Navy nurse Anna Malia Jones has geneology that trace her roots to Kurtistown on the Big Island, and Kailua on O‘ahu, where she grew up. She now lives in Colorado, but the Hawai‘i roots influenced the design she had on the knapsack she created for the 2022 Tropic Care Kaua‘i Innovative Readiness Training Mission.
Navy nurse Anna Malia Jones has geneology that trace her roots to Kurtistown on the Big Island, and Kailua on O‘ahu, where she grew up. She now lives in Colorado, but the Hawai‘i roots influenced the design she had on the knapsack she created for the 2022 Tropic Care Kaua‘i Innovative Readiness Training Mission.
Kudos, Dr. Janet Berreman, Toni Torres (she was a judge for the 62nd Miss Kaua‘i Filipina Scholarship Pageant, too!), Ah-Lan Coloma, and the many hands, including Freckles, Mokihana and Kamika Smith of Smith’s Tropical Paradise on hosting the 250-plus military, the state Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office and the community to a Smith’s lu‘au experience where even the peacocks cooperated by showing off.
And, the summer solstice must have powers like the full moon, because not only were the peacocks showing off, the mynah birds had a gang fight in the parking lot, and a ray showed up at the Nawilwili Yacht Club Father’s Day Keiki Fishing Contest (kudos to Fred Styer and all those NYC hands on another great event, and kudos Jolene Spence and the Garden Island Trollers for a great boat event!).
Now, it’s just plain Tiffany Sagucio, who was at the Pau Hana Market now just the immediate past Miss Kaua‘i Filipina 2019-2022 (“perpetual!”) after she handed her reign to Xarika Casticimo Saturday night. Congratulations.
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Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer, can be reached at 245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
