We Need Your Support Now to Preserve the Telephone Exchange Building to Help Your Business

Aloha Members and Friends,

Your help is needed now! We are getting close to having all the permits we need to move the Telephone Exchange Building. It will be the new home of the Chamber, an information center with a historical display, and it will have your promotional materials available to people/visitors requesting information. The Ace Hardware owners need to have the building moved as soon as possible, but at the most within six weeks. We have been going through the permitting process for over a year now and they want to be able to get their store expansion project under way.

However, we still need an additional $15,000 to cover the cost of building a new foundation and getting the building moved to the new site. While this is a large amount, we are confident we can raise the necessary funds in the next few weeks. We have just received two very generous matching fund donations. One is from an anonymous donor of $7500. The second a $4500 donation from Jack Tyrrell, Rainee Barkhorn Foundation's President. So with an additional $3000, we will have enough money to receive both of these matching gifts and have the $15,000 needed to get the building to the new site!

Once the building is moved, we will head into our final stage of fundraising to get the building operational. One great way to participate in this fundraising campaign is to Donate $100 for a Brick! We will be building a red brick walkway to the front porch of the relocated building with engraved bricks with your own personal message on it. Please use the attached forms to make a donation by May 31st!

I would also like to recognize other major donors that have previously donated to this effort: Atherton Foundation, Bob Fox of Fox Hawaii, Kamehameha Schools, Lee Bryant of North Shore Equipment Rentals, South Pacific Design Center, and Joe Green from Surf and Sea for cash and in-kind donations.

Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions. Thank you for your support of this important project that will provide a much-needed, valuable service to you and our community!

Mahalo,

Antya