Ka`u News Briefs Monday, June 22, 2015

Large-scale re-introduction of native plants such as lobeliad is the topic at After Dark in the Park tomorrow.
Photo by Dr. Robert Robichaux

HAWAI`I COFFEE CO., which supports the Miss Ka`u Coffee pageant scholarship fund and markets a Chef Alan Wong blend of Ka`u Coffee, has a new president. Daniel Dinell replaces Jim Wayman, who founded the company and stepped down earlier this year. The company owns Royal Kona Coffee, which it purchased from C. Brewer years ago, and also owns the largest roasting facility in the islands, located on O`ahu. Its other brands include Lion Coffee, Royal Hawaiian Coffee and Hawaiian Islands Tea.
      Dinell comes from Hilton Grand Vacations and has two decades experience in hospitality. He also worked in state government for the Hawai`i Community Development Authority.
      See more at hawaiicoffeecompany.com.
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Hawai`i County encourages residents to seek primary health care.

GOT DOC? THAT’S THE QUESTION Hawai`i County asking residents to encourage them to find a primary health care provider.
      “Imagine a Hawai`i Island where emergency rooms are nearly empty because preventive care services have been integrated into everyone’s health routine for years. Early mornings before sunrise, a group of kupuna does tai chi at the park,” the website gotdoc.org states. “Come lunchtime, kids gather with fellow classmates to play and eat nutritious meals. At pau hana, surfers paddle out for a quick session, and weight loss groups meet up for support and a brisk, evening walk.”
      In Hawai`i, one in every 10 visits to the emergency room is preventable. Easy, common sense measures like routine checkups could save the state $325 million every year.
      On Hawai`i Island, nearly 40,000 adults — about one in every five — don’t have a regular doctor. “That’s a lot of aunties, coworkers, cousins and kupuna at risk for serious health problems,” according to the website. “When members of our community neglect themselves, we all suffer the consequences.
      “Take responsibility for your health and well-being. The first step is having a primary care physician.”
      The website shows how to find a primary care doctor, gives tips on living well and tells stories of individuals who suffer because they don’t have primary care physicians who could have caught symptoms before they turned into major health issues.
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AmeriCorps volunteers helped clean up and organize Pahala Hongwanji
schoolhouse. Photo by Julia Neal

AMERICORPS, WITH TEACHERS IN KA`U, is facing cuts, and yesterday the New York Times came to its defense. The editorial board wrote, “It would be hardhearted and counterproductive to squeeze any more money from the already meager federal funding for public service programs that help struggling schoolchildren, veterans, the elderly and communities stricken by natural disasters. Yet a House subcommittee this week approved a spending bill that cuts federal financing for the already beleaguered Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees many programs, the most well known of which is AmeriCorps.”
      According to the story, the proposed cuts would reduce federal investment in the community service corporation by about a third, would gut some programs and shut others down. The board wrote, “Beyond that, thousands of teachers, tutors and mentors would be withdrawn from low-performing schools across the country. That’s too big a price to pay for a savings so small that it doesn’t even rate as a rounding error in the national budget. It’s up to President Obama to fight for the national service program and make sure it remains intact.”
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Sacred Mauna Kea Hui members protest TMT. Photo by Kai Markell

SACRED MAUNA KEA HUI and its head facilitator Kamahana Kealoha responded to Thirty Meter Telescope organization’s announcement that it would restart construction on Wednesday.

