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Aunty’s Corner

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Aunty’s Corner

Aloha Aunty, here again.  I want to thank the wonderful young woman who helped me when I fell in front of the library.  She was standing across the street and yelled to see if I was okay. Lawdy, Lawdy, Ms. Claudy! I was so embarrassed with my `elemu showing for all to see. I don’t know your name but mahalo nui loa.  

I started my Intro to Hawaiian Culture: Communication Basic Language and Phrases class taught by Kumu Hokulani Holt-Padilla.  Education has sure changed since I was in school 50 years ago.  We are hooked up to Lanai, Lahaina, Hana, and the main campus on Maui.  We are able to see and hear each other.  Monday we had a movie in class and had to turn in our first paper.  We have to do three papers, two tests, and one project.  Hoo Wee, just like that!  If they keep offering this type of class I would like to continue to maybe get a degree, not too late, huh?  Speaking of school, a young lady came in for a passport photo to go on a class trip to Japan.  Man, did I ever miss out at my school.  We didn’t get to do any of that then.  How great for the students.

Did you go to the film fest?  I was so impressed with the films the young people are doing today.  The film on The Massacre at Kapoa Beach was so moving to me that I went over to Anakala and cried.  There was my sister so happy and alive and I cried even more.  How fun to have Brother Noland and his brother, Tony Conjugation play music and watch Scarlett, her daughters, and Aunty Julia dance the hula.

Did you see any meteors during the shower?  Some people saw tons but I only saw one.  It looked so close that I thought I could touch it.  I met up with the Red Hat ladies who were headed to Hotel Molokai for brunch.  They want me to remind you that there is a swap meet the first Saturday of the month in Maunaloa and that the House of Blessings is there for all who need help with items like clothes and household items.

Well, I guess this is all for now.  Aloha and hui hou, Aunty Kapua

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Military May Escalate Presence on Molokai

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

As the U.S. Marine Corps prepares to draft an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the use of new aircraft during training exercises, officials say Molokai could see a slight increase in military activity.

If the proposal is approved, the Marine Corps would introduce two new types of aircraft – the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor and H-1 Cobra and Huey attack helicopters – to their training and readiness operations. Maj. Alan Crouch, spokesperson for Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, said Molokai is primarily being looked at as a re-fueling location.

“While in transit to Big Island, they might need to re-fuel on Molokai,” said Crouch, who was on-island last week for a lightly-attended open house. “That’s the only reason they’d come into the airfield.”

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Meet the Candidate: Randy Piltz

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Meet the Candidate: Randy Piltz

, well, all the people on Molokai vote for their own person, but the number don’t work out, and that’s a problem.

The Maui County primaries are Sept. 18.

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Remember Your Roots

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Remember Your Roots

Community Contributed
By Brandon Roberts

Their laughs rolled from the soul and the valley echoed back – it knows this mele, familiar and not forgotten. Energy, ever out. No body could hold such joy. Eyes bright with life. Brighter than any candle on a 70th birthday cake.

Ramona Kuulei Mililani Solatorio's la hanau united sister and older (but only by a year) brother Pilipo Kamaki with roots planted deep in the `aina. The siblings celebrated in their birthplace, Halawa, a valley they both chose to leave as young adults, but have since returned to malama as kupuna.

One took to the seas aboard Naval tankers and traveled the world, throwing palu with the ship's swagger as a sea-sick sailor. He enlisted at the age of 16 as a ticket to see the world's wonders.

The other slipped eight-wheels underfoot – bruising and battering her way to the top, the first Hawaiian professional roller derby wahine. A frame of five-feet and a hundred pounds to match, she rounded the rink and I know that laugh reverberated with the raucous crowd as it did from the Halawa mauka.

Ramona remained until 1963 when she said "a hui hou" to Halawa and went to California to live with Pilipo and his new wife, Dianna.

Keiki o ka `aina, they were adopted to Rose Aukai and Elino Solatorio after the death of their mother, Helen Lahapa Kawaa in 1943.

Their life in the lo`i was difficult. It was respect, strength, tradition and culture. These qualities have accompanied them through their journeys and now 50 years later stand side-by-side sharing laughs and tears about those early years.

Ramona now calls Las Vegas home but makes a yearly return to Molokai Nui a Hina and energizes her ohana with contagious vivacity.

Pilipo and Dianna live in Halawa and with the help of ohana, haumana and volunteers are restoring generational lo`i on kuleana lands.

