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The Honomu Hongwanji Mission will host its annual Hatsu Bon service June 28. The service will start at 6 p.m. and the Bon dance will begin at 7 p.m. The concession will be operated by the Kupuna Price Senior Citizen Softball Team.
Proceeds will help defray expenses for the state tournament. On sale will be saimin, chili and rice, hot dogs, spam musubi and malasadas.
If you have any questions, call Bob Mento at 963-5359 or 987-0218.
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Honokaa Hongwanji’s annual garage and food sale is scheduled 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, June 22, on the grounds. There will be a wide variety of household goods, baked goods, vegetables, plants, clothing and other miscellaneous items.
Come to bid on the silent auction specials. Please come and spend a leisurely Sunday browsing for something good to take home.
Money raised is used to upkeep the mission.
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Brantley Center is having its 36th annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser on June 22 at the Waikoloa Village Golf Course.
Any help would be appreciated. If you have any questions, call 775-7245.
A registration form can be downloaded from the website brantleycenter.org.
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A Waimea community meeting with Hawaii County police command staff will be from noon-2 p.m., Tuesday at the Kuhio Hale Hawaiian Homes Hall.
The session is part of an ongoing series of community meetings to encourage the public to meet the Police Department’s command staff to discuss concerns with the police chief and commanders who oversee police operations in the South Kohala District.
Meetings such as this are rotated throughout the eight police districts on the Big Island. To aid police commanders in focusing on specific concerns, it is requested participation be limited to persons who live or work in the South Kohala District.
Those interested in participating but unable to attend can call Maj. Mitchell Kanehailua (326-4646, ext. 270) or stop by the South Kohala police station in Waimea, or email concerns or comments to copsysop@hawaiipolice.com.
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Sixteen Moku o Keawe residents will soon fly to Tahiti to become crew members aboard the Hokule‘a and Hikianali‘a canoes on the next leg of a three-year World Wide Voyage (WWV), and the community is invited to a “Voyager Send-Off Celebration” from 6-8 p.m., Wednesday at Kahilu Theatre to learn more about this extraordinary adventure to connect with and share the message of “Malama Honua” — taking care of Mother Earth — with people around the globe.
The celebration is free and everyone is invited.
Sponsored by Na Kalai Wa‘a, Waimea Education Hui and the Waimea Middle School ‘Ike Hawaii Program, it will honor Pwo navigator Chadd Onohi Paishon, who will take on navigator responsibilities for the Hokule‘a’s Tahiti-to-Cook Islands-to-Samoa leg of the WWV, and all others from Hawaii Island who will join him aboard the Hokule‘a, including Keala Kahuanui, Keali‘i Maielua, Mike Manu, Kala Thomas, Kaniela Anakalea Buckley, Kalani Kahalioumi and Leiohu Colburn.
Also honored that evening will be Hikianali‘a crew members who will serve under the leadership of Kalepa Babayan, who is one of Moku o Keawe’s other two Pwo navigators. Babayan is currently sailing on the Hokule‘a with navigator Nainoa Thompson; he will captain/navigate Hikianali‘a on the Tahiti-Cook Islands-Samoa leg.
Joining Babayan on the Hikianali‘a for this leg of the voyage from Moku o Keawe will be Ahlung Yung, Henani Enos, Haunani Keamo, Maulili Dickson (Waimea), Kaimana Bacarse, Tava Taupu, Gaylan Macanas and Scottie Kanada.
All Hawaii Island voyagers are being invited to the Kahilu celebration except Babayan, who is already on the first leg of the sail.
The Kahilu Theatre celebration will begin with an opening pule and showing of two short films, one of the recent launch of the Hokule‘a and Hikianali‘a from Oahu, and a second one of the more recent departure of the two wa‘a from Hilo as filmed by Big Island Video News.
“The gathering at Kahilu is really to connect our community to this voyage; many are too young to remember the first voyage of Hokule‘a in the mid-’70s.
“This is history in the making and we owe it to our students and the younger generation to connect them to this voyage and the lessons it will share and bring back to us,” said WMS ‘Ike Hawaii resource teacher Pua Case.
Throughout the past year there has been a great deal of preparation required including extensive planning and paperwork for passports and other documentation, doctor’s exams and tests to be sure everyone is physically ready for the voyage and has the gear they need.
A lot of time has lapsed since the Hokule‘a visited Samoa and much has changed. The Malama Honua theme is very personal for crew members; it connects or re-connects them to the islands and people met on past voyages and new ones along the way, Paishon explained.
He said also new is the technology available on board the two wa‘a, including the Internet and use of photo voltaic to enable use of computers and such communication tools as “Google Hangout,” which is an Internet-based video conferencing capability. This will allow crew members to talk story throughout the voyage with classrooms around the state as they did recently with Waimea Middle and Elementary School students.
Concluding the Kahilu Theatre celebration will be sharing of a new chant written by Pua Kanahele for the voyage, and there also will be a recognition of the crew members, gift giving and a blessing.
Paishon and crew members will fly to Tahiti about July 5 and will be there about a week for additional safety training before setting off from Mo‘orea to Huahine, Taputapuatea, Taha‘a, Bora Bora, Maupiti, Napukoru, Avatiu, Aitutaki, Puka Puka, Manua and, finally, Pago Pago.
The Polynesian Voyaging Society is also providing standards-based curriculum for classroom teachers across the state to use, Case said.
At the end of the program, Paishon and the other voyagers will be available in the lobby at Kahilu Theatre to explain the voyage route and tracking.
No reservations are required; seating will be first-come.
For more information about the World Wide Voyage of the Hokule‘a and Hikianali‘a, go to www.hokulea.com.
To reach the Kokua Way, email waiukahenutz@gmail.com or call Carol on her cellphone at 936-0067.
