Kalaupapa

‘I Don’t Want to Die Here’

Thursday, August 16th, 2018

Teri Waros grateful for support after close call

There’s a cast on her arm and she has six broken ribs… but there’s a smile on her face as friends, well wishers and visitors to the island pour into her store. Teri Waros, owner of Kalele Bookstore in Kaunakakai, is back at work and lucky to be alive after falling 150 feet down the cliff near the Kalaupapa Lookout on Aug. 2.

For hours, she clung to a root, just above the sheer, vertical drop off of the sea cliffs and ocean 2,000 feet below.

“It got scary. I looked down and I could see the water below me and I thought, ‘Oh, this doesn’t look good,” she recalls.…

The Pink Lady Goes Home: Remembering Elizabeth Kahihikolo

Monday, March 5th, 2018

Community Contributed

By Father Pat Killilea, St. Francis Church, Kalaupapa

The cortege left St. Francis Church grounds to the strains of an Elvis Presley song and headed up the hill past the movie house toward Staff Row. The procession was led by Kahohulani in her truck, bearing the casket containing the body of our friend and long-time resident, Elizabeth. We passed the burned-out site of the former state kitchen where she had enjoyed many a meal with her friends over the years. Then we passed McVeigh Hall where she had participated in many celebrations. Next we slowed down as we passed her house as well as that of her sister, Gertrude, where her sister had fed all the cats in the neighborhood.…

Kalaupapa Raises Money for Storm Victims

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

By Rick Schonely and Richard Miller

The legacy of Kalaupapa, the very soul of Kalaupapa, is love and compassion.  In this community founded on adversity, offering a helping hand to one another to get through the tough times has always been a way of life that still continues today.  So it was only natural that in the aftermath of the devastating hurricanes which struck the people in Texas and Florida, the folks in Kalaupapa looked for a way to help.

Noting that few things bring people together better than music and food, Richard Miller, pastor of Kana`ana Hou/Siloama Church in Kalaupapa, spearheaded a community effort to support those in need with donations garnered through a benefit show and pot luck. …

‘No Action’ Proposed for Kalaupapa Bombsite

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

From 1941 to 1946, the United States bombed an area measuring about 200 acres northeast of Kalaupapa peninsula. The latest proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in an ongoing process to clear unexploded ordinance from the area is to pursue no further cleanup action in the land surrounding the actual bombing target.

Kalaupapa’s Makanalua Bombing Range is 937 acres. In the core of this area, 233 acres are designated as Target Area, where most of the bombs and artillery fell. The surrounding 704 acres are designated Remaining Lands.

“The [Remedial Investigation] recommended no further action for the Remaining Lands … which is the topic of the proposed plan for this evening,” said Army Corps Project Manager Lori Wong, during a public meeting at Mitchell Pauole Center on Aug.…