Ka`u News Briefs Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013

Pahala Public & School Library will be available more days and more hours beginning Monday, Sept. 30.
Photo from Hawai`i State Public Library System

PAHALA PUBLIC & SCHOOL LIBRARY INCREASES public service days and hours of operations from 15 hours a week to 34 hours a week starting Monday, Sept. 30. The daily schedule will be as follows: 

• Monday/Wednesday/Thursday: 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.; 
• Tuesday: 12 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. 
• Friday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. 
• Saturday/Sunday: closed, as well as all state holidays.

Pahala's library holds events open to the public, such as a July
presentation by Ka`u resident Joe Iacuzzo on dinosaur mummies.

       “Come and support your public and school library by checking out materials from the collection and also using the computers,” said branch manager Debbie Wong Yuen. “A few years ago, Pahala Library was close to closing its doors due to low usage of the library. To keep these new hours of operation, the community and school needs to make use of the library.” 

      The library has four desktop computers and 21 laptops for the public and students to use free with a Hawai`i State Public Library card. It also offers free Wi-Fi connection during open hours, with a library card.
      Pahala Library offers a large DVD collection. Patrons can check out a movie for one week for $1 per DVD. Also, CDs, audiobooks, books and magazines are available for three-week loan periods. If the library does not have it in its collection, it can be requested from other libraries free of charge.
      Besides the collection at Pahala library, the Hawai`i State Public Library System offers a wide range of online databases and other free services, such as e-learning through Learn4Life and Microsoft IT Academy, which offers many free classes. Downloading of ebooks and audiobooks through OneClickDigital and OverDrive services is also available. Log onto librarieshawaii.org to see all the many free services offered.
      For more information, contact Wong Yuen at 928-2015.
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Ka`u's state Sen. Russell Ruderman

KA`U’S STATE SEN. RUSSELL RUDERMAN has offered testimony in favor of a bill before the Hawai`i County Council that would ban fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, according to Colin M. Stewart, of Hawai`i Tribune-Herald. “I urge you to pass this bill to protect our water table from irreversible damage from fracking,” he said during a meeting of the Council’s Agriculture, Water and Energy Sustainability Committee. “Here in Hawai`i, we’ve been lucky to take water for granted, but it won’t be that way forever. 

       “This isn’t an imaginary concern. It’s of great importance – the drinkable water on our island. Protecting it is what we have to do. Otherwise, we might find ourselves up a creek without a paddle, and that creek won’t be drinkable.”
      In April, the 2013 state Legislature adopted a resolution introduced by Ruderman expressing concern about the use of fracking in Hawai`i. “A proactive approach should be taken to safeguard the people of Hawai`i, the environment, and Hawai`i’s natural resources by opposing the use of hydraulic fracturing,” the resolution stated.
      Ka`u Council member Brenda Ford previously said she introduced the bill because she is concerned about the possible use of hydraulic fracturing in geothermal energy development on Hawai`i Island and contamination of the island’s drinking water supply by chemicals used in the process. “I’m not against geothermal, and I’m not against drilling,” Ford said.

      The process uses pressurized liquid injected into the ground in order to extract resources, usually fossil fuels.

      See more at hawaiitribuneherald.com.

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Ka`u's U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

KAU`S U.S. REP. TULSI GABBARD released the following statement regarding the fifth anniversary of what she called the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression: “The livelihoods of hard-working families were put at risk and, since 2008, millions of Americans have lost their homes and have seen their life savings wiped out – all because of risky banking practices and the overgrown ‘too big to fail’ banks. While our economy has slowly started to come back from this devastating hit, it remains at risk. 

      “After the taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street, the biggest banks are even bigger than they were before the crisis. This dysfunctional regime means Wall Street enjoys the profits in good times, and the taxpayer is on the hook when things take a turn for the worse. We must ensure that no bank is so big that its risky bets can bring down the entire U.S. economy. We must create a banking system that works for every American, not just Wall Street CEOs, and work to enact and strengthen reforms that will protect our economy from another massive collapse.”
     Earlier this year, Gabbard co-sponsored H.R. 129, the Return to Prudent Banking Act, which would reinstate provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act to keep investment banking separate from commercial banking, as well as prevent the largest banks from engaging in speculative trading.

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HAWAI`I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK ANNOUNCES flight plans today and tomorrow for management to use aircraft to monitor and research volcanic activity, conduct search-and-rescue missions and law enforcement operations, support management of natural and cultural resources and maintain backcountry facilities.
      Flights were scheduled over `Ola`a near Wright Road in Volcano Village and over Red Hill, Mauna Loa cabins and Mauna Loa summit this morning.
      Tomorrow from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., work will occur at Kilauea summit.
      “The park regrets any noise impact to residents and park visitors. Dates and times are subject to change based on aircraft availability and weather,” the park said in a statement.

