Football Victory at Home
By The Molokai Dispatch Staff
The Farmers Football team won last Saturday’s home game against Hana 46-8. Pictured here, they made an entrance to the field, amid the supportive crowd and Cheer Team, though a “Farmers” sign. …
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Add your commentAgricultural Micro Grant Available
MEO News Release
Molokai farmers and ranchers have an opportunity for funding assistance. Applications for the popular Agricultural Micro Grant Program 3.0 – which offers up to $25,000 to Maui County small farmers and ranchers – will be available beginning Monday, Oct. 17.
The $3 million Maui County-funded program, administered by Maui Economic Opportunity’s Business Development Center, is open to operating farms on less than 12 acres and livestock ranches up to 40 acres possessing a county business or state general excise license as of July 1, 2022. Preference will be given to women and Native Hawaiians.
Grants may be used to directly impact the availability of locally-grown produce, livestock and poultry and other related products.…
Fall Break Ocean Learning
By Catherine Cluett Pactol | Editor
A self-driven learning kit will spark environmental exploration for fourth graders island-wide this week over fall break. The kits highlight pono fishing practices, the Hawaiian tradition of kilo – environmental observation – and reef education, in a family-friendly learning opportunity. After a day of hands-on learning, families can unwind with a relaxing 일산출장안마 to rejuvenate and enjoy the fall break even more.
The Molokai kits were among 1,000 packets that were distributed statewide in a collaboration between the State Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR), Hawaii State Public Library System, National Marine Fisheries Service, and the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.…
Temporary Pool Closure Upcoming
Maui County News Release
Pool guard trainee testing will be conducted Oct. 20 at the Cooke Memorial Pool on Molokai. The pool will be closed to the public from 9 a.m. to noon for the physical swim test of pool guard trainees, the Department of Parks and Recreation announced. The facility will reopen from 1 to 4 p.m. that day for lap and recreational swimming.
The department appreciates the public’s patience and understanding.
For more information, call Duke A. Sevilla at (808) 270-6135 or send email to duke.sevilla@co.maui.hi.us.
For general Maui County parks information, visit mauicounty.gov/parks.…
A’o Aku; A’o Mai: What I Learn, I Teach
Community Contributed
By Sara Jane Larkin, Teacher
Kilohana Elementary School is a Project Based Learning School and we encourage learners to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills, and extend our thinking beyond the classroom. In answering the question, “How can we share our learning with our friends, families and our community?” first graders at Kilohana will share their understanding with our community in the Dispatch.
This month, students reflect on “Living things will thrive when protected,” and connect the concept to themselves. We will share one student per week.…
Students Turn Up the Heat in Culinary Club
By Sage Yamashita | Intern Reporter
Something is simmering in a new Culinary Club at Molokai High School. The club’s 28 students are learning and growing in the cooking and food industry with advisor teacher Tiare Hubbard. Two of the participating students are also bringing their talents to a local recipe and video contest.
Through the Culinary Club, the students learn to coordinate, plan, and create new recipes every week. Guest speakers also come in to teach each young cook.
Two students are bringing the heat by submitting their Molokai-made recipes to Hawaii’s Food and Wine Festival competition, Localicious, this month.…
New Beginnings for Molokai’s Guzeiji Soto Mission
By Jack Kiyonaga | Community Reporter
Early last Sunday morning, community members gathered at Molokai’s Guzeiji Soto Mission in Kaunakakai with shovels, rakes, tree saplings and lots of food. After digging up weeds and planting trees along the fence, the volunteers then moved picnic tables built and painted by Molokai High School students. Although much had been done at the Buddhist temple, the day represented just a small part of the large-scale project currently underway at the Soto Mission.
Suzanne Langford, president of the Alana Ke Aloha: Krause Family Foundation, and Lisa Takata, president of Molokai’s Soto Mission, are co-directors of the new project at Guzeiji.…
Out of the Darkness
By Sage Yamashita | Intern Reporter
As the sun reached the horizon on Sep. 25, Molokai’s community members shone a light on suicide prevention and awareness as they walked down Kaunakakai Wharf with colorful beads around their necks and signs in their hands.
Out of the Darkness is an event put on each year by American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). Molokai Representative for AFSP, U’ilani Kiaha, said this is the first unofficial event for Molokai.
The event was held at Molokai Canoe Club, where the event opened with a sense of knowledge and open-mindedness carried in by oli, E Hō Mai, and pule.…
Arce Confirmed as County’s First Ag Director
By Catherine Cluett Pactol | Editor
Molokai’s Rogerene “Kali” Arce received unanimous approval from the Maui County Council last week when she was confirmed as the first director of the new county Department of Agriculture. After an application and selection process earlier this year, she was named the appointee for the position, pending the council’s confirmation, and has already begun her role for the department, which was launched on July 1.
“Mahalo to Councilmembers for their unanimous approval of Kali Arce. Her leadership of this important department is crucial in advancing Maui County’s self-reliance and economic diversification,” Victorino said in a press release.…
Ka‘auwai ‘Ohana Aim for Food Security
By Paul Hanley | Community Reporter
“Our goal is to help increase our family’s and our island’s food security by inspiring others to start growing more of their own food,” says Fina Ka’auwai. Fina and her husband Wayne, who grew up living and working on farms on Molokai, are slowly increasing food production for their family of six on their one-acre plot in Ho’olehua.
In addition to hunting, fishing, and growing traditional crops, they have expanded into chickens, aquaculture, and “rainbow” fruits and vegetables. Part of their formula for success has been diversifying their diet. Their lush gardens are bursting with variety.…
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