The Webelos from Pack 311 of Kailua, Oahu visited Halawa Valley Sept. 30 to Oct. 3. Webelos are Cub Scouts in their fourth year, an average of 9 years old. Throughout our four days of camping, 12 families were continually impressed by the beautiful valley, people, nature, history and activities. We would like to share what "Pops" Anakala Pilipo and Diane Solatorio, shared with us.
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The bulletin board on the side of the Bank of Hawaii is not a public property! It belongs to the Molokai Family and Community Education Council. We mounted it years ago with the help of Curtis Crabbe with the permission of the Bank of Hawaii for the service of residents to post important notices. If it is misused by taking off notices or other damages, we will remove the board! Please use the board properly and keep it neat. For information please call Gladys Brown at 553-5375.
To join our service club please call Gladys. We are here to help the community.
Mahalo
Gladys Brown
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Pakolea LLC would like to thank the kupuna of Kaunoa Senior Services, the staff of Kaunoa, Liko Tancayo, Angel Tabilangan and Pearl and Patrick Asuncion for inviting us to demonstrate and promote the benefits of our services. It was a great opportunity to help our kupuna to be more aware of the changes in fine motor skills as we age. Physical therapist Shauna Russell focused on fall prevention and techniques to minimize its risks. We look forward to seeing the kupuna next month so that we can focus on another area of therapy that our kupuna can greatly benefit from.
Mahalo Nui Loa,
Pakolea Rehabilitation
When fishing and one sees a large school of fish, do you catch what you need or catch the whole school? Would you be satisfied with the one cooler and come back another time to catch one more cooler or would you go back and get nine more coolers to catch the whole school?
What is happening on Molokai, and in this country with people protesting Wall Street and corporate greed applies to my fishing story. The electric rate, phone, food, transportation, car registration, insurance, etc. costs a lot more while less people are working and the middle class gets squeezed. What is going on is people that have wanted more on their plate and their plate is overflowing.
I'm a student parent at Molokai Middle School. We are having a fundraiser to build a full volleyball court. We are holding a Molokai Middle School Bazaar on Saturday, Oct. 22. It will be in the back by the cafeteria from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. We will have game booths, vendor booths, food, drinks, free entertainment, produce/plant booths, lucky number drawings and a grand prize of $500. Another prize is a horse and many more other prizes coming in from different merchants from Maui, Oahu and Molokai. We also are having a dunking booth were the children can dunk the principal! Please come support the students and their efforts.
Much Mahalo,
Elizabeth "Tollefsen" Coleman
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Ray and Leina Kelly, pictured here with reedman Kaliflowa, have scheduled public appearances at the annual Veterans Day Memorial Parade in November and the Christmas Parade in December. Two other members of the platoon not pictured, Doug Barnd (bassist) and Kimo (percussionist), will round out the group. Barnd, Kaliflowa and Kelly are veterans and members of Koa Kahiko which proudly hails the platoon as its personal musical contingent.
Kelly is the founder of Na Mele O`Kupuna, one of the most unique and popular venues on Molokai. They have been appearing weekly at the Molokai Hotel for over 12 years. A recent decision by the band to withdraw from further participation at the hotel has created a controversy. When questioned about the move, Kelly responded, “Na kupuna are our elders and must not be neglected by ‘cut-backs’ and by disregard of the cultural ideals they represent. They are our ohana and as creator of na kupuna, I find it my obligation to speak up and take action when things aren’t pono. This is Molokai, not Hollywood.”
To date, there has been no response from the management of the hotel regarding the band’s decision.
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Our ‘ohana would like to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the Molokai community for your love and condolences for our beloved Eric Fontes, as we celebrated his life in ceremony last weekend.
As many of you may have heard, our little dynamo Tamara Kai Hinanoe recently broke her elbow. You will probably see her bouncing around the island with her new day glow pink cast. It is difficult to watch one so little in such pain and agony. We would like to thank all those that helped Tama chan get the care she needed to figure out what was wrong and how to hopefully get it healed. In particular, we would like to thank Dr. Torrey Goodman, Haunani, Mel and Angle at the Molokai General Hospital emergency room. Dr. Traci Stevenson, Kati, Mokehan, and the staff at the Molokai Community Health Center and Aloha Care for helping to coordinate transportation and logistics. David and Judy Mikami, Heidi Edson and Cindy Brito for their help and generosity at the airport.
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The protection of our natural resources was a big topic during the "listening session" held by the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) two weeks ago. The problem of resource depletion became a priority due to the onslaught of escort boats to Molokai all year long and was highlighted by the men and women Molokai to Oahu canoe races. There are some twelve other races of all sorts from Molokai to Oahu that bring hundreds of escorts boats per race to Molokai. Many of these escort boats "raid" our coastline as they come with their expensive boats, high tech gear and long nets to fill their coolers with opihi, fish, lobsters, squid, crabs, etc. to take back to Oahu.
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