      Construction stopped about three months ago when protesters, who call themselves protectors, blocked crews from reaching the TMT site. Following arrests of 31 people, Gov. David Ige asked TMT to halt proceedings while he discussed the issue with involved parties. Last month, Ige announced his support of TMT’s right to continue with the project and protesters right to protest peacefully.
      “SMKH reaffirms strongly, proudly and with all aloha our commitment to reinforce the blockade and continue to pursue legal routes while being forced to protect the Mauna with our bodies,” according to a statement from the hui.
      “SMKH strongly feels that many laws have been circumvented that make University of Hawai`i, Department of Land & Natural Resources, the state of Hawai`i and the TMT project disparagingly liable for breach of law and legal processes and with the Supreme Court case confirmed that it would be illegal, immoral and unethical for the TMT project and its supports to disallow the full and entire process of law to run its course regardless of the governor’s relinquishing of responsibility in giving the OK for the TMT project to move forward.
      “We implore the governor, UH, DLNR, the state of Hawai`i and the TMT project to rescind its intention to continue desecration and violation of the mandate to steward the endangered species environment that is our Mountain’s summit and reaffirm that all these entities are subject to all responsibility for the well-being of the Mauna and protectors being forced by the governor, UH, DLNR, the state of Hawai`i and the TMT project to put body, freedom and life in jeopardy in order to facilitate the just process of law that is still in motion and should be respected.
      “SMKH reaffirms its commitment to continue to call on its worldwide and local support for all protection efforts of the Mauna including continuing to put our bodies between the desecration of construction and our sacred Mauna and endangered species environment so poorly managed and neglected in regards to legal mandates set in place currently meant to protect the conservation district and cultural resources that are the Piko, or sacred summit, of our first-born elder Mauna Kea.”
      See sacredmaunakea.com.
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Sen. Mazie Hirono

Sen. Brian Schatz

U.S. SENS. MAZIE HIRONO AND BRIAN SCHATZ are divided regarding the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act that the Senate passed last week. Schatz voted for the bill, and Hirono opposed it.
      “Every defense bill has challenges and tradeoffs,” Hirono said, “but this year’s NDAA raised serious questions about our national values.
      “In NDAA, Republicans resorted to a budget gimmick to provide sequester relief just for the Department of Defense while leaving the full burden of sequester for domestic programs such as the FBI, State Department, Treasury, Coast Guard, Homeland Security, education, transportation and other important priorities that contribute to our national security.
      “This approach divides our country into two Americas — defense on one side and everything and everyone else on the other. I call this un-American.”
      Schatz said, “The defense authorization bill includes many provisions that strengthen our national defense, reinforce the need to rebalance to the Asia Pacific — through which Hawai`i is central — and provide our service members with the equipment and training they need to protect America. The bill specifically states that any withdrawal of U.S. forces from U.S. Pacific Command would undermine the rebalance to the Asia Pacific, and that U.S. forces under the operational control of U.S. Pacific Command — like those of U.S. Army Pacific based in Hawai`i — should be increased, consistent with our commitment to the region.”
      While Schatz objects to the budget using Overseas Contingency Operations to circumvent the 2011 Budget Control Act’s spending caps to fund the military’s core operations, he said he will address those concerns in appropriations bills on the Senate floor.
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Dick Hershberger, as Thomas Jaggar, explains volcano activity to A Walk
into the Past participants. Photo by Ron Johnson

VISITORS TO HAWAI`I VOLCANOES National Park tomorrow can enjoy two programs.
      Ka`u resident Dick Hershberger brings Hawaiian Volcano Observatory founder Thomas Jaggar to life tomorrow every other Tuesday at 10 a.m., 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. Participants meet at Kilauea Visitor Center for a short walk to Whitney Vault near Volcano House.
      The topic at After Dark in the Park at 7 p.m. is Silverswords & Lobeliads. Dr. Robert Robichaux discusses highly collaborative, large-scale endangered plant re-introduction efforts on Hawai`i Island at Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium.
      $2 donations support After Dark programs. Park entrance fees apply.

FAMED, AWARD-WINNING GUITARIST John Keawe brings A Tribute to Slack Key to Na`alehu Public Library tomorrow at 3 p.m. Originally planned for last Thursday, the program was rescheduled due to a miscommunication, according to library manager Sara Kamibayashi. 

      For more information, call 939-2442.

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Ka`u News Briefs Sunday, June 21, 2015

Volcano Village holds its Fourth of July celebration, with a parade to and festivities at Cooper Center, on Saturday, July 4.
Photo from Sher Glass

Henry Yang, of TMT

THIRTY METER TELESCOPE construction will restart Wednesday after more than two months of consultation, education and dialogue with many stakeholders. “Our period of inactivity has made us a better organization in the long run,” said Henry Yang, Chair of TMT’s International Observatory Board. “We are now comfortable that we can be better stewards and better neighbors during our temporary and limited use of this precious land, which will allow us to explore the heavens and broaden the boundaries of science in the interest of humanity.

