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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Kaʻū News Briefs, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022

Lorilee Lorenzo (left) shown in a pre-covid rodeo event, recently won the Wahine Mugging in the 2022 Fall Rodeo, sponsored
by Kaʻū Roping & Riding at Nāʻālehu Rodeo Grounds, this time teaming up with Jayssa Grace. Photo by Chuck McKeand

RESULTS FOR THE FALL RODEO FOR KAʻŪ ROPING & RIDING have been released. The Fall Rodeo was recently held at Nāʻālehu Rodeo Grounds.
    Organizer Tammy Ka'apana reports that winners of Open Team Roping were Troy Wood and Ina Ynigues. Winning Kane/Wahine Team Roping were Tasha Nobriga and Alfred Nobriga. Winning Century Team Roping were Danny Joseph and Gilbert Smith. Winning Double Mugging were Danny Joseph and Randell Kahele, Jr. 
    Winning Kane Wahine Ribbon Mugging were Laurel Yanagi and Ina Ynigues. Winning Wahine Mugging were Lorilee Lorenzo and Jayssa Grace.
     Zayvin Menino won Po'O Wai U and Tie Down Roping. Paisley Menino won Wahine Breakaway. Hilai Karratti won Youth Barrels. Elie-Mari Jose won Goat Undercorating for kieki four and under. Katum Malicki won Goat Undecorating for ages five and under. Colton William Gomes won Dummy Roping for the four and under contestants. Hiilei Karratti won Dummy Roping for those five to eight years of age.
Po'o Wai U, as shown in this file photo of an earlier Kaʻū Roping & Riding event, was one of the 
classic competitions. held at the recent Fall Rodeo in Nāʻālehu. Photo by Leilani Esperanza

THE ONLINE OPEN HOUSE FOR UPDATING THE COUNTY ZONING AND SUBDIVISION CODES closes on Sunday, Nov. 13. The County of Hawai'i is reaching out to the public to participate.
The last comprehensive reviews and updates were in 1983 and 1996. The current process is for 18 months
and includes several rounds of virtual and in-person engagements with the community. "The intent of the code updates are to increase consistency and predictability, incorporate best land use practices in land use and zoning, promote desirable and equitable development and to meet the needs of the Hawai'i Island community," says the message from the County. The project website is at www.COHcodeupdate.com. The county has hired consultants Rundell Ernstberger Associates and SSFM International to help with the project. Contact:                        COHcodeupdate@reasite.com.  See more on the update in the Oct. 11 Kaʻū News Briefs at http://kaunewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2022_10_11_archive.html.                                                                            To read comments, add your own, and like this story, see www.facebook.com/kaucalenda See latest print edition at wwwkaucalendar.com. See upcoming events at https://kaunewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2022/04/upcoming-events-for-kau-and-volcano.html                                                                                                                                                                       
A FIRE BURNED DOWN A SMALL HOUSE IN OCEAN VIEW Tuesday morning. Hawai'i Fire Department Company 20 "found unoccupied single story wooden structure residence fully engulfed in flames; approximate size 528 squ. ft." Firefighters extinguished the blaze and said the cause is undetermined. According to the Fire Department, the unoccupied, unpermitted structure was located on one acre at 92-2187 Ohia Dr. The alarm was received at 3:06 a.m. Fire was under control by 3:25 a.m. and out by 4:20 a.m.  Firefighters returned to quarters by 5:16 a.m. The Fire Department set a value of the lost building at $60,720. 
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FOURTEEN WERE ARRESTED FOR DUI on Hawai'i Island during the week of Oct.17 - 23. Hawai‘i Island arrested the motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. One was involved in a traffic accident. Nonewere under the age of 21.
    So far this year, there are 802 DUI arrests compared with 861 during the same period last year, a decrease of 6.9 percent.
    There are 665 major accidents so far this year compared with 649 during the same period last year, an increase of 2.5 percent.
    To date, there are 29 fatal crashes (one fatal crash reclassified on 05/30/22 due to a medical condition) resulting in 31 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one reclassified due to a medical condition), compared with 21 fatal crashes, resulting in 21 fatalities for the same time last year. This represents an increase of 38.1 percent for fatal crashes, and 47.6 percent for fatalities.
    Police promise that DUI roadblocks and patrols will continue island wide.

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VOLCANO ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR RETURNS Thanksgiving Weekend. The Volcano Village Artists Hui Annual Studio Tour & Sale comes back this year with a full slate of artists. Now in its 36th year, the tour will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 25 - 27, from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. each day. Four studio and gallery locations will open their doors to the public, with a wide range of artwork on display and available for purchase in a variety of styles and price ranges.
The Hawaiian owl, pueo, portrait by Joan Yoshioka will grace
Volcano Village Artists Studio Tour, Thanksgiving weekend.

