{"id":181727,"date":"2023-08-10T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=181727"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T21:50:37","slug":"uh-maui-college-food-preparation-hub-amidst-wildfire-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/10\/uh-maui-college-food-preparation-hub-amidst-wildfire-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College serves as food preparation hub amidst wildfire tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maui-paina-disaster-volunteers-3.jpg\" alt=\"People prep vegetables\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-181731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maui-paina-disaster-volunteers-3.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maui-paina-disaster-volunteers-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maui-paina-disaster-volunteers-3-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of volunteers are helping to prepare meals at the <a href=\"https:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Maui College<\/a> for shelters and first responders, after wildfires devastated Lahaina and other Maui neighborhoods. Under lead chefs Sheldon Simeon, a <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College alumnus, and Lee Anne Wong, 4,000 meals were prepared on August 10, and 6,000 were planned for August 11.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maui-paina-disaster-volunteers-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Chef pours stew\/chili into containers\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-181730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maui-paina-disaster-volunteers-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maui-paina-disaster-volunteers-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/maui-paina-disaster-volunteers-2.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&ldquo;Our mission is to be of service to the community,&rdquo; said <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College Chancellor Lui Hokoana. &ldquo;When we are in crisis, we can support the community by using our intellectual and physical resources.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers included <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College culinary instructors and students, and others from The Salvation Army, Maui United Way, Maui Rapid Response, Maui County and Common Ground Collective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>You can help!<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/giving.uhfoundation.org\/funds\/13035304\">Feeding Maui fund supports <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College&#8217;s efforts to prepare meals for displaced residents<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\">More on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/10\/how-to-help-maui-ohana-affected-by-wildfires\/\">help Maui <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/tag\/maui-wildfires\/\">Maui wildfires<\/a>.<\/span><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College Culinary Program Coordinator Craig Omori is helping to coordinate volunteers for the effort. He said the college always looks for ways to serve the community and has cooked for The Salvation Army\u2019s Thanksgiving celebration for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Omori said, &ldquo;When we saw a crisis happening and a lot of people in need, our program was eager to jump in to help.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Waste will be inventoried at shelters and other feeding sites over the next day to determine the future needs for food and volunteers.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=&#8221;3&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1695332992819-6c5fd259-b45c-4&#8243; include=&#8221;181782,181781,181780,181779,181778,181777,181776,181775,181774,181729,181732&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four thousand meals for shelters and first responders were prepared at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College on August 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[184,1409,344,1597,71,60],"class_list":["post-181727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-culinary","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-maui-culinary-academy","tag-maui-wildfires","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181727"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183905,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181727\/revisions\/183905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}