      “We look forward to a positive relationship with all Hawaiians, while we understand that the majority of Hawai`i’s people are supporting the TMT project. We deeply respect and are mindful of those who have concerns, and yet, we hope they will permit us to proceed with this important task while reserving their right to peaceful protest.
      According to Yang, TMT plans to assess any possible oil leakage and ensure it can provide proper maintenance of machines and equipment so they operate safely and correctly in order to protect Maunakea and preserve the sensitive environment. The organization will then begin to repair and install fencing for public safety.
      Yang said TMT will allow cultural practitioners in the area of the construction site to continue customary and traditional practices. “Allowing this practice to continue to occur will require further dialogue and mutual agreement to work out the details in order to establish a cooperative and harmonious environment for all parties,” he said.
      “In an effort to be sensitive to and observant of the Native Hawaiian host culture, we will deepen our knowledge of the cultural, ecological and spiritual aspects of the mountain and continue to learn how to better respect and appreciate Maunakea’s important cultural areas,” Yang said. “On behalf of TMT, I want to express our sincere appreciation to the people in Hawaii for their understanding and support.”
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Ua Galimba and her steer Kaimana took first in show. Galimba also took first in
in showman category in both the steer and hog divisions. At her left is livestock judge
An Peischel. Photo by Rebecca Settlage 

UA GALIMBA WON GRAND CHAMPION Steer competition at this weekend’s annual Hawai`i County 4-H Livestock Show & Sale. In addition to the title with a steer named Kaimana, Galimba took first in the Junior Showman Category for steer and the Junior Showman category for hogs. Also participating from Ka`u
were Grant and Kealia Galimba and Kailee Aickin.      
     The Ka`u contingent traveled with their livestock to Mealani Research Station in Kamuela for the event, which included auctioning off the animals they raised and cared for in preparation for the competition.

       The competition included categories for poultry and rabbits on Friday afternoon and hogs, lambs, steers and breeding heifers on Saturday morning, followed by the auction.
     Local supporters of the show and auction include Aikane Plantation, Malama Market, Kuahiwi Ranch and Chris Manfredi.
      The 4-H program encourages and mentors youth from five to 18 years of age to learn animal husbandry, humane handling skills, record-keeping and financial planning, as well as the discipline of daily responsibility in raising livestock. The first livestock club program formed in 1918.
      “Supporting young people in agriculture is one of the most effective ways, besides buying local, to contribute toward sustainability of our island home,” said a 4-H press release.
      For more information about 4-H, contact CTAHR extension agent Becky Settlage at settlage@hawaii.edu.
      For more on the 2015 4-H Livestock Show and Sale and joining 4-H in Ka`u, contact Ka`u rancher and state Board of Agriculture member Michelle Galimba at mgalimba@kuahiwiranch.com.
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HOMELESSNESS IS THE FOCUS of John Burnett’s two stories in Hawai`i Tribune Herald this morning. While homeless people may be widely scattered in Ka`u near beach parks and some abandoned buildings and lots in Ka`u, the islandwide picture is much more apparent in the urban areas. 

      According to Burnett, the number of homeless people on the island has risen 43 percent since last year, with 1,241 compared to last year’s 869. HOPE Services Hawai`i, Inc. came up with the statistics during a survey conducted early this year. Brandee Menino, chief executive officer, told Burnett the numbers are probably on the low side.
      Kaui Alexander, HOPE Services’ care coordinator, said the homeless population will likely continue to rise. “A lot of families are just one setback away from becoming homeless,” Alexander said. “A job ending or a health problem that arises can quickly lead to the inability … to pay rent or utility bills, afford child care, put gas in the car, and families are left having to make tough decisions.”
      See hawaiitribuneherald.com.
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The current issue of Volcano Watch discusses Kilauea's historic lava lakes.
Photo by Thomas Jaggar, Jr. from USGS/HVO

