‘ELE‘ELE — Every day is Earth Day for Frank Santos of No Ka Oi Plants and Landscaping. But his wife Abby said it’s good to have a day set aside to have projects done that make you think about how
‘ELE‘ELE — Every day is Earth Day for Frank Santos of No Ka Oi Plants and Landscaping.
But his wife Abby said it’s good to have a day set aside to have projects done that make you think about how humans impact the environment.
Frank and Abby had a team of their landscapers — many of whom have children attending ‘Ele‘ele School — out at the campus on Friday in a collaborative effort to enhance the hula mound created years ago through efforts spearheaded by aunty Janet Kahalekomo, the school’s kupuna.
Frank, an ‘Ele‘ele School alumni, said this year’s project involved filling dips and low spots on the hula mound, planting in an area near the old cafeteria where students are not using the stairs, cutting and sprucing the campus grass, adding a concrete stairway to the hula mound and planting in more of the terraced area with native plants.
Because it was Good Friday, the school’s students were excused which made the project go a lot faster, Principal Dr. Leila Nitta said.
The school’s enhancement got an extra help from the county, which provided the sand, and the school’s cafeteria staff whom Nitta said offered to come in and prepare lunch for the workers.
Abby said Earth Day comes just in time to get everything spruced up for the school’s May Day program, and the volunteers have more than one reason to feel good about what they are doing to care for the school and the land.
