Ka`u News Briefs Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014

Friday is the deadline for public comments on proposed regulatory changes geared toward helping food producers overcome barriers to business growth and expansion. Photo by Jolene Koi

KA`U COFFEE FARMERS ARE PREDICTING a banner year despite the coffee berry borer pest taking a bite out of the crop. Ka`u Coffee Mill predicts it will harvest some 200,000 pounds from its young orchards, compared to 100,000 pounds last year, said mill manager Lou Daniele.

Gloria Camba, here with Bong Aquino, reports coffee farmers
receiving good prices. Photo by Julia Neal

      Ka`u Coffee Growers Cooperative President Gloria Camba said farmers are receiving good prices from many independent buyers and brands developed by farmers and brokers who need to supplement their own production and buying contracts.
      Finding enough coffee pickers has been a challenge, with coffee growers looking for housing for picking crews coming in from Kona.
      Another worry for the farmers is the lack of land security. After nearly two decades of working the Cloud Rest and Pear Tree farms, farmers find that the land is for sale and being marketed with the coffee lands as the major value. The coffee acreage was set up with the county planning director for subdivision and sale before the developers who bought it from C. Brewer were foreclosed on by Lehman Brothers Holdings, from whom they borrowed $40 million.
      Former Naniloa Hotel operator and Volcano House operator Ken Fujiyama said he has been doing some due diligence talking with farmers on behalf of new investors interested in buying the coffee farms that are part of 5,800 acres being sold.
      Many of the Ka`u Coffee farmers’ leases expired during the past year. A number have arranged to farm on some of the land off Wood Valley Road owned by Olson Trust.

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Existing cesspools that will not need to be upgraded upon sale
of property are in green, and existing cesspools that will need
to be upgraded are in red. Map from DOH

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HAS REVISED its draft cesspool rules in response to public comment. 

      On Sept. 1, DOH proposed revisions to its Wastewater Systems Rules to update the regulation of cesspools. DOH extended the public comment period by 15 extra days and conducted five public hearings on the Neighbor Islands and the agency received and reviewed over 230 public comments.
      The rules will require only cesspools that most affect human health and water quality to be upgraded upon sale of a property. Only cesspools that are near a public drinking water well and those within 750 feet of the shoreline, a stream or a wetland will be affected. This rule would govern 19,793 cesspools out of a statewide total of about 88,000, or 22 percent of all cesspools in Hawai`i. This reduces the properties covered by the upgrade requirement by 78 percent compared to the original rule draft.
      To assist homeowners with the expense of upgrading old cesspools to modern septic systems, DOH will offer grants to eligible homeowners to install modern treatment systems near public drinking water wells and zero-interest loans to lower income homeowners for cesspools near streams or the ocean. Higher income households will be eligible for two percent interest loans to upgrade their cesspools.
      If a property cannot accommodate a new septic tank and leach field system, DOH will allow exemptions from the upgrade requirement.
      DOH will extend the period for completing the cesspool upgrade to within one year from sale, rather than the originally proposed six months.
      In addition, DOH is clarifying that cesspool upgrades will not apply to property transfers such as times when no money is exchanged during property conveyances between family members.
      DOH is also now proposing to allow individual septic systems in new residential subdivisions with single family homes on lots of an acre or larger.

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THE EXCITING ENERGY FUTURE is the title of a blog entry by Henry Curtis, director of Life of the Land. 

      “It is an exciting time to be alive,” Curtis writes. “So much is happening. There are so many possibilities. The world is changing before our eyes. We can be part of the change.
      “The first great transition occurred when nomadic people settled down and developed agrarian societies… .

      “The second great transition involved the use of largely stationary sources of fossil fuel. Whale sperm oil, coal and kerosene could be collected in one place and used in another place. Coal was used in ships and trains, but it was bulky and required manpower. This was the First Industrial Revolution (c. 1750).
      “During the 1800s Europe and North America became urbanized. Cities served as industrial hubs. They were crowded and noisy. Suburbs developed, followed by congested roads and over-crowded public transport systems.

