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CONTENTS Cover Story: NTBG Turns 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Kau Kau: St. Regis Brunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Biz: Healing Crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Science: Westside Beaches . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Fit: Love Your Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Voter's Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 County Charter Amendments . . . . . . . . . 18 Prince Kūhiō Celebration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Island Activities: Local Snapshots . . . . . . 27 Jan TenBruggencate: Breadfruit . . . . . . . . 37 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Directory/Coupons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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by Léo Azambuja This is a crazy story of how a man spent his life working on gathering and writing down information on plants, and almost lost it all. But human resilience prevailed at the end—it just took 400 years for it to happen.

I always thought Stevie Wonder’s song The Secret Life of Plants gets it perfectly right: “If you ask yourself where would you be, without them you will find you would not.”

Last month, I spent a full day at the National Tropical Botanical Garden headquarters. Being a bookworm, I was thrilled when Chipper Wichman showed me their library, with a collection so valuable no money in the world could buy.

Editor’s Note I held a book printed in 1512—and yes, I properly cleaned my hands prior to holding it. It was one of the first books to ever be printed, besides the Bible. Written in Medieval Italian, it contained information on herbs to be used as medicine.

A second book on herbs, printed in Latin 20 years later, was a lot larger and had better pictures.

But their most important book went through an incredible chain of events, taking a century to be published and another three centuries to be translated.

In the 1600s, a German man spent 30 years writing a 5,000-page book on the plants of Indonesia, which was known as the Spice Islands back in the day.

Indonesia was controlled by the Dutch, who recognized the importance of the work. The completed book was sent by ship to Holland, but somewhere along the trip, the French sunk the ship. And the only copy of the book went to the bottom of the sea. see Plants page 35

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NTBG: Half Century of Saving the Planet

by Léo Azambuja Fifty years ago, a Congressional Charter created one of the most important tropical botanical gardens in the planet—and the only national tropical garden in the United States.

“We’ve gone from being a dream in some people’s minds to actually being on the ground and really having an impact,” National Tropical Botanical Garden CEO Chipper Wichman said.

Since the 1964 Congressional Charter, more than 100 new species of plants have been discovered, classified and preserved through conservation programs. Countless other species have been safeguarded against extinction through a seed-freezing program.

McBryde Garden, NTBG’s first property, started in 1970 on a 171-acre site in Lawa‘i. It sits right below the nonprofit’s national headquarters.

Over the course of several decades, NTBG grew to comprise five gardens—including McBryde, Allerton and Limahuli on Kaua‘i, one on Maui and another in Florida—and five preserves, for a total of 10 properties occupying 2,000 acres.

Despite being created by Congress, the nonprofit NTBG is not part of the federal government. All its properties were gifts— with the exception of Allerton, which they only manage—and they have thrived mainly because of private donations amounting to more than $200 million.

“That’s what our founders wanted, they did not want to be funded by the government,” Wichman said. “Once you are funded by the federal government, that comes with all kinds of strings … Everything we have accomplished has been done with private, individual, philanthropic support.”

Today, NTBG probably has the world’s largest collection of

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federally endangered plants, according to Wichman. In McBryde alone, there are probably more endangered species per square foot than in any other place in the planet, he said.

A horticulturist, Wichman joined the organization 38 years ago, encouraged by his late grandmother, Juliet Rice Wichman. Limahuli Garden on Kaua‘i’s North Shore was a gift from the Wichman family to NTBG in 1974. Sitting on 1,000 acres, Limahuli is full of archaeological sites and a perfect counterpart environment for the drier McBryde Garden.

Behind NTBG’s headquarters in Lawa‘i, a building named after Wichman’s grandmother holds thousands of files of dehydrated plants, including many that have already been extinct. Some of those plants have been discovered and classified by Wichman himself, who says every time a plant goes extinct, it feels like losing a family member.

The Juliet Rice Wichman building also holds the key to many endangered species. The freezers inside the temperaturecontrolled building house thousands of seeds that could be germinated in case of need. After all, out of about 1,300 Native Hawaiian plant species; roughly 700 are in some level of federal protection, according to Wichman.

Inside that building, “a box within a box within a box” houses a priceless collection. This “box” is a large library surrounded by thick glass walls, containing original botanical books that go back centuries. In case of a fire, gas comes out of special fire nozzles at 3,000 psi to completely evacuate the oxygen out of the room within a few seconds.

“We have the best collection of books on tropical agriculture and botany in the world,” said Wichman, pointing to a book on

Allerton Garden, clockwise from left; the Mermaid Room, tour guide Star Gampon by Jurassic Park’s fig trees, a statue at the Thanksgiving Room, and the Three Pools room.

NTBG CEO Chipper Wichman holds a sample of a plant species he discovered and saw go into extinction years later. herbal medicine printed in 1512, written in Medieval Italian, covered by pig skin and printed in linen rag paper. “No amount of money in the world could buy all the books that are in here.”

Besides being substantial partners in cataloguing the flora of the Hawaiian Islands, NTBG works throughout the Pacific.

Next year, they are scheduled to publish a book on the flora of the Marquesas Islands, where historians believe the first Hawaiians came from.

Then in 2016, NTBG is looking into finishing a project that has spanned for three decades, the flora of Samoa.

Recently, NTBG inaugurated its Biodiversity Trail, a walking path taking people back to 450 million years ago. As the path progresses chronologically, each portion is illustrated by corresponding flora.

The trail is just another step in a journey NTBG has intensified lately to bring more people into the garden and help it to become a powerful place to inspire conservation.

But NTBG’s programs go beyond conservation. They are impacting people’s lives, such as the Breadfruit Institute, based on Maui.

“We actually have breadfruit growing in 30 countries around the world in order to address food security and global hunger,” Wichman said.

Without NTBG, he said, many plants wouldn’t have been discovered, and there would've been a void in the world in terms of knowledge and benefits of these plants.

He said working there all those years, being able to spend his life doing something that is really meaningful, has given him the most incredible life. And much of it was thanks to his grandmother, who was “fantastic with plants” and pushed him to apply for a job at NTBG in 1976.

“I feel like when I’m gone, I will have left the island and the world in a better place because of the what I’ve done with my life—that, to me, makes your life worthwhile,” Wichman said.

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After acquainting ourselves with the unparalleled views of Hanalei Bay and sipping Kona coffee, tropical mimosas and St. Regis Kaua‘i’s signature Aloha Mary, we enjoyed a world-class spread of the finest dishes.

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Healing Kaua‘i One Crystal at a Time

by Léo Azambuja Coming from a family of doctors, it was only natural for Tanize Weck Kotsol to become one. But after a few years working as a psychiatrist, a chain of events led her career to a more enlightened path.

Today, Tanize owns what she jokingly calls “my own crystal palace.” Her Hanalei store, Crystals & Gems Gallery, opened in 2001 offering more than 100 different types of stones, including the rare Kaua‘i calcite found on the island’s South Shore.

