Happy Camper for Monday, January 27, 2020
Happy birthday, Bob McGinty, who celebrated his birthday Saturday with the Kauai Humane Society’s Volunteer Appreciation and Recruitment gathering at “the place between work and home.”
Obituaries for Monday, January 27, 2020
• Leonora Bolo Alejado Alama • Donald Saburo Kagawa
Alaka‘i prepares for enrollment
Third-grader Hayden Renz does not have homework.
Partial road closures scheduled
The county Department of Public Works has announced a partial closure of Maluhia Road near Anne S. Knudsen Park and at its intersection of Koloa Road on Wednesday, Jan. 29, to allow for road reconstruction work, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., weather-permitting.
Arrest log for Monday, January 27, 2020
• Arrest log for November 19-20, 2019
From the lifeguard tower
Parker Keawe Smith and Mattaniah Millbrand are lifeguards for the Kauai Fire Department Ocean Safety Bureau. They work on the North Shore, chasing drowning strangers on jet skis in some of the scariest seas in the world. In winter, when the big swells roll in, it’s a life or death job on a daily basis.
Lady Menehune qualify for states
LIHUE — After the Waimea High girls basketball team fell to Kauai High 58-46 last Friday in their gym, coach Natalie Mata used a different psychological tactic in Friday night’s regular-season Kauai Interscholastic Federation contest.
Kung hee fat choy celebration
“Eight” is a lucky number, said Stacie Chiba-Miguel, general manager for The Shops at Kukuiula, as she prepared eight strings of firecrackers for ignition at the Palm Court at The Shops at Kukuiula Friday.
$24M found in DOW pensions
LIHUE — The Kauai Department of Water pension fund holds $24.6 million, almost all of which is excess funding. That money comes from water service rates and fees, both of which have risen significantly in recent years.
Hanalei land dispute resurfaces
HANALEI — Rain, cooler heads prevailing and the community relations skills of Kauai Police Department Capt. Rod Green averted a potential confrontation Saturday over access to the dilapidated former home of the Hanalei Canoe Club near Black Pot Beach Park.
Celebrating culture with Papakolea Serenaders
HANAMAULU — Old-style Hawaiian mele, hula lessons and performances and storytelling are all in full swing in the Jasmine Ballroom of the Kauai Beach Resort on Monday nights for several more weeks of E Kanikapila Kakou season.
High-surf warning still on
LIHUE — Kauai Fire Department Ocean Safety Bureau officials are advising no swimming or snorkeling at all north- and west-facing shores due to high surf and dangerous ocean conditions.
Meet pu’oni’oni’o the Hawaiian Partridge Tun Shell
This beautiful marine snail has a shell that is six inches long but the body of the snail can be a foot wide! Its body is so big that it cannot fit it entirely into its protective shell. This is very odd for marine snails like the cowry or cone shell that can retract its body fully into its hard shell for protection.
Da Shadow: Tree trimmings near Wailua Beach
• Editor’s note: Old-timers might still remember the introduction from “The Shadow” radio program: “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!” Jerome Freitas, a retired state Department of Transportation worker who is now better known as “Da Shadow,” since 2004 has been meeting with government representatives about problems he has discovered or that have been reported to him, and reporting the county’s responses.
E. Helekunihi ‘s visit to Niihau in 1871 – Part 1
In Sept. 1871, Mr. E. Helekunihi visited Niihau and wrote an account of his sojourn there that was published in the Hawaiian newspaper “Ke Au Okoa.”
Greed sets up Nanjeong; Jeong-ae leaves home
Following are this week’s synopses of shows on KBFD TV, which televises Korean dramas with English subtitles.
There are consequences for bucking state auditor
On January 8, OHA Trustee Brandon Kalei’ana Lee wrote an op-ed in the Star-Advertiser entitled “OHA has right to attorney-client privilege.”
Happy Camper for Sunday, January 26, 2020
Did you get your Year of the Rat shirt yet?
Trump stripping away safety nets for needy, elderly
In TGI’s Guest Opinion January 22nd, Gary Hooser shared that “the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism has determined that for a single person without children the hourly wage needed to simply ‘subsist’ is approximately $17.50 per hour.”
Obituaries for Saturday, January 25, 2020
• liyah-Rose Ramos Pasa • Walter Satoshi Kinoshita • Donald Saburo Kagawa