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Shyanne Akiona and Sierra Yeager participate in the Tinikling dance
during Filipino Culture Class. Photo by Thu-Tam Doan

UPLINK ALL-STARS INVITE PARENTS AND `OHANA to their first quarter Ho`ike on Friday, Oct. 4 from 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. The Filipino Culture class will be performing the Tinikling dance, a traditional folk dance named after the Tikling bird. Tinikling literally means Tikling-like. The dance mimics the grace of the Tikling bird as it dodges bamboo traps set by rice framers. 

      “I am very excited to see that even non-Filipino students are taking an interest in this class, bringing even more cultural awareness to Ka`u’s unique community,” said coordinator Thu-Tam Doan.
      Other performances at the Ho`ike will include Ka Nani a’o Ka`u and Lean on Me by the Hawaiian Culture class, Stylin’ Fashion Show by the Creative Arts class, Merenge Hip-Hop dance by the Zumba class and a Gentlemen routine by the student-led dance troupe.
      UPLINK All-Stars will provide two free plate dinners to each family who attends with their UPLINK All-Stars student. To RSVP, contact Doan at 557-7414.
      For more information on the UPLINK All-Stars After-School program, contact Doan or Liza Saplan at 928-2006 or 333-4903.

MATS FOGELVIK, OF OCEAN VIEW, RECEIVED an Honorable Mention award at Hawai`i’s Woodshow with his Pua Koa. The award recognizes outstanding execution and design. The show, sponsored by Hawai`i Forest Industry Association, was held Sept. 1 – 15 at Honolulu Museum of Art School at Linekona.

Mats Fogelvik's Pua Koa received Honorable
Mention at Hawai`i's Woodshow.
Photo from Mats Fogelvik

      Fogelvik said the top of his table is made of five pieces of very unusual koa burl wood from a fallen tree on Maui. It had previously been displayed at Maui Arts and Cultural Center and Volcano Art Center.
      For more about the show, see woodshow.hawaiiforest.org.

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HILO ONE OFFERS A FREE PERFORMANCE this evening at Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The group features Likeke Teanio on lead `ukulele and slack key guitar, Aaron Agres on electric upright bass and Russell Mauga on 12-string guitar. Park entrance fees apply.

KA`U AGRICULTURAL WATER COOPERATIVE DISTRICT meets tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Royal Hawaiian Orchards field office in Pahala. For more information, contact Jeff McCall at 928-6456.

A BIPARTISAN STATES’ RIGHTS MEETING takes place Friday at 9:30 a.m. at the upper pavilion of Punalu`u Bake Shop in Na`alehu. Organizer Robert Williams calls it S.O.S. – Save Our States. For more information, contact Williams at 929-8565.

SILK PAINTING WORKSHOPS ARE SCHEDULED Saturday at Volcano Art Center’s Ni`aulani Campus in Volcano Village. A workshop for beginners takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and a three-hour intermediate workshop begins at 2:30 p.m. 

      Fee is $65 or $58.50 for VAC members, plus a $10 supply fee per session. Call 967-8222 to sign up.

Kristin Aria, of Anela Strings

Irminsul, of Anela Strings

FALL EQUINOX CONCERT & GATHERING featuring Anela Strings takes place Saturday at 6 p.m. at Valentine Sanctuary in Wai`ohinu. Fee is $15, and seating is limited. RSVP at 937-8103 or info@valentinesanctuary.com.

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Ka`u News Briefs Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is keeping a watchful eye on Mauna Loa, where a recent swarm of earthquakes
occurred that is a possible, but not definite, precursor to the next eruption. Photo from HVO

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY characterized a recent swarm of earthquakes as a possible, but not definite, precursor to the next eruption of Mauna Loa. While the swarm was small in historical terms, it was the first cluster of earthquakes in this region of Mauna Loa since the volcano’s 1984 eruption. “Only through continued monitoring over the coming weeks to months will the true meaning of the … swarm be known,” HVO said in the current issue of Volcano Watch. 

      HVO seismic networks recorded a small, three-day-long earthquake swarm just west of Mauna Loa’s summit Sept. 5 through Sept. 7. The swarm consisted of more than 350 detected and tightly clustered earthquakes at a depth of about four miles, but only about 25 were strong enough to be located. The strongest was a magnitude 2.4, and none were reported as felt.