Henry Curtis

      “The third great transition relied on mobile forms of fossil fuel. Electricity could travel great distances in electric grids. Gasoline could power internal combustion engines which enabled long-distance travel. This was the Second Industrial Revolution (c. 1870).
      “The modern economic society was enabled by movable forms of fossil fuel. Cities and urban communities exist as a direct result of movable forms of fossil fuel… .
      “We are in the middle of several additional transitions: the computer age, the information (Internet) age, the global warming awareness age, the renewable energy age and the nanotechnology age.
      “The threat of climate change is forcing society to switch from fossil fuel to renewable energy. That is compounding the threat to the electric grid.
      “Amory and Hunter Lovins wrote Brittle Power for the military some 35 years ago. The book pointed out how the largest machine in the world – the electric grid – was inherently vulnerable to collapse.
      “The use of intermittent wind and solar – needed to fight global warming – has added instability to the grid.
      “Three major sets of paths have developed.
      “The first is sort of the status quo, business-as-usual approach. Giant electric utilities which have not changed in a hundred years will suddenly reinvent themselves, will build and control giant Smart Grids relying on new telecommunication systems, vast computer systems, big data, complex algorithmic programs and dynamic policies.
      “The second is the giant monolithic dinosaurs with archaic dumb grids will provide backup to sophisticated smart micro-grids and smart building-level nano-grids built and operated by a new wave of cutting edge entrepreneurs.
      “The third approach asserts that solar and battery prices are falling, energy efficiency is growing, nanotechnology is changing industry and that buildings will be able to reliably generate and consume all of their power needs on their own.
      “Which system is more reliable, more cost-effective and more resilient? Which will be so in five years, 10 years and 20 years?
      “The dominant paradigm states that the first approach will win. Meanwhile, traditional utilities are losing customers each year to the second and third paths.”

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THE KOHALA CENTER’S RURAL and Cooperative Business Development Services team is seeking public comments on proposed regulatory changes that would impact homemade food operations in Hawai‘i. The proposed recommendations and solutions are geared toward helping Hawai`i’s value-added food producers overcome barriers to business growth and expansion. 

      The Kohala Center encourages interested parties to review the recommendations and provide feedback at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cottage-food-survey.
      The deadline to provide public comment is this Friday, Nov. 28.

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PAHALA COMMUNITY CENTER’S annual Rubberband Turkey Shoot takes place today from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event is open to all ages.

OCEAN VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER invites Ka`u residents to its annual Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow at 1 p.m. To offer help during the event, call 939-7033.

`Ohi`a, Chain of Craters Road, by Mary Goodrich, a member
of Volcano Village Artists Hui.

KA`U RESIDENTS CAN VIEW artists’ studios and see artwork in a wide variety of media during Volcano Village Artists Hui’s Studio Tour & Sale Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Maps are available at village businesses and at volcanovillageartistshui.com.

CALLING ALL BAKERS! Friends of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park hold their holiday fundraiser Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1943 Pukeawe Circle, Volcano Golf Course, off Pi`i Mauna Drive. They will be selling baked goodies and poinsettias, but need more baked goods.
      Bakers are asked to deliver goodies to the pick-up station between Volcano Store and Post Office on Friday between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Call 808-987-3703 for directions.

KA`U FLOATING LANTERN CEREMONY is Saturday at Punalu`u Beach Park from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Registration is available through Ka`u Rural Health Community Association, Inc. at 928-0101.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS’ Ka`u Ward hosts the second annual islandwide Crèche Festival, featuring more than 100 nativity sets from around the world, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The address is 95-5682 Mamalahoa Highway in Na`alehu. Along with the crèche display, the event features live music performed by local musicians and choir and activities for children. Visitors are welcome to the free event.
      For more information, call ‪‪808-895-0491‬‬.

