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Planting Health and Wealth

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Planting Health and Wealth

With Molokai’s reputation as a strong farming community, one island nonprofit thought the time was ripe to start a community garden, to educate residents on the best gardening practices.

Rosie Davis, executive director of Huli Au Ola Area Health Education Center, received a grant from the Department of Health in November 2010 to begin a health-through-gardening project, called Community Putting Prevention to Work.

“Everybody wants to eat healthy, but it’s so expensive,” Davis said. Her family started their own large garden four years ago and is currently building their second greenhouse.. She said they save around $500 a month on their grocery bill by growing their own vegetables as well as fishing.

The first community garden site, a half-acre in Kalamaula, will be cleaned and the soil tilled this week by volunteers. Davis’ program runs on community volunteers, who reap the benefits at the end of harvest.

“[Molokai] dirt is really healthy, we just have to know how to mix it to make things [grow],” Davis said.

faces, taking ownership of what they’re planting,” Kalani said.

Davis said they intend to add more community garden sites, and are on the lookout for more volunteers who would like to grow their own fresh vegetables. Contact Huli Au Ola at 553-3623.

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Royalty Returns

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Royalty Returns

Royalty returns to Molokai! Hundreds of keiki and their families participated and enjoyed this year's May (Lei) Day events, scattered around the island. Below are pictures from Molokai's six schools' celebrations.

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Molokai High Sports Finish for the Year

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Molokai High Sports Finish for the Year

Molokai High School spring sports have hit their final ball and run their final lap – and many made great strides in their sports.

Adolpho Jumps Highest at Track
Molokai High’s top athlete, Kalei Adolpho, has another gold medal. She jumped into the number one spot at last weekend’s state track and field championship, clearing 5’2.”

“I feel really happy,” Adolpho said. “I really wanted to [win]; I wouldn’t say I expected it, but I definitely tried for it.”

Coach Jessie Ford said Adolpho was “very calm and composed” during her jumps, and only faltered once.

“It was very exciting for a senior state meet, I felt like she earned [the gold],” Ford said.

Adolpho qualified for states in track and field for the past four years, coming in fifth as a freshman, and third the last two years, according to the Maui News.

get the feel of a state game,” Augustiro said. “It was a great season.”

Volleyball Ends at MILs
The Molokai High boys’ volleyball team lost in their first game of the Maui Interscholastic League (MIL) championship, against Hana.

The boys played three tough sets, 20-25, 20-25, 19-25.

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Farmers Win One, Lose One

Friday, May 6th, 2011

The Molokai High boys’ volleyball headed to Hana this past weekend for their last regular season games, where they won Friday’s sets but lost on Saturday. Friday night’s game ended with a sweeping score of 25-23, 29-27, 28-26.

“Friday night’s game was really close, but nobody lost control. They didn’t panic like they did in earlier matches,” said coach Bill Dudoit.

Paka Adolpho had 11 kills, two blocks and two aces on the evening, and Nainoa Langer had three kills, one block, two aces, and 45 assists.

“Friday night, we just came out firing,” Langer said. “And Saturday they just came back very hard. We were making most of the mistakes on our own.”

He believes the team has made strides since the start of the season.

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Baseball Heads to States

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Coach Mike McCutcheon has led the Molokai High baseball team to the Hawaii State Championships for the first time since 2008. Despite only playing six regular season games, he said that the team has made an incredible improvement since the preseason began. 

 “It’s been a long journey since pre-season when we committed 15 errors, and in our last game we only committed one,” McCutcheon said.

The fifth-seeded Farmers (5-3) will fly to Oahu to play against the fourth-seeded Radford Rams (10-3) at 1:30 p.m. this Thursday at Hans L’Orange Field. If they win, they will play on Friday at 7 p.m.  If they lose, they will play at 10 a.m. on Friday morning. Championship games will be played Saturday.