But what is really special about Tanize’s store—and what makes it a point of reference in Hawai‘i—is not just the incredible variety of stones in all shapes, sizes and colors, most of them handpicked from multiple trips around the world.

It’s how Tanize uses the crystals to heal.

“It’s really spreading light one crystal at a time,” she said.

Tanize got her medical license in the south of Brazil, specializing in psychiatry. In the early 90s, she visited Kaua‘i a few times and fell in love with the island.

Soon, she would move here and land a job as a psychiatrist assistant in Lihu‘e, helping people who suffered from substance abuse. Then, she took up studying to obtain a Hawai‘i psychiatrist license. In order to support herself, she sold crystals on the side.

As her business grew, she found herself taking classes, traveling abroad to acquire more crystals and to other islands to sell them. The workload became too much, so she took a “little break” from her studies to take care of the business.

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The more she learned about crystals, the more she changed her mind about conventional treatment.

If someone told her back in the day, about crystal resonance—which is what she does today—she would’ve tossed the idea out the window. But after learning more and using crystals during therapy sessions, she was amazed to see how people would open up faster and she would reach results a lot easier.

“I was always interested more Crystals & Gems Gallery owner Tanize Weck Kotsol uses crystals while conducting on the mind aspect—mind and psychotherapy sessions. emotion—and how that could affect people’s health,” she said. “When I incorporate the crystals, you Even those who are not initially interested in the metaphysisit down, relax, hold the crystal, the things that come up are cal aspect of stones, she said, come back year after year to deeper than just talking, you remember things easier, faster.” acquire more of them, developing their own crystal collection She never got around to get her psychiatry certification in and eventually believing in the power of crystals.

Hawai‘i. But that’s OK; she still uses her professional knowledge Such power over the human mind and emotions is explained and her crystals to operate as a psychotherapist, and that’s all in a somewhat simple way through quantum jump. she needs.

Within an atom, electrons change from one quantum state Every day, someone will walk into the store, and either ask to another, in an effort to stabilize the atom. This jump from for a gift or an advice on what they should get to help healing one energy level to another, in a few nanoseconds, emits or some sort of ailment. absorbs electromagnetic radiation.

“Broken heart is a normal one,” she said. “But there’s always It just so happens that the electromagnetic energy of the something happening; phobias, stress, insomnia. Even living in crystal is very strong and stable, whereas the human body, full paradise, you have the other side.” of emotions, is more volatile.

After many years in business, Tanize said she has returning “So when you place that molecule bond that is the crystal customers from all over the world. next to your body, the atoms in your body try to resonate the energy of the crystal,” said Tanize, explaining how crystal resonance works.

And it’s the energy her store emanates that might explain why so many people stumble there for no apparent reason.

She said it’s common for visitors to tell her they felt compelled to turn right on Aku Road from Kuhio Highway, only to come across her store and realize why they took an unplanned detour.

And they always leave with a smile on their faces.

“Every time someone comes here and leaves with a crystal, I know that will make a difference in that person’s life someway, and it’s going all around the planet,” Tanize said. “I think in the end, I reach more people than if I was just a regular doctor.”

Crystals and Gems is open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 4489 Aku Road. Besides stones and healing sessions, the store also offers healing classes, esoteric items, jewelry, books, tarot cards and original artwork—including Tanize’s own paintings.

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Kaua‘i’s Westside Beaches Need Your Help

by Ruby Pap Do you ever wonder why the beaches change so dramatically from season to season? Or lament, “Is the beach ever coming back, ‘cause it’s never been like this before?”

Are you secretly a big science nerd and want to learn a cool beach surveying and analysis technique that uses scientific reasoning to tackle these questions? Do you have time in your life to take on a meaningful project that will contribute to appropriate coastal planning and increased community resilience to hazards?

This might be the perfect volunteer opportunity for you.

Last April, I reported on a beach monitoring effort that is underway on the Westside with geologist Chuck Blay and researchers and students from Kaua‘i Community College, documenting short term seasonal beach changes in Kekaha and Waimea. This is a highly dynamic shoreline environment that has seen major seasonal changes in beach width over a matter of days.

For example, in one season the beach in front of MacArthur Park diminished by 215 feet, only to return the following winter as longshore sediment transport brought the sand back from Major’s Bay. This event had major implications for the protection of Kaumuali‘i Highway and resulted in the construction of a 300 foot drilled shaft pier wall. How might the emergency response have been different if documented scientific seasonal shoreline change data existed?

Researchers are hoping that the consistent collection of seasonal beach profile data, along with strong community participation, will

serve to help inform emergency response efforts and long term coastal planning for the island.

The USGS National Assessment of Shoreline Change on the Hawaiian Islands has found that 71 percent of Kaua‘i’s beaches are eroding.

We now have calculated long-term erosion rates for practically every sandy beach area on the island. This data is used by the County of Kaua‘i to establish shoreline setback requirements for development, to ensure that it is safe from hazards and natural resources are protected.

The gathering of short-term, seasonal beach erosion data, like the KCC effort described above, is a necessary step to further refine our knowledge and coastal management practices, because the shortterm data can pick up the finer intricacies that the long term rates do not necessarily detect.

Recently, the team received funding from KCC to continue and expand its effort to the wider community (yay, KCC!). It’s my task to recruit interested, committed community members to help out. If that is to happen, it needs to be a community effort—ideally a cadre of trained, scientifically literate citizens in coastal processes and monitoring techniques.

Also, you must be ready to have FUN! The surveys occur 1-2 times/ month, and it is truly a fantastic crew to learn from and hang out with, including Geologist Dr. Chuck Blay, Dr. Stephen Taylor, Oceanographer from KCC, Jana Rothenberg, videographer extraordinaire, Dennis

Jana Rothenberg Stephen Taylor, left, Ruby Pap and Chuck Blay survey a Westside beach.

Rowley and Matt Diefendorf from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, motivated KCC students, and last, but not least—me!

Call 241-4183 or email me at rpap@hawaii.edu if you have any interest, and I will be happy to answer all your questions.

See ya on da beach!

• Ruby Pap is a Coastal Land Use Extension Agent at University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program. She can be reached at rpap@hawaii.edu.

Pub: For Kauai Issue: July 2014 Size: 1/4 pg, 4C (4.5417” x 5”) DUE: June 13

Trio con Brio Copenhagen World-Renowned Piano Trio Thursday, November 20, 7pm KCC Performing Arts Center Adults $25, Students $10

Tickets call 245-SING or visit www.kauai-concert.org Season tickets also available Page 12

Sunset Dinner Specials Free Valet Parking | 6:00pm-9:00pm Monday - Thursday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

$21 Chef’s Daily Specials All You Can Eat Pasta, Soup & Salad NEW - Sizzling Platters Seafood Buffet Paniolo Steak and Guava Smoked Ribs with Baked Potato & Corn on the Cob

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What is Cancer?

The body is made up of various kinds of cells, which normally divide in an orderly way to produce more cells only when they are needed. Cancer is a group of diseases — more than 100 types — that occur when cells become abnormal and divide without control or order.