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Ka`u News Briefs Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014

Kilauea Military Camp invites Ka`u residents to vote for their three favorite decorated cottages beginning Friday.
Photo by Dave Berry

MEGAN LAMSON, MARINE DEBRIS PROJECT COORDINATOR for Hawai`i Wildlife Fund, which holds many Ka`u Coast Cleanups, last week joined a group of delegates from three different countries in Natori City, Japan for a Symposium on Floating Articles and Debris Resulting from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Lamson was the official representative for Hawai`i at the symposium led by the Japan Environmental Action Network, a small nonprofit organization that has been working to clean up Japan’s coast for the past 25 years. Thirteen presenters from Japan’s government agencies and non-government organizations and representatives from Canada, Washington State and Hawai`i shared their experiences with a group of about 60 participants. Azusa Kojima, secretary-general and director with JEAN, said the purpose was to “exchange information regarding marine debris and natural disasters. We are helping to educate people about tsunami/disaster awareness and recovery in similar coastal areas that could face these types of problems.”

Megan Lamson, back row, third from right, and other delegates visit an amamo
(sea/eel grass) restoration site outside Ogatsu, Ischinomaki led by representatives
with Sea Beautification Society. Photo by Kate Le Souef/Vancouver Aquarium

      Lamson said, “If we listen to the stories from our elders and our Pacific neighbors, we may be able to escape such a tragedy here at home. For that reason, we collectively urge you to go home and discuss your emergency plan for hurricanes, tsunamis, fires, etc. with your family, and most importantly, to stick to your plan. In addition, we hope that, by collecting debris from around the Pacific Basin and showing a deep respect for some of the tsunami driftage objects recovered, we will continue to emphasize how connected we all truly are.
      “Marine debris and tsunami driftage items can link lives from around the globe. At this symposium and over the coming months, participants hope to reconfirm their common objectives with their partners across the Pacific Ocean to reduce marine debris inputs into oceans and waterways (and our reliance on single-usage products) and to remember the lives that were lost and share emergency planning strategies with coastal communities.
      “This trip to Japan has been an intense, emotional and inspirational journey that has connected us with our neighbors across the Pacific. Returning home to Hawai`i Island, I am bringing with me an immense feeling of gratitude and respect for all of the memories that may be linked to each of the foreign debris items that we collect along our shoreline.

      “Together with hundreds of volunteers, Hawai`i Wildlife Fund has been removing marine debris items from our shores that originated in Alaska, California, Canada, Korea, Japan, China, Russia and other countries for over a decade. While we will continue to do this in order to protect native wildlife, the debris from Japan will be carefully inspected in the hopes that we may return more objects to their original owners.”
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Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists say lava could enter a different
path of steepest descent, shown by blue lines.
Map from USGS/HVO

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SCIENTISTS at Hawaiian Volcano Observatory express gratitude for the stall of the lava flow near Pahoa in the current issue of Volcano Watch, titled HVO Looks Ahead While There’s a Break(Out) in the Activity. 

      “Without lava flows posing immediate threats to the community, recent changes have afforded us an opportunity to catch our collective breaths. The changes, however, have also ushered in a new phase of uncertainty about where these renewed surface flows will head.
      “Lava is currently breaking out of the tube at several locations, as well as migrating down the lava tube system. How far the lava will travel through the existing lava tube is not yet known, but based on flow activity in previous years, it is unlikely that lava will reoccupy the tube to the lowest part of the flow near Pahoa.
      “The farthest point at which lava breaks out of the tube and forms a surface flow could become the new flow front in the coming days. On the other hand, any of the existing upslope breakouts, such as the one near Pu`u Kahauale`a, could eventually capture much or all of the lava supply and become the new active front. In either case, the new active flow front will chart its own path downslope, which may or may not follow the route that the earlier part of the June 27th lava flow followed.
      “New breakouts from the tube are often forced to flow along the margin of the existing flow due to that flow’s inflated and elevated surface, thereby widening the overall flow field. In some cases, this can cause the breakout of lava to head in a new direction and enter a different steepest-descent path, commonly shown by blue lines on HVO maps of the flow.
      “The recent upslope breakouts and subsequent interruption in lava supply to the flow front are typical aspects of pahoehoe lava flow behavior, and the sequence is similar to events repeatedly observed for earlier flows from Pu`u `O`o. Major interruptions can happen multiple times during the lifespan of an individual pahoehoe flow.
      “The recent stalling of flows near Pahoa is good news in the short term, but the ongoing breakouts from the June 27th lava tube clearly indicate that the flow is still active and remains a potential hazard to downslope communities. While it is unclear how far lava will be able to reoccupy the tube or where renewed surface flows might head, HVO and HCCD continue to monitor the flow closely with helicopter overflights, field work, satellite imagery and other techniques.”