    Participating artists include Margaret Barnaby (woodblock prints) at her studio with Mike and Misato Mortara (hand blown art glass). Ira Ono (fine art & exquisite gifts) will be at Volcano Garden Arts. Charlotte Forbes Perry (ceramic tiles & stained glass), Joan Yoshioka (original paintings & prints) and Emily Herb (pottery & sculptural clay vessels) will be showing their work at the 2400 Fahrenheit Glass Studio, and the Mortara's glass gallery at this location will also be open.
    Hui members Elizabeth Miller (paintings, prints and mixed media) and Ricia Shema (vintage silk clothing and bags) will be set up in Hale Hoʻomana at the Niaulani Campus of the Volcano Art Center, along with guest artists Scott Pincus (handmade silver jewelry) and Phan Barker (quilts, woodblock prints & mixed media).
    Check the Hui website for more information and a map to the studios. For everyoneʻs health and safety, masks may be required at some studios. For a less crowded, and more relaxed shopping experience, consider attending on Saturday or Sunday.
    "Once again, the Hui would like to thank our community for their continued support!" says a statement from Volcano Village Artists Hui. See http://www.VolcanoVillageArtistsHui.com

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Monday, October 24, 2022

Kaʻū News Briefs, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022

Cross Country team, represented Kaʻū High and Volcano School of the Arts & Sciences at last weekend's islandwide competition at Kamehameha School. They are Cody Rasmussen, as well as Alden Wells and Cheska Aurelio who will travel to Kaua'i this weekend for the state championships.
See more below. Photo by Coach David Wells

DR. JOSH GREEN AND KAʻŪ WERE A FOCUS OF THE DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE'S talk at the podium at the historic Mo'oheau Bandstand in Hilo on Sunday. It's the place of many Democratic rallies over generations of people running for office and Green called the bandstand "a spiritual center for the Democratic Party." He started his speech by telling folks about another experience at the bandstand five years ago when he joined other health services volunteers to help three children and their mom who was abused, raped and homeless living in the bandstand. He said the effort was successful for the family. 
    He talked about being assigned as a physician to Hilo when he first came here in the National Health
Mo'oheau Bandstand in Hilo, which gubernatorial candidate Josh
Green called "the spiritual center for the Democratic Party," during
his campaign speech on Sunday. Photo from Big Island Video News
Corps, following medical school and his residency. Green said, however, on his second day on the job in Hilo, the doctor in Kaʻū  quit. Green said he was sent to Kaʻū "to be the physician. In Kaʻū I inherited the luckiest moments in a doctor's life. I inherited 4,000 Filipino patients, 4,000 Hawaiian patients and 20 witness relocation patients from New York City," he joked. "And I became their doctor for four years. And during those four years, I would come and take call at Hilo Hospital and I began to learn the stories of our people in Hawai'i. And the people were extraordinary..."
      Green said he was "providing hospice care also because as the only doctor in Kaʻū...we didn't have a lot of extra services. We didn't have ambulances - 65 miles all the way from Kaʻū, up to Hilo if you want to get care." 
      He talked about diagnosing a man in Kaʻū: "I diagnosed his lung cancer in the clinic, not with a CT scan, which we didn't have, not with a chest x-ray, but because he was so sick I could actually hear the muffled sounds in his chest on a physical exam." Green said the man "just drifted into the clinic" and that Green said he wondered about this patient's story as he visited his home and gave him pain medications and oxygen. He said he learned that the man was a pilot and engineer who lived half time in Alaska and half time in Kaʻū. Green said this "gentleman would fly his plane between the atolls in the Aleutian Islands and take the ice off the nuclear warheads in those islands that were protecting America. And from all that radiation, he developed lung cancer and then came home to live with us."
    Green called the man and his wife extraordinary, saying that she was "a four-foot- 10 Inuit woman" with a Phd in physics. "And the children that they raised who went to public schools here are now three doctors and one lawyer and are these extraordinary Hawaiian kids in their own way, 'cause they grew up here. And they became a part of this society from birth and they integrated just like so many have integrated into our society. So I began to see these people, these stories that were just amazing.
    "But the local people were struggling," said Green. "They didn't have access to health care, except for one guy - me. Didn't have access to mental health services, or trauma services or CAT scans. And I began to think that maybe we deserve more as Big Island residents. We needed more for our people. So I asked our local Democrats what I should do; should I be an advisor?  And they said, 'If you're so smart you should run for office. We hate the guy in Kona.' So I started going door to door...." He said (now U.S. Senator) Brian Schatz flew over "to make sure I wasn't a crazy candidate," and decided Green was ok and gave good advice.
Josh Green focused on his service as a physician in Ka'u during his speech
  during his speech as a candidate for governor, at the Democratic rally at
 Hilo Bandstand on Sunday.

