Ka`u News Briefs Sept. 9, 2012

Maile David, left, and Brenda Ford, second left, face a runoff in November for District 6 County Council.
Photo from Big Island Video News

KA`U’S TWO COUNTY COUNCIL CANDIDATES heading into a November runoff, each qualified for $48,893 in public funding for the primary and general elections, the most of all candidates running for council islandwide. After the primary election, both Maile David and Brenda Ford received the last installment of the funding - $7,320 each to spend until the Nov. 6 election.
      While the public funding comes from $3 donations checked off on state tax returns, the amounts for each district vary. District 6 has the most funding, which is based on the amount of private money raised for council campaigns before public funding started. In one election, Guy Enriques raised a large sum for this County Council campaign, more than any other candidate around the island, leading to the big publicly funded money pot in this election for Ka`u council district candidates.
      The public funding is a test, conducted by the state elections office, being carried out only in Hawai`i County. It ends after the 2014 elections unless the Hawai`i legislature votes to take it statewide or approve another round of testing.

Maile David and Brenda Ford both received public funding to run
for County Council. Photo by Charles Tobias

      Five of the nine Hawai`i County Council seats were decided in the primary election, some of the candidates using public funding and some using private funding. Those council seats already decided will be held by Karen Eoff and J Yoshimoto, who ran with public funding, and Dru Kanuha, Zendo Kern and Dennis Onishi who raised money on their own.
      A story in this morning’s Hawai`i Tribune Herald sums up the ongoing campaigning for County Council islandwide, noting that the state Campaign Spending Commission gave out $215,344.23 to eight County Council contenders on this island.
      According to the Tribune Herald story, in Puna, incumbent and finalist Fred Blas, who declined to apply for public funding and rejecting the idea of using tax money for campaigning, has far less money than Greggor Ilaga, who took the public funds and still has $6,554 to spend on the general election.
      According to the Peter Sur story, for the Waimea District race, attorney Margaret Wille accepted public funding and received $11,427.46 for the primary and $173 for the general, since her district had little spent on campaigning in past elections. Her opponent New Hope pastor Oliver Sonny Shimaoka chose not to accept public funding and raised $14,235.08. The newspaper reports that Wille says a political action committee may be set up to campaign for her issues, which include support of the Hawai`i Clean Elections law.

Brenda Ford holds a talk story in Ocean View tomorrow.
Photo by David Howard Donald

      In Hamakua, Valerie Poindexter and Chelsea Yagong are running on private funding. The public funding was very small there leading both candidates to opt out.
     See more at hawaiitribune-herald.com.

A TALK STORY IN OCEAN VIEW Ford and candidate for Prosecuting Attorney Mitch Roth is scheduled for tomorrow evening from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Community Center. All are welcome to bring questions and concerns. 

      Ford held a talk story at Kilauea Lodge in Volcano Village this morning.

KA`U’S KULEANA LANDOWNERS are invited to learn how the Office of Hawaiian Affairs can help them apply for property tax exemption at a meeting Tuesday, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Pahala Community Center. 
Handed down through Hawaiian families for generations, kuleana lands are usually small parcels surrounded by larger tracts of property and are sometimes landlocked. Call 808-594-1967 for more information.

THE NEXT KA`U AGRICULTURAL WATER COOPERATIVE DISTRICT meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 13, at 4 p.m. at the ML Mac Nut Field Office. Each region between Kapapala and Ha`ao Springs is expected to send a representative. The organization is restoring agricultural water from the old plantation system. Meetings are open to the public. For more information, call Jeff McCall at 928-6456.   

THE NEXT HA`AO AGRICULTURAL WATER MEETING will be hosted Thursday, Sept. 27, at Wai`ohinu Park at 2:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend. For more, call Jane at 939-9461.

AN ANCHIALINE POOL RESTORATION WORKDAY takes place tomorrow, where volunteers will help remove sediment from the pool. Sign up with Megan Lamson at 769-7629 or kahakai.cleanups@gmail.com. 

