A warning to tourists and readers alike:
We were snorkeling at Dixie Beach last week, over the wooden stairs second cove over, Friday late afternoon. It was gorgeous, a fabulous isolated beach, just us and the thieves. While we were in the water thieves helped themselves to our backpack and snorkel bag.
On behalf of Aka`ula School and its families we would like to send a big THANK YOU to the following for their participation, donation, and support for our golf tournament held June 19, 2010 at Ironwood Hills Golf Course: GOLFERS – Dana, Randy, Andy, George, Ronald, Tess, Butch, Jennie, Gail, Shannon, Nathan, Kimo, Jeremy, Paka, Willie, Keola, Wes, and Keith; SPONSORS/DONORS – Young Brothers, Ltd (Al Ranis), AUCO Construction (Shannon Au), Dana Takashima, DDS, Central Construction (Ronald Nakata), Misaki’s Inc (Kevin Misaki), Poepoe & Sons (Myron Poepoe), Aka`ula Alumni (Jennie Makaiwi), Aka`ula Board and Aka`ula students; Hualalai Resort in Kona – Ke’olu Course (Iopa Paleka), Demmers `ohana, Robert Aldrich, Tasha Mahiai, Zelda Kapuni, George Kaulia, Kaipo Ramos, and Ralph Lin
To the people of Maui County and all Veterans:
Is everyone when applying for a building permit in Maui County treated equally? If government expects a person to pay for a license by a due date and it is not paid, penalties are assessed. Is it okay to pay someone or a branch of government (Maui County Planning Department) for services and not receive the service?
Is government working for the people? Molokai Veterans and others tried working with the system for four years to get a building permit. Molokai Veterans have professional people – Engineering Dynamics (Maui) and licensed architect Art Parr – processing the permit. They also question the process.
Community Contributed
By Matt Yamashita
There are some images from growing up that are forever imprinted in my mind. One of them is the sailing canoe, Hokule`a. A symbol for the Hawaiian cultural renaissance that began in the 1970s, this iconic wa`a kaulua, or double hulled sailing canoe, was often the topic of classroom discussions and local TV news during my childhood. I remember names like Mau, Nainoa, Eddie, Herb Kane, and Buffalo. All the crewmembers were legends. And Hokule`a, so celebrated as she sailed across the Pacific, was something almost beyond legend.
In my early years I would not have thought that I too would one day help unfurl her sails and steady her steering blade as she raced across the swells by day and night. But the possibility stood in my mind as a dream. This is why, many years later, when the invitation came to join Hokule`a on a trip from Kaunakakai to Kawaihae, I could not say no.
We left early Monday morning the second week of August. We had 14 crewmembers, six were from Molokai. Our kapena was Molokai’s own sailing legend, Uncle Mel Paoa. The winds kicked up early and we opened sails just outside Kawela. Many of us had never opened a sail in our lives. When the sheet lines were attached and drawn tight and Hokule`a picked herself up and began cutting through the oncoming swells, it was pure exhilaration.
She was fast and smooth and when we hit the whipping winds and rolling swells of the Alenuihaha she showed us just how steady she was. She held course in the headwinds, outran our escort boat, and seemed to come alive under the starry night sky.
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Ancient fishponds, indigenous forests, beaches and reefs are just a few of Hawaii’s remaining natural and cultural resources residing in state-owned conservation districts.
After 16 years of no major changes, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) is looking to revise the policies that protect these conservation regions. Some of the proposed changes would affect the shoreline setback, permits for land management activity, removal of invasive plants, fishponds and beach restoration among many other things.
A public meeting on the matter was held last Wednesday on Molokai, to gather community mana`o and help craft the amendments to the administrative rules that regulate such lands.
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The Hawaii state primaries are on September 18.
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While Molokai High School freshmen have a lot of new faces to learn, this year the whole school met the new guy in charge.
Veteran educator Stanford Hao made it through a sea of applicants to take over as principal of the high school this year. His appointment came as no surprise given his extensive educational background and previous experience with Molokai High School (MHS).
In 1985, he began his teaching career at Molokai High and Intermediate School as a social studies teacher. In addition, Hao served as the adult school principal for two years and taught at Ka Papa Honua O Keawanui, a Kamehameha Schools alternative learning center, located on Molokai’s east end. Returning from the Big Island, Hao plans to build on the success of past principals and restore the importance of academics in his new role.
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