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"Sabrina" story opens eyes and hearts

11 Na Hoku Winner spreads acting wings

Kaua‘i Made Kaua‘i Grown Holiday Gift Guide 4 page pullout

Growing Greens Nursery color the season red Kaua‘i Grown poinsettias put punch in home, community décor see story page 5

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Garden Island Range & Food Festival a Family Affair Photos by Anne E. O’Malley About 400 persons attended the 3rd Annual Garden Island Range & Food Festival at the Kilohana Lu‘au Pavilion. It was billed as “A Family Affair,” a place that brought together the Kaua‘i Community with cattlemen, farmers and chefs to taste healthy, local and nutritious foods. GIR&FF goers grazed through over 16 food stations offering a range of locavore samples ranging from sweet to savory—all created by top-notch, top-name chefs. Makahiki games amused keiki; live music kept the crowd upbeat, and three KCC Culinary Arts Program students won scholarships totaling $3,500 among them.

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The For Kaua‘i Aloha Spirit Awards is an annual celebration honoring individuals, organizations and businesses that have demonstrated leadership and achievement with aloha for Kaua‘i. For Kaua‘i Magazine recognizes those that have given back to their community and the island of Kaua‘i.

The final winner of each category will be recognized at an Annual Pau Hana event in January. This year we will celebrate at the Hukilau Lanai restaurant in Kapaa. The Awards Committee will choose the winners based on your nominations on this page.

Thank you for your nominations and your participation in For Kaua‘i Aloha Spirit Awards. Deadline to submit your nomination is January 10th, 2012.

Please mail to: For Kaua‘i Publisher, PO Box 956 Waimea, HI 96796 or vote online at www.forkauaionline.com/vote

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FOR KAUA‘I ALOHA SPIRIT AWARDS CATEGORIES Agriculture _________________________

Family Owned Business _________________

Arts and Culture ______________________

Green _____________________________

A person, business or organization that has taken a leading role in producing or promoting locally grown foods for Kaua‘i.

A leader, contributor or organization that has helped deepen the awareness of art and culture on Kaua‘i.

Business Leadership ___________________ A person with outstanding business leadership and business practices who has brought innovative community ideas and leadership with aloha for Kaua‘i.

Community Service ____________________ An organization or person that has made outstanding contributions to Kaua‘i through community service.

Educator ___________________________ (include school name or level if applicable)

An educator who has dedicated his or her life to helping students achieve their dreams and visions for Kaua‘i.

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An owner or manager of a business who has created initiatives by taking risks and has developed a futuristic vision for Kaua‘i.

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An outstanding company that has been successful in merging family and business interests for Kaua‘i.

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Kaua‘i Made _________________________ A product produced and sold with aloha for Kaua‘i.

Lifetime Achievement Award _____________ A person who has been extraordinary in action, word and deed in their lifetime by giving and doing for Kaua‘i.

Living Treasure _______________________ An outstanding individual whose achievements make you consider them a Living Treasure for Kaua‘i.

Non-Profit Organization _________________ Directors, CEO’s and Managers who have given endless hours to projects that give back to the community.

Kupuna, Kane _______________________

A kane whose voice in the Hawaiian community has deepened our understanding of the history of the host cultural to help sustain the aloha for Kaua‘i.

Kupuna, Wahine ______________________ An outstanding wahine who has contributed to Kaua‘i in many ways and continues to support a depth and breadth of the vision of aloha on Kaua‘i.

Travel Liaison ________________________

A person or company that has encouraged communication for mutual understanding between the travel industry and our grass roots for Kaua‘i.

Youth Leadership _____________________

A young person with an outstanding vision and the motivation to make a better life for Kaua‘i.

Youth Program _______________________ An organization that has served youth and that has activities that encourage learning Kaua‘i’s history and aloha for better citizenship on Kaua‘i.

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Crimson leaves adorn Kaua‘i grown beauty

by Anne E. O’Malley She first visited North America in 1825, escorted from her home in Mexico by the first U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett. She was an instant hit and millions have thrilled to her crimson blush for years.

Sometimes she varies in color from flaming red to orange, pale green, cream, pink, white or marbled. Always, she’s the center of attention, particularly around the Christmas season.

“She” is the poinsettia plant, and when Liz Ronaldson, owner

of Growing Greens Nursery, bought the operation 17 years ago, poinsettias were already resident in the nursery.

Today, the Growing Greens poinsettia population numbers roughly 7,500—at least until Christmas—representing five varieties: the Premium Red Euro, Glory, Merlot, White and Ice Crystals. Each year, Ronaldson orders plugs from the Mainland in August and plants them out.

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How beautiful those nursery tables looked that first November when Ronaldson bought the business.

How quickly she discovered just how difficult poinsettia plants are to grow!

“They’re weatherdependent and fragile,” says Liz. “The first batch, we were so naïve!

“We’d pick them up and all the brackets would fall off. They needed calcium.”

Says her husband, Will, who is Mr. installation and go-to and fix-it, “They’re susceptible to certain types of diseases and pathogens, especially the white fly. It’s a winged pest that makes its nest underneath the leaves of a plant and generates huge webs that come down —in California you’ll see webs down to the ground.”

Fortunately, the couple never gave up.

“There were plenty of helpers and books, and our own UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources local people,” says Liz. “Roy Yamakawa, for one, has been very helpful on more than one occasion with many things.”

Growing Greens Team includes Marit McHugh, nursery manager and daughter of Liz Ronaldson, owner (r) and Will Ronaldson, Liz’s husband. Photo by Anne E. O’Malley

Today, Growing Greens Nursery in Kapahi is the onestop shop for Kaua‘i grown poinsettias. Its three acres fill with masses of red in time for the holidays, and then they’re flying out the door—to clients such as Kukui Grove Center, Home Depot, landscapers, churches and more.

The stage during Kaua‘i High School’s Christmas concert is adorned with them.

The Kaua‘i Marriott Resort & Beach Club snaps them up for its décor and displays them between the up and down escalators.

Everyone entering the hotel sees them.

Says Ronaldson, “It’s solid poinsettias on

the way down. It takes your breath away.”

Then there’s the retail trade. Marit McHugh, nursery manager and Liz’s daughter, sends hundreds of poinsettias out the door as gifts and holiday home décor, with plants varying in price from $9 to $45 and in size from perhaps six inches high to three feet tall.

For McHugh, whose brother, Pete, is also an employee, it’s been all on-the-job training.

Unlike her mother, who has a degree in horticulture from Modesto Junior College, Marit says, “I didn’t know a petunia from a pansy when I got here.”

Now she’s a gradu-

ate of the UH CTAHR Master Gardener Program.

“For today it’s my passion,” she says.

Ronaldson came to Kaua‘i in 1990 with a desire to learn how to grow fruit trees.

Happy to have the fruit tree experience, she decided the process was too tedious; with a background in horticultural sales, she sought retail work and waited.

Will followed and the pair eventually landed the nursery business opportunity.

Ronaldson has been involved with many organizations and sits on six boards: the Kaua‘i County see Crimson page 6

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Liz Ronaldson. Photo by Anne E. O’Malley

While she was the past president of the Kaua‘i County Farm Bureau, Ronaldson was active in helping the Kaua‘i Grown program get started.