Ali`i Keanaaina performs at Hawai`i Volcanoes
National Park on Sept. 19. Photo from HVNP

ALI`I KEANAAINA is scheduled to perform at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park on Wednesday, Sept. 19, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium. Singer, songwriter and musician Keanaaina debuts his first solo album, He Mele No, an album dedicated to those who inspired him to sing and write. Keanaaina's stories he has set to melody are brought to life by his band, He Mele No, which is comprised of his twin brother Nui, and cousins Pililani Pua-Kaipo and Bradshaw Ellis. CD’s available for purchase at the concert. The concert is part of Hawai‘i Volcanoes’ ongoing Na Leo Manu “Heavenly Voices” presentations. The public event is free, but entrance fees may apply.

SUMI-E JAPANESE BRUSHSTROKE PAINTING is offered at Na`alehu Hongwanji Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.



BEGINNING MACHINE QUILTING CLASSES are offered at Pahala Quilting starting this Tuesday, with additional classes on Sept. 18 and 25. For more, call Donna at 238-0505.  


REGISTERING FOR MOLD CERAMICS, for grades 4 through 8, must be completed before Thursday, Sept. 13 for those who want to attend. The classes held at Pahala Community Center from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. start Thursday, Sept. 20, and end Thursday, Oct. 25. There is a fee for supplies. For more, call Nona at 928-3102.

HAWAI`I WILDLIFE FUND hosts a beach clean up at Kamilo on Saturday, Sept. 15, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. All volunteers will meet at Wai`ohinu Park on Hwy 11 near mile marker 65 at 7:45 a.m. and are asked to bring sturdy shoes, bag lunch, sun and wind protection, plenty of drinks and four-wheel-drive vehicles if possible. HWF will supply cleanup materials. Those interested can contact Megan Lamson at 769-7629 or kahakai.cleanups@gmail.com.

 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS AT PAHALAPLANTATIONCOTTAGES.COM AND KAUCOFFEEMILL.COM.

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Ka`u News Briefs Sept. 8, 2012

Pu`u O`o Crater at the end of the Napau Trail. A guided walk takes Friends members on an eight-hour hike over the Napau Trail.
Photo from letsgo-hawaii.com

THE BIG ISLAND COMMUNITY COALITION is looking for “huge numbers” of citizens to testify at the Public Utilities Commission hearings on both Hawai`i Electric Light Co.’s proposal for a 4.2 percent rate hike, as well as `Aina Koa Pono's proposed biofuel project, says leader Richard Ha. The `Aina Koa Pono contract with the utility would raise electric bills an average of $1 for every 600 kilowatts of residential electricity used. It would also involve cuting trees, brush and crops between Pahala and Na`alehu and making them into pellets to feed a refinery at the mouth of Wood Valley. The end product would be biofuel trucked to HELCO's oil burning power plant near the airport in Kona. The company promises 200 permanent jobs.

       The hearings are Monday, Oct. 29, 6 p.m. at Hilo High School cafeteria, and Tuesday, Oct. 30, 6 p.m. at Kealakehe High School cafeteria. No hearings are scheduled for Ka`u but one is set for O`ahu in November. Last year PUC chair Mina Morita and the commission turned down a similar proposal for `Aina Koa Pono.

      According to Ha, the Big Island Community Coalition opposes both the 4.2 percent rate hike and the new `Aina Koa Pono contract “because they would raise, rather than lower, our electricity rates.” Ha said that if many people show up, “we can make a difference.” 

Mina Morita, Chair of the PUC.