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Go Green, Win Green

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Berry Company News Release

Students around the state are looking to raise the bar on last year’s recycled telephone directories. The Berry Company LLC, publisher of the Hawaiian Telcom Yellow Pages, announced the launch of its annual telephone directory recycling program, Think Yellow, Go Green.

Schools on the islands of Hawaii, Kauai, Lanai, Maui and Molokai will compete to recycle the most telephone directories with the goal of surpassing last year’s recycling totals and winning cash prizes.

“Last year, our schools helped collect 64 tons of telephone directories across the neighbor islands,” said Scott Szczekocki, client services regional director for Berry. “The community response has been tremendous, and I look forward to another strong campaign this year.”

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Tennis Players Show Progress

Friday, May 6th, 2011

The Molokai High tennis team only won one match at this year’s Maui Interscholastic League (MIL) tournament at the Wailea Tennis Club two weekends ago, but coach Catie Brind is proud of their improvements.

“They were all fresh, brand-new players to the sport,” she said. “I thought they progressed very well. The kids here are just so naturally athletic.”

Hope Will won against Kaliana Kaneyasu of Maui High, 6-2, 6-1, but no other single or doubles of the 12-member team won a match. Brind said it was a nice experience for all the players to see that level of tournament.

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Adolpho Jumps and Runs to State

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Kalei Adolpho will finish out her senior year with another show at a state track and field championship meet. After qualifying in the high jump at her first meet of the season earlier this year, Adolpho will also represent Molokai at states in the 800-meter dash. She earned a state consideration time in last weekend’s Maui Interscholastic League (MIL) tournament, coming in third at 2 minutes 35.27 seconds.

“She jumped clean all the way through,” said coach Jessie Ford. “This week we will do some sprint work for the 800, [but] focus more on [the high jump].”

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Designed to Shine

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Designed to Shine

Although Molokai High School has a mascot, a motto and a crest, they’ve never had a branded logo. So as a part of his senior project, Kaoli Place created a logo he hopes will stick around – with the help of several products for students and community to enjoy.

Place, with the help of classmate Eesha Dudoit-Alapai, created the Logo Store at the school, selling several products with Place’s logo design.

“It started to increase school pride and spirit,” Dudoit-Alapai said. They began last semester with small items – pencils and coffee mugs – while Dudoit-Alapai and their teacher Lisa Takata researched how to stock bigger items like bags and t-shirts.

Takata said with the help of a 21st Century grant, she’ll be opening up a print shop this summer to do their own printing – “keeping money on-island.” Eventually, Takata said she hopes to incorporate Place’s design into the school’s uniforms.


Place created a logo that integrates images of the school’s slogan – “Farmers of the Land and Sea” – into the text itself.

“It just came to me somehow,” he said. Place used a fishing pole with a fish and a taro plant as inspiration.

He spent time on weekends and during spring break to clean up the student activities room, which serves as the classroom for Takata’s leadership class, and now houses the Logo Store. He said he plans to study graphic design after he graduates.

Community members as well as students are welcome to shop during the lunch recess (around 12:15 p.m.) Monday-Friday, to browse through t-shirts, tank tops, bags, lanyards, license plate frames, sweatshirts and notecards.

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MCC’s Biggest Loser

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

MCC’s Biggest Loser

Along with getting a higher education, some students at the University of Hawaii Maui College-Molokai, formerly known as MCC, also tried their luck at losing a few pounds this past semester during UHMC’s first-ever “Biggest Loser” competition.

Professor Donna Haytko-Paoa, the coordinator for the event,  was inspired by her favorite TV show “the Biggest Loser,” a reality series which helps people lose weight. She and her staff partner, Kelley Dudoit, reeled in twenty students to participate in the weight loss program, and awards for biggest losers were handed out last Friday at the college’s campus.

First-place winner, April Maddela, won a volleyball and the respect of her classmates after the 10-week event. She  lost 26 pounds during the Biggest Loser competition.

wasn’t about losing weight,” she told the program’s graduates. “It was about changing your lifestyle, so you wouldn’t go up and down and be unhappy with yourself, so you can have confidence.”

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