HVO has many stations on Mauna Loa and Kilauea to
track earthquakes. Image from HVO

      The swarm was in the same region where earthquakes began to occur a year or more before Mauna Loa’s 1975 and 1984 eruptions. It’s an area to which HVO pays especially close attention because of this connection.
      The swarm is not the only Mauna Loa activity to have occurred recently. After the eruption in 1984, Mauna Loa immediately began re-inflating as magma once again filled and pressurized storage reservoirs beneath the summit caldera. Inflation waned in 1993, then resumed in May 2002.
      In the second half of 2004, there was an intense swarm of about 2,000 long-period earthquakes more than 19 miles below the summit of the volcano. This swarm was possibly part of the deep magma system that fed the ongoing inflation, HVO reported.
      The rate of inflation increased in 2004, but started to slow in 2006. These data fit the pattern produced by magma intruding 2.5 to five miles beneath the summit area. After 2009, Mauna Loa inflation continued, but very slowly and sporadically, “so the volcano is poised for its next eruption,” according to HVO.

      Mauna Loa is still the largest active volcano on Earth. A volcano off the east coast of Japan, recently touted as the largest volcano in the solar system, last erupted 146 million years ago, possibly around the time the Pacific Ocean Basin was first formed.
      Mauna Loa, on the other hand, has erupted 33 times in the past 170 years, and future eruptions are a certainty, HVO said. With recently upgraded monitoring networks, HVO keeps a close watch on any changes beneath the volcano that might signal its next eruption.
      HVO offers increased availability of real-time earthquake data to the public. Locations and the actual seismometer traces (webicorders) can be viewed at http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/seismic/volcweb/earthquakes/. To view webicorder sites closest to the area in which the recent swarm occurred, click on Webicorders and choose ALEP or TOUO.
      “For now, there’s no need to worry, but we should never lose sight of the fact that Mauna Loa is an active volcano, the largest on Earth, and it will erupt again,” HVO reported.

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KA`U RESIDENTS CAN NOW CONTACT Hawai`i Health Connector’s Customer Support Center for information about health care coverage. The Connector is an online health insurance marketplace created to help individuals and small businesses take advantage of health insurance choices available to them. 

      “The ultimate goal (of the Connector) is to improve access to affordable health care coverage,” said executive director Coral Andrews.
      While the open enrollment period begins Oct. 1, information about the enrollment process, with coverage beginning in January, is available before then. Contact the Connector at 877-628-5076 or support@hawaiihealthconnector.com.
      See more at hawaiihealthconnector.com.
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Sen. Brian Schatz

SEN. BRIAN SCHATZ HAS CALLED FOR RENEWED EFFORT on gun safety legislation after 12 people were killed in a shooting at the Washington, DC Navy Yard yesterday.

 “I joined the rest of the country in being horrified by yesterday’s senseless shooting,” Schatz said. “My thoughts and prayers are with the victims’ families as they begin to cope with the loss of their loved ones.

 

      “We have to do whatever we can to prevent this type of tragedy from occurring again. I call on my colleagues to pass bipartisan gun safety reform. When the Senate debated this issue in April, we saw widespread consensus from the public on common-sense reforms, such as expanding criminal and mental health background checks.


      “While legislation can’t put an end to all violence, lawmakers must do what is right and close the gaping holes in our system in order to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the severely mentally ill. Now is the time to do the right thing.”

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KA`U RESIDENTS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE in this week’s Hawai`i County Council meeting via videoconferencing from Ocean View Community Center. The Council meets tomorrow at 9 a.m. at Council Chambers in Hilo.
      Agenda is are available at hawaiicounty.gov.

Hilo One performs tomorrow in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park.
Photo from NPS

HILO ONE PERFORMS TOMORROW as part of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park’s ongoing Na Leo Manu: Heavenly Voices presentations. The group features Likeke Teanio on lead `ukulele and slack key guitar, Aaron Agres on electric upright bass and Russell Mauga on 12-string guitar. The free program takes place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. 
at Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium. Park entrance fees apply. 

KA`U AGRICULTURAL WATER COOPERATIVE DISTRICT meets Thursday at 4 p.m. at Royal Hawaiian Orchards field office in Pahala. For more information, contact Jeff McCall at 928-6456.

PARTICIPANTS LEARN ABOUT WEB BROWSERS and how to navigate a Web page during a free class held at Pahala Public & School Library Friday from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
      Call 939-2442 at least 48 hours before class to sign up.

PATTI PEASE JOHNSON OFFERS SILK PAINTING workshops Saturday at Volcano Art Center’s Ni`aulani Campus in Volcano Village.