The idea, she says, is to teach folks who live here the importance of locally grown products. “Buy local to keep our businesses prospering,” she says.

Now that program is blooming. Kaua‘i County Farm Bureau, with support from the County of Kaua‘i Office of Economic Development, is helping to create a marketing program for promotion of Kaua‘i Grown products. Read more about it online at www. kauaigrown.org.

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Kaua‘i Grown & Kaua‘i Made Holiday Market & Craft Fair on Saturday, December 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Kaua‘i Community Market at Kaua‘i Community College. But don’t look for Growing Greens poinsettias there—only because most of them will have found their new homes!

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Christmas Belles cast and crew. Front (l-r) Billy Quebido, Rebecca Hanson, Dottie Bekeart, Shauna Griffin. Middle (l-r): Director Jennifer Downs, Candace Kepley, Jo Grande, Nellie Foster, Faith Harding, and Stage Manager Erin Van Dyke. Back (l-r): Mike Horning, Wil Welsh, Bailey Hutton. Photo by Winston Kawamoto.

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Tragically, more than 200,000 downy albatross chicks—twice as many as initially feared—lost their lives.

Kaua‘i may prove to be their virtual Noah’s Ark. All other inhabited Hawaiian Islands are heavily populated with mongoose, making life nearly impossible for ground-nesting birds.

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If there’s somewhere in the world where Laysan albatross are

kept safe—and it may prove to be the only place it can happen— Kaua‘i is that place, and we are that people.

For more information, visit www.albatrosskauai.org. To sign up for an albatross tour, visit www. naainakai.org Hob Osterlund is an award-winning writer and photographer, Kaua‘i resident, and founder of the Kaua‘i Albatross Network.

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When they do return to Kaua‘i, they come for twin purposes: to find a mate and to raise their young— one chick a year, max.

They live long. The oldest known wild bird in North America is “Wisdom,” a 60-yearold Laysan albatross who just raised another chick. Put her next

to a 1-year-old adult and you can barely tell them apart; she does not exhibit a single sign of aging.

Native to the Hawaiian Islands, the Laysan albatross is called “Kane’s Bird,” a feathered manifestation of the god himself. Worshipped as a family guardian, it is a deified ancestor, an ‘aumakua.

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“Sabrina” holds heart lessons for all

by Anne E. O’Malley Local author Wendy Lewis has written a children’s book, “Sabrina, the Girl with a Hole in Her Heart.” It’s about a fictional character, Sabrina, based on the composite experiences of over 2,600 children with congenital heart defects who hail from over 40 developing countries.

Sabrina represents all those children who had life-saving surgery, free of charge, thanks to the Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) nonprofit organization, which is comprised of volunteers.

The mission of SACH, an Israeli-based international humanitarian project, is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from developing countries who suffer from heart disease and to train doctors so that one day they can take care of the children in their own lands.

Lewis, a Kaua‘i homeowner and parttime resident for over 33 years, came to the story through a progression of escalating research into the innovation of technology and science in the nation of Israel.

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in the U.S. and what Lewis calls “The No. 1 killer in the world.”

Just after Lewis’ book was published, the Federal Advisory Committee, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommended all newborns be screened for congenital heart disease.

This is a book, Lewis is convinced, that belongs on the shelves of every public and school library and in the waiting rooms of every pediatric and cardiologist’s office.

She aims to help get it there.

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who have health problems. At least the U.S. is equipped with pediatric cardiologists and surgeons who have the skills to perform such surgery, and though to fix the problem would break a middleclass American’s piggy bank, still, the opportunity exists.

But how about if it’s a child from a destitute family in Zanzibar, where Sabrina

is from—or Russia, Rwanda, Haiti, Iraq… the list goes on. How do those children get a crack at life? How do their parents face the agony?

There are few or no pediatric cardiologists or surgeons who can perform the operation in most of those places, or the parents can’t afford the surgery, so there seems no hope. see Sabrina page 26

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Kepa Kruse

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Fate, however, had Kaua‘i’s own Kepa other plans. It wasn’t Kruse never set out to long before his catchy, often humorous and be a musician.

Although he began slightly wistful tunes, performing profes- which he later comsionally on the Navatek piled into the self-prodinner cruises while duced album, “Cocostill a teenager and nut Wireless,” started progressed to Waikiki making the rounds of gigs upon graduation the coconut wireless from Kamehameha and social media sites.

Schools, Kruse moved Kruse’s big break came to Los Angeles in 2005 serendipitously, when with the idea of be- Island Radio disc jockey Danny Hill heard coming an actor. his song “Cruise” being played in a beach parking lot and gave it air time on 98.9 FM. It turned out to be the station’s most requested song in the summer of 2010. The album Kepa Kruse at the 2011 Kaua‘i Music has since spawned Festival. Photo by Anne E. O’Malley five tracks that He did, and has since made it into rotation appeared in four mov- on the radio. ies, including “Age “Friends would text of the Dragons” with and call, saying ‘I Danny Glover, as well heard your song on the as an episode of the radio,’ but I’d be here, ABC TV show “Off the sitting in traffic,” says Kruse during a phone Map.” But his career took interview from LA. an unexpected turn “I was removed from when he started writ- the scene, so I wasn’t ing songs about island aware of the progress life to ward off his the album was makhomesickness during ing.” a break between acting That came later, at roles. Kruse had no the 2011 Na Hoku Haintention of releasing nohano awards cerean album when he be- mony, where “Coconut gan sharing his songs Wireless” was named with a few friends back R&B/Hip-Hop album of the year. home.

“I never thought I had a chance,” Kruse says. “A few eyebrows were raised in that room, but none as high as mine. I come from really humble roots. I never imagined being a part of anything so prestigious. I felt really honored.”

Still, Kruse didn’t sit back and bask in the glory.

“That’s when I realized how important it was to be educated about the business of music,” Kruse says.

“I don’t have a record label or a manager or anybody in my corner.”

Kruse found his own education furthered at last July’s Kaua‘i Music Festival, where he served as an instructor and also performed in the Pau Hana Concert.

“I had a chance to sit down face-to-face with music advisors and accomplished individuals in the industry, and again, that inspired me to want to build something for myself.”

Since then, he locked up his first “sync deal”—industry lingo for synchronizing video with someone else’s music—which resulted in one of his songs being played on a recent episode of “Hawai‘i 5-0.” He also produced the opening

song for the new movie “Knots,” which premiered at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival in October.

“To make a career, it’s really important to understand what the different terms mean in the business—and to do things on my own terms,” Kruse says. “The music business is a scary place contractually. That’s why I formed a production company.”

Named Petroglyph Productions, the company handles all of his copyrights and also “creates projects with a unique perspective,” Kruse says. It’s very important to him that the business “retain the values of home. I want it to be honest and fair.”

The production company currently has a few scripts under development and will handle the January release of his second album, as well as his 2012 tour of Japan, Hawai‘i and the West Coast.

But Kruse isn’t looking for fame and fortune to feed his own ego.

“Somebody asked me what my end game is, and I had to think about it,” Kruse says. “I think if you’re allowed to do something you

Kepa Kruse appeared with Danny Glover in the film “Age of the Dragons.” Photo courtesy of Dragonfire LLC

love to, the best thing to do when you have great resources at your disposal is give back.”

