable trailblazer in Maui’s Filipino community—for generations, with the dinner funding the Agrifina Cabebe/Binhi at Ani Scholarship.
The Dinner will also honor the 2025 recipient of the Promoting the Bayanihan Spirit Award. For more information, contact Arnel Alvarez at (808) 357-0748 or Lenra1268@gmail.com or Alfredo Evangelista at (808) 294-5510 or AlfredoGEvangelista@gmail.com.
The annual Bayanihan Food Distribution Program will be held on Saturday, Nov. 15 at Lahaina Intermediate School from 9 a.m. until supplies last. Donations of canned goods, fresh fruits, vegetables and cash are being accepted.
Volunteers are needed to pack the boxes on Nov. 13 and 14 at Binhi at Ani Filipino Community Center beginning at 5 p.m. Volunteers are also needed during the actual distribution beginning at 7:30 a.m. Sign up to volunteer via HTTPS://FORMS.GLE/HEG2Z1U9VQCGJG4A6.
The monthly Bayanihan Food Distribution Program was created during the pandemic and is now held annually before Thanksgiving. 2025 will be the second year it is held in Lahaina.
Through November 2024, over $70,000 in monetary donations were received enabling the distribution of 9,043 food boxes including 10,320 plate lunches, 1,000 turkeys, 95,740 canned goods, 73,994 pounds of produce, 6,290 bags of rice, 17,041 packages of noodles, 3,661 dozens of eggs, 3,868 loaves of bread/pan de sal, 6,200 McDonald’s certificates, 21,697 beverages, 26,310 snacks, 3,810 containers of spaghetti sauce, 6,006 Maui Gold pineapples, 2,160 gallons of milk, 2,318 boxes of mashed potatoes, 730 whole chickens, over 2,500 dragon fruit, and other miscellaneous items such as toilet paper, coffee, goat cheese and masks.
For more information, contact Nora Cabanilla-Takushi at (808) 276-8861.
Enhance®Fitness for Kūpunaat Binhi at Ani Filipino Community Center classes are continuing. Offered in partnership with the County of Maui, Office on Aging, classes are held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6:15 a.m. to 7:15 a.m.; from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.; from 8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Enhance®Fitness is an exercise program for those over 50 years of age that improves cardiovascular fitness, strength, flexibility and balance. Since July 2022 and through May 2025, there have been 944 classes with seventy-five participants. For more information on Enhance®Fitness, contact Enhance®Fitness Coordinator Ginny Kiick (808) 280-6251 or gkiick@hotmail.com or Wellness Coordinator Claudettte Medeiros (808) 463-3166 or claudette.b.medeiros@co.maui.hi.us.
Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce Foundation
To kick off the month of October as Filipino-American History Month, the County of Maui in cooperation with the Maui Filipino Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the Maui Filipino Community Council held a Philippine flag raising ceremony on Oct. 1. The Philippine flag will be raised at the County of Maui throughout the month of October to honor Maui’s Filipino community and heritage, its plantation roots, and to celebrate the diversity and culture that makes Maui so unique.