   Green said he thought of himself as a good candidate, passionate about health care, but thought he would lose. "But one week before the election, it came out that my opponent was a cocaine dealer and I was able to win that election." 
    It was 2004 when Green won the election for state House of Representatives. Representing Kona, he served two terms in the House and three terms in the state Senate before winning the post of Lieutenant Governor in 2018 and deciding to run for Governor, winning the primary this year, the General Election Day coming up on Nov. 8.
      During the Hilo bandstand speech, Green also focused on his health care role as Lt. Gov. in helping Samoa with a measles outbreak and Hawai'i with Covid, noting that "Hawai'i had the second lowest rate of Covid in the country and the second lowest death rate of all the states in America."
      Green also gave an appeal to the voters with the labor unions, saying that he may not have been the first choice for some of the groups but that he was a close second choice and invited those who supported others to join him. He said that the Republican candidates are a "distant, distant tenth choice."
    See Green's entire talk on Big Island Video News at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZRfNtQDhS4&t=4s.

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TWO FROM THE KAʻŪ TROJANS' CROSS COUNTRY TEAM will travel to Kaua'i this weekend for
Cody Rasmussen running in the island's high school Cross
Country finals on Saturday. Photo by David Wells
the Hawai'i State Championships. The team from Kaʻū  High and Volcano School of the Arts & Sciences wrapped up the season at the Big Island Invitational held at Kamehameha School on Saturday. Alden Wells, Cheska Aurelio and Cody Rasmussen all qualified for the event and ran personal best times to end the season. Wells and Aurelio qualified to represent Kaʻū and the Big Island this upcoming weekend at the State Championships. "Good luck runners and congratulations on a great season!" said Coach David Wells.

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Firefighters stop in to Volcano School of the Arts & Sciences to help educate the keiki. Photo by Michelle Buck

Firefighter with keiki
at Volcano School.
Photo by Michelle Buck

FIRE SAFETY EDUCATION FOR KEIKI was one of the goals of local firefighters who recently stopped by Volcano School of Arts & Sciences for a routine fire inspection. They found the time to personally hand out Fire Safety Guides to all the PreK students, give them a tour of the fire truck, and pose for a group photo. Students learned about the fire hoses and other equipment on the truck and how to stop, drop, and roll. Teacher Michelle Buck said the preschoolers expressed a "Mahalo to our firefighters for a special visit and for keeping us safe."
    Volcano School of the Arts & Sciences is a public charter school with grades from preschool through elementary and into high school, leading to high school graduation.
    See much more at www.volcanoschool.net.

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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Kaʻū News Briefs, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022

It's Time to Vote
State House of Representative member Jeanne Kapela who is running for reelection, this time to represent all of Kaʻū and
 into Volcano and Kona, issued a statement on Sunday, urging everyone to cast their votes through ballots received in the
 mail. Ballots are due Nov. 8 and the USPS urges people to mail them by Nov. 3. They can also be dropped off at Nāʻālehu
 Police Station. Running against Kapela are Republican Lohi Goodwin and Libertarian Michael Last.
Photo from Kapela
JOLTED BY THE RECENT BACK TO BAC Magnitude 5 and 4.5 earthquakes, over a hundred Ocean View residents filled the Community Center to capacity on Saturday to get the latest news and forecasts from scientists who study volcanism on Mauna Loa. 
    Chief scientist at the Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory, Ken Hon, painted the big picture, explaining that the alert levels for the mountain have vacillated between green (normal) and yellow (advisory). According to Hon, the mountain was in the yellow/advisory for much of 2015 and 2016, then in the green/normal for much of 2017 and 2018, and has been back in the yellow since 2019. The next stage would be watch (orange), indicating a high likelihood of an eruption) and then red warning (red); eruption imminent.
Mauna Loa, the "volcano in your back yard," was cause for concern
at a Civil Defense and USGS meeting in Ocean View on Saturday.
Photo by Peter Bosted
    Hon emphasized that even though the mountain is well instrumented, they cannot predict an eruption - all they can do is pick up the clues.
    Scientist Frank Trusdell presented a slide talk, along with more facts about the history of the mountain and what can be expected should an eruption occur.
    He explained that the mountain has erupted 33 times since 1832, and that the lava from half of those events remained in the summit caldera. Once the lava leaves the caldera the flow times vary  according to the terrain. The 1950 flow produced lava that raced over precipitous terrain, reaching the ocean in a mere three hours, while the 1980 flow took 280 days of flowing over almost level land to reach into Hilo.
    Trusdell presented a series of maps showing where lava from past eruptions had flowed, and also maps forecasting where lava may flow in the future, depending on which part of the Southwest Rift Zone is
Ocean View Community Center filled up with residents, Civil Defense
representatives and volcano scientists to prepare for a possible eruption.
Photo by Peter Bosted
breached. He explained that the rift zones are weaknesses in the mountain’s flank and the source of all past lava eruptions. It can be thought of as a zipper. A strong earthquake of magnitude 7 or 8 could cause the “zipper” to “unzip” and lava will be released at the lowest point of the opening. In 1950 only the upper part of the “zip” opened, releasing lava that flowed to the ocean near mile 93 of the Mamalahoa Highway. Other earthquakes caused almost all of the rift to unzip, so lava erupted from points closer to the Kahuku Unit and Ocean View.
    While the mountain is very heavily instrumented, Trusdell emphasized that there was no way to accurately predict when or where the eruption would happen as the mountain changes in its strength and resilience. He explained that scientists are able to determine that lava is moving within the mountain, inflating it in all directions much like a balloon. Just as it would be hard to predict exactly when too much air would burst a balloon, so scientists cannot know exactly how much lava can be moved into the mountain before it fails and erupts.
Numerous illustrations about Mauna Loa
and its lava flow potential were presented
to the public. Photo by Peter Bosted
    