His ultimate dream is to build an ecofriendly facility on Kaua‘i dedicated to Hawaiian voyaging.

Both his mother, who died when he was 12, and his father, John Kruse, sailed on the Hokule‘a, and he’d love to create a center with a big garden “where kids can learn about the ocean, navigation, sustainability and culture.”

In the meantime, he says, “between music, acting and producing projects, I’ve got a full plate.”

Although Kruse has no regrets about

moving to Los Angeles, saying it was the catalyst that gave him the ambition and inspiration he needed to further his career, he’s always grateful to get “back to the beach,” to use the title from one of his songs, and hang with his father and friends during the year-end holidays.

“I definitely didn’t need to leave Hawai‘i to appreciate it, but now that I’ve been gone six years, I can’t even begin to tell you how special it is.”

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by Jan TenBruggencate One of the cool things about giving is that it’s always a two-way street.

There’s a small abandoned taro patch I know in one of the Na Pali valleys, which still has some kalo growing. When I camp nearby, I’ll pull one or two corms to eat, but I always replant the huli, and pull some weeds and clean the lo‘i if needed.

Other people seem to do that same thing at that lo‘i. I don’t

know who the others are. I’ve never met any of them. But we have this unspoken, unwritten, completely voluntary relationship.

I take care, you take care, and we are both taken care of.

It is taking, but also giving.

When I give banana to the neighbor up the street, it’s not that I expect mango back. What I get back is a healthier community, a sense of satisfaction, the blessing of somebody saying, “Eh,

thanks.”

In some way—and this is a cold way of looking at it—it’s insurance. Giving creates obligation. If I’m ever stuck alongside the road with a blowout, or caught a dollar short at the grocery store, that neighbor is likely to help.

But it’s probably preferable—and feels better—not to think of it that way. It’s about making the world a friendlier place.

Indeed, it doesn’t need to be a neighbor.

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It can be a stranger.

Some folks call this kind of giving “random acts of kindness.”

Someone with an armful of groceries drops a pen, pick it up for them. Someone left their car lights on, call out and tell them.

A movie a few years back talked about paying it forward. There are some TV ads airing lately that promote the same theme.

Somebody gives you something, does you a favor, helps you out... you respond by doing something nice for someone entirely different. That, too, builds community.

But this is nothing new.

When a high school football player goes on to play in college, doesn’t quite make the pro leagues, but comes home and coaches a new generation of kids—that’s what he’s doing.

When a longtime church member agrees to chair the church fundraising committee—that’s what she’s doing.

When a couple of veteran canoe paddlers give tips to high school paddlers—that’s that they’re doing.

Except, here we don’t call it paying forward.

We call it giving back.

For people doing this kind of giving, the satisfaction can occasion-

ally fade. But there’s nothing that can help make it worthwhile like affirmation: “I know you’re spending a lot of time on this.

It’s good work you’re doing. Thanks.”

Even the “thank you” is a gift. It’s a random act of kindness. It is another form of giving back.

Jan TenBruggencate is an author and the former science writer for The Honolulu Advertiser. He operates a communications company, Island Strategy LLC. He serves on the board of the Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative and on the County Charter Review Commission.

MELE KALIKIMAKA TO ALL OF YOU, FROM ALL OF US AT WILCOX HEALTH On behalf of all of us at Wilcox Health, we would like to wish you and yours happiness and the best of health! At this time of giving don’t forget to take the time to help others who are in need and to give yourself the gift of good health.

MELE KALIKIMAKA TO ALL OF YOU, FROM ALL OF US AT WILCOX HEALTH….WHERE A SEASON OF WELLNESS HELPS TO ENSURE A SEASON OF JOY!

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Health, Wellness & Fitness Call 651-5667

Grass-Fed Beef is the Healthier Choice!!

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By Carrie Brennan, N.D. We are so lucky to live on Kaua‘i where we have locally raised grass-fed beef! All beef is not created equal. The cow’s diet has an enormous influence on the nutritional quality of its products. There is a huge difference between grass-fed beef and grain-fed beef, which is what is found in most grocery stores. Cows are ruminants, which mean they are meant to eat grass, and when they do, they are healthier overall.

Once upon a time, cows were only raised on grass in a pasture, as nature intended. Then in about the mid-1900s, industrialized farming began and that’s when cows began to be fed grain, primarily corn, in order to fatten them up faster. Since their bodies are not able to easily digest corn, many negative health effects occur. The most notable is the growth of E. Coli 0157:H7, which can cause very serious health effects in humans and even lead to death when ingested meat is contaminated with this bacteria.

Grass-fed beef is nutritionally superior to grain-fed beef. It is lower in calories and in saturated fat, but higher in “good” omega 3 fatty acids. Specifically, it has at least double the healthy omega 3 fatty acids, which are necessary for the function of every cell in our body, are anti-inflammatory, and have many positive health effects, most notably on the cardiovascular system. Grass-fed beef has more antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins, like vitamin E, beta carotene, and B vitamins. It has much higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid, a healthy fat that has been shown to help in weight loss and is a potential cancer fighter.

In addition, grass-fed beef does not contain the added hormones that are given to grain-fed beef in order to increase their weight.

These hormones can disrupt human hormone balance, for example being linked to early puberty in girls and possibly even breast cancer in older women.

If you include beef as a protein source in your diet, as a naturopathic physician, I urge you to switch to grassfed beef to better your health. Our local economy can be supported in the process. Here on Kaua‘i, it can be bought at the Wailua Country Sore, Kojima’s, the Chevron Station in Princeville, Sueoka’s, and Ishihara markets.

Dr. Carrie Brennan is a naturopathic physician who educates her patients on healthy dietary choices as part of her private practice in Kapaa. She can be reached at 652-7581.

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Festival of Lights The Festival of Lights, featuring the beautiful handmade decorations created by Josie Chansky and other artisans showcased in a bright and

colorful display at the Historic County Building, will be open daily through December 24. Free.

Call 639-8564.

See story on page 31 for more about Josie Chansky's art.

Claus and Santa — aka Dr. and Mrs. William Bodenstab — flank Elizabeth Freeman, who saved the ornaments that sparked the origin of the Festival of Lights now in its 15th year at the Historic County Building.

Archival photo by Anne E. O’Malley

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Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School ‘Ukulele Band and Chorus has their “roadie sked” for December and it’s a busy one. With performances and their CD release of Christmas songs, there are plenty of ways to support this school’s music program. Show up.

Buy a $5 CD. Here’s the sked: Dec 3 & 10, CKMD Craft Fairs, CD sales, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., school cafeteria, chorus booth; Dec. 3, same site as above, Chorus performs at 11 a.m.; Dec. 13, Winter Concert, 6:30 p.m., CKMS Playcourt, CD Sales and performance by band, plus ‘ukulele band plus chorus; Scotty’s Music in Kalaheo anytime, starting in early December; Kaua‘i Music and Sound anytime, starting early December. Concerts are free, donations gratefully accepted.