      The Big Island Community Coalition was formed to come up with low cost energy solutions. Its steering committee includes two members of the state Board of Agriculture, Richard Ha, of Hamakua Springs Country Farms, and Michelle Galimba, of Kuahiwi Ranch in Ka`u. It also includes Big Island Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee and Ka`u sugar mill site co-owner Robert Lindsey. Other steering committee members are geothermal proponent Ku`ulei Kealoha Cooper, of Kealoha Estate; John E.K. Dill, member of the state Contractors License Board; Rockne Freitas, vice president for student affairs at University of Hawai`i; Wallace Ishibashi, of the ILWU; D. Noelani Kalipi, a former military attorney and advocate of economic and energy development; Ka`iu Kimura, executive director of `Imiloa Astronomy Center; H. “Monty” Richards, of Kahua Ranch; Marcia Sakai, Dean of University of Hawai`i – Hilo School of Business and Economics; Kumu Lehua Veincent, principal of Big Island Kamehameha School; and Bill Walter, president of W.H. Shipman, Ltd.
      Advisors to the coalition are state House of Representatives Energy Committee chair Denny Coffman, who is running to represent Ka`u into Kona in the November election; Don Thomas, of UH geology schools at Manoa and Hilo; and Robert Rapier, an energy expert who lives in Kamuela.
      In calling for citizens to attend the rate hike public hearing, Ha calls PUC members “caring human beings. But they have to know what the people want.” Ha also says that the “Big Island is in trouble. We have one of the highest electricity rates in Hawai‘i – almost 25 percent higher than O`ahu’s.” He compares high electricity rates to “a giant regressive tax, only worse. As people leave the electric grid to escape its high cost, those who cannot afford to do so pay even more.”

A photo of Richard Ha from the Kohala Center,
 which describes him as "Working at the
intersection of food and energy."

      Ha writes that the Big Island has a robust supply of alternatives to oil. “We need to mobilize and make meaningful change. The world has been using twice as much oil as it’s been finding for 20 to 30 years now, and this trend continues.
      “In the last 10 years, the price of oil has quadrupled. Something significant has changed: This has never before happened in the 150 years comprising our ‘Age of Oil.’” Ha says that in China, “they use two barrels of oil/person/year, and even when oil costs $100/barrel, their economy continues to grow. Here in the U.S., we use 23 barrels of oil/person/year, and at $100 oil, our economy is sputtering. It is reasonable to assume that the price of oil will continue to rise as it continues to be influenced by China’s demand.” Ha asks, “Who here is most vulnerable to rising electricity costs?”
      He gives two answers: Senior citizens on fixed income, who sometimes have to make choices between food, medicine and electricity. “We cannot leave our kupuna – our moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas – out there to fend for themselves. These are the ones who sacrificed so we could have a better life.” He also points to single moms as vulnerable. “I talked to a person who has several kids she hopes to send to college. She told me the threat of rising electricity prices weighs on her every day.”
    See more at hahaha.hamakuasprings.com. See HELCO proposals and community comments at puc.hawaii.gov.

Bob Linsey is running for reelection
as a trustee for OHA.

ROBERT KAMAILE LINDSEY, JR., who is running for re-election as Hawai`i Island Trustee for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, has issued a statement on his background and beliefs. “I bring Aloha to OHA’s table,” he said. “I am mission focused and results driven, my total commitment and passion is “to better conditions for our people. Lindsey said that he has advocated to have OHA’s Strategic Plan updated and operationalized, encouraging his colleagues to “pursue systemic and long term change by establishing strategic priorities, developing strategic outcomes, performance goals aligned to budgets with ongoing reviews. This has been done. We are moving forward and doing our people’s business in a rational, deliberate and thoughtful way.” He said the OHA Strategic Plan is accompanied by a budget “aligned to that plan and a team of committed, energetic employees working tirelessly daily to advance that Plan and give you the quality of life and a tomorrow you so well deserve.”
      Lindsey said he believes “in the democratic process. I see myself as an independent, not aligned with any particular faction or group. I act and vote on issues. I believe in majority rule and I don’t take things personal. There have been moments when I’ve been on the losing side. I accept the will of the majority and move on to other business that needs attention.”
       He says he is a “peacemaker and a believer in consensus building” and that his values include: Aloha I ke kahi I ke kahi; Aloha ke Akua; Pono; Laulima; Ka Manaoio; Ka Manaolana; Ho’olohe; and Pa`a ka waha hana ka lima. See more at boblindsey.net, where the website describes him as family, friend, servant and leader.
      Lindsey is also co-owner of the old sugar mill site in Pahala.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE will be celebrated at Honu`apo Park Friday, Sept. 21. The public is invited to gather at 3 p.m. and all who attend are encouraged to wear white for a human peace sign photo at 4 p.m. For more info on the event, call 939-9461 or 929-7647.
     Shary Crocker, one of the facilitators of the event, said she and a group of community members that meet once a week to watch films about encouraging compassionate non-violent communication, watched a documentary called Peace One Day and were inspired to host an event of their own. Crocker is a Communication Facilitator and says her late husband lived by the motto "May Peace Be With You." For more on the world agreements around this day, visit http://cultureofpeace.org/idp.

