While recovery is underway Maui, people in the Bay Area are doing what they can to offer help, support, and joy.
Days after flames destroyed the town of Lahaina, the Pacific Islander Community Association put on its annual Aloha Festival at theEvents Center. Festivities opened with a prayer, honoring those who dealing with the aftermath of the deadly fires.
Some call the Aloha Festival the "next best thing" to actually visiting the islands. For more than 28 years, people had the change to learn and embrace Hawaiian culture. "If you're a tourist and you're planning to go to Hawaii, here's how you get initiated to that, and what you can expect to have when you go there."Hawaiian Airlines ran a booth, asking people to donate money and their saved up airline miles to its relief efforts. Before Saturday morning, the company already racked up $30 million and it planned to match all donations.
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