Welcome, New Members!
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Pictured is president Vivian Aiona, installing new members Gayla Haliniak-Lloyd and Irene Kaahanui.
Ahahui Kaahumanu, Chapter VIII
Pictured is president Vivian Aiona, installing new members Gayla Haliniak-Lloyd and Irene Kaahanui.
Ahahui Kaahumanu, Chapter VIII
Add your commentRespect Community Resources
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
Mahalo for the Support
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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
A Mixed Salad Bowl of Issues
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.
Eating Spears
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Community Contributed by Glenn I. Teves, County Extension Agent, UH CTAHR
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Asparagus thrives in our Molokai climate preferring 75 to 85 F days and 60 to 70 F nights. The winter and spring months are ideal for “flushing spears.” Nutritionally, asparagus is a good source of Vitamin C and Folate, a B vitamin vital in maintaining and producing new cells, and also contains vitamin A, potassium, phosphorus and iron. It’s great for low sodium diets.
There are many varieties of asparagus. New Jersey’s Rutgers University has developed many varieties with “Jersey” in its name, but they appear to be more adapted to colder climates. The appeal of Jersey hybrids are that they’re all-male. Male plants are more productive and produce three times more than female plants since they don’t spend energy producing seeds. However, the California-developed cultivars have performed better in Hawaii, according to Milton Agader of Twin Bridges Farm, asparagus farmers in Waialua, Oahu. California varieties include Apollo, Atlas, Grande, Purple Passion and the standard, UC 157.
Although asparagus can be grown from year-old roots, few if any seed companies will ship roots to Hawaii, and there’s always the chance of bringing in diseases with the roots. Growing seeds in 4-inch pots for three months, fertilizing regularly with dilute balanced fertilizer, will produce healthy plants. Select only the strongest plants for field planting. California-developed asparagus seed are both male and female. Females will produce skinnier spears, but some gourmet markets prefer these because of the perception that the large ones are tougher.
Asparagus prefers sunny conditions with well drained soil. This is critical. The also prefer alkaline soil in the pH range of 6.7 to 7.5. This means adding lots of sand or lime, which is why they grow well in sand. They don’t require lots of water once established. Asparagus can withstand saline water and even salt spray occasionally. Asparagus is fairly disease and insect free if you follow proper cultural management techniques, understanding their likes and dislikes.
In growing asparagus, patience is a virtue and you will be greatly rewarded in the end if you’re patient. A healthy asparagus plant can remain productive for 20 years or more if well cared for. It’s better to forego the first year harvest, setting the plants up for robust root and vegetative growth. Forcing spears is an art, and you can have many flushes each year especially in the cooler months if you ‘know your plants’, the seasons, and when to force them. Weeds can be a big problem, but cutting ferns back and burning the surface is a good sustainable strategy for weed control.
To find out more about growing asparagus and forcing spears, you can download this publication from the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources website: ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/HGV-9.pdf
Farm Bill Programs Available
The Natural Resources Conservation Service, a division of the United States Department of Agriculture, is offering technical and financial assistance to farmers and ranchers to develop, install and implement authorized conservation practices. To receive assistance, the farmer or rancher must be in control of the land where practices will be applied, have an agricultural income of at least $1,000 per year and be willing to implement conservation practices of the duration of the contract and maintain such practices.
Tutu’s Corner
Column by Tutu and me Traveling Preschool
Veteran’s Corner
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Column by Jesse Church
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Four Army Air Forces airmen missing since World War II have been identified and buried as a group in a single casket on Sept. 21 at the Arlington National Cemetery, Va., along with the remains of five previously identified Army Air Forces airmen. The nine airmen flew a BITE Flying Fortress on a bombing run June 26, 1943, over Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, but were ultimately shot down by Japanese fighter aircraft. One crew member, 2nd Lt. Jose L. Holguin, survived and was held prisoner until September 1945. Remains of the crew were recovered in 1949, but could not be identified at the time.
