Maui Windsurfing schools are

Windsurfing Schools on Maui Maui's Windsurfing Schools Get a Clew! Windsurfing lessons are fun! Honing your windsurfing skills is fun and invigorating if you've got the right conditions. I mean, why freeze yer butt off and thrash around in polluted waters when you can fall in hundreds of times in the cushy waters of paradise. Maui's warm water, and consistent winds make for the most user friendly sailing on the planet. These days, windsurfing instructors are finely tuned in the art of getting you where you want to be. (sailing along with the wind) All the schools here have competent, expert instructors who have seen it all. (you wont be embarrassed by anyone, just helped) You'll probably have a limited time on Maui, so lessons are the smart money for taking advantage of the sailing days you have here. These answers to a questionnaire I sent out are good jumping off points for looking into the schools further. These Maui Windsurfing schools are listed in the order that they submitted their responses to me. I gave them one chance to submit their information. These responses are their own words. Al West's, Windsurfing West ( herein referred to as WW ) 180 East Wakea Ave., Kahului, HI 96732 local # 808 871-8733 fax: 808 871-4624 Sailboards Maui Windsurfing School ( herein referred to as SBM ) 360 Papa Place, unit F Kahului, HI 96732 808 871-7954 fax 808 871-8453 The Cort Larned School of Windsurfing ( herein referred to as CL ) 520 Keolani Place Kahului, HI 96732 808 877-0999 or 877-4816 fax 808 877-4696 Second Wind Windsurfing School (herein referred to as SW ) 111 Hana Highway Kahului, HI 96732 808 877-7467 fax 808 877-0091 Kaanapali Windsurfing School ( herein referred to as KW ) P.O.B. 12044 Lahaina, HI 96761 808 667-1964 fax: 808 667-1964 Alan Cadiz's Hawaiian Sailboarding Techniques, Inc. (herein referred to as HST ) P.O.B. 1199 Paia, HI 96779 808 871-JIBE (5423) toll free: 1 800 YOU JIBE (968-5423) fax 808 871-6943 e-mail address: hstcadiz@maui.net New Waves Wind and Surf School (herein referred to as NW ) c/o Stouffer Wailea Beach Resort 3550 Wailea Alanui, Wailea, HI 96753 808 875-9777 fax: 808 874-5370 Where are your lessons conducted? What windsurfing techniques do you teach? How many instructors are on your staff at present? Do you have women instructors? Are your Instructors certified by a certification body? How many years has your school been on Maui? How many students has your school taught in the last year? How much are your lessons? What is unique about your school? Who has answered these questions? WW: : Kanaha Beach Park and Kihei SBM: Kanaha or Kihei CL: : Lessons are generally conducted at Kanaha Beach. However, we also teach on the south shore when the wind is better there. CL also teaches small groups at sites which are convenient for that particular group. For instance, we can easily send an instructor up to a beach front property near Spreckelsville if that works best for our customers. Our wavesailing and looping classes are taught wherever conditions are best. our school and instructors are completely mobile in order to better serve our clientele. SW: Our school is based at Kanaha Beach Park, Maui's most popularwindsurfing beach. At Kanaha, we can teach all levels from beginner towavesailor in one day. We also travel to Kihei on the south shore when thewinds are right. Private lessons are conducted at any of the best known(and not so well known) locations around Maui's shoreline. KW: Kaanapali Beach HST: Kanaha Beach, Kihei and private homes on the north shore. NW: Beginners: Mokapu Beach (Wailea) intermediate and Advanced: Ohukai St. Park (Kihei) Kanaha Park, Kahului Back to questions Alan Cadiz brings the dedication that it takes to win championships, towindsurfing instruction. He has selected only instructors that are highlyskilled sailors and comunicators. HST instructors sail right with you. This provides instant feedback toyour questions, confidence to push yourself and safety. HST instuctors participate in ongoing training led by ski/windsurfinstructor extrordinaire, John Crews. His 25 years of teaching skiing addsa maturity to our program and understanding of learning styles and teachingmethods. NW: All of our beginner sails are custom made by Simmer for the school. We pride ourselves on personal service and a perfect safety record. Everybody is guaranteed to sail on their very first lesson. Back to questions WW: Al West SBM: Rolph Graage CL: Keith Holland SW: Ralph J. Sifford KW: Ted King HST: Linda Stott, Administrator NW: Andrew Molnar, Owner Back to questions Tim Orden, TNT prospective windsurfing students since 5/12/95

