KALAHEO — When the floors and walkway of the Kukuiolono Park pavilion get painted, where do you go when the pizza arrives?
KALAHEO — When the floors and walkway of the Kukuiolono Park pavilion get painted, where do you go when the pizza arrives?
“Pizza’s here,” announced one of the 15 volunteers working around the pavilion that was constructed as a birthday present for Walter McBryde in the late 1920s. The call signaled a work stoppage, and the group collected in the shade of a towering norfolk pine in the face of the nice tradewinds blowing across the Kukuiolono Park and Golf Course No. 5 hole.
“This is the next phase of painting that we started about a year ago,” said Ted Faigle, the Kaua‘i assistant governor for Rotary District 5000. “The COVID-19 shut everything down, but I think this is about time we come back to finish painting the pavilion’s floors and picnic tables.”
Rotarian Dr. Craig Nishimoto, who brought over the pizza, was one of the project spearheads, including Claude Thompson, Ron Mabrey and Rodney Pascua, who remembers visiting the pavilion during Easters.
Led by efforts from the Rotary Club of Po‘ipu Beach, the service project got help from the Rotary Club of Kaua‘i and a handful of community volunteers, Faigle said.
Saturday’s project marked one of the first service projects to poke through the shutdown and social-distancing established by the pandemic that blanketed the island since last March.
“Did you see the picnic tables at the Salt Pond Beach Park?” one Rotarian asked from the sea of picnic tables bunched together for new coats of paint. “That might be our next stop?”
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Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
