Events Tomorrow & Saturday

‘Biggest Easter Egg Hunt’ is Friday
Get ready for a mega Easter egg-stravaganza.

The “Biggest Easter Egg Hunt” is slated for Friday, April 19, at Wong Stadium in Hilo, and will task keiki from ages 4-12 years old to seek out and find 26,000 plastic eggs with prizes inside.

There will even be six grand-prize bikes up for grabs.

The egg hunt will be done in age groups:

• 10 a.m. for keiki 4-5 years old;

• 10:30 a.m. for children ages 6-8 years old;

• and 11 a.m. for keiki 9-12 years old.

Children must be able to walk through and hunt for the Easter eggs on their own. No adults will be allowed on the field.

Also, only bags provided at the event can be used for the hunt. Baskets and other bags will not be allowed.

There also are several other special events planned for Friday at the stadium in conjunction with the egg hunt:

• 8:30-10:30 a.m. Easter crafts and air brush tattoos;

• 8:30 a.m. keiki IDs;

• 8:30 a.m. car seat safety checks;

• and starting at 9 a.m., contests including milk drinking, ice cream eating and an egg fight (for ages 4-5, 6-8 and 9-12).

Keiki younger than 4 years old can get a goody bag after participating in the Easter crafts station. Goody bags are limited to the first 200 participants.

The event is hosted by the county Department of Parks and Recreation’s South Hilo District, Kiwanis Club of East Hawaii, Hilo High and Waiakea High Key clubs, Councilwoman Sue Lee Loy, Kandi’s Drive Inn and Big Island Labor Alliance, in association with AFL-CIO and in partnership with the Hawaii Police Department, Circle K., Hawaii Fire Department, Waiakea Intermediate School Builders Club, Business Services Hawaii, WRSA Inc., Big Island Candies, Big Island Toyota, KTA Super Stores, Meadow Gold, Living Waters Assembly of God, Hilo Bike Club, Cafe 100, Ben Franklin Crafts, Ginoza Realty, Hilo Bay Realty LLC and HFS FCU.

For more information, call 938-2014.

Call Kelly Deleon, recreation specialist at the Parks and Recreation Department, at 961-8681 to discuss needs for any reasonable accommodation or more information about site accessibility.


Easter egg hunt Saturday in Pahoa
There will be an Easter Egg Hunt 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at Pahoa District Park for keiki ages 3 to 12.

The egg hunt will begin at 9 a.m. Participants are encouraged to bring their own Easter bag or basket.

The event, sponsored by Hawaii County Department of Parks and Recreation in conjunction with County Council Districts 4 and 5 and Hope Services, will include Easter crafts, carnival games and snacks for the keiki.

For more information, please contact the Pahoa District Park at 965-6348


Join the J.S. Plaskett Medal award winner Alex Tetarenko for her presentation, “Extreme Jet Ejections from the Black Hole V404 Cygni,” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 19, in ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center’s planetarium.

Tetarenko will share the striking results from her team’s observing campaign on the X-Ray Binary V404 Cygni during the most active phase of its recent outburst. At about 8,000 light-years from Earth, V44 Cygni lies within the constellation Cygnus. After having been in a dormant inactive state for more than 26 years, the X-ray binary system underwent an outburst in 2015, displaying extraordinary behavior never before seen in such a system.

Tetarenko will discuss how she and her team used this unique event to study the enigmatic astrophysical jets of the universe. Their rich data set combines synchronized observations across four different telescopes, including two on the summit of Maunakea (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and Submillimeter Array) and reveals new insight into how matter behaves around a black hole and how jets are produced.

Astrophysical jets are ever-present phenomena in the universe linked to a wide range of objects, from young stars to black holes. These powerful outflows deposit significant amounts of energy and matter into the surrounding space, affecting star formation, galaxy evolution and even the distribution of matter in the universe. However, despite decades of research, current knowledge of the physics that gives rise to and governs the behavior of jets is extremely limited.

Of all the systems that launch jets, X-ray binaries are particularly excellent test beds for studying jet phenomena. X-Ray binary systems typically contain a stellar-mass compact object, frequently a black hole that orbits around a star and siphons off material from that star. These systems are typically fleeting in nature, evolving from periods of inactivity into a bright outbursting state on timescales of days to months, in turn providing a real-time view of how jets evolve and interact with their environment.

Tetarenko is a postdoctoral fellow at the East Asian Observatory. She completed her masters of science and doctoral degrees at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her research focusses on studying relativistic jets launched from black hole systems in our galaxy. The prestigious J.S. Plaskett Medal award was most recently given to Tetarenko for her exceptional doctoral thesis in astronomy or astrophysics. This distinguished award is given to the Ph.D. graduate from a Canadian university who is judged to have submitted the most outstanding doctoral thesis in astronomy or astrophysics during the past two years throughout all of Canada.

This presentation is part of ‘Imiloa’s Maunakea Skies Astronomy Talk Series.

For more information, visit www.ImiloaHawaii.org or call 932-8901.


 

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