KILAUEA’S HISTORIC LAVA LAKES are the topic of the current issue of Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s Volcano Watch.
      “Although relatively new to most of us, churning lava lakes are certainly not new to Halema`uma`u Crater,” the article states. “Indeed, from 1823 through 1924, a lava lake (or lakes) was nearly always present in the caldera, generally inside Halema`uma`u. Short-lived lava lakes played in Halema`uma`u several times between 1924 and 1968. Much of the time, however, visitors witnessed a scene quite different from today.
      “As one example, this nearly century-old print shows Halema`uma`u when much more of its floor was covered by a lava lake compared to today. Towering bodies of solidified lava called crags rise above the lake surface like battleships on the sea. At times these crags were so high that they could be seen by spectators at the old Volcano House nearly three kilometers (two miles) away. Visitors could sometimes view lava fountaining and hear noises of splashing lava from the hotel. Today, the clatter of breaking and falling rocks is, with favorable wind, audible outside Jaggar Museum, and the overflows in April and May were visible from many caldera vantage points.
      “In the early 1900s, the lava lake inside Halema`uma`u resembled a dynamic body of water in many ways. Thomas A. Jaggar, founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, used terms such as cove, bay and inlet to describe lava pools and other features in the lake. The lava lake was typically impounded by levees made by overflows of lava from the lake, just as overflows of silt-laden water create levees along the Mississippi River. 

      The article includes a photograph that shows what was known as the Southeast Crag, an 11-m- (36-ft-) high peak of solidified lava that had been twisted and tilted upward. Similar features have not developed in the current lava lake. The article states that this may be “because the present lake is impounded by the walls of Overlook crater, not by its own natural levees, which can change configuration and location with time. If such self-impoundment should develop in the Overlook lava lake, we may once again see crags, bays and inlets.”
      HVO will share more of the rich photographic record of Halema`uma`u lava lakes from the last century in future Volcano Watch columns. “Although they lack the vivid and mesmerizing colors of modern photographs, there is a stark beauty in these crisp, black-and-white scenes of lava in its myriad forms that we find equally compelling,” the article states.

      See hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch.
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Silversword Photo by Dr. Robert Robichaux

KILAUEA MILITARY CAMP’S Crater Rim Café in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park offers Father’s Day Buffet today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Main entrees are prime rib, shrimp Alfredo with mushrooms and Asian-infused Hawaiian ono. Adult price is $27; child, $14.50. 

      Call 967-8356 for more details. Park entrance fees apply.

DR. ROBERT ROBICHAUX, PROFESSOR of ecology and evolutionary biology at University of Arizona and founder and president of the Board of Trustees of the Hawaiian Silversword Foundation, discusses highly collaborative, large-scale endangered plant reintroduction efforts on Hawai`i Island Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park.

      According to Robichaux, the native silversword and lobeliad lineages of Hawai`i are the world’s most spectacular examples of plant adaptive radiation, in which single colonizing ancestors have given rise to a stunning diversity of descendant species. Yet, the two lineages now include some of the world’s most critically imperiled plants.
      This presentation illustrates the value of integrating reintroduction efforts with ongoing ecosystem restoration efforts across large landscapes.

VOLCANO VILLAGE HOLDS ITS annual Fourth of July celebration Saturday, July 4. This free event is sponsored by Volcano Community Association, Cooper Center Council and Friends of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. Festivities start at 9 a.m. at the Volcano Post Office with a good, old-fashioned patriotic parade going down Old Volcano Road and ending at Cooper Center. Free entertainment, keiki games for 50 cents, a craft fair, silent auction and food for the whole family continue to 1 p.m.

A MEN’S BASKETBALL LEAGUE is forming for the summer, starting in July with play at the Ka`u High School Gym. Men, high school age and older are invited to form teams and join the competition which will take place Mondays and Thursdays, starting at 6 p.m. Anyone interested, call Elijah Navarro at Pahala Community Center at 928-3102 or 430-9461.