What are the Signs and Symptoms of Breast Cancer?

Early breast cancer usually does not cause pain and may cause no symptoms at all. And, some breast cancers never cause symptoms or other signs of a problem until they have gotten quite large and are more likely to have spread.

The following are the most common symptoms of breast cancer: • A lump or thickening (a mass, swelling, skin irritation or distortion) in or near the breast or in the underarm area • A change in the size or shape of the breast • A change in the color or feel of the skin of the breast, areola, or nipple (dimpled, puckered, red, swollen, or scaly) • Nipple discharge, erosion, inversion, or tenderness

Contact us today to schedule your next mammogram:

A woman (or man) should see a doctor as soon as possible if any of these changes are noticed.

On O‘ahu: Kapi‘olani Women’s Center 808-527-2588

What are Common Risk Factors for Breast Cancer?

Anyone may develop breast cancer. However, the most frequently cited lifestyle-related risk factors in women include: • • • • •

Not having children, or having your first child after age 30 Recent use (within 10 years) of oral contraceptives Physical inactivity Alcohol use (more than 1 drink per day) Weight gain and obesity, especially after menopause

Knowing your risk factors for any disease can help guide you into the appropriate actions, including changing behaviors and being clinically monitored for the disease.

Breast Cancer Facts Consider the following statistics related to breast cancer: • Breast cancer occurs nearly 100 times more often in women than in men • Two out of 3 women with invasive cancer are diagnosed after age 55 • Having a close relative, such as a mother or sister, with breast cancer increases the risk • Women whose periods began early in life (before age 12) have a slightly higher risk of breast cancer • Women are at a slightly higher risk if they began menopause later in life (after age 55)

1. Cut down or quit drinking alcohol.

2. Manage your weight.

3. Eat foods that can counter the effects of estrogen.

4. Talk with your doctor about screenings.

5. Consider drug therapy if your breast cancer risk is very high.

Pali Momi Women’s Center 808-535-7733 Straub Clinic & Hospital 808-522-4777

On Kaua‘i: Wilcox Health Women’s Center 808-245-1030

hawaiipacifichealth.org • 808-949-WELL • 1-877-709-WELL

Interested in learning more?

Call one of the Wilcox Health oncology specialists at 245-1547.

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10 Things That Happen When You Love Your Body

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by Tommy Noyes Jessie Castro

by Samantha Fox Olson Have you ever been so fully present with your breath and your body, completely free of judgment or agenda, and experienced the orgasmic deliciousness of having a body?

It’s pretty amazing how extraordinary simple things like the rhythm of the breath or the caress of a light touch on the skin can truly be when we allow our bodies to be the miraculous vessels of love they truly are. When we let go of judgment and selfridicule, OMG even breathing feels amazing!

Now, it’s not like on a permanent “I am experiencing my body as a walking, talking, breathing orgasm.” But, those moments of joy and truth are more available to me than ever before. And they are available to you too!

You see, I used to beat myself up. You may understand what I mean. Disrespectful self-talk, lack of consistent encouragement, I’d look in the mirror and only see faults, sized myself up to all the other ladies in the room, and somehow just never measured up.

There does come a time where enough is enough. And thank God I had that realization with my bulimia, drinking and drugging habits and other silly ways of just being mean to my body.

Because what if the truth of the matter is, we really do have a choice. Being mean to our bodies is a choice just as loving ourselves extravagantly is a choice. And if it boils down to a choice, what do you choose?

Caution: you may experience similar side effects when you choose to love your body too: 1. You stop looking for your faults when you look into the mirror. Instead, you gaze into your eyes and smile with admiration and appreciation. And then you may even swing that backside around and wiggle it playfully a bit too, only to find yourself enjoying the gift of your human form.

2. You stop checking out of your body. You bring your spirit into your body and you pay attention to your body. This presence is attractive and magnetizing.

3. You stop blaming your body for the difficulties or challenges you are facing. And instead you know your body is the greatest, most loyal friend you will ever have. When it hurts, you listen and are guided towards freedom. When it is heavy, you ask questions and feel into the clues that bring you towards lightness.

4. You feel more orgasmic. Even breathing can feel absolutely ecstatic. Oh, the deliciousness of having a body!

5. The voice of ego takes the background and the voice of your spirit takes the foreground. Your days are full of expanding encouragement, which invites your body to explore new possibilities.

6. You trust your body. You realize your body never, not even once, abandoned you. Indeed, it has only been reflecting back

National Make A Difference Day in Lydgate Park

to you areas where you can bring yourself home to even greater freedom and love.

7. You become are a nicer more joyful person. Someone you want to hang out with. You see, when the inner dialogue is defeating and degrading to our bodies, well, we feel like crap. And that crappy feeling leads to a grumpier human being.

8. You realize that self-care and self-love is not something that you do once a day. You know, when you roll out your yoga mat or eat a salad. Instead, you realize that self-care is a privilege that happens 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

9. You stop wishing for a new body. You stop wishing you had someone else’s body. And instead, you find yourself in awe and amazement at how truly unique and magnificent your body is right now! And even in training your body to be as beautiful or agile as it desires to show up, you give it the time and the consistent attention lovingly so it may be so.

10. You change the planet. Yep! You literally become the light that brings playfulness, joy, appreciation, gratitude and love to our entire universe! You and your body are that magnificent!

Thank you for loving you and your miraculous body.

• Samantha Fox Olson is a fitness and yoga trainer on Kaua‘i. Growing up she battled with bulimia. Today, her relationship with her body has transformed, and she is passionate about inspiring other women. Visit www.iLoveYogaAndFitness.com.

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You are invited to join the Friends of Kamalani and Lydgate Park in celebrating National Make A Difference Day in Lydgate Park.

Save Saturday morning, Oct. 25 to participate locally in this nationwide day of volunteerism.

This is a major community workday featuring free lunch. Annually, over the past nine years, hundreds of Kaua‘i residents and visitors have helped to spruce up Lydgate Park on Make A Difference Day. This year, volunteers are asked to sign-in at 7:30 a.m. in the Main Pavilion at Lydgate Park, and to bring their own reusable water bottle to minimize plastic waste.

The Friends will serve chilled drinking water throughout the workday and then provide lunch to the volunteers. Full details including a registration form for this volunteer workday are at www.kamalani. org.

A clean and attractive park is a source of pride for all of us. The Friends of Kamalani and Lydgate Park coordinate events enabling us to work together, making our island’s most frequently visited beach park pleasant and refreshing for park users of all ages and abilities.

People who help on Friends of Kamalani and Lydgate Park workdays are building connectedness within our community—and that is very gratifying.

The scope of work this year includes applying non-toxic linseed oil sealer to the Kamalani Playground, beach grooming, Malama Hikina‘akala and Hauola Heiau, developing an inventory of the trees in the park, and park beautification.