Oahu Invasive Species Committee

Oahu Invasive Species Committee (OISC) -- About OISC Contact Information Meetings OISC Target Species Announcements -- Products Meeting details -- Volunteer ?? -- -- What's New -- ?? posting on the HEAR Job Announcements page.end example-@ Volunteer with OISC Join OISC for a Miconia calvescens search. The service trip will be held on 13 August 2005 . For details about how to secure a spot on the survey team, see the OISC volunteer page . -- About OISC About OISC OISC mission statement: The Oahu Invasive Species Committee (OISC) is a voluntary partnership of private, governmental and non-profit organizations such as the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Hawaii Community Foundation, the University of Hawaii, the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, and the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit united to prevent new invasive species infestations on the island of Oahu, to eradicate incipient invasive species, and to stop established invasive species from spreading. The group is concerned with all non-native invasive species threatening agriculture, watersheds, native ecosystems, tourism, industry, human health, or the quality of life on Oahu. OISC Target Species: OISC is working to control or prevent the introduction of the plants and animals that pose the greatest threat to Oahu. See photos and general information about OISC Target Species here. You may subscribe to the  Oahu Invasive Species Committee (OISC) internet mailing list to be notified via e-mail about information and events regarding priority invasive species on Oahu. Contact Information: Oahu Invasive Species Committee c/o DLNR/DOFAW 2135 Makiki Hgts Dr. Honolulu, HI 96816 General Information/ Public Relations, Rachel Neville Phone: (808) 286-4616 Fax: (808) 973-9781 E-mail: oisc@hawaii.edu OISC coordinator, Ryan Smith Phone: (808) 292-6691 E-mail: smithrya@hawaii.edu Field operations manager, Joshua Fisher Phone: (808) 292-6769 E-mail: joshuafi@hawaii.edu ccory@tnc.org ).-- [ top ] Announcements Announcements Next meeting date -- webmaster@hear.org so the info can get posted on this website! Thanks!) -- meeting details section for more details about previous meetings.-- The next Oahu Invasive Species Committee meeting (a general meeting) will be held on Friday, February 01 , 2006 from 9:00 am-12:00 pm at a location TBA. 1849 Auiki Street , Honolulu; onsite telephone: 808-832-0566).-- Refer to the meeting details section for the meeting agenda. For more information about OISC or this meeting contact Ryan Smith (OISC coordinator) via e-mail ( oisc@hawaii.edu ), phone (808-286-4616), or fax (808-973-9781). 45-680 Luluku Road, Kaneohe .-- OISC will be taking a group of volunteers into the mountains to remove Himalayan Blackberry on 12 June 2004 from 8:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m . If you are interested in participating in this trip please download this June 2004 Service Trip flyer or contact OISC ( oisc@hawaii.edu )-- OISC internet mailing list (to which you may subscribe yourself for free!). Budget/Strategic Planning (contact: Rob Cowie ) Policy ([temporary?] contact: Steve Lohse ) Education (contact: Melissa Dumaran ) Detection (contact: Dan Sailer ) Control (contact: Mindy Wilkinson ) Aquatics (contact: Lu Eldredge ) Restoration (contact: Jennifer Garrison ) -- OISC-L internet mailing list You may subscribe to the OISC internet mailing list for discussions and announcements about information and events regarding invasive species on Oahu. Other ISC websites & mailing lists See the All-ISCs website descriptions of other-island Invasive Species Committees in Hawaii. You may also subscribe to one or more HEAR-sponsored mailing lists , particularly ALLISCS-ANNOUNCE-L , in order to keep abreast of invasive