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| The late Del Bothof, in his Volcano vineyard. He was honored at the recent sixth Volcano Winery Harvest Fest to raise money for Volcano School of the Arts & Sciences. Photo by Julia Neal |
THE MEMORY OF DEL BOTHOF WAS HONORED at the recent sixth annual
Volcano Winery Harvest Festival fundraiser for Volcano
School
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| Music from the The Kuahiwis was a great pairing with the wines poured during the 6th annual Volcano Winery Harvest Festival. Photo from VSAS |
The event raised more than $14,000, a new record. Last year's event raised a little over $10,000. The funds will go to sustain and expand Volcano School
Said Kinney, "Nutritious food is a foundation for successful learning andVolcano School
Attendees enjoyed a wide selection
of Volcano Winery wines, along with beers from Hilo Brewing
Company and coffee from Rusty's 100% Kaʻū. Delicious food courtesy of Café Ono, Eagle's Lighthouse Café, Volcano
School
Said Kinney, "Nutritious food is a foundation for successful learning and
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| Long community tables let friends, old and new, talk story at the Volcano Winery Harvest Festival. Photo from VSAS |
The raffle highlighted the evening. The 30 packages included handmade donations from the
school community, area businesses, and artists; hotel stays from the Royal Kona
Resort, Grand Naniloa Resort, and Hotel Renew in Waikiki ;
golf from Mauna Kea Resort; activities from Fair Wind Cruises and Kapohokine Adventures;
and much more.
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| The raffle table showed off some of the great prizes. Photo from VSAS |
Volcano School of
Arts & Sciences is a tuition-free, Hawaiian-focused, public charter school,
dedicated to the mission of learning through Volcano's unique natural and
cultural resources to become creative global citizens. VSAS is open and is
currently accepting enrollment applications. Contact 808-985-9800, or
email enrollment@volcanoschool.net.
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| Tables under the trees at the Volcano School fundraiser. Photo from VSAS |
MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES IS PROVIDING MORE JOBS in Kaʻū and around the state. Kaʻū jobs are created by state Department of Land & Natural Resources, Kamehameha Schools, The Nature Conservancy, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Nā Mamo O Kāwā, and other non-profits and government agencies.
According to Olivia Peterken's story in Pacific
Business News last evening, natural resource management accounted for
some 4,697 jobs statewide in 2018, a 33 percent increase over five years. PBN
quoted from a new economic report from University
of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization
Kimberly Burnett, research economist at UHERO, who worked
on the report, told PBN: "A lot of these new jobs are
because of the changes we're seeing in our environment and in our natural
resources. I think a lot of the government sector is trying to address these
climate mitigation issues, like sea level rise and warming temperatures, so
that's where a lot of the job growth is coming from."
The report also shows starting salaries in Natural Resource Management are on the rise. Fifty nine percent of survey respondents reported a starting salary of $41,000 per year or higher for administrative staff, while 77 percent reported a starting salary of $51,000 a year or higher for professional and managerial employees. "The increase in salary is another factor that may be stretching resources for Hawaiʻi's NRM groups," PBN reported.
PBN noted that "despite the increase in Hawaiʻi's NRM jobs over the past few years, the state's NRM budget has remained relatively the same. For the 2018 report, Hawaiʻi's NRM expenditures hovered around $542 million, about the same amount reported in 2014." Burnett told PBN that the combination of growth in jobs and the lack of sufficient budget stretches thin the NRM departments that reallocate resources to support salaries for the growing number of positions. "Basically, they're cutting in other places in order to create jobs," Burnett said. "The reality that we're hearing from many of these agencies is that they're getting the positions, but not the support to do the work that people in these positions need to do."
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| Kaʻū Forest Reserve, where many jobs have been created to manage natural resources. Photo by Rob Schallenberger |
Burnett told PBN that a category
"that I feel is being cut a lot is building fences to protect the
watersheds. Right now, we are just responding to what we can see, so agencies
are putting out sand bags and sending people to deal with monthly emergencies,
utilizing more of a reactive strategy rather than a long-term proactive
strategy that protects the resources."
Hauoli
Mau Loa Foundation, a private, Honolulu-based grant-making group with a
mission "to enhance stewardship, preservation and protection of the
environment," helped to fund the report.
"One of
[Hauoli Mau Loa's] objectives is to retain students and have them go into Hawaiʻi's
Natural Resource Management sector," Burnett told PBN. "Part
of the survey's purpose is to understand that, if you're interested in
protecting the environment and natural resources, you can do that in Hawaiʻi." See the full report.
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MAUNAKEA: A WAY FORWARD was previewed by Mayor Harry
Kim today. During an Office of Hawaiian Affairs meeting in Hilo, Kim said he is
not quite done developing his "path forward" toward solution to the standoff that has left Protectors of Maunakea blocking the access
road to the summit since July 13, in protest of the building of the world's
largest telescope atop a mauna they hold sacred.
After some arrests, Gov. David Ige asked Kim to help.
Said Kim, "This
presentation is beyond a yes-or-no of the TMT project. This is about asking
Hawaiʻi's people to come together and find a new path to go forward in a good
way."