Volunteers should wear work clothes, sun protection, and closed toe shoes. Ladders 6 feet or taller will be very helpful in applysee Difference page 32

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Election 2014• Vote Nov. 4 IMPORTANT DATES • October 6 Last day to register to vote for the General Election • October 21-November 1 General Election early voting period at Historic County Annex Basement • October 28 Last day to request absentee mail ballots for the General Election • November 4 General Election

POLLING PLACES SENATORIAL DISTRICT: 8 14TH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 1. Hanalei Elem School 2. Kilauea Elem School 3. Anahola Hawaiian Homes Clubhse 4. Kapaa Elem School 5. Kapaa Neighborhood Ctr

16TH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 1. Koloa Neighborhood Ctr 2. Kalaheo Neighborhood Ctr 3. Hanapepe Recreation Ctr 4. Waimea Neighborhood Ctr 5. Kekaha Neighborhood Ctr 6. Niihau Elem/High School

15TH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 1. Kapaa Middle School 2. King Kaumualii Elem School 3. Wilcox Elem School 4. Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School 5. Koloa Elem School

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Election 2014• Vote Nov. 4

CaNdidates Legend: D = Democrat I = Independent

U.S. SENATOR (R) CAVASSO, Cam (L) KOKOSKI, Michael (D) SCHATZ, Brian

L = Libertarian R = Republican

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 2 (R) CROWLEY, Kawika (D) GABBARD, Tulsi (L) KENT, Joe

GOVERNOR (R) AIONA, Duke (L) DAVIS, Jeff (I) HANNEMANN, Mufi (D) IGE, David Yutaka

STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 14 (R) HOOMANAWANUI, Jonathan K. (D) KAWAKAMI, Derek S.K.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR (R) AHU, Elwin P. (I) CHANG, Les (L) MARLIN, Cynthia (Lahi) (D) TSUTSUI, Shan S.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 15 (D) TOKIOKA, James Kunane (R) YODER, Steve STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 16 (R) FRANKS, Victoria (Vickie) (D) MORIKAWA, Daynette (Dee)

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KNOWN FOR Advocacy for the island’s: • Senior Citizens • Military Veterans • Natural resources • Small Businesses • Affordable Housing • …and the accountability of County Leaders.

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Amendments to the Charter of the County of Kaua‘i and Ballot Questions County of Kaua‘i November 4, 2014 General Election

Proposing A Charter Amendment to Article XV Relating to the Department of Personnel Services.

Charter Amendment.

Article XV of the Kaua‘i County Charter is amended to read as follows:

ARTICLE XV

[DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL SERVICES] DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES Section 15.01. Organization. There shall be a department of [personnel services] human resources consisting of a civil service commission, a director and the necessary staff for the purpose of establishing a system of personnel administration based upon merit principles devoid of any bias or prejudice, and [providing a systematic and equitable classification of all positions through adequate job evaluation] generally accepted methods governing classification of positions and the employment, conduct, movement, and separation of public officers and employees.

Section 15.02. Civil Service Commission Organization. The civil service commission shall consist of seven members who shall be in sympathy with and who shall believe in the principles of the merit system in public employment. Of the members appointed, one shall be selected from among persons employed in private industry in either skilled or unskilled laboring positions as distinguished from executive or professional positions. (Amended 2006)

Section 15.03. Powers and Duties. The civil service commission shall: A. Adopt rules and regulations to carry out the civil service and compensation laws of the State and county. Such rules and regulations shall distinguish between matters of policy left for the determination of the commission and matters of technique and administration to be left for execution by the director.

B. Hear and determine appeals made by any officer or employee aggrieved by any action of the director or by any appointing authority. Appeal from the decision of the commission shall be as provided by law.

C. Advise the mayor and director of personnel services on problems concerning personnel and classification administration.

D. Execute such powers and duties as may be provided by law.

Section 15.04. [Director of Personnel Services] Director of Human Resources. The director of [personnel services] human resources shall have had a minimum of five years of training and experience in personnel administration either in public service or private business, or both, at least three years of which shall have been in a responsible administrative capacity and shall be in sympathy with the principles of the merit system. [He] The

Amendments to the Charter of the County of Kaua‘i director shall be appointed and may be removed by the commission. The director shall be the head of the department of [personnel services] human resources and shall be responsible for the proper conduct of all administrative affairs of the department, and for the execution of the [personnel] human resources management program prescribed in this charter and in the ordinances and regulations authorized by this charter.

Section 15.05. [Civil Service and Exemptions. All positions in the county, except those exempted by law, shall be under civil service.] Human Resources Management Program. The director of human resources shall be responsible for the execution of the human resources management program which shall include: A. Classification, recruitment, selection, employment, deployment, promotion, evaluation, discipline, and separation of employees.

B. Labor relations and negotiations.

H. Other related duties as may be determined by the Mayor.

Note: Charter material to be repealed is bracketed. New charter material is underscored.

Ballot Question: Shall the Department of Personnel Services be changed to the Department of Human Resources, with additional human resources functions?

Proposing a Charter Amendment to Article XXIV Relating to Charter Amendment.

Charter Amendment.

Article XXIV of the Kaua‘i County Charter is amended to read as follows:

ARTICLE XXIV

CHARTER AMENDMENT Section 24.01. Initiation of Amendments.

Amendments to this charter may be initiated only in the following manner:

C. Administration of employment policies and trainings related to employee benefits, conduct, development, and safety and injury prevention.

A. By resolution of the council adopted after two readings on separate days and passed by a vote of five or more members of the council.

D. Workers’ compensation.

B. By petition presented to the council, signed by registered voters comprising not less than five percent of the number of voters registered in the last general election, setting forth the proposed amendments. Such petitions shall designate and authorize not less than

E. Equal employment opportunities.

F. Workforce coordination and planning.

G. Administration of the civil service system as prescribed by statute.

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Amendments to the Charter of the County of Kaua‘i three nor more than five of the signers thereto to approve any alteration or change in the form or language or any restatement of the text of the proposed amendments which may be made by the county attorney.

Upon filing of such petition with the council, the county clerk shall examine it to see whether it contains a sufficient number of valid signatures of registered voters.

Section 24.02. Elections to be Called.

A. Any resolution of the council or petition of the voters proposing amendments to the charter shall provide that the proposed amendments shall be submitted to the voters of the county at the next general election.

B. The county clerk shall have summaries of the proposed amendments published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and the entire text published by electronic or online publication on the official website of the County of Kauai at least thirty (30) days prior to submission of the proposed amendments to the voters of the county at the next general election.

C. Should the majority of the voters voting thereon approve the proposed amendments to this charter, the amendments shall become effective at the time fixed in the amendment, or, if no time is fixed therein, thirty (30) days

after its adoption by the voters of the county. [Any] Summaries of any charter amendment shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and the entire text published by electronic or online publication on the official website of the County of Kauai within thirty (30) days of the effective date of such amendment.

Section 24.03. Charter Review.