    Seismicity always ramps up before an eruption, noted Trusdell, adding that there has been a spurt of small earthquakes in the past three weeks - over 100 events on some days. Prior to the eruptions of 1975 and 1984 the mountain swelled due to the influx of magma. Trusdell presented several maps and graphs as evidence that the mountain is currently swelling.
    The county Civil Defense administrator, Talmadge Magno, urged residents to go to the County web site and sign up for alerts. Each resident can choose whether they want to be alerted via text or email or phone. He urged residents to not select all of the options. He added that residents should listen to their radios for news, but when a resident pointed out that Kaʻū needs a radio station that can be received in Ocean View, he replied “we are working on that.”
    Magno advised residents to pack a “Go Bag,” which should contain all that is needed to survive and also put in claims for losses to their insurance companies.
    The Ocean View Community Center is not recognized as a shelter because it has large windows that could fail in a hurricane. However, Magno said, the community could designate it as a shelter. The closest official county shelter is at Pāhala.He also pointed out that OV has one ambulance and one fire truck, and that the town’s emergency personnel will be under the same evacuation orders as other residents.
    An audience member drew loud exclamations of agreement and applause when she said: “So, we are all on our own, right?”
    After the meeting ended, HVO scientists and county staff remained in the community center to discuss posters and maps with residents, and answer questions.
Hawai'i County Civil Defense Director Talmadge Magno recommended that people in Ocean View prepare a Go Bag for a 
possible Mauna Loa eruption. Another meeting will be at 5 p.m. Thursday at  the Robert Herkes District Gym in Pāhala.
 Photo by Peter Bosted

    HVO scientists and County personnel will again meet with Kaʻū residents this Thursday at the Robert Herkes District Gym in Pāhala at 5 p.m.

