LIHUE — The North Shore Lions Club did not only design, build, and adopt two bus shelters on the North Shore. When the bus stop fronting the Kapaa Neighborhood Center was vandalized, the North Shore Lions came out and helped the county repair the facility.
LIHUE — The North Shore Lions Club did not only design, build, and adopt two bus shelters on the North Shore. When the bus stop fronting the Kapaa Neighborhood Center was vandalized, the North Shore Lions came out and helped the county repair the facility.
“This is more than the two shelters — one in Kilauea on Kuhio Highway, and the other in Princeville — that the club designed, built and maintain,” said Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. “They recently did a thorough cleaning of these two shelters, and when they found out about the vandalized shelter in Kapaa, they came out of their community to help us repair the shelter.”
The effort was reason enough for Carvalho, joining Celia Mahikoa, the county Transportation Agency director, and the agency’s Jeremy Kalawaia Lee, to thank the organization for its leadership, dedication and commitment to the community by designating March 28 as North Shore Lions Club Day.
The bus shelter projects are only part of the community-service projects that the club engages in by utilizing funds raised at its annual Pancakes and Hula breakfast, coming up April 8 from 7 to 11 a.m. at the Hanalei School cafeteria.
Lions Gary Pacheco and Wayne Tanji man the kitchen, Lion family members performing with halau offer hula, and there are bargains at the silent auction.
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Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