The mayor with the approval of the council shall appoint, with appropriate staffing, a charter commission composed of seven members who shall serve in accordance with Section 23.02C of this Charter to study and review the operation of the county government under this charter for a period of ten years commencing in 2007. Thereafter, the mayor with the approval of the council shall appoint a charter commission at ten year intervals.

In the event the commission deems changes are necessary or desirable, the commission may propose amendments to the existing charter or draft a new charter which shall be submitted to the county clerk.

The county clerk shall provide for the submission of such amendments or new charter to the voters at any general or special election as may be determined by the commission. The commission shall publish summaries of any such amendments or new charter not less than thirty (30) days before any election at least once in a newspaper of general circulation within the county and the entire text of the amendments or new charter by electronic or online publication on the official website of the County of Kauai.

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Amendments to the Charter of the County of Kaua‘i A. Unless a new charter is submitted to the voters, each amendment to the charter shall be voted on separately.

B. If a majority of the voters voting upon a charter amendment votes in favor of it or a new charter, if a new charter is proposed, the amendment or new charter shall become effective at the time fixed in the amendment or charter, or if no time is fixed, thirty (30) days after its adoption by the voters. [Any] Summaries of any new charter or amendment shall be published [in its entirety] in a newspaper of general circulation within the county, and the entire text published by electronic or online publication on the official website of the County of Kauai not more than thirty (30) days after its adoption.

Note: Charter material to be repealed is bracketed. New charter material is underscored.

Ballot Question: Should the county be allowed to publish summaries of charter amendments or a new charter in a newspaper of general circulation and the entire text on the official website of the County of Kauai?

Proposing An Amendment to Charter Section 27.07 Relating to Recall Ballots Charter Amendment.

Article XXVII, Section 27.07 of the Kaua‘i County Charter is amended to read as follows:

ARTICLE XXVII RECALL

Section 27.07. Ballots. The ballots at such recall election shall, with respect to each person whose removal is sought, submit the question: “Shall (name of person) be removed from the office of (name of office) by recall?” Immediately following each such question, there shall be printed on the ballots the two propositions in the order set forth: “For the recall of (name of person).” “Against the recall of (name of person).” Immediately next to the [right of the] proposition there shall be designated spaces in which to mark the ballot FOR or AGAINST the recall. A majority vote shall be sufficient to recall such officer, subject to the provisions of Section 27.06 of this article.

Note: Charter material to be repealed is bracketed. New charter material is underscored..

Ballot Question: Shall Charter section 27.07 regarding recall ballots be amended to comply with State law and to meet voting system requirements?

For further information on the Charter Review Commission, please go to www.kauai.gov/boardsandcommissions and click on “Charter Review Commission” or contact the Office of Boards and Commissions at 241-4919 or the Elections Division at 241-4800 or TTY at 241-5116, Monday – Friday, between 7:45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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/s/ James Nishida, Jr. Chairperson Charter Review Commission

/s/ Ricky Watanabe County Clerk County of Kaua‘i

Election 2014• Vote Nov. 4

CaNdidates MAYOR BARCA, Dustin CARVALHO, Bernard P., Jr. OHA TRUSTEES AHU ISA, Lei (Leina‘ala) AKANA, Rowena M.N. AKINA, Keli‘i McINERNY, Harvey TRASK, Mililani B WAIHEE, John D.

KAUAI COUNCILMEMBER (Vote for 7) BRUN, Arthur BYNUM, Tim CHOCK, Mason K., Sr. COWDEN, Felicia DeCOSTA, Billy FURFARO, Jay HOOSER, Gary L. KAGAWA, Ross K. KANESHIRO, Arryl KUALII, KipuKai L.P .

LARANIO, Tiana K. PERRY, Darryl D. RAPOZO, Mel YUKIMURA, JoAnn A.

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“I don’t know where my polling place is.”

“It’s just too much trouble.”

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Election 2014 In this section, we have provided a list of dates, candidates and polling places to make voting easier. If you have questions about voting, the answers are only a phone call or website away.

The Hawaii Office of Elections is there to help: (800) 442-VOTE (8683) elections@hawaii.gov or hawaii.gov/elections

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Mahalo Ke Akua!

Local Snapshots A good snapshot may reveal a simple pleasure that otherwise goes unnoticed. The Local Snapshots is just a tiny collection of what Kaua‘i offers to locals and visitors. Indulge yourself. And if you have any suggestions or pictures, send it to editor@forKauaionline.com.

Island Activities

Allerton Beach is one of the hidden gems of Kaua‘i. The magnificent and meticulously kept gardens that lead to it, Allerton and McBryde, were once named by National Geographical Traveller as one the world’s “50 Places of a Lifetime.” The beach is accessible through a side trail, through the ocean or through the gardens, which is private property. [left] Hanapepe Café’s Chef Helen Lucono, left, and Gail Little, usually offer their delicious soup during the farmers’s market at The Shops at Kukui‘ila in Po‘ipu every Wednesday.

Or you can visit Hanapepe Café, which only opens during Hanapepe Art Walk Friday evenings.

Small Town Coffee co-owner Anni Caporuscio is a serious businesswoman. Seriously. But only when seriousness is needed. Small Town Coffee recently reinvented itself, moving from its former home at Kaua‘i Products Fair in Kapa‘a to a sleek red coffee bus in the parking lot of the former Kojima’s Store just down the road.

[left] The Hopi‘i Falls trail in Kapahi is relatively easy and actually leads to two waterfalls, enjoyed regularly by several visitors and locals.

Just how this rusty car got in the trail is a mystery, and whoever abandoned it there deserves a senselessness award.

An Easter Island’s aku aku head replica at Smith’s Tropical Paradise in Wailua dwarfs Utah visitor Hayden Merritt. No one can say for sure how and why the Easter Islander natives erected those giant stone statues. Not too long ago, archaeologists discovered the heads have bodies attached to them, hidden underground. Photo by Halli Holmgren.

Dining Kaua‘i Style Lappert’s Hawaii

SHARE THE ALOHA

Since our humble beginnings selling ice cream out

Hanapepe of a tiny storefront in sleepy Hanapepe Town, to Kukui‘ula Shopping Village our other retail locations, Lappert’s Hawaii is now Coconut Plantation Marketplace celebrating its 30th year anniversary of indulging the Princeville Shopping Center

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Kountry Kitchen Kapaa 4-1485 Kuhio Hwy parking next to gift shop 808-822-3511

Wrangler’s Steakhouse 9852 Kaumualii Hwy Waimea 338-1218

Tiki Iniki Princeville Center 5-4280 Kuhio Hwy., A101 808-431-4242 tikiiniki.com 11:30AM to Midnight

Hukilau Lanai Restaurant in Kapaa Reservations Recommended Tues-Sun 5-9pm 822-0600 hukilaukauai.com

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Islands’ sweet tooth. And though our business has grown, our principles remain the same—top quality, handmade products served with the Aloha Spirit.