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Most Kaua‘i residents know about the autumn “fall-out” of Newell’s Shearwater (‘A‘o) youngsters that happens between Sept. 15 and Dec. 15. annually. The black and white ‘A’o are rare, native seabirds that nest in burrows in the mountains of Kaua‘i. Another less-rare shearwater, the grayish Wedge-tailed Shearwater, also nests on Kaua‘i. Each mated shearwater pair lays one egg, and if they are lucky, raise one chick each year. When the chicks first leave their burrows at night to fly to the ocean to feed on squid and fish, they are called “fledglings”. On cloudy or low-moonlight nights, fledglings can get disoriented by bright lights and fall to the ground before reaching the ocean, or are re-attracted back inland. Shearwaters are awkward on land. They are designed to live at sea swimming, diving and flying. If you find one on the ground away from their nesting colony, gently pick it up with a towel and place in a box with holes. Take it to the nearest fire station or call the Save Our Shearwater (SOS) Program at Kaua‘i Humane Society; 632-0610 ext. 109 or the hotline, 635-5117. The SOS Program will band and release them or rehabilitate them. So far this season over 110 ‘A’o have already been rescued by the caring public. Keep up the good work, Kaua‘i!

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Join us as we end the year with our Annual General Membership Meeting Holiday Party!

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Board Installation by the Honorable Judge Trudy Senda Picture Taking with Aloha Santa & much, much more!

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We prepare personal, business and corporate income taxes. We also do payroll processing and can take care of all your bookkeeping needs. No job is to big for CALM, INC. Give us a call anytime. “We take Care of Your Business on Time!!”

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Holiday Gift Guide

For other decorating ideas, Holiday tropicals in vibrant reds, oranges, pinks and greens can offer a special tropical touch to your home and can be sent to friends or relatives. Websites like www. kauaiflowers.com specialize in this service.

For holiday ornaments check out the variety of local craft fairs over the month… many of them are hand crafted and hand sewn mementoes of Kaua‘i. Try Rambutan and other tropical fruits in baskets for hospitality gifts and centerpieces.

Local Festivals & Craft Fairs Local holiday festivals like the Waimea Town Holiday Parade and Lights on Rice are a great place to find gifts and exchange holiday cheer. Craft fairs take place around the island during the month of December and help to support local artisans, as well as local non profits. Check out www.kauaifestivals.com and local calendar sections for more details. Here are a few to get you started: Friday December 2nd Kaua‘i Museum Christmas Craft Fair in Lihue, 10am—9pm Same day as “Lights on Rice” parade starting at 6:30pm.

Saturday, December 3rd Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School Craft Fair, 8:30am-1:30pm Saturday December 10th Koloa Elementary School Craft Fair, 8am-12pm Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School Craft Fair, 8:30am-1:30pm Saturday, December 17th Kaua‘i Made/Kaua‘i Grown Holiday Market & Fair at KCC, 9am-3pm Waimea Christmas Parade , 6pm to 8pm (merchants stay open late that evening)

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Tis the season! Locally grown trees and harvested wreaths are hot items every year, so look for them early. Call your nursery and ask about Norfolk Pine trees—the original Hawaii Christmas tree—this year. Liz Ronaldson of Growing Greens will be visiting the Kaua‘i Community Market with her Hawaiian XMAS trees and poinsettias first week in December.

Kaua‘i Made & Kaua‘i Grown are teaming up again this year to host an annual Holiday Market & Craft Fair on celebrating all that is grown and made locally to purchase for the holidays. For the second year, the weekly market at Kaua‘i Community College will be expanded into an all day holiday event the weekend before XMAS. Besides the mix of farm fresh produce, flowers, Kaua‘i Grown food items, the market expands to include local and Kaua‘i Made gift items, jewelry, décor and holiday treats. This year the event will include more holiday hula and local entertainment from community groups around the island plus demos by KCC Culinary. Join in the fun, December 17th, 9am to 3pm. Visit www.kauaicommunitymarket.org for or details view our ad inside.

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Gifting Kaua‘i Style For great gifts and mementos, Kaua‘i is home to many industrious and talented crafters, sewers, artists and artisans. This is a chance to share Kaua‘i with friends off island, pick a creative stocking stuffer for colleagues, or to select a custom memento for your family or sweetheart.

The County’s Kaua‘i Made program web site— www.kauaimade.net—is a great place to start shopping. The site is broken down into categories to help you find what you’re looking for (useful with more than 100 items to peruse) and includes product producers as well as retailers where these items can be found.

There you can find: • Apparel and Accessories • Arts, Publications & Music • Crafts & Heritage • Food & Floral • Gifts & Miscellaneous • Health and Beauty • Jewelry

Some products are widely distributed on island, but you can also discover “finds” and unique items that can only be found at a particular shop or craft fair, or by contacting the product maker directly. Every product you’ll find on the site was made or crafted on Kaua‘i, by the people of Kaua‘i. Each year new products are considered for the program, making this a great reference to find what’s new.

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Holiday Foods & Feasting When it comes to holiday feasting, besides the grocery specials, this is a great time to check out what’s happening at Kaua‘i’s diverse and plentiful farmers markets. You can now find a farmers market almost every day of the week on Kaua‘i— visit www.kauaigrown.org for a complete directory of farmers markets.

Farmers markets are a great place to find the freshest ingredients for holiday meals, often picked that morning or the day before, and sometimes with better prices depending on what’s in season. You can find carrots, beets, squash, long beans, kale, eggplant, cucumber, arugula and other seasonal greens as well as bananas, papayas, avocados, and a variety of citrus.

More markets now offer value added products like coffee, spices, dressings, honey, farm fresh eggs, mac nuts as well as pies, fresh bread and other baked goods in addition to produce. Kaua‘i Culinary Market (Wednesdays at the Shops at Kukuiula, 4pm to 6pm) and Kaua‘i Community Market at KCC (Saturdays 9:30am to 1pm) offer a range of food and gift items in addition to fresh produce as well as Hanalei Market on Saturdays (9:30am to noon), the new Sunday Market in Kealia (11am to 4pm) and Tuesdays at Coconut Marketplace (9am to noon).

Incorporating local items is a fun way to spice up traditional holiday meals. Have you ever tried Swiss Chard gratin, or using Kabocha squash in your pumpkin soup recipe? Salty Wahine offers a rainbow of Hawaiian salts and spices as well as turkey

brines for the holidays. Kunana Dairy Goat cheese is a perennial favorite, they also offer dressings, honeys, cookies and other baked goods as well as goat milk body products. Hawaii’s traditional sweets like kulolo and mochii can be found at Hanalei Taro & Juice Co as well as taro hummus and lau lau.

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Island Activities Ring a bell, be an angel

by Katie Beer Increase your holiday spirit by giving generously of your time.

Find a couple of hours to give to good causes, whether you’re a resident or a visitor here for the holidays.

One way is through the Kaua‘i Salvation Army. They’re looking for Christmas elves wishing to make Christmas a little brighter for everyone on Kaua‘i.

The Salvation Army needs volunteer bell ringers island wide. Those familiar red kettles will be out from Friday, November 25 through Friday, December 24.

Red kettle donations provide Christmas dinners, clothing and toys for families in need. Financial assistance also helps with basic necessities, along with seasonal aid.