REGISTERING FOR MOLD CERAMICS, for grades 4 through 8, must be completed before Thursday, Sept. 13 for those who want to attend. The classes held at Pahala Community Center from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. start Thursday, Sept. 20, and end Thursday, Oct. 25. There is a fee for supplies. For more, call Nona at 928-3102. 

Trojans last night at Konawaena High School.  Photo by Tanya Ibarra

DESPITE A TOUGH LOSS TO KONAWAENA, 85-0, Ka`u Trojan fans and team sang an arousing rendition of the Ka`u song on the Konawaena campus.

KA`U TROJANS SPORTS LINE-UP FOR TODAY starts with a home volleyball match versus Hilo starts at 10 a.m. Away events include a cross-county meet at Kamehameha at 10 a.m., an air riflery match at Waiakea at 10 a.m., and a bowling match at Kona Bowl in the afternoon. For more, call athletic director Kalei Namohala at 928-2012.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE is collected at Wai`ohinu Transfer Station today from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

RECYCLABLES ARE ACCEPTED IN OCEAN VIEW at Atlas Recycling at South Point U-Cart today from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

PEOPLE AND LAND OF KAHUKU, a guided 2.5 mile moderately difficult hike offered tomorrow, takes visitors over rugged terrain and focuses on the human history in the Kahuku Unit of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. The hike starts at 9:30 a.m. and is expected to finish around 12:30 p.m. For more, call 985-6011.

A guided walk takes participants on a 14 mile round trip
hike to explore Napau Trail. Photo from farschman.com

SUNDAY WALK IN THE PARK, a strenuous eight-hour, 14 mile round trip hike exploring the Napau Trail, is offered tomorrow by Friends of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. The hike is fast-paced and includes a 620-foot elevation gain. Participants are asked to bring a bag lunch and at least three quarts of water. The hike is open to members but non-members are welcome to join in order to attend. Park entrance fees apply. For more call 985-7373, email admin@fhvnp.org, or visit fhvnp.org.

MUCK-SUCKING IS ON THE AGENDA at an anchialine pool restoration workday on Monday, Sept. 10, when volunteers help remove sediment from the pool. Sign up with Megan Lamson at 769-7629 or kahakai.cleanups@gmail.com.

BEGINNING MACHINE QUILTING CLASSES are offered at Pahala Quilting on Tuesdays, Sept. 11, 18 and 25. For more call, Donna at 238-0505.

KA`U’S KULEANA LANDOWNERS are invited to learn how the Office of Hawaiian Affairs can help them apply for property tax exemption at a meeting Tuesday, Sept. 11, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Pahala Community Center.
      Handed down through Hawaiian families for generations, kuleana lands are usually small parcels surrounded by larger tracts of property and sometimes are landlocked. Call 808-594-1967 for more information.

HAWAI`I WILDLIFE FUND hosts a beach clean up at Kamilo a week from today, Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. All volunteers will meet at Wai`ohinu Park on Hwy 11 near mile marker 65 at 7:45 a.m. and are asked to bring sturdy shoes, bag lunch, sun and wind protection, plenty of drinks and four-wheel-drive vehicles if possible. HWF will supply cleanup materials. Those interested can contact Megan Lamson at 769-7629 or kahakai.cleanups@gmail.com.

SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS AT PAHALAPLANTATIONCOTTAGES.COM AND KAUCOFFEEMILL.COM.

ALSO SEE KAUCALENDAR.COM.

Ka`u News Briefs Sept. 7, 2012

President Barack Obama wraps up his speech with the Bruce Stpringsteen song playing and the Hawai`i delegation sign backing him up. Video image from CNN.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA stood with Hawai`i delegates up front on his left side, cheering from the floor of the Democratic National Convention, as he gave his acceptance speech as nominee for reelection. Last night Obama said, “hope has been tested by the cost of war, by one of the worst economic crises in history and by political gridlock that's left us wondering whether it's still even possible to tackle the challenges of our time…

      “Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. The truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. And if you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me, so am I,” he said, bringing laughter to the convention hall. “But when all is said and done, when you pick up that ballot to vote, you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation. Over the next few years big decisions will be made in Washington on jobs, the economy, taxes and deficits, energy, education, war and peace — decisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and on our children's lives for decades to come.”

Hawai`i upfront at the DNC.
Photo from votemufi.com

      Obama declared that “on every issue, the choice you face won't just be between two candidates or two parties. It will be a choice between two different paths for America, a choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future. Ours is a fight to restore the values that built the largest middle class and the strongest economy the world has ever known— the values my grandfather defended as a soldier in Patton's army, the values that drove my grandmother to work on a bomber assembly line while he was gone. They knew they were part of something larger — a nation that triumphed over fascism and depression, a nation where the most innovative businesses turn out the world's best products, and everyone shared in that pride and success from the corner office to the factory floor.
      “My grandparents were given the chance to go to college and buy their home — their own home and fulfill the basic bargain at the heart of America's story, the promise that hard work will pay off, that responsibility will be rewarded, that everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules, from Main Street to Wall Street to Washington, D.C.
      “And I ran for president because I saw that basic bargain slipping away. I began my career helping people in the shadow of a shuttered steel mill at a time when too many good jobs were starting to move overseas. And by 2008 we had seen nearly a decade in which families struggled with costs that kept rising but paychecks that didn't, folks racking up more and more debt just to make the mortgage or pay tuition, put gas in the car or food on the table. And when the house of cards collapsed in the Great Recession, millions of innocent Americans lost their jobs, their homes, their life savings, a tragedy from which we're still fighting to recover.

     Now, our friends down in Tampa at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America. But they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan. And that's because all they have to offer is the same prescriptions they've had for the last 30 years. Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high — try another.
      “Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning,” was the way Obama characterized the Republican agenda.

Hawai`i delegates hug on the floor of the DNC. Photo from NPR

      “Now, I've cut taxes for those who need it —middle-class families, small businesses. But I don't believe that another round of tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores, or pay down our deficit. I don't believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow the economy or help us compete with the scientists and engineers coming out of China. After all we've been through, I don't believe that rolling back regulations on Wall Street will help the small-businesswoman expand, or the laid-off construction worker keep his home.
     We have been there, we've tried that, and we're not going back. We are moving forward, America,” the President proclaimed. See the complete speech at www.npr.org.
      Republican nominee Mitt Romney gave his response on Fox News today, saying he read the speech but did not see it. He said it gave him no confidence concerning jobs and the economy that the “president knows what he’s doing.”
     See more on foxnews.com.

EASING BUILDING AND ENGINEERING PERMITS for installation of solar panels is on the County Council agenda. Homeowners and contractors, and the county are reporting long waiting times and extra expenses to have an engineer or architect approve building permits to install them. According to a story in this morning’s Hawai`i Tribune Herald, by Tom Callis, Hilo council member J Yoshimoto plans to introduce legislation that would repeal the building permit and architect/engineer requirement. The permitting process, once the engineering is done, takes about a month and the delays are longer as the number of permits has already doubled this year. Last year, the Calis story reports, there were 972 applications. Through July 31 of this year, there were 1,100.
      The council’s Public Works and Parks and Recreation Committee is expected to take up the issue on Sept. 18.