Local Style Dining Voted “Best Breakfast on Kauai.” A favorite for Breakfast and Lunch. Great taste at reasonable prices. Extensive menu includes our famous pancake selection, omelettes, benedicts, loco mocos and fruit salads. Lunch menu includes sandwiches, burgers, local plate lunches, and salads. Open daily 6 am-1:30 pm. Breakfast from 6 am-1:30 pm lunch from 11 am.

A GREAT STEAKHOUSE And not just steaks! Polynesian and seafood specialities as well. We welcome families with children and feature outdoor seating. Open for lunch and dinner. Your hostess, Colleen Faye, will assure that you have the best meal and smooth service. Sizzling steaks cooked over a mesquite wood fire are our signature dish.

IT’S FINE DINING IN A WILD SETTING!

Tiki Iniki Bar & Restaurant is the most fun place on the north shore for fresh fruit vintage Hawaiian cocktails and Hawaiian fusion cuisine. Owners Todd & Michele Rundgren’s Tiki collections & Coco Palms memorabilia fill every nook and cranny for a retro Hawaii vibe. Locals and visitors are raving about Tiki Iniki’s beautiful creations and flavors using fresh local fish, beef, pork, garden vegetables, and fruits. Open 11:30am–Midnight for lunch, happy hour, dinner, and late night dining.

BOOK YOUR HOLIDAY PARTY NOW Whether gathering with friends & family for the holidays or planning your company’s seasonal event, Hukilau Lanai provides the perfect setting. Ocean view dining, tiki torches & nightly live music grace the dining room & lounge, while the private & semi private rooms seat from 15-75 guests.

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Smith’s Wailua River Cruise Fern Grotto Kapaa 821-6892 smithskauai.com

This outstanding course is backed by lush emerald mountains and sculpted from a rolling plateau eight stories above the Pacific Ocean. Nestled among the gentle contours of Poipu Bay. Home of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf from 1994-2006.

EXPERIENCE A KAUAI TRADITION Experience this unique river boat tour on Hawaii’s ONLY navigable river: the Wailua. We will bring you through the rainforest to the famous Fern Grotto and share the legendary stories of the place where Royalty once lived. Enjoy music and dance of Old Hawaii. Call 821-6892 or visit www.smithskauai.com

Kauai Community Market Celebrates 5th Anniversary In October of 2009, Kaua’i County Farm Bureau and Kaua’i Community College (KCC) partnered to open a new weekend value added farmers market – Kaua’i Community Market, on the KCC campus. The new Market was envisioned as a central gathering place for neighbors to shop for food and garden plants, to enjoy delicious local foods and “talk story”, to learn more ways to cook and raise local ingredients, and to connect directly with farmers from around the island on a regular basis. It opened with just under 20 vendors.

The market soon gained a reputation as an incubator, a place to discover new products. It was one of the first centrally located markets to provide a venue for valueadded products created from local farm raised ingredients,

prepared snacks and plate lunches alongside the farmers and the fresh ingredients that inspired them.

Five years later, the market has grown to a collection of nearly 40 vendors, both regular and seasonal, KCC Aquaponics classes sharing information and selling their weekly harvest, new events such as the Kauai Grown/ Kauai Made Holiday Celebration, and a loyal following of regular customers who rely on the market for weekly purchases of produce and culinary ingredients. It has also attracted visitors interested to meet farmers, sample local delicacies and shop for gifts to take home.

“What makes this market unique is that it brings all the pieces together, from seed to table, to support buying and eating local,” said KCC Chancellor, Dr. Helen Cox. “This is

one of the many ways we can embrace sustainability as a community, and we’re proud to be a part of its success.

Guests are invited to celebrate with market vendors, Kauai County Farm Bureau and Kauai Community College at a special fifth anniversary celebration on Saturday, October 25th. “We want to let the public know and show them our appreciation for their support during the past five years,” said Kauai County Farm Bureau President Laurie Ho, “and what a big difference this Market has made for our farmers and small businesses.”

Kauai Community Market takes place Saturdays from 9:30am to 1:00pm weekly on the KCC campus. For more information, please visit kauaicommunitymarket.org or email info@kauaicommunitymarket.org.

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left: Krystel Ordonez right: Janet Agni

Krystel has worked at Kauai Adult Day Health for almost 6 years. The thing she likes most about working at KADH is being able to be an instrument to make life valued and meaningful for the Kupuna. Janet will make 2 years at KADH in January. She loves working with the elders it gives her a feeling of accomplishment and she goes home everyday feeling happy and satisfied.

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HAPPY HOUR • PRIZES Last Wednesday of Every Month Kauai Women in Oct 29TH • JOIN US! Business Roundtable Time: 5:00 to 7:00 pm Gaylord’s at Kilohana Private Dining Room $15 includes pupus, no host bar Reservations preferred Wear masks or Costumes.

Call 652-2802 A night of fun!

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ing sealer to the Kamalani Playground. Contact the operations section chief at 639-1018 or news@Kaua‘ipath.org if you can loan a ladder for the workday.

The Kamalani Playground deserves conscientious maintenance and care so that future generations will enjoy this unique community-built and maintained attraction.

Coordinating community workdays that sustain the longterm maintenance effort is an ongoing responsibility that the Friends of Kamalani and Lydgate Park embrace.

With the help of our volunteers, the Friends are developing an urban forestry management plan. The first step is to systematically inventory the existing individual trees in the park. The group will use the inventory to schedule planting suitable young trees that will grow and eventually replace the aging trees.

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sible through support from the County of Kaua‘i, Department of Parks and Recreation; Castle Resorts and Hotels and the Kaha Lani Association of Apartment Owners; Mark’s Place; Home Depot in the Community; Starbucks Coffee; the Y’s Men; the YWCA of Kaua‘i; Kapa‘a Rotary; and contributions from many other businesses, orga-

nizations, and you—the many Friends of Kamalani and Lydgate Park.

Plan to join your friends in Lydgate Park on Saturday, Oct. 25. Call 639-1018 or email

ThomasNoyes@hawaiiantel. net, and I’d be happy to address your questions, comments, and inquiries regarding volunteer group arrangements.

• Tommy Noyes works for the Hawai‘i State Department of Health’s Public Health Preparedness branch, serves on Kaua‘i Path’s board of directors, and is a League of American Bicyclists certified instructor.

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Hawai‘i Wisdom Ho‘i hou i ka i‘a i ke ‘ehu kai.

“The fish returns to the foamy sea.”

Said of one who returns to a previous home.

A mermaid, half-woman, half-fish, is right at home in the ocean on Kaua‘i’s North Shore.

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Coming to Our Senses

by Virginia Beck

What I love about Kaua‘i is how abundantly alive and present nature is here. With unlimited ocean horizons, rainbows and glowing green hillsides, Kaua‘i has a way of waking your senses to the intensity of being completely alive and free, joyful.

Uncaged and unlimited in many places, Kaua‘i’s exuberant, lush foliage reminds us that much of our own natural vitality also awaits to be explored. Our strength and power slumbers, untouched by everyday life, waiting for us to awaken and make use of it.