If you’d like to help the Salvation Army, call Maj. Mario Reyes at the Lihu‘e Corps Office at 245-2571 or Lt. Sarah Smuda at the Hanapepe Corps Office at 335-5441.

Or you can be an angel! It’s easy—just shop, but for someone else.

Salvation Army Angel Trees will be located at WalMart and Kmart from Friday, November 25 to Wednesday, December 14. Take an Angel Tag off the tree and you’ll find the first name, age, sex, sizes and items that a needy keiki through age 12, or needy seniors would like to receive.

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Sabrina from page 10

But somehow, information about SACH gets out and some drive hours and wait all day in line to see a team of cardiologists and trainees from other countries that hold screenings.

Lewis, who is getting only positive feedback from all sources, says “Sabrina” is a way to educate an entire community about the disease and the SACH program, and that the book can be used as bibliotherapy to help children express themselves and cope with all kinds of medical is-

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sues in their own families.

Heart disease is also prevalent in Hawai‘i.

When Lewis read “Sabrina” to students at Kahili Adventist School, one student shared that her cousin had a hole in her heart like Sabrina.

Take it from Lewis, who has lectured to over 30,000 students, teachers, parents and grandparents, when she says people like a good story that inspires. This one has it all—human interest, international cooperation and more.

Sabrina’s beginning As inspiring as the

story of SACHS and “Sabrina” is, so is Lewis’ revelatory path that led to the book, the idea for which grew from a request of a teacher who asked Lewis to take information from one of her innovative technology presentations and turn it into a scientific literacy lesson.

“I decided to write a story of fiction based on SACH,” says Lewis.

Two weeks later we had a session and I read the rough draft to teachers in a workshop and you could hear a pin drop.

“Probably 50 teachers said, ‘When can I share the story with my class?’”

Lewis says she is not a scientist, nor a physician nor a teacher, but rather, a researcher, writer and speaker on cutting-edge innovations in science and technology at school assemblies, teacher workshops, and to national organizations.

A stay-at-home mom for 15 years—her two sons are now grown— her background was in economics and accounting. Science and technology were simply two words in the dictionary.

She began volunteering in the public school system in Los Angeles when her two sons were in grade school.

One of the teachers she volunteered with was interested in Lewis finding cool innovations in science and technology to present to the class.

With no background in either, Lewis got googling.

“When I googled “innovations,” a lot of the time, I’d get Israel—I was fascinated,” she says.

She realized she had a science literacy program emerging and got a grant from the Jewish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles and individuals interested in promoting STEM education, i.e., integrating science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Lewis became more and more fascinated

that this tiny nation of Israel that was 63 percent desert and home to only 7 million people from 70 different countries delivered the goods regularly.

Early on, says Lewis, “The founders of Israel realized they had to educate their people, that the people would be their nation’s greatest natural resource.”

She visited Israel once in 1999 and says she would like to return.

“It’s an amazing place mixing ancient with new,” she says.

“You can touch a 3,000 year-old stone wall and go out for modern nightlife and to coffee bars.

Lewis says, “I’m not a scientist, not a teacher, I’m a motivational speaker in science and technology. I use Israel as a model, but children can research what’s going on in the U.S. and Hawai‘i.”

“Sabrina” has been nominated for the Be’chol Lashon Media Awards in the Chil-

dren’s Book category and was recognized as a finalist in the Children’s Books category at the 2010 San Francisco Writer’s Conference.

Lewis is scheduled to read her book on February 21 at Island School in Puhi, in anticipation of an April “Hoops for Heart” event, part of a nationwide event sponsored

by American Heart Association and the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

You can read more about Lewis and her book at www.wendylewisbooks.com/interview.html and you can purchase the book at the Wilcox Hospital Gift Shop, Talk Story Bookstore in Hanapepe, or online through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. If you would like to invite Lewis to your school, please feel free to send her an email at info@ twodolphinspublishing.com.

Archival photo by Anne E. O’Malley

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A life in bamboo

by Anne E. O’Malley A chance meeting with an architect on Maui led Julian Ruppert, sole owner of Bamboo Works, Inc. in Kapa‘a, to what was to become his love and his livelihood —bamboo.

It was about 1995.

Ruppert was living in a jungle in Huelo and within eyeshot was a patch of bamboo. The property owner invited him to use it.

“I always thought it would be cool to work with bamboo, and I built a gazebo,” he says.

By chance, an architect saw Ruppert’s gazebo and asked if Ruppert would like to

build some fabricated bamboo kit houses.

Over the years, Ruppert built 17 of them.

He was hooked on the plant that many think is a tree, but is in fact, the largest member of the grass family.

boxes, bamboo xylophones, bamboo cutting boards shaped as musical instruments, Hawaiian sea turtles, pineapples and surfboards.

All of it comes from his frequent travels—

Julian Rupert. Photo by Anne E. O’Malley

Today, his store is filled with things bamboo, ranging from building supplies to high-end furniture; from shoe racks to bamboo T-shirts and even to bamboo paintings. Shelves are laden with bamboo

this year alone, he’s been to China, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines. And while approximately 80 percent of the items in his showroom are made of bamboo, he includes a few other things as well, such as coin purs-

es made from coconut shells and adorned with painted octopuses, dolphins and more.

The most challenging aspect of his business, he says, is changing with the times.

Located for seven years in a 3,000 sq.

ft. showroom at the Kaua‘i Design Center, also in Kapa‘a, Bamboo Works, Inc. shifted when the economy took a downturn, forcing a move three years ago to his present location.

“Moving from a big

location where I had a lot of furniture, I had to change, diversify, go into a smaller space with more tourist traffic and change with the times,” says Ruppert. “I always wanted see Bamboo page 28

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a main street location, and when this space come up, I took it.”

He downsized to 550 sq. ft., and then, when the bay next door to him became available, he expanded to 1,100 sq. ft. Looking ahead, he says, “I think the furniture was a cool aspect of the business, and I hope to get space to showcase more furniture. A lot of factories I work with [in Page 28

Asia] have cool items.”

What sets his business apart from others, he says, is, “I think of it as niche. We focus on bamboo.

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musical instruments, clothing, furniture—I wanted to show that to other people, promote awareness of its great aspects.”

“I try to get all natural items, for example, rugs from seagrass and hyacinth, all from renewable resources. I travel and select a lot of items myself, you will see them in my showroom.”

The most rewarding part of his work, he believes is the things he’s designed from bam-

boo. He has about 100 bamboo plants around his home, representing approximately 30 different species, just waiting to become something.

As the holidays approach, Ruppert points out that more gift items will be coming in.

“A lot of our old customers say we wish you would add more furniture, but they also like the fact that it’s a great place to shop for the holidays. We have

lots of things like a ceramic tea set with woven bamboo handles, bamboo pens…”—the list goes on.

Plans for the future include expanding the space, continue traveling and continue getting cool products.

Ruppert says, “I want it to be ever changing.”

Asked how he measures his success, Ruppert replies, “I guess by happiness, right? How happy you are doing what you’re doing?”

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Gift yourself with fitness

by Jane Riley It is often said that health is your greatest wealth. During the holiday season we seem to buy into other expressions of wealth rather than health, by overeating, over drinking, and buying a lot of stuff that has little to do with living well.