species events and information relevant to Hawaii. [ top ] Products Products OISC Public Relations Products OISC has created public relations products related to OISC's work with a public outreach and education program. This program strives to inform the public about the threats posed by invasive species, what they can do to help, and how OISC is stopping the alien pest invasion. Pest Alert Flyers Miconia (241 kb) Miconia calvescens is Oahu's number one invasive threat. Manuka (306 kb) Also called New Zealand tea tree, this bush is creeping into Oahu's valleys. Himalayan Blackberry (220 kb) Have you tried walking though a Himalayan blackberry thicket? Fountain Grass (238 kb) Fountain grass is fueling fires across Hawaii. Bush Beardgrass (297 kb) This invasive bunchgrass is only found in two areas on Oahu. There is still a chance of removing it! Indian Rhododendron (275 kb) This beautiful plant is on the Hawaii noxious weed list and is a close relative of the dreaded Miconia. Smoke Bush (238 kb) Also known as butterfly bush, this ornamental plant has escaped the garden. Target Plants and Animals By Area Leeward Oahu (202 kb) More targeted plants and animals by area to come! OISC Administrative Products OISC also produces administrative products including annual action plans and funding proposals which are available online. The OISC annual action plan describes the OISC project and details the objectives and methods utilized to combat invasives on Oahu. OISC Strategic Action Plans Annually-produced OISC Strategic Action Plans are now available online.-- OISC 2002-2003 Strategic Action Plan -- OISC 2002 Action Plan (with images, optimized for on-screen viewing) (intermediate file size/download time [376 Kb]) -- OISC 2002 Action Plan (with images, optimized for printing) (largest file size/slowest download [1,171 Kb]) OISC 2002 Action Plan (text only) (for faster downloading [206 Kb]) OISC Product Archives . - - - - - - --- Meeting details Meeting details Below are announcements (and/or minutes) for the Oahu Invasive Species Committee (OISC) meetings. (Some of these documents may be in Adobe Acrobat format [PDF files] .) ( Oops! The webmaster doesn't know when the next OISC meeting is! If you know, please tell me [webmaster@hear.org]!! ) -- 18 January 2006: General OISC meeting Agenda Agenda -- ( Meeting notes will be posted after approval at a subsequent meeting.) Meeting minutes -- 05 October 2005: Prioritization workshop Agenda Prioritization workshop species profiles 2005 OISC Summary of Cost Projections Meeting Minutes Meeting Notes (Full Discussion) 17 August 2005: General OISC meeting Agenda ( Meeting notes will be posted after approval at a subsequent meeting.) Meeting minutes -- 14 March 2005: Education/outreach subcommittee meeting Agenda No meeting notes for this meeting Meeting minutes -- 10 March 2005: Miconia strategy meeting Agenda No meeting notes for this meeting Meeting minutes -- 23 February 2005: General OISC meeting Agenda Meeting minutes 29 September 2004: Prioritization workshop Agenda Background information (on target species) Meeting minutes 04 August 2004: General OISC meeting Agenda Meeting minutes 07 July 2004: Fountain grass working group meeting Agenda -- Meeting minutes 01 June 2004: Coqui frog control strategy meeting Agenda -- Meeting minutes Meeting minutes -- 21 April 2004: General OISC meeting Meeting Announcement Agenda Agenda -- ( Meeting notes will be posted after approval at a subsequent meeting.) Meeting minutes -- 28 January 2004: General OISC meeting Agenda Meeting minutes Documents from historical OISC meetings are also available. This document is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If your computer is not already set up to read these files, you can download the FREE Adobe Acrobat reader . You can set up most web browsers to automatically invoke this reader (as a "helper application" or "add-in") upon encountering documents of this type (refer to your browser's documentation for how to do this). [ top ] [ back ] [ ALL ISCs home ] [ HEAR ] This page was created on 02 November 2000 by PT , and was last updated on 23 January 2006 by EMS . Questions or comments about this website? Contact the webmaster ( webmaster@hear.org ).