Kaua‘i invites us through the fragrances of leaf and flowering plants, gentle laua’e fern or sweet tuberose and gardenia, through the light dancing on hillsides, dragging cloud shadows that invite us on excursions into the mountains, meadows and Waimea Canyon, or the trails of the Na Pali valleys and cliffs.

Waves crash into the beaches, lap against the rocks or the sides of kayaks. Who can resist the refreshing, clear waters?

In movement and in action, we are helping to maintain and restore our bodies. The flow of blood through our muscles helps them grow and cleanses them. Movement lubricates our joints, stretches soft tissues, increases flexibility and makes our bones stronger. It wakes us up. Our senses are the keys to our wellness.

Movement gives us our sense of who—and where—we are. The feelings we have are the results of the kinds of activities we choose. A sluggish, sedentary body just isn’t comfortable, so we numb ourselves to our own sensitivity. We lose awareness of our posture, our breathing, our feelings. We develop an unnatural lack of feeling energetic and aware, which makes it hard to change our habits.

We weren’t born with the desire to be overweight, out of shape and feeling a little grouchy about it. We learn by habitual ways and patterns, tiny habits repeated over and over again.

But if we learned one thing, we can learn another.

Babies learn to trust their bodies by playing, moving and experimenting with new movements.

We too can learn to try new things, especially with the many invitations that Kaua‘i offers. Try something different, whether it is the zip lines, standup paddling, hiking, snorkeling or visiting our many wonderful gardens and beaches.

If you don’t like how you feel, change it! Get moving! Even the shortest walk gets your heart pumping, and flushes your brain with self-healing hormones that will make you feel better. Take some deep breaths and feel how your ribs expand to bring more life into you, refreshing your brain and releasing tension. The simple movements of breathing raise your shoulders and massage your neck and heart.

Focus on how many sounds you can hear during breathing: your own pulse, inner movements, outer sounds, birds and breezes. Notice your attention sharpening your own mental function.

When we are fully present to how we feel, we see our emotions arising and passing, changing like the clouds running before the sun. After deep breathing or exercise, we feel calmer and more peaceful. It steadies our heartbeat and relaxes our blood pressure. Feel your shoulder blades pressing in behind your heart, offering you support and relaxing your shoulders.

Look for activities where you can gradually increase your time and effort without injury. Respect and honor the one precious body you have today.

It has managed, despite everything, to bring you here. You are a success by virtue of being alive. Congratulations on being one of 10 billion humans who have ever lived on this planet!

• Virginia Beck, NP, Certified Trager Practitioner®, does private Wellness Consulting and Trager ® practice at the YWCA Women’s Center in Lihu‘e. She is part of the Women’s Health Team at West Kaua‘i Clinics, and can be reached at 635-5618.

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The German went back to work, but soon went completely blind. So for the next 15 years, he dictated an entire new book to his son, who was half-Indonesian, and wrote the whole thing in a pidgin language.

Once it was finished, the Dutch decided not to publish it to prevent such valuable information to fall into the hands of the French. So the German died without his book ever being published.

In the 1700s, the East Indies Company finally allowed it to be printed, but with two columns, one in Latin and another in its original pidgin language. The Latin described

the plants and the creole language added their useful properties.

Well, that pidgin language changed over the last 400 years, and no one was able to figure out what in the world was written there.

In the 1990s, NTBG did a global search and found one person with the literary skills to translate the book. He was a professor of Germanic languages at a Boston university.

There were six volumes, and Chipper said they thought the man could do one each year. However, halfway through the first volume, the translator was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

The old man refused to die, and worked on the translation for 10 years. Forget computers, everything he typed

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When it was all done, the boxes of translated material could fill the back of an SUV. NTBG took everything to Yale University, so they would co-publish it.

The senior editor of science at Yale took almost nine months to finish the project.

At the end, she said it was probably the most important botanical publication published in the last 100 years.

It has only been a few years, but Chipper told me the Mayo Clinic—the first and largest integrated nonprofit medical group practice in the world—has already new medicines as a result of this publication.

And to think it was almost all lost, not once or twice, but four times, is incredible.

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Waipake Coastal Walk. Moderate 4.5 miles round trip. Walk the path alongside a beautiful beach and up to a breathtaking vista and on to secluded Waipake Beach. Info Judy Dalton 246-9067, www. hi.sierraclub.org/kauai October 17-19 Princess Ka‘iulani Keiki Festival Family friendly event with live entertainment, hula, children’s activities, cultural activities, a children’s art exhibit, children’s performances, taiko drumming, a royal procession and parade, and children’s story time. This year’s princess will be Wailenalena Kaohi.

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The Beauty of the Breadfruit

by Jan TenBruggencate There are a few plants that evoke the tropics, plain and simple.

The coconut, of course. And blossoms like the fragrant white Tahitian gardenia.

And breadfruit, the ‘ulu.

What a plant.

Set aside the fruit for a moment.

‘Ulu bleeds white, a latex sap that was used for caulking canoes by the Polynesians. The sap could also be used as a glue.

The diluted sap, the juice from crushed flowers and crushed roots, the bark and other parts were used in Polynesia to treat a range of medical ailments.

Its light wood was used to carve fishing canoes and surfboards. It is a soft wood, easy to carve.

In some parts of the South Pacific,

‘ulu’s inner bark was pounded to make a variety of tapa cloth.

Its hairy leaves and flower sheaths were used as a fine sandpaper.

The dried male flowers can be burned like a mosquito punk to repel insects.

The ‘ulu, with its shiny green leaves, and their deep lobes shape, is a gorgeous tree. It seems to grow well in sandy soil and in deep valley earth, although it prefers well-drained soils. It can grow to be one of the biggest trees in the Hawaiian landscape.

And then there is the fruit. It is a fruit that so impressed early Europeans that the British brought it to the Caribbean. If you remember the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Bligh’s mission on that voyage was to collect breadfruit saplings from Tahiti and deliver them to the West Indies. He failed on the 1787 trip, when his crew mutinied, but succeeded on a subsequent voyage.

He needed to collect saplings rather than seeds because one of the most prized forms of Tahitian breadfruit, like the Hawaiian breadfruit, does not produce seed. Its comparatively massive fruit is almost entirely fleshy and edible.

Young breadfruit are boiled or steamed and can be eaten as a salad item, very like artichoke hearts. Older breadfruit can be baked and eaten like potatoes. They can be cut up and fried, either like hashed browns or potato chips. Or mashed and mixed into casseroles. Or used in any number of other ways.

And while individual breadfruits produce fruit seasonally, there are many varieties that flower and fruit at different times, so it is technically possible to have breadfruit year-round if you’re in tropical or subtropical climates.

And some varieties do have edible seeds. They can be seeds as big as chestnuts.

The world’s largest collection of breadfruit varieties has been assembled by Diane Ragone of the National Tropical Botanical Garden. She has well north of 100 varieites, most of them growing at the garden’s Kahanu Garden on Maui, but some also at the McBryde Garden on Kaua‘i.