Among his ideas is "a cultural center to protect and
preserve the historical and cultural specialness of Hawaiʻi and its
people." Another is "an umbrella management authority
that gives strong deference to the voices of the host island and the
Hawaiian community." The mayor said OHA knows "how important
that is."
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| Mayor Harry Kim read from his not quite finished plan for Maunakea. Photo from Big Island Video News |
Kim said he seeks the positive, "because what is happening, I think, is
something nobody wants: a polarization of the people of this land."
Kim read excerpts from "version
109" of his plan: "In recent years, the Hōkūleʻa gave birth
to a phenomenal Hawaiian cultural renaissance, reigniting the Hawaiian’s desire
to discover, grow, and explore new frontiers, with the pride, the wisdom, and
courage of their elders. In recent months, Mauna Kea has
added to this remarkable Hawaiian cultural Renaissance. The Hawaiians' identity
and the pride of being Hawaiian, and with this the reverence, the sacredness,
for the total environment. When respectfully integrated with a comprehensive
understanding of Mauna Kea and Hawaiian culture,
astronomy can be such a catalyst for positive and transformational changes in
Hawaiʻi. Under the leadership of dreamers, innovators, and an awakened
community, this can be the leverage for not only Mauna Kea
issues, but to understand and address wrongs of past to make us a better people
and place."
Kim said he hoped
to present the final version of his plan to the governor this week.
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DEFEND FILIPINO WORLD WAR II VETERANS' right to bring family
members to the U.S. ,
is the request from Senators Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono, plus a dozen of
their colleagues. In a letter to the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinelli, the Democrats urge him to rescind the
Trump Administration's decision to terminate the Filipino World War II Veterans
Parole Program. The program allows adult children of Filipino WWII veterans,
along with their spouses and children under age 21, to enter the United
States while they await an available immigrant
visa.
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Hawaiʻi legislators are defending the right of Filipino
WWII veterans to bring family member in to the U.S.
Photo from Filipino Veterans Recognition and
Education Project, filvetrep.org
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Filipino veterans
were granted citizenship in recognition of their service to the United
States during World War II. Many of their
children, however, were not. Due to the volume of immigrant visa applications
from the Philippines ,
it can take more than 20 years for families to be reunited. Under the FWVP
program, which Hirono was instrumental in creating the FWVP program in 2016.
In July, Hirono met for a second time with the Milla Family –
the first family in Hawaiʻi to benefit from the FWVP program in 2017. After
waiting more than 20 years for an immigrant visa, the FWVP program enabled
Jeorge Milla to be reunited with his mother in Hawaiʻi, while awaiting his
visa. Jeorge and his wife Juseline are now employed in Hawaiʻi, their two
daughters Jasmine and Jeraldine are attending college, and they have all earned
their green cards.
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VENDOR BOOTH SPACE IS AVAILABLE FOR THE KAMAHALO CRAFT FAIR at Cooper Center in Volcano. The 12th annual event will be held Thanksgiving weekend, Friday, Nov. 29,
The Kamahalo Craft Fair is a project of the Cooper Center Council. Proceeds are used to fund community activities and projects such as the Friends Feeding Friends hot meal program.
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See public Kaʻū events, meetings, entertainment.
Print edition of The Kaʻū Calendar is free to 5,500 mailboxes
throughout Kaʻū, from Miloliʻi through Volcano, and free on
stands throughout the district. Read online at kaucalendar.com
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2019 Kaʻū High School Fall Athletics Schedule
See khpes.org/athletics-home for details and updates
Football, Division II:
Thu., Oct. 3, 7 p.m. Kamehameha hosts Kaʻū
Sat., Oct. 12, 1 p.m. , Kaʻū hosts HPA
Sat., Oct. 19, 11 a.m. , Kaʻū hosts Pāhoa
Sat., Oct. 26, 1 p.m. , Kohala hosts Kaʻū
Fri. and Sat., Nov. 1 and 2, Div II BIIF Championship
Fri. and Sat., Nov. 15 and 16, HHSAA Div II Semifinals
Fri., Nov. 29, HHSAA Div II Championship
Girls Volleyball, Kaʻū District Gym:
Tue., Sept. 24, 6 p.m. , Makualani hosts Kaʻū
Fri., Sept. 27, 6 p.m. , Kaʻū hosts HPA
Wed., Oct. 2, 6 p.m. , Kaʻū hosts Pāhoa