Another historical tidbit: Cmdr. Wally Schirra made the fifth Project Mercury Flight on Oct. 3, 1962. Project Mercury was the NASA program that put the first American astronauts in space, with six spaceflights from 1961 through 1963. The program’s objectives were to orbit a manned spacecraft around earth, to investigate man’s ability to function in space and to recover both astronaut and spacecraft safely. During the 9 hour 13 minute mission, Schirra made six orbits at an altitude up to 175.8 statute miles at 17,558 mph. Schirra is credited with superb control of Sigma 7, bringing the capsule down within five miles of the aircraft carrier Kearsarge, about 275 miles northeast of Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean. Seeing the ship as he began his descent from orbit, Schirra quipped, “I think they’re gonna put me on the number three elevator.”
Well, veterans, the slab was poured for the new Vets Center on Thursday, Oct. 13, and the carpenters should begin work sometime the week of Oct. 17. If there are any veterans who would like to volunteer to help, please go to the Veterans Center, and talk to Mac Poepoe. The Center is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The next VFW meeting will be at Commander George Harada’s home on Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 12:30 p.m. If you have any questions, call the commander at 553-5730. John Candello, the Veterans Advocate, will be at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in Kaunakakai, on Thursday, Nov. 3 and 10 from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. by appointment, call 553-3611. Remember our essay contest on “What does being an American mean to you,” ends on Oct. 31, so get your essay in. Send entries post marked no later than Nov. 1 to P.O. Box 482219 or email editor@themolokaidispatch.com, good luck. Let’s not forget our military personnel stationed around the world, and especially those in harm’s way. We send them a big mahalo for all they do, and to our veterans at home for all they have done, and the people of Molokai for supporting them. You are all very special and dear to me, I love you all.
What’s Up Maunaloa
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Column by Aunty Kehau
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To the Heart of Aloha Ministry, mahalo nui loa for your community volunteering in helping one of our kupuna in the cleaning of her home and yard at Nani Maunaloa. How awesome is our God! Alert to Ho`olehua residents! My oldest daughter a few weeks ago lost a very expensive Makita flashlight in her truck on Mo`omomi Avenue. If anyone has any information regarding this please let me know by emailing me at kehaunani52@gmail.com. I pray there are still honest people out there who will return this item to this family, no questions asked.
Wow! I just got through watching my first and last Molokai Farmers football team game on Oct. 22. Awesome game and what a team! We have some pretty fantastic youth on this team and to my two grandsons, Kohala and Kamu, "good job gang!" A big mahalo nui loa to Kualupu`u Cattle Ranch who donated $150 to the Molokai Farmers football team and Pastor Ruth Suyat.
The community of Maunaloa is starting up the Neighborhood Crime Watch and would like to encourage everyone to attend our monthly meetings, just keep an eye out for the fliers. On Oct. 29 at the Maunaloa Rec. Center beginning at 5 p.m. there will be a Halloween Bash sponsored by the Kahale Mua and Onipa'a Tenant Association. There will be lots of goodies, games and free refreshments. Mahalo to Taba Nuuanu, president of Kahale Mua Tenant Association for coordinating this community event. Aunty Jan's House of Blessings solely depends on contributions or grants to keep the Emergency Foodbank Pantry which has serviced not only Maunaloa residents but the whole island of Molokai. Well, monies have run out and I am advocating for this shop to anyone who would like to kokua via monetary donations. If you have been helped or assisted in any way, you can make a check payable to the Maunaloa Ohana I Lokahi Association and mail it to P.O. Box 156 Maunaloa, HI 96770. Let's help our aunty in this time of need! I challenge $1 for every person in your household. Is this too much to ask for a service that has helped numerous people and families on our island?
This is your roving reporter closing with this thought of the day. "Enjoy the little things. One day you will look back and realize that those little things were the most important things of all." Take kea and a hui hou.
Legislators to Talk Wind with Local Residents
Members of the Hawaii Legislature and guests will be visiting Molokai on Wednesday, Nov. 2 to hear from island residents about a wind farm proposed for Molokai.
Sens. Mike Gabbard and Kalani English, Rep. Denny Coffman and Susan Kodani, district director for Congresswoman Mazie Hirono, will spend the day visiting various parts of the island.
Gabbard, chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Environment said, "I want to make it clear that we are coming because we truly want to listen to residents' thoughts, feelings and concerns about a proposed wind farm on Molokai. We think that it’s important to hear directly from the people of Molokai, not in a formal town hall-type setting, but more in an informal, conversational setting."