Rather than overeating, over drinking and having huge parties, why not eat healthily throughout this giving season, drink moderately and hang out with the people that really add something to your life?

These three fundamentals give the gift of health. There’s just one more component that’s easy to add—exercise.

New Year’s resolutions are just around the corner, and usually, No. 1 is, “I’ve got to lose some weight and get fit.” Many people give each other or themselves a piece of exercise equipment or buy a gym membership in January when all the sales are on— and leave them in the box.

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Elizabeth Freeman (l) with Auntie Josie Chansky (r) in 2006. Photo by Anne E. O’Malley

Josie Chansky isn’t with us any more, but she’s left a legacy — the Christmas décor you can see this December inside the newly-restored Kaua‘i Historic County Building every Friday, Saturday and Sunday through December 24.

Last year, although the Christmas lights were on around the park outside the building, the building itself was dark as it went through extensive renovation and restoration. This year, the lights will be back on inside with the Chansky collection on view as well as the “Santa’s Gone Kauaian” creations crafted

by Festival of Lights volunteers.

Chansky’s collection grew because she couldn’t help herself.

From the late 1950s onward, she was compelled to turn trash into Christmas treasure and, with her husband, Joe Chansky, turn their home into a holiday spectacle of light outside and Josie’s folk art inside. First on O‘ahu and then later in Kapa‘a, thousands of people stood outside their home each year, enjoying the lights, ooh-ing and ah-ing and waiting to see the treasures inside.

On Friday, December 2, for the 15th year, Chansky’s spectacular

collection that began with throw-away items like IBM punch cards crafted into imaginative decorations and sprayed gold, goes on display.

But wait—there’s more. One woman’s fascination with Christmas creations is now the centerpiece of an entire island tradition — the Festival of Lights.

Thousands of lights wrap around trees on the lawn outside the Historic County Building on Rice Street and frame the building’s exterior.

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“The Lord,” said Chansky. “He is number one. He gives me the idea.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do. As I start making things, it comes out so pretty.”

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How Chansky got hooked Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. In the case of the Chanskys, the acorn began sprouting over a half century ago on O‘ahu, when the Chanskys just wanted to decorate trees and shrubs outside their home.

“I started to decorate, not realizing I would come to a point where I would make my own decorations the following year,” Chansky told this writer several years ago, “I started to pick up things that were discarded and I put them together and before you know it, every piece was such a beautiful thing and had such beautiful lights.”

Chansky would see something on the ground and tell herself it was rubbish, but her creative self said no, treasure, so she’d

Chansky’s collection almost disappeared

Wreath made from egg cartons. Photo by Anne E. O’Malley

pick it up and visualize what she was going to do with it.

“By the time I was done, it turned out to be a beautiful piece,” she says. “I thought the outside was so nice, why not do the inside?”

She made chandeliers from wire coat hangers. She transformed egg cartons, condiment cups, pull tabs from soft drink cans, flash cubes and more into wreaths, tree and table decorations.

Chansky said, “By the time we finished and turned the lights on, people would be knocking at the door, [saying] ‘May we come in?’”

They came in twos and threes, and before long, thousands were coming to see the Chansky’s fabulous decorations.

“Every year, I would add on and add on, and my husband would say, ‘You don’t know when to stop,’” said Chansky. “I said we’re doing

this for the love of God and the joy it brings to children’s eyes and faces, so I went on and on, and we moved back to Kaua‘i and continued.”

When the Chanskys moved here-Josie Chansky’s island of birth — she said, “I had to make more things because when I came to Kaua‘i, I had a bigger yard and had to make more decorations.”

Where did she come up with decoration ideas?

After Chansky’s husband died, she stopped adding to the collection that is now in the county’s hands.

It was fun, she said, and they did it “for the love of God and children. We didn’t get tired and enjoyed every moment of it and when we turned on the light, oh, what a beautiful sight.

“Some people would come special just overnight [from O‘ahu] to see my decorations over here.”

Now you can see it, too. Through December 24, the Kaua‘i Historic County building

will be open Fridays through Sundays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to view the Chansky collection and visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus.

Tending the collection behind the scenes is Elizabeth Freeman, who early on discovered Chansky’s treasures when she took her young son to see the Chansky house decorations in Kapa’a.

In 1996, Freeman ran into Auntie Josie at the Big Save in Kapa’a, when Josie shared that her husband Joe had passed away and that she was no longer going to put up her display and in fact she was going to sell it all at an upcoming garage sale.

A collection for the people

Saddened by the potential loss of such a splendid Kaua‘i tradition, Freeman went to that sale with the intention of buying see Festival page 33

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much of the collection and donating it to the County. She rescued a large part of the collection from oblivion — to the tune of several thousand dollars.

Freeman took the collection to thenMayor Maryanne Kusaka, telling her, “These belong to the people.” With support from the County Council, the Historic County Building was chosen as the perfect site for the display.

Mayor Kusaka asked Freeman if she would put up the display, a task Freeman took to heart. As an artist, designer and art director, Freeman lent her talent and vision to creating the Festival of Lights and 15 years later it’s become a much-loved Kaua‘i tradition all its own.

In 2003, a volunteer committee founded Friends of the Festival of Lights to help perpetuate the festival for generations to come.

Genuine folk art

Says Freeman, who considers the Chansky collection folk art, “It’s based on the fact that I’ve visited the Smithsonian Folk Art collection and other folk

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Centerpiece crafted from seedpods. Photo by Anne E. O’Malley

art collections across the country where I’ve seen very high levels of workmanship and craftsmanship.

One of my goals is to get one of Mrs. Chansky’s pieces into the Smithsonian; a long-term goal would be to do a book on this.”

The collection does not remain static.

Much like museum restoration it must be refreshed and repaired by volunteers, an investment of time and talent. And since the Festival of Lights opened in 1997, Freeman has invited island artisans to create new decorations in the Auntie Josie style see Festival page 34

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Kaua‘i Sings! Christmas in New York, a cabaretstyle musical evening, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Kilohana Luau Pavilion on Friday, December 17.

Cash bar and food for sale, proceeds benefit Malama Pono Health Services.

Tickets $20/advance; $15/ students; $25/door Call 246-9577.

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of trash to treasure — decorations that reflect the “Santa’s Gone Kauaian” theme.

“I had the idea two years ago of making ornaments out of recycled plastic water bottles,” says Freeman.

“I created a dozen samples and took the idea to the Academy of Hospitality & Tourism at Kaua‘i High School.

“They ran with the idea and made beautiful decorations called Aloha Recycled Treasures that in 2010 adorned the tree in Sen. Daniel Inouye’s office in Washington, D.C. This is the first year those decorations will be seen on island, and will grace our nine-foot featured tree inside the Historic County Building.”

For information, call Elizabeth Freeman at 639-8564 or send an email to friends@thefestivaloflights.com.

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Kalo Festival Friday through Sunday, December 9 through 11, is set for the annual Kalo Festival hosted this year by Waipa and Limahuli Garden and Preserve.

See the Dec. 9-11 Calendar item for detail. Admission $3/adults; $1/keiki under 12.