Russell Ruderman at Democratic
rally last month in Hilo.
Photo by William Neal

STATE TAX CREDITS FOR SOLAR INSTALLATION are being discussed among state administrators and legislators. The question is whether to reduce them or get rid of the solar tax credits as the state is looking to retrieve the tax income to pay for expenses. Proponents of keeping the tax deductions say that it spreads the tax breaks throughout the population, incentivizing individual home and business owners to install solar and making jobs for people in the solar business who pay taxes. Other renewable energy credits are offered to investors, some of them from outside of Hawai`i, who could receive up to $40 million in tax credits to offset building refineries.

STATE SENATORIAL CANDIDATE Russell Ruderman said this morning that no other sustainable energy “can even touch solar” in its benefits to residents and small businesses. He said he supports eliminating the building permits and keeping the incentives. Ruderman said: “Solar is the safest and most reliable renewable energy source and recently became the most affordable. It is obvious we should maximize the safest and most reliable source first.”
      Regarding the tax credits, he said, “There may be some loopholes that need to be fixed where some very wealthy developers are taking advantage of our tax laws. But for small businesses and homes that are legitimately installing solar, I believe we should keep the credits.”
      He said solar helps slow global warming and that many other proposed renewable energies are “unproven and not clean. Solar power doesn’t harm anyone, doesn’t pollute the environment, When it fails it is not a disaster. Nothing else comes close.” Ruderman called it “a game to try to include other technologies in these tax breaks.”

BEGINNING MACHINE QUILTING CLASSES are offered at Pahala Quilting on Tuesdays, Sept. 11, 18 and 25. For more call, Donna at 238-0505.

MOLD CERAMICS for grades 4 through 8 is offered Thursday, Sept. 20, through Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Pahala Community Center from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. There is a fee for supplies and all who would like to attend must pre-register before Thursday, Sept. 13. For more, call Nona at 928-3102. 

MAILE YAMANAKA presents her monthly First Friday program at Volcano Art Center in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park today. Kona in Myth, Chant, Dance & Song is the topic from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Hula, the Art of Hawaiian Dance, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.; and Keiki Hula from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Events are free, and park entrance fees apply. Call 937-4249 for more information.

Trojan football fans gathered after the team's homecoming win last year.

THIS WEEKENDS’ KA`U TROJANS SPORTS kicks off with a football game at Konawaena tonight at 7 p.m. A home volleyball match versus Hilo is scheduled for tomorrow at 10 a.m. Away events for tomorrow include a cross-county meet at Kamehameha at 10 a.m., an air riflery match at Waiakea at 10 a.m., and a bowling match at Kona Bowl in the afternoon. For more, call athletic director Kalei Namohala at 928-2012.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE is collected at Wai`ohinu Transfer Station tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

RECYCLABLES ARE ACCEPTED IN OCEAN VIEW at Atlas Recycling at South Point U-Cart tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

MUCK-SUCKING IS ON THE AGENDA for an anchialine pool restoration workday on Monday, Sept. 10, when volunteers help remove sediment from the pool. Sign up with Megan Lamson at 769-7629 or kahakai.cleanups@gmail.com.

HAWAI`I WILDLIFE FUND hosts a beach clean up at Kamilo next Saturday, Sept. 15, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. All volunteers will meet at Wai`ohinu Park on Hwy 11 near mile marker 65 at 7:45 a.m. and are asked to bring sturdy shoes, bag lunch, sun and wind protection, plenty of drinks and four-wheel-drive vehicles if possible. HWF will supply cleanup materials. Those interested can contact Megan Lamson at 769-7629 or kahakai.cleanups@gmail.com.

 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS AT PAHALAPLANTATIONCOTTAGES.COM AND KAUCOFFEEMILL.COM.

ALSO SEE KAUCALENDAR.COM AND YOUTUBE.COM/KAUNEWS.