Hawaii Resort Condominium Date

Kailua Big Island Hawaii Resort Condominium - Condominium Kailua Big Island Hawaii Resort Condominium Property Owners Join us VRBO ® is Vacation Rentals by Owner ® Home USA Hawaii Big Island Kona Coast Keauhou Edit Vacation Rentals by Owner Listing #12898 Aloha! Affordable,Lovely,Ocean View,Homey,Amazing! 1BR/1b Location: Keauhou, Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, USA (15 miles South of Airport & 5 miles South of downtown Kona) Accommodations: Condominium - 1 Bedroom + Convertible bed(s) - 1 Bath - (Sleeps 2-4) Front View of Condo, End Unit, Private Driveway - Kona Coast/Kailua-Kona, Big Island, HI - Hawaii Condominium Rental - Located at the Keauhou Resort! If your looking for affordable accommodations than look no further! There has never been a better time to visit Hawaii at a reasonable price. The Condo is a ground floor unit, no high-rise here! It is very spacious, with 975 square feet of living space. It is an end unit, very private, no one above you or next to you. The Lanai offers beautiful Oceanviews and sea breezes, with lots of privacy provided by the beautiful tropical plants and flowers that surround it. You have a private driveway next to the unit for parking. Pets are NOT allowed. This Condo is located at Keauhou Resort, the grounds of this complex have received major awards for their tropical beauty. The Resorts location, offers you the convenience of a large shopping center, just two blocks away, with a Supermarket, Cinemas, Post Office, Restaurants, and Drug Store and much more. You are also just one block from Keauhou Bay, where you can enjoy, swimming, snorkeling, turtle watching, and a nice picnic under the Palms. If you are interested in Golf? Keauhou Resort is surrounded by the Kona Country Clubs two spectacular golf courses. As guests in our condo we offer you many more amenities than are listed below, including all your Beach going needs. Another beautiful Sunset from our Lanai - Kona Coast/Kailua-Kona, Big Island, HI - Hawaii Condominium Rental - Located at the Keauhou Resort! Amenities: Phone, Cable TV, VCR, Stereo, CD Player, Full Kitchen, Microwave, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Ice Maker, Cooking Utensils provided, Linens provided, Washer & Dryer, Pool (shared),Pets NOT allowed Activities (on site or nearby): Hiking, Biking, Golf, Tennis, Racquetball, Fishing, Wildlife Viewing, Shopping, Restaurants, Cinemas, Sightseeing, Swimming, Snorkeling/Diving, Boating, Sailing, Surfing, Windsurfing, Parasailing Rates (in US Dollars): Personal Currency Assistant ™ April-November .. $95/night.December-March .. $105/night.Weekly Rates ............. $665.00-$735.00/week.Cleaning Fee (additional) $75.00Hawaiian Taxes (additional) 11.25%Security Deposit $100.00, Cancellation Fee $100.00Contact via E-mail is preferred!Note: Until confirmed, rates are subject to change without notice. Relax, swim & sunbathe at our 2 wonderful pools! In Beautiful & Tropical area - Kona Coast/Kailua-Kona, Big Island, HI - Hawaii Condominium Rental - Located at the Keauhou Resort! Note: Each property is individually owned or managed. Dates available:  Year Round Before contacting us, please check our calendar for your desired dates. Phone: (510) 278-8620 (California, USA) Please say: "I saw your listing #12898 on VRBO" Spacious Living room with Hide-a-bed couch and indoor Atrium area. Large, light and airy Bedroom with a huge closet. This is the Shell room. Roomy Kitchen with new Stove & Dishwasher, fully equipped! Laundry area at end. The Bath,Shower & Toilet area has a pocket door to divide it from the sink area. Dining area, table for 4 expands for 8 people. Glass wall provides Ocean view! Ocean view from our Lanai. It is so panoramic one photo can not capture it fully Rear view of Condo from Golf Course. View of tee box & fairway from our Lanai Another view of our two pools and lovely pool area! Enjoy Golf? The Kona Country club course surrounds Keauhou Resort. Hole #12 Home USA Hawaii Big Island Kona Coast Keauhou Edit Vacation Rentals by Owner Listing #12898 There have been 39234 visitors to this page since the counter was last reset on January 11, 2004 This listing was first published here on February 25, 2002. Kailua Big Island Hawaii Resort Condominium Date last modified - December 16, 2005 VRBO® is Vacation Rentals by Owner® - The largest and most popular vacation rental site. Specializing in BY OWNER vacation rentals, homes, condos, cabins, villas and apartments ALSO privately owned properties offered thru rental agencies and management companies. To report any problems with this site contact webmaster@vrbo.com URL: http://www.vrbo.com/12898 ©1995-2006 by VRBO International LLC - all rights reserved

