Aloha and Happy Thanksgiving,

I have just returned from visiting Hawai'i, a little trip to Maui and then home to the Big Island. If anyone is from Hilo, I can report that as of November 19, 2001, nothing much has changed since I left in 1986 and the happening place is Walmart.

I am pleased to say that I took advantage of one of our benefits and enjoyed a discounted hotel and golf package from the Prince Hotel group. This is a great benefit and we will be working on adding more partners to provid the kama'aina treatment to all of us who have since lost our Hawai'i State Drivers Licenses.

Each time I return I see the huge opportunity for the HCCNC in working with the various businesses in the state as well as Northern California. Everyone of us has contacts with someone either owning or working with some business in Hawai'i as well as here in the Bay Area. Each of these businesses can benefit from the patronage of HCCNC and their members. We want to begin an outreach program to these groups to be included in the HCCNC family. If any one has contacts with businesses that would be interested in participating as a partner and the HCCNC Kama'aina discount program, please forward their information to me at etao@hccnc.com.

This is all part of our mission to build the lines of communication and commerce between Northern California and Hawai'i. As always any comments or suggestions you may have for our organization are welcome. One last note, we have also included the alias www.hawaiibusiness.org as a way to get to our website for all of you who forget if get 2 "c's" or 3 "c's" in hccnc.com.


Eric Tao
President
Hawai`i Chamber of Commerce of Northern California

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