The Hawaii Traveler

Support your local dolphin:  Just months after its acquisition by the Parques Reunidos Group of Madrid, more than 40 employees of Sea Life Park will be laid off; that’s a staff reduction of about 20 percent. General Manager Jesus Bravo attributed the cuts to the nation’s economic downturn, and reduced ticket sales.
Hawaii’s Department of Labor’s Rapid Response Team is springing into action by helping former workers to  understand the procedures they must follow to obtain benefits under various employment laws.

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If you’re ever looking for great stories with authentic local flavor, check out one of my favorite feature blogs at the Honolulu Advertiser, “The Daily Dish,” by Catherine E. Toth — “a.k.a. Cat.”
I actually have to hand it to the Advertiser. Not only do they offer some great blogs, such as Lost in Hawaii, and The Hot Seat, but they also Twitter their headlines. Way to embrace new technology, Honolulu Advertiser!

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It’s the Hawai’i gear superstore visited by tourists and locals alike, and the place where you can buy a pound of Kona coffee, an aloha shirt, a dashboard hula girl, a lei, a box of macadamia nuts, and a set of pina colada stemware on the fly. It’s Hilo Hatties, the ubiquitous sign of island signature items for the comfy climate lover since the ’60s. It’s the only store I know of with its own free shuttle.
The parent company of Fantastic Sams hair salons just bought the Hilo Hattie chain for an undisclosed sum. Its seven on-island stores …read more

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