maui snorkeling maui, tour

Seafire Molokini Snorkel Tours in Maui, Hawaii Seafire Snorkeling Adventures invites you to join us on one of the best snorkel adventures on Maui! Call 808-879-2201 Visit the Famous MOLOKINI! See Green Sea Turtles in Turtle Town! Discover tropical treasures of exotic fish, turtles, octopus, conch shells, beautiful coral reefs and more! Seafire specializes in small, personal group charters to Molokini. Our experienced staff will tell you insightful information about Maui and it's sealife. Our fast, yet extremely safe boat, can get you to Molokini quicker than the other boats, leaving you more time in the water before the other boats! See Photos! For more information about our Molokini and Turtle Town tours, click Molokini Tours or to reserve online, click Reservations [About Seafire] [Seafire Molokini Tours] [Reserve Your Tour] [Home Page] Seafire Charters P.O. Box 1864, Kihei, HI 96753 Phone: 808-879-2201 Email: seafire@maui.net snorkel molokini snorkel, molokini crater, hawaii, maui, hawaii snorkel hawaii, maui molokini crater, tour hawaii tour, activity maui activity, turtle town,safari snorkel, maui snorkel, molokini snorkeling, exotic fish, maui hawaii, maui snorkeling maui, tour maui tour, activity hawaii activity, coral reefs, green sea turtlesSeafire Molokini Snorkel Tours in Maui, HawaiiSnorkel Molokini with Seafire and discover tropical treasures of exotic fish, turtles, octopus, conch shells, beautiful coral reefs and more! Seafire specializes in small, personal group charters to Molokini. Our experienced staff will tell you insightful information about Maui and it's sealife. Our fast, yet extremely safe boat, can get you to Molokini quicker than the other boats, leaving you more time in the water before the other boats!

Hawaiian City Garden

StopMoskowitz :: The Coalition for Justice in Hawaiian Gardens and Jerusalem Support the Coalition with your Donation Donation Amount $25.00 $50.00 $100.00 $250.00 $500.00 $1000.00 thank you The Coalition for Justice in Hawaiian Gardens and Jerusalem P.O. 67903, Los Angeles CA 90067 310 553-1146 email -- How Moskowitz Profits from his Hawaiian Gardens Non-profits A Detailed Analysis of Irving Moskowitz's Non-profit Operations in Hawaiian Gardens nonprofit (non·prof·it) adj. 1. not conducted or maintained for the purpose of making a profit <a nonprofit organization> - noun 2. a nonprofit organization, institution, corporation or entity. These days, Dr. Irving Moskowitz is seldom seen in Hawaiian Gardens but his presence is everywhere. A banner bears his name in a picture of the Little League team that runs in the local paper. Senior citizens attending a city council meeting sport t-shirts with Moskowitz's name emblazoned across the back. Moskowitz may be hundreds of miles away at his home in Miami Beach but he is ubiquitous in the community as a businessman and benefactor who has pumped millions of dollars into the city. And there is no question Hawaiian Gardens is in need of help. The unemployment rate is high in this largely immigrant slice of LA County where half of all adults lack a high school diploma. And where close to one out of every four Hawaiian Garden residents lives below the poverty line. 1 But Irving Moskowitz's track record of less-than-charitable activity in Hawaiian Gardens belies his image as a philanthropist - a careful examination of his financial records and those of his non-profit foundation show that the majority of his contributions resulted in either financial gain or increased political influence for himself. Dr. Moskowitz, it seems, has engaged in non-profit profiteering in Hawaiian Gardens. Since posting this report on our website, more information has come to light that strongly suggests that Moskowitz's non-profit Tri-City Regional Medical Center is in violation of Internal Revenue Service rules qualifying health care providers for tax-exemption. (Click here to read more) Putting the 'profit' in Non-profit healthcare Tri-City Hospital sign greets motorists entering Hawaiian Gardens saying the "community" facility serves all health needs - as long as you're not poor or pregnant. Take Tri-City Regional Medical Center in Hawaiian Gardens. In 1996, when its balance sheets were beginning to look less-than stellar, 2 Moskowitz decided to spin off this privately owned hospital as a non-profit, while retaining ownership of the building and land. 3 Immediately after converting Tri-City Regional Medical Center into a non-profit, the Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation 4 donated $4.9 million in tax-free proceeds from its Hawaiian Gardens bingo to the hospital. 