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Ka`u News Briefs Saturday, June 20, 2015

Ka`u Junior Lifeguard Program participants cleaned up the beach at Kawa yesterday. Photo from Lui Sales

KA`U JUNIOR LIFEGUARD PROGRAM participants cleaned up the beach at Kawa yesterday. The junior lifeguard program, which takes place for two weeks each summer, teaches kids ages 12 to 17 about ocean safety and beach rescue skills. Topics include an introduction to water safety, first aid, CPR and surf rescue techniques with an emphasis on ocean swimming and paddle boarding. 

      Helping out with the program were lifeguards Kevin Ohara, Kaleo Huddy, Rob Patterson and Ryan Kuamo`o and firefighters Lui Sales, Ash Kanahele and Ryan Brown.
      “This program is so great, and I really enjoy working with the kids and giving back to the community in two ways,” Sales said. “First is teaching the kids ocean safety and beach rescues such as first aid and CPR, and second is maybe one day when someone is in need of rescue or first aid, one of these kids may implement what they’ve learned and save someone's life. It’s so awesome how the kids respond to our instruction and how much fun we have.”

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PacIOOS updates currents at Hilo Bay hourly online.

A NEW DATA SET OF DIRECTION and speed of ocean surface currents in Hilo Bay is now available online. Hourly updates are free and accessible to the public on Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System’ interactive mapping platform Voyager. 

      Mapping ocean surface currents in near real-time provides valuable data for search and rescue operations by narrowing down the possible location of the missing person or vessel. The new data set also helps forecast distribution of oil or hazardous material spills, making it crucial to plan an adequate response. Marine navigation can benefit from near real-time surface currents for safe navigation. Other examples of surface currents data usage include water quality monitoring and forecast modeling.
      “We are excited about the new ocean surface current data for Hilo,” said Jason Adolf, Associate Professor and Chair of the Marine Science Department at the University of Hawai`i-Hilo. “It complements the PacIOOS wave buoy and water quality buoy off Hilo Harbor.”
      Adolf said the new data set also contributes to educational activities for the university’s marine science curriculum and helps raise public awareness in partnership with Mokupapapa Discovery Center.”
      See http://goo.gl/jc04t7.

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Junji Takasago and Megan Lamson Photo from HWF

HAWAI`I WILDLIFE FUND’S Marine Debris Project has received a crowd-funded donation of $4,000 from 255 donors across Japan. Project coordinator and marine biologist Megan Lamson met up with nature photographer and ocean advocate Junji Takasago to accept the funds last month. 

       Lamson said the donation will be used to continue beach cleanups and outreach work related to marine debris on Hawai`i Island. HWF and volunteers have removed over 177 U.S. tons of marine debris in Hawai`i since beginning cleanup efforts in 2003.
      HWF estimates that at least 15 to 20 tons of marine debris wash ashore annually along a 10-mile stretch of shoreline in Ka`u and South Kona and will continue to do so until reduction of single-use plastic consumption occurs around the globe.
      “Marine debris is a people problem, and because of that it gives us hope, as people can also fix this problem,” said marine scientist Stacey Breining, HWF’s Marine Debris Mentor and Outreach Specialist.
        “Our team with Hawai`i Wildlife Fund is most honored to accept this generous donation for marine debris removal efforts and communication related to the Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting Japanese tsunami,” Lamson said. “We are humbled by the generosity of this crowd-funded project and hope to maintain contact with the organizers and the 255 contributors into the future.”

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Chief of Staff Mike McCartney
accompanied Gov. Ige in Japan.

GOV. DAVID IGE RETURNED from Japan yesterday after his first international trip as governor. 