Call 826-9969 Clyde Fujikawa, taro farmer and judge of the contest for the largest taro at a former Kalo Festival. Archival photo by Anne E. O’Malley

Kaua‘i Chorale. Photo by Kay Koike

The Kaua‘i Chorale will present its annual concert titled “Sing Noel” on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Kaua‘i Community College Performing Arts Center; and on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 5 p.m. at the St. Regis Hotel in Princeville.

Tickets are $8/ advance; $5/students; $10/door.

Call Wes Cronk at 332-9356.

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DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTS Friday, Dec. 2 Kaua‘i Museum’s Christmas craft fair, with a large selection of locally-produced crafts and a bake and preserves sale, will open at 11 a.m. and continue through 8 p.m. Free. Call 245-6931.

Friday, Dec. 2 The annual Lights on Rice holiday parade will start at 6 p.m. and proceed along Rice Street in Lihu‘e, ending at the Historic County Building with a tree and holiday decorations lighting ceremony.

Free. Call 639-6571.

Friday, Dec. 2-31 The Festival of Lights, featuring the beautiful handmade decorations created by Josie Chansky and other artisans showcased in a bright and colorful display at the Historic County Building, will be open daily through December. Free. Call 639-8564.

Saturday, Dec. 3 The Rotary Club of Hanalei Bay's Annual Black & White Ball will begin at 6 p.m. at the St. Regis in Princeville.

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Sunday, Dec. 4 A golf tournament benefitting Leadership Kaua‘i will run from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Puakea Golf Course in Lihu‘e. $125 per person. Call 2468727.

Friday-Sunday, Dec. 9-11 Waipa and Limahuli Garden and Preserve will present a Kalo Festival, with movies and

a kalo dish potluck at 6 Friday night; a ho‘olauea with food and craft booths, entertainment, contests, keiki activities, lo‘i tours and kalo workshops from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday; and a workshop on taro varieties, followed by tastings and a lunchtime pa‘ina from 9 a.m. to 12:30 on Sunday. The Friday and Saturday events will be at Waipa and the Sunday workshop at Limahuli.

Admission to the ho‘olaulea is $3 adults and $1 keiki under 12; other events are free. Call 826-9969.

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Friday, Dec. 9 The Sierra Club will lead an easy 2.5-mile round trip hike from Ha‘ena to Ke‘e Beach, leaving at sunset and returning by the light of the full moon. Call Kathy Valier at 826-7302.

Saturday, Dec. 10 Surfrider Foundation of Kaua‘i will sponsor a mini work-

Kumu Hula Lellani Rivera Low. Photo by Anne E. O’Malley

On Sunday, December 18, Kumu Hula Leilani Rivera Low and Halau Hula o Leilani will present a Christmas hula concert, with music, colorful costumes, Tahitian dance, Ni‘ihau musicians and more, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall. Local crafts and gifts will be sold in the lobby from 5 p.m. Advance tickets $20/adults and $10/keiki; $5 higher at the door. Call 651-0682.

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Saturday, Dec. 10 The Sierra Club will lead a strenuous 8-mile hike along Kalepa Ridge on the eastside, with sweeping coastal and valley views along the ridge, which continues the Nounou (Sleeping Giant) range from Wailua River to Hanama‘ulu. Call Misha Mintcheff at 246-6168.

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Monday, Dec. 12 The Sierra Club will lead an hour-long clean up of its adopted highway, a 2-mile stretch of Waimea Canyon Road. Call Bob Nishek at 346-0476.

Saturday, Dec. 17 The annual Audubon holiday bird count, offering volunteers a chance to see rare birds and walk in the forests of Koke‘e, will start at the Koke‘e Museum. Call 335-9975 to register.

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their 26th Annual Holiday Hula Christmas Celebration with Christmas music, hula, costumes, a silent auction, baked goods and bento foods, a Christmas ornament contest, and a Disneyland/Las Vegas Get-away drawing, at the Kaua‘i Marriott Resort & Beach Club. Doors open at 5 p.m.; performance starts at 6 p.m.

Tickets $15/advance; $20/ door. Call 335-6466.

Sunday, Dec. 18 Kumu Hula Leilani Rivera Low and Halau Hula o Leilani will present a Christmas hula concert, with music, colorful costumes, Tahitian dance, Ni‘ihau musicians and more, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall. Local crafts and gifts will be sold in the lobby from 5 p.m. Advance tickets $20 adults and $10 for keiki; $5 higher at the door.

Call 651-0682.

Saturday, Dec. 31 The Po‘ipu Beach Resort Association will present a dramatic fireworks display from 9:30 to 10 p.m. at Poipu Beach Park.

Free. Call 742-7444.

Ongoing Music Slack Key Concerts Doug and Sandy McMaster offer Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele concerts at 4 p.m. Fridays and 3 p.m.

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Community Center, and from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturdays at Children of the Land Center in the Kauai Village Shopping Center in Kapa‘a. Tickets $20; $15 for seniors and keiki. For reservations, call 826-1469. To buy tickets on line, visit www.

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Latin, Jazz and Love Songs Michael Ruff, Kirk Smart and Elijah perform original Latin, R&B, jazz and love songs from 8 to 10 p.m. Fridays, with half-price drinks and small plates, at 22º North in Kilohana, 3-2087 Kaumuali‘i Hwy, Lihu‘e. Call 245-9593.

Music by Millicent Millicent Cummings performs her original music from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday nights at Infigos in the Pali Ke Kua condominium complex, 5300 Ka Haku Rd., Princeville.

Call 651-1090.

Country Music Billy Paul performs country music at 7 p.m. Fridays at Kalaheo Steak & Ribs Saloon on Papalina Street. Call 332-4444 or 634-8001.

Larry Rivera Show Larry Rivera performs his classic Love & Aloha show from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays at Cafe Portofino on Kalapaki Bay, Lihu‘e. Contact larryrivera@ hawaiilink.net.

Self-Help/Support Groups Narcotics Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous has meetings daily all around the island. Call the Helpline at 828-1674 for a full listing of NA meeting times and locations.

Al-Anon and Alateen Meetings Al-Anon and Alateen offers free help to those who are concerned about someone’s drinking. Regular meetings are held all around the island. Call 246-1116.

AA Meetings Nearly 50 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are held each week on Kaua‘i. For times and places, call 2456677 or visit http://www. hconv.org/kauai/kauaiaa. html.

Narcotics Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous has meetings daily all around the island. Call the Helpline at 828-1674 for a full listing of NA meeting times and locations.

Al-Anon and Alateen Meetings Al-Anon and Alateen offers free help to those who are concerned about someone’s drinking. Regular meetings are held all around the island. Call 246-1116.

Peer Support Meetings The Kaua‘i Center for Attitudinal Healing holds free, ongoing, peer support meetings with trained facilitators in Kapa‘a and Kalaheo. Confidentiality is strictly upheld. For information, times and locations call 823-8384.

Volunteer Opportunities Community Garden The Kekaha Community Garden meets from 4 to 6 p.m. Sundays at St. Page 37

CALENDAR Paul‘s Episcopal Church, 8610 Kiowea Rd., Kekaha.

Garden open daily. Contact kekahagarden@gmail.com or 651-5197.

Waipa Foundation ‘Ohana Day Help out in the taro patch at Waipa, one mile west of Hanalei School, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.