Hana Dragons and Ka`u Trojan wahine basketball teams spent last weekend
on a food drive and playing in a tournament in Pahala.
Photo by Jennifer Makuakane

      See hvo.wr.usgs.gov for this and other Volcano Watch articles and daily lava flow updates.
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WAHINE TROJANS SCORED BASKETS and brought in food for the needy at their tournament Friday and Saturday. Players met their goal by collecting over 200 pounds of non-perishable food items to donate to the local Food Basket during last weekend’s tournament that drew players from Hana, Maui and Kealakehe in Kona.
      Hosting teams from Hana and Kealakehe on Friday night, Ka`u Varsity scored 39 points to take down Kealakehe Varsity, who made 35 points. Hana Varsity racked up 31 points to beat Ka`u JV, which scored 19 points.
      On Saturday, Kealakehe beat Hana Varsity, Ka`u Varsity beat Hana Varsity, and Kealakehe JV overcame Ka`u JV.
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PAHALA COMMUNITY CENTER’S annual Rubberband Turkey Shoot takes place tomorrow from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event is open to all ages.

POHAKULOA TRAINING AREA Army officials are opening several training areas from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. for bird hunting on Thanksgiving Day and bow hunting on Friday.
      On Thanksgiving Day, training areas 1-4, 9-16 and the Keamuku Training Area will be open for shotgun hunting of birds only. Use of shotgun slugs is not permitted.
      The same areas will be open for bow hunting Friday. Hunters are allowed one pig, one goat and one sheep, in keeping with state bag limits. Shooting sheep with blue collars is not permitted.
      For more information, call PTA’s Hunter’s Hotline at 969-3474, see www.garrison.hawaii.army.mil/pta and click on the Hunting tab, or refer to instructions on the hunting pass.

OCEAN VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER invites Ka`u residents to its annual Thanksgiving Dinner Thursday at 1 p.m. Volunteers are still needed to help make the event successful.
      To sign up, call 939-7033.

Family Values by Elizabeth Miller, a member of Volcano Village
Artists Hui.

VOLCANO ARTISTS HUI STUDIO TOUR & SALE is this Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors meet Volcano Village Artists Hui members in their studios and see artwork in a wide variety of media. Maps are available at village businesses and at volcanovillageartistshui.com.

THE HOLIDAY CHALLENGE at Kilauea Military Camp in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park begins Friday and continues through Dec. 31. The public can judge cottages decorated in holiday lights by KMC employees and vote for their three favorites. Park entrance fees apply. Call 967-8371 for more information.

KA`U FLOATING LANTERN CEREMONY is Saturday at Punalu`u Beach Park from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Registration is available through Ka`u Rural Health Community Association, Inc. at 928-0101.

THE SECOND ANNUAL ISLANDWIDE CRÈCHE FESTIVAL, featuring more than 100 nativity sets from around the world, takes place from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Ka`u Ward, 95-5682 Mamalahoa Highway in Na`alehu. Along with the crèche display, the event features live music performed by local musicians and choir and activities for children. Visitors are welcome to the free event.
      For more information, call ‪‪808-895-0491‬‬.