      In 3.5 days, Ige attended 19 meetings and events, including a 30-minute meeting with Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The governor and Chief of Staff Mike McCartney also met with various travel industry partners and leaders and a range of corporations and businesses to discuss tourism to Hawai`i, easing access to the Hawaiian Islands through the pre-clearance program and a variety of ways to boost economic and business development in the Hawaiian Islands.
      “It was a positive, insightful and successful trip,” Ige said. “We were welcomed with aloha and reminded that Japan and Hawai`i’s businesses and communities share similar values. Our relationship with Japan is extremely important, and these face-to-face meetings were essential. Japan and Hawai`i already have strong economic, cultural and education ties, and we intend to build upon those ties and relationships as we look toward the future.”
      First Lady Dawn Ige joined the governor on the trip, visiting a sister-city school in Chigasaki as a representative of the state of Hawai`i. Students from the school are planning to visit Hawai`i next year.
      Japan is the state’s number one international market with up to 19 flights a day from six cities to the Hawaiian Islands, bringing in an annual 1.5 million visitors who spend about $2.5 billion a year. That results in $260 million in state tax revenue.

UPON HIS RETURN FROM JAPAN, Gov. David Ige signed into law Act 124, which grants high school diplomas to veterans of the armed forces who were not able to complete their education because of compulsory service in the armed services of the United States during World War II, the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War.

      Act 124 continues the Hawai`i State Department of Education’s Honorary Kupono Diploma program that was established in 2007 with Act 101, which is set to expire on June 30.

Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi and other Department of Education
personnel join Gov. David Ige for his signing of Act 124.
Photo from Office of the Governor

      The statute establishes a program within DOE that not only grants high school diplomas to veterans of the armed forces, but also recognizes Japanese-Americans who were not able to complete high school because they were relocated to internment camps during World War II.
      Since 2008, DOE has awarded 26 high school diplomas, with 25 going to military veterans and one to an internment honoree.
      SB 181/Act 124 continues this program for an additional five years, until 2020.

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NO SMOKING IN HAWAI`I IF UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE. Gov. David Ige signed the historic tobacco legislation into law yesterday. When enacted on Jan. 1, 2016, Act 122 will make Hawai`i the first state to prohibit the sale, purchase, possession or consumption of cigarettes, other tobacco products and electronic smoking devices to anyone under age 21.
      “Raising the minimum age as part of our comprehensive tobacco control efforts will help reduce tobacco use among our youth and increase the likelihood that our keiki will grow up to be tobacco-free,” Ige said.
      Hawai`i County is one of a handful of cities and counties to have already raised the MLA to 21, having passed the bill last year.
      Ige also signed a bill that makes Hawai`i state parks and beaches smoke-free. Currently, all city and county parks in Hawai`i are smoke-free with the exception of Kaua`i County. The state law will apply to all facilities within the state Park System administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources as of July 1, 20`5.

      To assist Hawai`i residents comply with the new legislation, tobacco and e-cigarette users are encouraged to contact the Hawai`i Tobacco Quitline for support and free resources, including approved nicotine delivery devices. Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW or see www.hawaiiquitline.org to learn more.
      For more information about Hawai`i’s Tobacco Prevention and Education Program, see www.health.hawaii.gov/tobacco.

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MEMBERS OF KA`U AGRICULTURAL WATER Cooperative District are invited to a conflict resolution workshop a week from today on Saturday, June 27 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Ka`u Coffee Mill. The workshop, sponsored by The Kohala Center, presents skills that current and future board members need in conflict prevention, management and resolution in order for co-ops to be effective.

      Scott Enright, Chair of Hawai`i Department of Agriculture, will present an update on water access through state agencies. 

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KA`U RURAL HEALTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, Inc. provides information about its pilot Community Health Worker Program at a meeting this Thursday, June 25 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Ka`u Resource & Distance Learning Center in Pahala.

Ka`u residents can learn about a Community Health Worker Program Thursday.

      Registration is required. Call 928-0101 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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PARTICIPANTS DISCOVER HAWAIIAN goddesses Hi`iaka and Pele and natural phenomena they represent on a moderate one-mile walk tomorrow from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Kahuku Unit of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park.

KILAUEA MILITARY CAMP’S Crater Rim Café in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park offers Father’s Day Buffet tomorrow from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Main entrees are prime rib, shrimp Alfredo with mushrooms and Asian-infused Hawaiian ono. Adult price is $27; child, $14.50.
      Call 967-8356 for more details. Park entrance fees apply.

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