Fresh off of a win against Konawaena, Ka`u High's jayvee girls volleyball
team travels to Hilo High tonight along with the sister varsity team.
Photo by Julia Neal

      A workshop for beginners takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and a three-hour intermediate workshop begins at 2:30 p.m. The three-hour beginning workshop includes an introduction to color theory, tips on mixing color, a lesson on stretching silk on a frame and more. In the intermediate class, Johnson covers the process of painting on silk using wax and the tjanting tool to create a resist line for dyes. Students should bring a design concept from an original photo or from plant materials or objects. Fee is $65 or $58.50 for VAC members, plus a $10 supply fee
per session. Call 967-8222 to sign up.

KA`U TROJAN UPCOMING SPORTS takes the Ka`u High girls varsity and jayvee volleyball teams to Hilo High tonight, brings an eight-man football team from Kealakehe to Ka`u this Friday evening, and takes the Trojan cross country track team and air riflery teams to Konawaena this Saturday. 

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Ka`u News Briefs Monday, Sept. 16, 2013

Pahala Pool Party met its goals raising money on Saturday for the South Swell swim team comprised of 21 youth
members who will compete around the island. Swim meets are sponsored by the county Department of Parks &
Recreation. Pahala Pool is open daily, free to the public. Photo by Tanya Ibarra

BLUE PLANET HAS RELEASED ITS FIRST ANNUAL Energy Report Card for Hawai`i. The progress report provides a perspective on Hawai`i’s energy transformation, taking a look at five key metrics including Transportation, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid and Economics. Supporting drivers are also analyzed to identify gaps in current industry efforts, areas of success and opportunities for improvement.

      Blue Planet developed the report card in response to the need for an objective examination of Hawai`i’s progress to a clean energy future and the benchmark of energy independence by 2030.

      Positive performance in energy efficiency stands out as a bright spot according to the report card, with per capita electricity generation dropping steadily below the target trend since 2008.

      The report card also shows that transportation, which accounts for two-thirds of Hawai`i’s fossil fuel consumption, remains an area that demands improvement. Land transportation offers the most immediate opportunities for reducing fuel consumption, the report card stated. Greater fuel efficiency, alternative fuels, lowering mileage and electric vehicles all have roles to play. “The key challenge is identifying substitutes for aviation fuels, highlighting the need to focus on local biofuels for transportation rather than electricity generation,” said Blue Planet founder Henk Rogers.

Graph from hawaiienergyreportcard.com

      Blue Planet plans to update the Energy Report Card annually to keep progress toward energy independence on track and focus solutions in areas that need it most. “We welcome your input to help make next year’s report card even better,” Rogers said.
      Questions and comments can be addressed to reportcard@blueplanetfoundation.org.
      See hawaiienergyreportcard.org.
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HAWAI`I’S GOAL OF GENERATING 70 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030 was the topic at the fifth annual Asia-Pacific Clean Energy Conference held on O`ahu recently. Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Richard Lim, director of the state Department of Business Development & Tourism, spoke at the conference about the need for an undersea cable to transmit electricity among the islands.
      In the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Alan Yonan, Jr. reported Abercrombie saying at the conference, “We are going to take full advantage and press forward relentlessly on our diverse resources such as geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy and biomass.
      “We believe that connecting the islands through an integrated, modernized grid is the best way to utilize our islands’ best resources at a scale that will reduce cost. This means lower rates on the neighbor islands as soon as they’re connected,” Abercrombie said.

DBEDT director Richard Lim

      According to Duane Shimogawa, writing for Pacific Business News, Richard Lim told attendees that “the long-term vision for Hawai`i is geothermal, but that’s on the Big Island, and it’s going to require an undersea cable.” Lim said that, because the project could take one to three decades, “we need liquefied natural gas as a transitional fuel.”

      As reported previously in Ka`u News Briefs, University of Hawai`i’s Economic Research Organization said the possibility of switching to natural gas in Hawai`i is not straightforward because of the logistics and infrastructure costs (liquefaction, shipping, regasification) of bringing natural gas to Hawai`i. 
      In the Hawai`i Reporter, Michael Hansen, of Hawai`i Shippers, listed challenges associated with an undersea cable: enormous cost, lack of existing excess wind energy capacity in Maui County; technical difficulties of crossing the very deep and wide Alenuihaha Channel between Hawai`i and Maui Islands; problems of developing excess geothermal energy on Hawai`i Island; and political opposition.
      See staradvertiser.com, bizjournals.com and hawaiireporter.com.

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Sen. Josh Green

KA`U’S STATE SEN. JOSH GREEN offered his thoughts on Hawai`i’s state-mandate employer health insurance coverage and Obamacare, the national mandate for health care insurance, in a Politico story by Kyle Cheney. Green, chair of the state Senate Health Committee, said the state’s nearly 40-year-old employer mandate, formally known as the Prepaid Health Care Act, has become an accepted part of the state’s health care system and is, for the most part, taken for granted. “There is almost no mention of the Prepaid Health Care Act here among anyone,” he said. 

