Our 1st "Fadda's Day Chili Cook Off" is scheduled for June 15, 2013, Saturday, from 9:00am to 2:00 pm at Cooper Center. Here's what it is: A chili cook off contest, we will have 14 stations set up for you to use. Entrance fees will be $50.00 for each team. These will include a large table, burner ring, and propane tank. You bring every thing you need to cook with and product to cook. All cooking must be completed on premises and by 11:30. Judging to follow, with cash prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners. We will have door prizes all morning long for participants and guests. We will be running a silent auction and raffles all morning also. We plan on having kids games, maybe a rodeo, pony rides, a petting zoo, and lots of kids things to do...it is Fadda's day after all. When judging is done we will sell off your cups of chili to the public, with rice of course, and the public gets to try as many or few chilies as they like.This is a fund raiser for Volcano Friends Feeding Friends and Cooper Center, both are 501c ....

The Community Center of Volcano, Hawai'i ...

The Cooper Center is our community center in Volcano Village, Puna District ... on the Big Island of Hawaii. We are a nonprofit, directed by the Cooper Center Council ... with a mission of bringing the community of Volcano, Hawaii and surrounding area into a cohesive group. We direct and/or  host many activities and projects. 

Our community is located in an exotic Hapu'u & Ohia rainforest, near the entrance to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Whether a new resident or a long timer, please join us in continuing to make Volcano, Hawaii a superb place to live!

Sincerely,
Linda Ugalde, President
Cooper Center Council

ʻAʻohe hana nui ke alu ʻia. (Pukui #142.)
(No task is too big when done together by all.)

Volcano Conquistadors  Annual Reports can be accessed here ...
2012  Annual Report
2012 Summary Report

The beautiful, tall, cedar-like trees along Old Volcano Road are commonly called "Japanese Cedar" or "Sugi Pine". 

COMMUNITY DINNER:
"Friends Feeding Friends " is our FREE community dinner every Thursday from 4 - 6 pm.

VOLCANO SENIORS:
If you're 55 or older join us at the Cooper Center Thursdays at 9 A M. for activities, food, & fun.

CURRENT CALENDAR:
Our Current Calendar is back online. It has a list of the many regular activities and projects going on at "The Coop" ...

VOLCANO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION:
Also visit our very active community association