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Sunday, December 08, 2024

Kaʻū News Briefs Dec. 8, 2024

View from the music and food venue of the Makahiki last weekend at Punalu'u. Photo by Ulisses Feres

THE TRADITIONAL MAKAHIKI TIME OF THE HARVEST, a thanksgiving and coming together with food, ceremony and music, came to Punalu'u over the weekend, with double-hull canoe in the bay and feasting and music at the park pavilion.
Keiki learn to sail in a double hull canoe at Punalu'u during Makahiki over the weekend. Photo by Ulisses Feres
The musical group Huliau at the Makahiki at Punalu'u over the weekend. Photo by Ulisses Feres
Guy Sesson and friends with music for the Makahiki on Saturday and Sunday. Photo by Ulisses Feres

The Thrift Store to support Ke Kula Nā ʻAʻaliʻi Kū Makani o Kaʻū opened on Saturday. Photo by Miki Moses

A STORE TO SUPPORT THE FIRST HAWAIIAN IMMERSION SCHOOL IN KAʻŪ opened on
Ti Chun and Pōkiʻi Seto shared their
music at the immersion school event.
Photo by Miki Moses
 Saturday with music, food and ceremony. Located on the grounds of the old Shirakawa Hotel in Wai'ohinu, the store is next to the planned school on the campus.
    Organizers of the school Ke Kula Nā ʻAʻaliʻi Kū Makani o Kaʻū also took enrollment for the Kū hāweo program where families come together to teach children as the school progresses toward certification.
    Donations of furnishings, arts, household goods and other items are welcomed. The opening follows a successful auction of items and a monetary donation from a family supporting the school. Winners of auction items came by to pick them up. 
    One of the school's founders, Raylene Auli'i Fujikawa Moses, said, "Mahalo nui to all the winners of our online auction who came yesterday to pick up their winnings and to everyone who supported the opening of our thrift store! We were blessed to have and enjoy the musical talents of Pōkiʻi Seto, Ti Chun, Kaukaohu Wahilani and Nakana Evans! Your generosity and kōkua play a vital role in uplifting the first Hawaiian Immersion kula here in Kaʻū. Together, we are nurturing the future of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and perpetuating our culture. Aloha nui loa!"

Kakaohu Wahilani played guitar and sang for the auction celebration and store opening. Photo by Miki Moses

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SOUTHERN-MOST ALASKA PICNIC: This is an annual event and organizers said they want to get the word out early. It is sponsored by folks who go back and forth between Alaska and Hawai'i Island to live, usually wintering here and spending summer in Alaska. This island is popular with Alaskans because of the similarity of places, with big mountains and vast open landscapes, small towns and a largely wilderness coast.





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