5 Moskowitz then began collecting the money back by charging the hospital $95,000 a month in rent, payable to his private landlord company. 6 Those payments now exceed $110,000 per month. 7 California state financing records show that in 2000 the foundation made an additional transfer of funds to Tri-City. 8 The hospital's fidelity to the concept of charitable trust 9 is tenuous at best. This could perhaps be forgiven if the hospital was meeting the health care needs of the local community. But despite its non-profit status, Tri-City is less than solicitous when it comes to the health of Hawaiian Gardens. When the hospital applied for non-profit status in 1997, it made a commitment to provide pre-natal care. 10 Recent patient discharge data published by the state of California shows that Tri-City has stopped delivering babies - none were born at the hospital in either 2000 or 2001. 11 It isn't for lack of demand for services. Last year residents of Hawaiian Gardens brought home 98 newborn babies. 12 While small in size (the city's population is a little under 15,000 13 ), Hawaiian Gardens is a young, largely immigrant community - recent census data indicates the average age of its resident is 26. More than half of the households have children under the age of 18. And as of 2000, a little more than 10 percent of the population was under the age of 5. The women of Hawaiian Gardens are having babies - they are just not having them delivered at the hospital in their own neighborhood. Tri-City's failure to fully address the health care needs of the poor may be a factor. Again, nearly one out of every four resident of Hawaiian Gardens lives below the poverty line and many are immigrants who do not qualify for state programs such as MediCal (although MediCal is available to cover prenatal care and deliveries for undocumented immigrants, making the hospital's failure to provide these services all the more shocking). Stomach stapling accounts for a large part of Tri-City Hospital's tiny patient census. When it turned non-profit the hospital made a commitment to provide free or reduced cost care to the indigent 14 - and yet in recent years Tri-City has provided zero dollars in charity care. 15 State health care data shows the other four non-profit hospitals of comparable size in LA County provided a combined total of two million dollars in charity care in 2001 (the most recent year that statistics are publicly available). 16 Tri-City's failure to pull its own weight when it comes to helping out poor patients has little to do with its bottom line - in 2001 the hospital's gross patient revenue exceeded $72 million and its net income was slightly more than two million dollars - despite the fact that its occupancy rate in 2001 was an abysmally low 19.6 percent. 17 The average occupancy rate for other hospitals of comparable size in the state of California that year was 52.16 percent. 18 How does the hospital manage to stay afloat with such low patient volume? The answer may be as close as the sign in front of Tri-City's main entrance announcing it is also the home of "The Center for the Surgical Treatment of Obesity." Tri-City, it seems, has gotten into the lucrative business of stomach stapling. The Center, run by the somewhat famous Dr. Mathias Fobi provides surgical stomach shrinking services to patients clinically termed morbidly obese, that is, those who are 75 to 100 pounds or more overweight. (In what is perhaps an unfortunate display of poor taste, his website's motto is "lighten up." 19 ) According to a CBS News Report profiling his practice, Fobi performs surgery on up to 600 patients a year. 20 While Fobi charges for the surgeries he performs, the hospital also bills patients for the use of its operating and recovery rooms and other medical services it provides. In 2002 patients who underwent the surgical procedure at Tri-City, on average, racked up $50,000 in hospital charges. 21 State health care data shows that at least 439 Tri-City patients underwent the stomach stapling procedure last year, that is, more than one out of every four patients that received some sort of surgical treatment at the hospital had their stomach stapled. 