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Ka`u News Briefs Monday, Nov. 24, 2014

Reconnecting Kalapana to Ka`u via Chain of Craters Road could cost $12 to $15 million. Photo from National Park Service

HAWAI`I COUNTY TAXPAYERS ARE SPENDING about $14.5 million as a result of the June 27 lava flow that continues to be a concern to Puna communities. 

      West Hawai`i Today reports that most of the money is going to construction costs for emergency access roads. The county is hoping for reimbursement from the federal government.
      Rebuilding Chain of Craters Road where it was buried by past lava flows could cost $12 to $15.5 million. The project would connect communities in lower Puna to Ka`u and the rest of the island, if lava crosses other roads and emergency routes on its way to the ocean. According to the story, Chain of Craters Road is expected to be complete in early December.
      Another $3 million was spent to open Government Beach Road to connect Railroad Avenue between two subdivisions.
      Officials hope to reopen parts of Pahoa Village Road that had been closed because of threating lava in time for Thanksgiving. The flow front remains stalled about 480 feet above the road.

      See westhawaiitoday.com.

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Thirty Meter Telescope has launched its THINK Fund for Hawai`i
Island students. Image from tmt.org

THE THIRTY METER TELESCOPE HAS LAUNCHED The Hawai`i Island New Knowledge Fund to better prepare Hawai`i Island students to master Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and to become the workforce for higher paying science and technology jobs in Hawai`i’s 21st century economy. TMT’s founding gift of $1 million marks the beginning of construction on astronomy’s next-generation telescope on Mauna Kea. 

      TMT’s THINK Fund initiative benefits Hawai`i Island students pursuing STEM endeavors with an annual contribution of $1 million over its existing 19-year Mauna Kea sublease with the University of Hawai`i-Hilo. Two Hawai`i foundations were selected by TMT, Hawai`i Community Foundation and Pauahi Foundation, to administer THINK Fund distribution in scholarship and grant-making platforms. The two independent foundations are defining their award criteria and decision-making process.
      The Thirty Meter Telescope initiated dialogue on formation of THINK Fund in 2008 by asking a group of community volunteers to outline the mission, vision, purpose and implementation strategy of an education fund benefitting Hawai`i Island students. The organizing committee that developed TMT’s THINK Fund structure was comprised of Hawai`i Island residents.
      “After years of THINK Fund planning and reflection, the aspirations of dedicated community members are being realized with TMT’s first annual $1 million contribution, set in motion by the start of our construction phase,” said TMT Community Affairs Manager Sandra Dawson. “As a mother of two teachers, I am so pleased with THINK Fund’s potential to furnish Hawai`i Island students with an easier path to reach for the stars. TMT’s THINK Fund initiative will not only help Hawai`i Island students with the tools to excel in STEM areas and the channels to get into college, it can also provide students with the means to get through college.”
      The organizing committee determined that scholarships, grant making and establishment of an endowment would ensure sustainability of improving educational opportunities for Hawai`i Island students in STEM disciplines. It further recognized that an emphasis be given to improving opportunities for STEM education for Native Hawaiian students, not as an exclusive preference, but focusing on addressing needs of Hawai`i’s host culture.

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NACF President/CEO T. Lulani Arquette

NATIVE HAWAIIAN ARTISTS ACTIVE in fields of dance, music, traditional and visual arts are invited to apply for a new fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. 

      “This opportunity will support the creation of new works by Native Hawaiian artists nationwide,” said NACF Program Officer Andre Bouchard. Panels will review online submissions this winter, and in spring 2015, we’ll announce the awardees.”
      Fellowship awards include support ranging up to $20,000 per artist, and artists who apply need to be able to supply documentation of Native Hawaiian ancestry.
      While the nonprofit Native arts foundation has offered national fellowships of this amount each year since 2011 to American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian artists and culture-makers, this is the first fellowship created exclusively to support Native Hawaiian artists. A partnership with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and support from the Leonard and Rose Freeman Family Fund of the Hawai`i Community Foundation allowed the foundation to offer this new fellowship.
      “We extend gratitude to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Freeman family for helping us make this new fellowship a reality,” said NACF President and CEO T. Lulani Arquette.
      Interested persons must submit online applications by 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at your.culturegrants.org.

