ESPN550.com
In a continuing sign of the economic times, the state's public high schools are facing drastic cuts in athletics.
In a significant and considerable effort to deal with the situation, Hawaii High School Athletic Association executive director Keith Amemiya busily worked behind the scenes to raise money.
Yesterday, Amemiya announced that some of the state's leading corporations and foundations had pledged to come up with $430,000 to assist the public schools.
And in conjunction with his wife, Bobby, the Amemiyas will personally donate $30,000 – of which $20,000 will be earmarked to the Molokai and Lanai athletic departments.
The other $10,000 will go to the Pearl City High, whose football coaches had said they would work without pay this season in order to stretch the program's shrinking resources.
The total amount raised to date represents about one-third of the recently announced 36.45 percent overall budget cut to public school athletics for the coming school year.
Other donations include $200,000 from the Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation, $100,000 from First Hawaiian Bank, $50,000 each from Bank of Hawaii and the GIFT Foundation.
Hawaiian Airlines will provide discounted interisland airfares for teams traveling to state tourneys, and Hawaii Medical Services Association will sponsor radio spots to publicize a fundraising drive.
Details are still being worked out, but Pacific Radio Group generally and ESPN 550 specifically will be initiating a local effort to raise money for local public high school sports.
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1 comment:
I just noticed this, but this came two days after being posted on another local blog (mauinews.com) and Amemiya's wife is named Bonny, not Bobby.
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