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Aloha,
We the family of the late Esther Hope “Jake” Kalama would like to thank the following people who helped us with the celebration of the life of our mother:
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Add your commentDangers of an Industrial Wind Factory on Molokai
Opinion by Mike Bond
Although the vast majority of Molokai people strongly oppose the proposed industrial wind factory, many do not realize how really bad it is. `Aha Ki`ole recently took a survey of Molokai’s opinion: out of 469 people, 437 (93 percent) are against the windmills, while 4 percent are in favor and 3 percent are undecided.
Veteran’s Corner
Column by Jesse Church
Hello veterans, old Jesse here with the veterans’ news and upcoming events. After the recent disaster in Japan, our veterans staked out the front of Friendly Market on March 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and took donations to help the people of Japan. I am pleased to tell you that our veterans raised $814, and the money will be given to the American Red Cross, Hawaii chapter, for the people of Japan. Our veterans want to thank the people of Molokai for their generosity.
Commander George Harada would like to remind members of the local VFW post 3870 that our next meeting will be on April 12 at 12:30 p.m. at Commander Harada’s home. If you have yet to become a member, call George Harada at 553-5730.
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It is such a pleasure to have Mavis Muller and her art featured in Kalele Bookstore and Divine Expressions these past couple of weeks. Her basketry is exquisite and her spirit generous. We are assembling a community basket for the remainder of this week in preparation for this Saturday's ceremony and burning of the basket at Ali`i Fishpond.
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The Burning Basket Project began in Mavis' home port of Homer, Alaska in 2004 as a medium for the collective healing of the lingering aftermath of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The 10-foot basket took six full days to build and on the seventh day was gifted to the community for those interested to decorate it with written sentiments to be released through fire. Their community repeats the ritual every autumn and Mavis has facilitated similar events in California, Oregon and Hawaii.
Our Wellspring Basket of Nurturing and Protection will be her twentieth project and is being built of local natural materials that have been gathered on Molokai. Our mahalo goes out to the volunteers that have helped in the gathering and construction of the basket, Ka Honua Momona, International for hosting the burning celebration at Ali`i Fishpond and for the keiki and kupuna that have generously given of their time in collaborating in this project.
I look forward to seeing you and having your participation in our collective, interactive and impermanent expression of aloha!
Teri Waros
Art Fundraiser Kokua
Molokai Arts Center wishes to mahalo everyone who donated at our Soup 'R Bowl fundraiser at Coffees of Hawaii on Saturday March 12, 2011. Over 200 guests shared a meal of soup, salad and bread served in a unique bowl created by a Molokai artist while enjoying beautiful live music. Everyone agreed it was an event to remember.
Mahalo to Molokai Emergency Workers
To Mel Paoa, Elithe Pladera of Medic 8, acting Captain Greg Jenkins, Larry Rawlins, Zach Crowder, Jay Duquette from the Fire Department and Dr. Power, Makamae Akiona, Jorena Young, Kim Simon of Molokai General Hospital:
Thank you so much for the super job you did in the early morning of March 18, 2011. Within a couple of minutes you were at my home attending my husband, Milton. With limited medical history provided to you, you were able to stabilize his situation and it comforted me to know that his care was in capable hands.
Coming Soon: Hawai`i Aloha
Submitted by Alestra Menendez
For several years now, Kualapu`u School has been producing outstanding student performances under the guidance of the Kula Kaiapuni o Kualapu`u. This year, the expanded learning time allowed an arts curriculum for all students pre-K through sixth grade. Kualapu`u School students participate in performing arts, visual arts as well as `ike Hawaii. These programs will come together this year to create a production entitled Hawaii Aloha, after the poem written by Makua Laiana, that became a popular mele, about this beloved place where we live. There will also be performances arranged by kumu Maile Naehu and the kumu of Kula Kaiapuni grades four through six.
Wetland Cleanup Success
About a quarter acre of invasive saltmarsh fleabane (Pluchea) was cleared by students during last week’s Koheo wetland cleanup, creating an area under a native milo tree for students on field trips to eat lunch. Michael Kikukawa (left), Luke Kikukawa, Sarah Jenkins, Lily Jenkins, Moriah Jenkins and Brian Leer (not pictured) hauled cut fleabane shrubs and stacked the green waste for pick-up by Monsanto employees. Fleabane is a nonnative woody shrub that can overgrow wetlands and eliminate habitat for waterbirds.
Arleone Dibben-Young
So They Call It a Wind Farm
Dig the earth 10 to 20 feet deep, 40 feet in diameter, fill with concrete…expand the wharf so it can handle large equipment…plant 410 feet steel towers with large turbine in concrete, no need for water, no fertilizer, just wait to catch the wind…sell the energy to the electric company and get paid lots of cash. This is a wind farm.
Nana I Na Kupuna
Molokai, our beloved island home, is like a vessel, a strong doubled-hulled canoe floating upon the Pacific Ocean. Those who live here are the crew, and whether we like it or not, we have all been given the kuleana to care for each other, to care for our resources and to care for our canoe, our island.
Our resources are limited but self-replenishing, with the fragile ability to provide infinite nourishment and abundance, if properly cared for and protected.
Our crew is diverse and strong-minded - but unified in our love for the land and sea and in our desire to leave a legacy of abundance for our children and grandchildren.
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