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RICHARD HA, OWNER OF HAMAKUA SPRINGS Country Farms, has an entry on his blog at hahaha.hamakuasprings.com that has a holiday lesson.
      “Let me tell you something really interesting I learned from my Uncle Sonny Kamahele, who had twenty acres in Maku`u, in Puna on the Big Island,” Ha writes. “He had a rare kipuka there with soil that was ten feet deep, no rocks or anything. There was a spring in one corner of his property.
      “Just out of college with an accounting degree and lots of ideas about business, I looked at his land and wondered if he would lease me ten acres to grow bananas. I scratched my chin and thought about how I could grow 35,000 pounds per acre, maybe 300,000 pounds a year taking into account turn around space, on those ten acres.

Richard Ha

      “And yet on the other ten acres, Uncle Sonny was making his living with just ten or twenty hills of watermelons, with maybe four plants on each hill. People would come from miles around to buy his watermelons, and that provided him with enough income to support himself and to send money to his wife and son in the Philippines.
      “Here’s the lesson I learned from him: It’s not about how big your farm is. Your business is successful if it supports your situation. I learned a lot from Uncle Sonny, but I think that’s the most important thing I learned from him.
      “That’s what I always look at when I visit a farm. Not how big it is, or how much money it makes, but how it operates, and whether it solves the problem it is trying to solve.
      “Here’s why I’m telling you this right now. We have a real energy problem looming. I think the situation with oil is very serious, and there are definitely going to be winners and losers in the world. We need to position ourselves to be winners, and it’s going to take all of us, big and small.
      “How are we going to feed Hawai‘i?
      “Every one of us is going to play a role in it – from the largest farmers to the small folks growing food in their backyard. Do you remember in the plantation camps, especially the Filipino camps, how the yards were always planted with food? Beans, eggplants, the whole thing. I don’t see it so much anymore, but we can do it again.
      “We are lucky on the Big Island. We’re not crowded, and everybody has room to grow food. You know how you can tell we have plenty space? Everybody’s yard is too big to mow! We have the ability to do this.

        “It’s going to take all of us. It’s not just about any one of us, it’s about all of us, from the biggest to the smallest.
      “I’m lucky to have had Uncle Sonny to learn from when I was younger. I spent a lot of time with him, and I got a real feeling for how he made decisions, which was old style.

      “His lifestyle was a real connection to the past, too. His lawn and the whole area were always immaculate. The grass was always mowed; practically manicured. He lived pretty close to the old ways with a lot of remnants from the past. He had a red and green house that had stones from down the beach to put the pillars on, and lumber over the dirt floors. He built beds on those floors and then had five or six lauhala mats on the beds to sleep on, instead of mattresses; old style. There was a redwood water tank.
      “He listened to the county extension folks, and I learned from that, too – to pay attention to the people who know something.
      “But one of the most important things I learned was that your business, big or small, is a success if it supports your particular situation.”
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THE SECOND ANNUAL ISLANDWIDE CRÈCHE FESTIVAL, featuring more than 100 nativity sets from around the world, takes place from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. both Saturday, Nov. 29 and Sunday, Nov. 30 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Ka`u Ward, 95-5682 Mamalahoa Highway in Na`alehu. Along with the crèche display, the event features live music performed by local musicians and choir and activities for children. Visitors are welcome to the free event. For more information, call ‪‪808-895-0491‬‬.

KA`U FLOATING LANTERN CEREMONY is Saturday at Punalu`u Beach Park from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Registration is available through Ka`u Rural Health Community Association, Inc. at 928-0101.

OCEAN VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER invites Ka`u residents to its annual Thanksgiving Dinner Thursday at 1 p.m. “We are still accepting donations and looking for more volunteers to fill in to make this a wonderful holiday for our community,” said OVCA president Fortune Otter.
      To sign up, call 939-7033.

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