22 Total charges for those patients was $21,936,400 - representing close to a third of the hospital's gross charges for the year. Tri-City's 2001 income tax forms (the most recent that are publicly available) indicate that by far its highest paid independent contractor that year was FOCA Management Company, a private company registered to Dr. Mathias Fobi. 23 Tri-City paid Fobi's firm $2,293,044 - more than its next four highest paid contractors combined. 24 Dr. Fobi has made numerous national television and radio appearances touting his surgical techniques and his patients come from as far away as Alaska, 25 but the obesity center appears to be of little value to the community where it is based: last year not one Hawaiian Gardens resident made the short trek across this mile-wide city to receive the procedure. 26 One former City Council member recalls that when the hospital was first built, Hawaiian Gardens welcomed it as the solution to the community's unmet health care needs. But citing the high cost of treatment at Tri-City and the lack of charity care, he said few use the hospital now. State health care data backs that assertion up - despite its proximity only 13.7 percent of all Hawaiian Gardens residents who were hospitalized in Los Angeles County last year were admitted to Tri-City Regional Medical Center. 27 Hawaiian Garden residents admitted to the hospital represented an even smaller percentage of Tri-City's total patient census - just 5.4 percent. 28 Since posting this report on our website, more information has come to light that strongly suggests that Moskowitz's non-profit Tri-City Regional Medical Center is in violation of Internal Revenue Service rules qualifying health care providers for tax-exemption. (Click here to read more) Banking on Bingo Bucks Moskowitz earns more than $1.3 million dollars annually as landlord of what is ostensibly a non-profit hospital. But his money-making off non-profits doesn't end there. In 1988, the city of Hawaiian Gardens granted the Irving I. Moskowitz Foundation a license to operate a non-profit bingo within its city limits in exchange for a commitment to spend the majority of the funds generated by the bingo on the local community. The foundation, which had existed mainly to own a piece of land in Northern California and seldom got much cash, was suddenly taking in more than $30 million annually from bingo games. But the foundation's bottom line wasn't the only beneficiary. 29 Moskowitz is the managing general partner (for practical purposes, the sole owner) of Cerritos General Hospital Company, the private firm that owns the land where his bingo is situated and the building in which the game is played. 30 It is not possible to tell from the foundation's IRS 990 forms (which non-profits file instead of income tax returns), exactly how much Moskowitz's foundation is paying him for use of the land, but even by conservative estimates, the total comes to several hundred thousand dollars a year. The Moskowitz Foundation's 2000 and 2001 990 forms show that in both years it paid total occupancy costs (defined by the IRS as rent and utilities) of over $900,000 for services and programs. The bingo is the foundation's only activity -- apart from writing checks. If even half its occupancy costs went to paying rent on the bingo hall as opposed to covering the costs of electricity, gas and water, it's safe to say Moskowitz is paying himself roughly $450,000 a year for the privilege of holding his own bingo games. On top of the bingo's rental payments, Moskowitz also drew more than half a million dollars in salary ($322,880 in 1999 and $184,503 in 2000, respectively) from the Moskowitz Foundation. 31 By contrast, the Moskowitz Foundation takes advantage of a state law requiring bingo workers to be volunteers for the non-profit operating the bingo. To run the bingo, Moskowitz uses mostly immigrant workers who have no ties to, or even knowledge of, the aims of his foundation, compensating them with nothing but the opportunity to get tips from bingo winners. 32 Workers say that their nightly shifts sometimes bring in as little as $20, even though the "volunteers" essentially function as full-time employees. 33 The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is currently suing Moskowitz's bingo on behalf of 24 unpaid bingo workers. 34 continued on page two View all news reports 2003 the Coalition for Justice in Hawaiian Gardens and Jerusalem