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HAWAI'I WILDLIFE CENTER HOSTS THREE THOUSAND BIRDS AND BATS IN TEN YEARS, garnering a Citizen Conservation Award last week from the state Department of Land & Natural Resources. The DLNR statement notes that "On any given day, the Hawai‘i Wildlife Center has 20-30 patients. Many of the injured birds and bats that arrive here were hurt by things people created, like golf balls, power lines, cars, guns, and poisons. Add cats, dogs, mongoose, and rats to the long list of things that threaten both forest birds and seabirds."
    HWC President and Founder Linda Elliott said that more than a decade ago, she became concerned Hawai‘i was the only state in the country without a wildlife response center for downed birds. “Here we were, working in the endangered species capitol of the world and we lacked a care resource for our native wildlife. In the 1990’s it became my mission to fill this need. Now ten years after opening, we have treated 3,000 feathery patients, and a few bats."
    On Friday, DLNR Chair Suzanne Case presented HWC with the DLNR & You Citizen Conservationist Award "for their tireless, professional efforts. Though the wildlife center is on Hawai‘i Island, injured birds come from all the other main islands. Each year, from O‘ahu alone, HWC responds to 600-700 Wedgetail shearwaters, with those needing longer-term care being flown to the main Kap‘au
facility for assessments, rehabilitation if necessary, and release,” Case commented.
    Right now, and through mid-December is the time of year when shearwaters are downed. Demonstrating the center’s statewide reach and influence, the Hawai'i Wildlife Center founder said, “The shearwater fall-out season keeps us really busy, as does the manu-o-Kū program in urban Honolulu. Also known as white or fairy terns, orphans that can’t be returned to their nests, are flown to us and then in partnership with the Honolulu Zoo, we do a soft release.” 
    Stories of treatment, care, rehabilitation, and release are boundless. In August, HWC veterinarian Dr.
Nēnē is one of the species assisted by the Hawai'i Wildlife
 Center, returning them to the wild after caring for them
 following illness and injuries. Photo from DLNR
Juan Guerra joined Raymond McGuire of the DLNR Division of Forestry & Wildlife to release a pair of nēnē (the native Hawaiian goose and state bird) into the Hawai‘i Island Nēnē Sanctuary. Guerra commented, “Our ultimate goal is to get birds back out in the wild. Each time we release birds it’s a renewal to my spirit. We have good days and bad days at the center. Some days we have to help a bird by ending their suffering. Other days we get to experience the triumph of release.”
     McGuire added, “Even with nēnē that have been through rehab, whether it was a golf ball strike to a leg, or an injured or amputated wing…in which case they’d have to be euthanized…we’re lucky to have the combination of HWC’s hospital and DOFAW’s predator-proof sanctuary where birds can be released to safely live out their lives in their natural habitat.”
    Elliott noted that last year 88 percent of the birds and bats cared for at the center were either released or are in permanent care. “In wildlife rehabilitation, typically success rates can be around 50 percent. It depends on the health of the animal. The sooner it’s found, the sooner we get it into care, the better the prognosis.”
Maka'io is a hawk, now blind and living
as an ambassador of his species at 
Hawai'i Wildlife Center. DLNR Photo
    In addition to the hospital building and visitor information exhibits, the grounds have numerous aviaries. In one is three-year-old Maka‘io, an 'io, the native Hawaiian hawk. He arrived at HWC with an eye injury and a wing injury. The wing healed, but he’s blind in the right eye.
    Guerra explained, “This bird can fly. Birds of prey, like ‘io, need to have binocular vision so they don’t miss. They don’t do well in the wild if they can’t see with both eyes.” He exercises Maka‘io daily to prepare him for moving into his own aviary in the future, where thanks to his training with the good doctor, he’ll be able to fly wherever he wants. “We want to provide him the best life possible and as much opportunity to make his own choices,” Guerra said.
   “That is the overriding philosophy and result of everything the Hawai‘i Wildlife Center does,” commented the DLNR chair. “We are proud to have them as partners in the vital work of caring for our native wildlife.”

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IMAGINE A DAY WITHOUT WATER. Gov. David Ige declared Oct. 21 the Imagine a Day Without Water. It’s part of a national effort to raise awareness about the importance of water in daily lives and to commit to ensuring a sustainable water future. DLNR Commission on Water Resource Management and Division of Forestry & Wildlife are partnering with city, state, and county government agencies to bring attention to the value of water.
    The governor said: “An aging water infrastructure and the prospect of a drier climate threaten our natural water supply. The Imagine a Day without Water campaign recognizes the importance of protecting
our fresh water and the need for maintaining the critical infrastructure that allows our residents to have reliable access to clean water service.”
    The statement from the governor on Imagine a Day Without Water says, "A lack of fresh water is also a public health and safety crisis. Much of Hawai‘i’s water infrastructure is aging and in need of repair or replacement. Without investment, water and wastewater systems will continue to deteriorate, leading to further serious consequences to everyone’s health and the economy.
    “We need to be alert in our efforts to cautiously plan, monitor, regulate, and manage our streams and aquifers,” DLNR Chair Suzanne Case said. “A big challenge is that many times the demand for water is in areas where the water supplies are less abundant.”
    The organizers of the event said in a statement, "While water infrastructure is important, protecting Hawai‘i’s only source of freshwater is just as important. Maintaining healthy native forests and watersheds and ensuring the sustainability of aquifers and streams will enable public water systems to continue to provide life giving water to residents across the state."
    The example of what's happening on O'ahu with clean water was given in the statement: “The Red Hill fuel release is threatening current and future drinking water,” Honolulu Board of Water Supply Manager & Chief Engineer Ernie Lau said. “Emergencies like this highlight the essential need for water.”
    "Imagine a Day Without Water is an opportunity to share why water is important to you, your business, and your community. Please take a few moments to share your thoughts on why you value and cherish water in your lives with a loved one, friend, or associate," said the governor's statement.

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