Happy Camper for Friday, July 28, 2023

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Dennis Hwang of the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant Program, author of the “Homeowner’s Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards, Fourth Edition,” uses news video of a house’s roof blowing off during a 2021 storm (not a hurricane, a wind event) in discussing ways to make a house stronger during storms, on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, during the disaster readiness gathering coordinated by Padraic Gallagher of the American Red Cross Kaua‘i, at the Kaua‘i Veterans Center in Lihu‘e.

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Mayors Derek S.K. Kawakami, seventh from left, and Yoshitaka Nakayama of Moriyama City, eighth from left, beam with the Hui Alu (and where did President Jonathan Chun disappear to?), Kumu Hula Troy Allen Hinano Lazaro, far right, and all the performers for the 60th Anniversary Reaffirmation Ceremony of the Kaua‘i-Moriyama sister city relationship, at the Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall in Lihu‘e on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.

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Shannon Daliva of Ka Pa Hula O Hinano performs the Hawaiian cultural protocol on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, as Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami watches, during the 60th Anniversary Reaffirmation Ceremony of the Kaua‘i-Moriyama sister city relationship, at the Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall in Lihu‘e.