John and Alysha Enbom of Hoomalu O Ke Kai (nice job of creating the group sign out of ocean opala) wait for Capt. Tara (Leota) and her divers to return from their underwater beach cleanup at Ahukini on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025.
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Aristotle, Aaron-James, and Agnes Melchor Santa Cruz of the Waipahu High School tennis team enjoy some of the Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025 Tennis Fun Day at the new Kauai High School tennis courts.
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The visiting Waipahu High School tennis team enjoy the shade of the Kauai High School chorus room between matches at the Coach Jennifer Hreljac and Kauai High School Fun Day where the Maurader tennis players got to mix it up with Kauai High, Kapaa High, and Waimea High tennis players.
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Does the group doing the underwater beach cleanup count as a sighting at the Sanctuary Ocean Count?
Does the group doing the underwater beach cleanup count as a sighting at the Sanctuary Ocean Count?
Mahalo John and Alysha Enbom and Capt. Tara (Leota) — Alysha said she’s an excellent underwater diver — and Hoomalu O Ke Kai and the Kauai Coral Restoration Nursery for doing an underwater cleanup of ocean opala at the same time Site Leader Marga Goosen and her Sanctuary Ocean Count volunteers were doing the second Ocean Count at the Ahukini Landing site on Saturday.
Congratulations, Thomas Nizo and the many (!!!) hands on the 2025 Waimea Town Celebration (it’s a Hawaii Tourism Authority-funded activity!), which wrapped up with the two-day hoolaulea. The Hilo High School softball team was catching its breath at the Hanapepe Judo Hall on Friday as the Kauai Malama Military food distribution was taking place, and the St. Francis Lancers (they said they didn’t win the softball tournament) were busy trying to get their hair sprayed before getting to the airport on Sunday.
Agnes Melchor-Santa Cruz — the aunty of the Melchor Miss Kauai Filipina — said the Kauai High School softball probably did not win the tournament either because they left Kauai for another tournament this weekend. Agnes (her son Aaron James Santa Cruz is the Waipahu No. 1 Boys player) and her family were here with the Waipahu High School tennis team that participated in the Coach Jennifer Hreljac and Kauai High School Fun Day tennis get-together where the primary objective was to let the kids play tennis.
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Dennis Fujimoto can be reached at 245-0453 or at dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