Whether konking the competition in Portugee horseshoes or making o`opu at the bridge with bamboo and worms, these siblings carry a glow that attracts all, determination that will run you over and mana that twinkles in their eyes.

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Bon-a-Fide Good Time

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Bon-a-Fide Good Time

Elaborate kimonos mingled with T-shirts and slippers, paper lanterns lit the dusk sky and Taiko drumming filled Kaunakakai last Saturday evening as the Guzeiji Soto Mission held its annual Obon festival, a religious and cultural event that honors the dead.

Members of the temple, joined by the community, circled the stage for the traditional Bon dance.

“It’s symbolic of dancing with your ancestors,” said Rev. Shuji Komagata, who came from Soto Mission Aiea on Oahu for Saturday’s festival. “It’s a reunion.”

The celebration began in the morning with a prayer service at Kapa`akea Cemetery, followed by a service at the temple to honor those who have passed away in the last year.

The Obon festival had been held at Mitchell Pauole Center for over 20 years, but this year organizers moved it to its original site, the temple grounds on Hotel Lane, allowing the evening’s service to flow into the performance.

“We just thought it would be really nice to bring it back to its original place,” said volunteer Koki Foster.

Komagata called the festival a time for “everybody, even if they’re a different religion, to take a moment and remember the ones who have passed on.”

Over the stage hung a line with slips of paper on which people wrote the names of loved ones who had passed away. At the end of the night, the slips were burned, symbolically releasing the spirits.

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Native Hawaiian Health Care Gets Funding

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Representative Mazie Hirono News Release
 
Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) announced that a $9,044,880 grant has been awarded to support Native Hawaiian health centers on Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and the Island of Hawaii, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
 
These grants keep vital health care providers operational by enabling them to pay for rent, salaries, various overhead, and medications for qualified patients.
 

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Bridging the Summer Gap

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Bridging the Summer Gap

Community Contributed

By Kimberly Kaai and Sandy Czajkowski

Getting prepared for Molokai Middle School was made truly exciting for 35 incoming seventh and eighth grade students thanks to Summer Bridge Math, a 21st Century program. It ran from July 12-15, 2010.

The goals of Summer Bridge Math were designed to support students’ successful transition into the Molokai Middle School setting and focus on specific math topics as a bridge between elementary school math to middle school math. This was a cooperative effort involving Molokai Middle School teacher Iolani Kuoha and sixth grade teachers Kim Kaai of Kaunakakai School and Wendy Espaniola of Maunaloa School.

One of the activities was using math to measure the tools to create and design a scale model of a building from Molokai Middle School. Students were also given a problem and, using a computer-based math program called Math Whizz and an activity called WIST (“Walk In Start Thinking”), developed a mo`olelo (story), a graph, chart, number sentence and a picture pertaining to the problem. 

Summer Bridge Math gave students an opportunity to get acquainted with each other in an academic setting as well as meet some of the Molokai Middle School staff. 

A special thanks to Rose Yamada who donated gift certificates to participating students and kudos to the students who took time this summer to be part of this valuable learning opportunity! 

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Akaku Invites You to Meet the Candidates

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Akaku News Release

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Following in His Footsteps

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Following in His Footsteps

It was an eventful week for a group of French Catholic priests from the Fraternity of Molokai, marking the first time they had ever visited their namesake island and home of their patron, Saint Damien de Veuster.

These priests were part of a group of 35 priests, nuns and lay people from an international Catholic movement called Heart’s Home comprised of nearly 400 global members and volunteers. They came to Molokai to learn about Saint Damien’s life, gain a deeper understanding of his mission and the people he served, that inspires them in their own missions around the world.

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Heart’s Home, inspired by St. Damien’s work and dedicated to compassion for those in need, has 45 centers in 22 countries around the world.

Sylvie Muller is a lay-consecrated member who made the journey to Molokai. Muller’s current mission is in Brooklyn, New York. She began with Heart’s Home, as many do, as a volunteer, first sent to serve in Argentina over 10 years ago. She said though her work with Brooklyn’s elderly, under-privileged and home-bound is often difficult, she is inspired by Saint Damien’s closeness to the people he served and how much he loved them.

“You don’t know how I was longing to be closer to Damien and follow in his footsteps,” said. St. Damien “gives meaning to what I do and what I am.”

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Meet the Candidate: Norman Sakamoto

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Meet the Candidate: Norman Sakamoto

that people can use their innovation, use their intellect. There’s problems in agriculture on every island that take research that takes smart people to solve.

The Hawaii state primaries are on September 18.

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