Fri., Oct. 4, 6 p.m. , Parker hosts Kaʻū
Tue., Oct. 8, 6 p.m. , Kaʻū hosts Ehunui
Thu., Oct. 10, 6 p.m. , Konawaena hosts Kaʻū
Mon., Oct. 14, 6 p.m. , BIIF Div II First Round at
Tue., Oct. 15, 2:30 p.m. , BIIF Div II Semifinals at
Wed., Oct. 16, 4 p.m. , BIIF Div II Finals at
Wed.-Sat., Oct. 23-26, HHSAA DII Tournament, Oʻahu
Wed.-Sat., Oct. 23-26, HHSAA DII Tournament, Oʻahu
UPCOMING
SATURDAY, SEPT. 21
6th Annual Ka‘ū Coffee Trail Run Race Day, Saturday, Sept. 21, 7.a.m, Ka‘ū coffee Mill. 5K, 10K, 1/2 Marathon races through macnut and coffee fields along slopes of Ka‘ū. Sponsored by Ka‘ū Coffee Mill and ‘O Ka‘ū Kākou. Online registration open through midnight , Sept. 19: webscorer.com/register?raceid=166020. Race day (not online) registration closes at 6:30a.m. okaukakou.org, kaucoffeemill.com
Exhibit - 45th Tiny Treasures Invitational, Saturday, Sept. 21, daily, 9a.m.-5p.m. ,Volcano Arts Center Gallery. Features small works created at the Volcano Collaboration. Free; park entrance fees apply. 967-7565, volcanoartcenter.org
Hi‘iaka & Pele, Saturday, Sept. 21, 9:30-11:30a.m. , Kahuku Unit, HVNP. Free, moderate, one-mile walk. nps.gov/havo
Zen Pen - Writing as Spiritual Practice with Tom Peek, Saturday, Sept. 21, 9:30a.m.-4p.m. , Volcano Art Center
1st Annual Church 10a.m.-2p.m. , Pāhala Holy Rosary Catholic Church. Auction, thrift shop, baked goods, craft goods, plants, and more. $10/steak plate; priority to pre-sale ticket holders. See church member or call Parish Office at 928-8208 for tickets.
Ocean View C.E.R.T. Mtg., Saturday, Sept. 21, 10a.m.-1p.m. , Ocean View Community Center
Nā Mea Hula with Kumu Kaho‘okele Crabbe with Hālauolaokalani, Saturday, Sept. 21, 11a.m.-1p.m. , Volcano Art Center Gallery porch. Hands-on cultural demonstration. Free; park entrance fees apply. 967-8222, volcanohula@gmail.com, volcanoartcenter.org
Dances of Universal Peace, Saturday, Sept. 21, 6-7:30p.m., Methodist Hall, across from Nā‘ālehu Post Office. 939-9461, hualaniom2@yahoo.com
SUNDAY, SEPT. 22
Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund Ka‘ū Community Coastal Cleanup and Debris Survey, Saturday, Sept. 22. Free; donations appreciated. Limited space available; B.Y.O.-4WD okay. R.S.V.P. required, kahakai.cleanups@gmail.com. 769-7629, wildhawaii.org
Kahuku ‘Ohana Day, Sunday, Sept. 22, noon-3p.m., Kahuku Unit, HVNP. Live music, family-friendly activities, hikes and more. Free. nps.gov/havo
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24
H.O.V.E. Road Maintenance Corp. Board Mtg., Tuesday, Sept. 24, 10a.m., H.O.V.E. RMC office, 92-8979 Lehua Lane, Ocean View. 929-9910, hoveroad.com
Ka‘ū Food Pantry, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 11:30a.m.-1p.m. , St. Jude's Episcopal Church in Ocean View. Volunteers welcome. Dave Breskin, 319-8333
Pū‘ohe Demonstration, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 10a.m.-noon, Kīlauea Visitor Center lānai. Make a Hawaiian bamboo trumpet. Free; park entrance fees apply. 985-6101, nps.gov/havo
THURSDAY, SEPT. 26
Ka‘ū Food Basket, Thursday, Sept. 26, 11a.m. -noon , multipurpose room, Ka‘ū District Gym, Pāhala.
Ka‘ū Community Children's Council, Thursday, Sept. 26, 3-4p.m. , Classroom 35, Building F, Nā‘ālehu Elementary School
Volcano Friends Feeding Friends, Thursday, Sept. 26, 4-6p.m. , Cooper Center Volcano Village
6th Annual Ka‘ū Coffee Trail Run Registration, webscorer.com/register?raceid=166020. 5K, 10K, 1/2 Marathon races through mac nut and coffee fields along slopes of Ka‘ū starting at 7a.m., Saturday, Sept. 21, Ka‘ū Coffee Mill. Sponsored by Ka‘ū Coffee Mill and ‘O Ka‘ū Kākou. okaukakou.org, kaucoffeemill.com
Tutoring for Kaʻū High & Pāhala Elementary is Available to All Students of the school, from
Nationwide 2019 Congressional App Challenge submissions from middle and high schoolers are open through Nov. 1. Submit to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, CongressionalAppChallenge.us, apps "designed to promote innovation and engagement in computer science." All skill levels, all devices and platforms, and all programming languages, accepted.
Vendor Booth Space is Available for the Kamahalo Craft Fair. The 12th annual event will be held Thanksgiving weekend, Friday, Nov. 29, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , and Saturday, Nov. 30, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Booths are open for crafters with quality homemade and homegrown products. Food vendors must prepare all food items in a certified kitchen and must have a Department of Health permit displayed prominently at their booth. Application online at thecoopercenter.org. Direct questions to 936-9705 or kilaueatutu@gmail.com.
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