      Cheney offered a comparison of Hawai`i’s employer-mandated health care coverage to Obamacare: In Hawai`i, Cheney reported, employers of any size are required to offer coverage to anyone working more than 19 hours per week, while the federal mandate applies to businesses with more than 50 full-time employees, with full time defined as 30 hours per week. 

      The price of coverage in Hawai`i’s program can’t be more than 1.5 percent of a worker’s income, and the federal mandate says affordable coverage is 9.5 percent of income.

A crew removing the antenna from
KAHU radio station.
Photo byJulia Neal

      Regarding Obamacare, Green told Cheney that many of the state’s 90,000 uninsured are young and healthy and unlikely to sign up for Obamacare, despite fines they would be charged. “I think that many of these individuals will not see becoming insured as a benefit that outweighs the penalties, and therefore will not engage,” he said. “As a physician, I would have preferred an approach that focused more on access to services rather than access to coverage, which will be of minimal benefit if there aren’t more doctors and nurses to care for patients.”
      See politico.com.
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HAWAI`I PUBLIC RADIO IS BUYING a new antenna to go up on the pole by the KAHU radio station building on Maile Street in Pahala. Mike Titterton, president and general manager of the statewide HPR, said this morning that he expects that broadcasting from Pahala will resume with HPR2 programming in early November. He said HPR2 will initially reach Pahala and nearby communities until HPR puts equipment on communication towers in the district to cover the entire south side of the island with programming and Civil Defense alerts. Titterton said the owners of the building are donating equipment space and the pole to re-start up KAHU with HPR2 programming. KAHU shut down local programming in April. For the new programming, see hpr2.org. HPR had hoped to use the old KAHU equipment, but it was removed and put up for sale, Titterton said, delaying the startup of HPR2 in Ka`u, originally scheduled to have occurred by now.

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Tours of Volcano Winery's grounds showed off wine grapes and tea.
Photo by Julia Neal

MARIE BOTHOF, OF VOLCANO WINERY, said their first Harvest Festival held yesterday was a big success. The event sold out, with a mix of local residents and visitors. She and her husband Del hope to have another one next year. Attendees enjoyed a variety of wines, pupus, entertainment by Lito Arkangel and tours of the vineyard, tea and fig gardens, greenhouse and vat room.

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Del and Marie Bothof, of Volcano
Winery. Photo by Julia Neal

KOHALA ANIMAL RELOCATION AND EDUCATION SERVICE is coming to Ka`u in November and December. KARES offers free spay and neuter clinics for dogs Tuesday, Nov. 5 and Tuesday, Dec. 3 at St. Jude Episcopal Church on Paradise Circle in Ocean View. Contact KARES to make an appointment at 333-6299 or pets@kohalaanimal.org.

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KA`U’S JAYVEE GIRLS VOLLEYBALL team hosted Konawaena on Saturday and beat the Wildcats in two sets 25-9 and 25-20. The Wildcats overcame the Trojan varsity girls team in three sets, 25-14, 24-14 and 25-21. The Trojans travel to Hilo tomorrow and to Kealakehe Saturday.

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KA`U RESIDENT DICK HERSHBERGER BRINGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory founder Thomas Jaggar to life tomorrow during A Walk into the Past. Programs begin at 10 a.m., 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. at Kilauea Visitor Center then explore Jaggar’s work space, the Whitney Vault, in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park.

KA`U RESIDENTS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE in this week’s Hawai`i County government meetings via videoconferencing from Ocean View Community Center. Committees meet tomorrow, and the full Council meets Wednesday at 9 a.m.

Volcano House manager Rudy Fao and his wife take part in the first
Harvest Festival at Volcano Winery yesterday. Photo by Julia Neal

      All meetings take place at Council Chambers in Hilo.
      Agendas are available at hawaiicounty.gov.

HILO ONE PERFORMS WEDNESDAY AS PART of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park’s ongoing Na Leo Manu: Heavenly Voices presentations. The group features Likeke Teanio on lead `ukulele and slack key guitar, Aaron Agres on electric upright bass and Russell Mauga on 12-string guitar. The free program takes place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. 
at Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium. Park entrance fees apply.

SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS AT PAHALAPLANTATIONCOTTAGES.COM AND KAUCOFFEEMILL.COM. KA`U COFFEE MILL IS OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.

ALSO SEE KAUCALENDAR.COM AND FACEBOOK.COM/KAUCALENDAR.