Wear comfortable shoes and clothing for working in the ‘auwai (taro irrigation system); bring water bottles, hats, tabis. Lunch provided from Waipa-grown produce.

Reservations recommended.

Contact kalen@waipafoundation.org or 639-6905.

Koke‘e Work Day Koke‘e Natural History Museum hosts a forest work at 8:30 a.m. one Saturday each month, meeting at the Koke‘e CCC Camp. To register contact 335-9975 or kokeemuseum@earthlink.net or visit www.kokee.org.

Recreation Ultimate Frisbee Ultimate Frisbee games are held at 4:30 p.m. Sundays on the Hanalei soccer fields, 5 p.m. Wednesdays at the north Lydgate sports fields and 7 p.m. Wednesdays at the Koloa baseball fields.

All levels welcome. Call 808-345-9069 or visit www. kauaiultimate.com.

Bridge Games The North Shore and Poalua Bridge clubs play at 9 a.m. every Thursday at Sun Village, behind Wilcox Hospital.

Visitors are welcome. Call Jane Nearing Go at 826-9753 or Betty Moore at 245-1994 Page 38

to find a partner or for more details. Jane Nearing Go also hosts a two-table Chicago Bridge Game at 9 a.m. Mondays at the Princeville Community Center. Call 826-9753.

Service Clubs American Legion Meeting The American Legion, Westside Post 51 meets the third Thursday of each month, at 3880 Kilohana St., Kalaheo.

Call Adj. Dan Cordes at 3327189.

Zonta Club Meeting The Zonta Club of Hanalei meets at 11:30 a.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at the Westin Nanea restaurant in Princeville.

Call President President Robin Savage-Thompson at 639-9640 or visit www. zontaclubofhanalei.com.

Kiwanis Club The Kiwanis Club meets every second and fourth Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the Hanama`ulu Cafe. Call 822-1885. Everyone welcome.

Toastmaster Meeting The Toastmasters Club of Kaua‘i offers a structured, yet fun, way to improve public speaking skills with prepared, timed speeches and extemporaneous speaking for people whose work requires them to speak in front of groups and anyone seeking to improve their speaking skills.

Meetings are held from noon to 1 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Liquor Control Conference Room 3 of the round building in Lihu‘e. Call Tom at 635-5404.

North Shore Lions The Kaua‘i North Shore Lions Club meets for an hour at 7 a.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month, at the Prince Golf Course restaurant (downstairs) in Princeville. Call John Gordon at 826-9573 or visit www.kauainorthshorelions.org.

East Kaua‘i Lions The East Kaua‘i Lions Club meets the first and third Thursday of each month, at Lihu‘e Neighborhood Center.

Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m.

For dinner reservations, call President Wayne Shimizu at 822-3753.

West Kaua‘i Lions The West Kaua‘i Lions Club meets the first and third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Wong’s Chinese Restaurant, 1-3543 Kaumuali‘i Hwy., Hanapepe. Call President Tracy Hirano at 335-3568.

Rotary Club of Kaua‘i The Rotary Club of Kaua‘i meets Fridays at noon at JJ’s Broiler at Anchor Cove in Nawiliwili. Call 822-3470.

West Kaua‘i Rotary The West Kaua‘i Rotary meets Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. at the Waimea Plantation Cottages Dining Room.

Kapa‘a Rotary The Kapa‘a Rotary Club meets every Wednesday at noon at Kapa‘a Courtyard Marriott. Call 652-2928.

Po‘ipu Beach Rotary The Rotary Club of Po‘ipu Beach meets every Wednesday from 7:10 a.m. at Casablanca’s.

Call 652-0773.

Hanalei Rotary The Hanalei Rotary meets Thursdays at noon at the St. Regis Hotel in Princeville. Call 828-6191.

Kalepa Sunrise Rotary The Kalepa Sunrise Rotary Club meets Tuesdays at 7:30 a.m. at 22º North Restaurant in Puhi. Call 651-6191

Performing Arts Comedy Theatre Oceanside Productions presents “The Complete History of America (abridged),” a 90-minute family-friendly comedy production with intelligent humor, at 7 p.m. each Tuesday in the Ali‘i Room Theater of the Aston Aloha Beach Resort, next to the Wailua River. For reservations contact 212-8444 or Info@ OceansideProductions.com or visit www.OPTheater.com.

Classes Mondays Nutan Brownstein teaches an atama yoga class sharing breath (prana) and exploring our being through dynamic asanas, meditative and intuitive movements at 5:30 p.m. at the Princeville Community Center. Call 808-826-4442.

Monday, Wednesdays & Fridays Susan Dierker leads a yoga class suitable for all ages and stages of yoga, focusing on the breath and gentle stretching postures, at 7:15 a.m. at

the Princeville Community Center. $5 per class. Call 6394366.

Mondays & Thursdays Leah Tamara Harry teaches YogAlign® developed by Michaelle Edwards upstairs at Powerhouse Jiu Jitsu, 4-901 Kuhio Hwy. A style of yoga suited for all ages and stages of yoga, class runs from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Call 808-639-6177.

Mondays & Thursdays Donna Lei Kirkpatrick teaches intermediate hula for women, teens and keiki at the Princeville Community Center.

Call 639-0862 for times.

Mondays & Fridays Linda Pooley-Peck teaches a Pilates class with light cardio work and strength training with light weights, Pilates floor work and yoga stretches at 8:45 a.m. at the Princeville Community Center. $10. Call 652-0363 Tuesdays Diane Cline teaches a yoga class with 45 minutes of postures, deep healing and a meditation at the end at 8:15 a.m. at the Princeville Community Center. $10. Call 480-244-7676.

Debbie Lankford leads a Zumba fitness party, with fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body while having fun at 6 p.m. at the Princeville Community Center. $7 or $5 with a 10-class card purchase. Call 635-3519.

Tuesdays & Thursdays Skip Rush teaches a tai chi class at 7:15 a.m. at the Princeville Community Center. Call 808-826-4001.

Wednesdays Janice Pendleton teaches a restorative yoga class with postures to relax, restore and rejuvenate, with breathing techniques and meditation, suitable for all ages at the Princeville Community Center. Donation. Call 346-7821.

Wednesdays Children of the Land offers Maori poi ball spinning classes from 12 to 12:30 p.m. and Tahitian drumming from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at its center beneath the clock tower in the Kauai Village Shopping Center in Kapa‘a. Call 8211234.

Wednesdays and Fridays Ibbie Alshamma and Ben Redman teach a chair yoga

CALENDAR class for anyone recovering from injuries or surgeries, over 55 or having trouble with balance at 10:30 a.m. at the Princeville Community

Center. Free. Call 828-0354 or 346-9864.

Thursdays Lolita Horney leads bridge games for beginning and

intermediate players, with instruction provided as required, at 8:30 a.m. Thursdays and 12:30 p.m. Saturdays at the Princeville Community Center. $3. Call 651-3756.

Sundays Children of the Land teaches a Tahitian drumming class and Samoan knife dancing class for children ages 5 and older from 5 to 6 p.m. at its center beneath the clock tower in the

Kauai Village Shopping Center in Kapa‘a. Call 821-1234.

Daily Marionette teaches ongoing classes in watercolors, acrylics, silk painting, pastels, sumie-e

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