Breadfruit are among the canoe plants—the plants that Polynesian voyagers brought with them to nearly every island they populated. And it makes perfect sense. Ragone is now trying to reintroduce them to the world as an answer to hunger.

• Jan TenBruggencate is a Kaua‘i based writer and communications consultant.

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Airline Captain Knew Kaua‘i Was Home the First Time She Saw the Island

by Pam Brown The first time U.S. Airways pilot Linda Christopherson saw Kaua‘i, her life changed. As the plane she was flying broke through the clouds at 1,000 feet, “I knew in an instant that this is where I was supposed to be.”

A pilot since 1986, Linda has flown and landed planes throughout the United States including O‘ahu, Maui and the Big Island of Hawai‘i, Canada and Mexico, so she was surprised by her reaction. She was even more amazed by the goose bumps that kept appearing on her arms all day long that first day on Kaua‘i.

Five years later, Kaua‘i is the only place Linda will fly, normally making the trip six times per month from U.S. Airways’ headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz.

“If I do get assigned to fly to another island, I ask the pilot assigned to Kaua‘i to switch with me,” she says. “Sometimes I have to sweeten the pot a little so I’ll let them borrow my truck next time they come to Kaua‘i.”

Yes, she has her own truck on Kaua‘i, recently brought her own bicycle over from Arizona and has golf and dinner dates every time she touches down on the Garden Island. She even has a Hawaiian drivers license.

Youngest Female Captain Linda took her first flying lesson in 1980 when she was 20 years old. A skydiver, she learned how to fly the jump plane, “because the jump plane pilot is everyone’s hero. I thought it would be cool.” But soon she was drawn to larger planes.

Hired by Frontier Airlines in 1986 at the age of 26, she helped

Remember Your First Pizza?

by Richard E. Peck

It happened on a Sunday night in the USMC barracks at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville. Three other PFCs swung by my bunk to ask if I wanted to go with them “for pizza.”

“Sure,” I said. Only problem? I had no idea what ”pizza” was. It was as unfamiliar as sushi or loco moco.

Today, menus have gone international. My father once rejected the idea of tasting a taco. He said, “You think anyone in Wisconsin wants a Mexican sandwich?”

A New York friend asked a Cleveland deli owner for a bagel. “You mean those tough-bread doughnuts?”

Today you can buy chop suey—an imitation-Chinese, American creation—anywhere from Toledo to Hong Kong. Salmon in Kansas.

Grits in Seattle. Lilikoi Pie in Dallas. Possum in Alabama (skip that one). And the universal nutrient, sold everywhere worldwide today, pole to pole, on land and sea, is (ta-dah!) pizza.

Kids who live on the stuff won’t believe me, but I’d never heard of pizza until that night in Jacksonville. It was still ethnic, hidden in closed Italian neighborhoods scattered across America.

But, no point in spending a Sunday night in the empty barracks, so I went along. I was 18. My first pizza — whatever that was.

Try to remember your innocence before you first tasted exotic

to make history. On her first official flight after completing her training, she was shocked to find herself co-piloting under Emily Howell Warner – the first woman ever hired as a pilot by a United States airline – and Linda’s idol.

Emily instructed Linda to be the pilot on the return trip.

Taking a deep breath, Linda took control of the Boeing 737 and began flying it back to Denver. As the plane got up to altitude, Emily said she was going to make an announcement to the passengers and that Linda needed to listen to it.

“Emily says, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached our cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. I’m turning off the seat belt sign.

We’re making history today. Today is the first time there has ever been an all-female flight crew.’ ” Both pilots and all three flight attendants were women.

Three years later, at the age of 29, while flying for America West Airlines, Linda became the youngest female captain for a major U.S. airline. “But I’m sure some sweet young thing has probably beaten that by now,” she says laughing.

In 2010, she captained her own all-female flight crew to Kaua‘i. “As soon as we landed we all went out to celebrate at the hotel where we stay on Kaua‘i, had a barbecue and made s’mores!”

Captain Linda enjoys sharing her love of flying with students at career days and as a guest speaker in classrooms, appearing in uniform and inspiring children with stories of her life as a pilot. She even built a flight simulator for elementary schoolage kids that they can sit in and pretend to push buttons.

“I talk to them about staying off drugs, staying in school, foods. Maybe it was goulash, or sushi, or ouzo, or “blackened” fish, the con that Chef Paul perpetrated on gullible New Orleans visitors in order to peddle the dish he accidentally burned. Remember believing in the tooth fairy? Or assuming that to be an American Idol you had to be able to carry a tune? It was a simpler time.

We went to Pasquale’s—none of us able to pronounce the name of the place. The other three were all 19, more sophisticated than I. “How d’you want yours?” one of them asked.

Trouble right off the bat. “Just regular.”

“You want anchovies, or not?”

“Sure,” I said. Anchovies. Now we were two words into a foreign language maze. Pizza wasn’t confusing enough. What were anchovies?

We sat at a checked tablecloth covering a wobbly table with one short leg. The wicker-wrapped bottle on the table held the unlit stub of a candle. The other three ordered beer. I said, “Coke.” The waitress said “Uh-huh” and brought us four Cokes.

Eventually she brought in a huge tin tray carrying the pizza. Clear your mind. You’ve seen pizza too often to understand my bewilderment that Sunday night. But try.

The mystery the waitress plopped down in front of me was round, and flat, and runny, mostly red, probably raw, and looked like it had been dropped and run over by a truck. A tray of curdled tomato soup.

Nobody in his right mind would eat that thing!

U.S. Airways captain Linda Christopherson, in her ‘office,’ plans to make Kaua‘i her home one day. Five years after first landing on the Garden Isle, the only route she will now fly is from Phoenix to Kaua‘i. that your parents are your first sponsor in life and to treat them well,” she says.

But most of all, she enjoys every moment of her life while fondly envisioning the day when she will make Kaua‘i her permanent home.

Linda even consulted a Feng Shui expert in Arizona about how to create the life she desires. The expert recommended that she place a “nice, loving, warm book” on her Phoenix bedroom nightstand. Linda chose the book “Kaua‘i Stories.”

“If I lived here,” she says of Kaua‘i, “I would be truly home.”

• Pamela Varma Brown is the publisher of Kaua‘i Stories, and the forthcoming Kaua‘i Stories 2.

Then the light came on. Pizza must be Italian for snipe hunt! If I bit into it, the three others would start laughing. Maybe I could use a straw and drink some. I waited to take a cue from them, but nobody cracked a smile.

The pizza sat there, four of them on the table. Still red. Still runny.

A bubbling swamp of cheese dotted with fish-bits.

And then, you’d never guess: the other three, ignoring the knives and forks and the watching crowd… picked up a wedge of pizza in both hands and bit off the point!

It’s true! They ate with their hands!

Okay. So did I. It was soupy and hot and sloppy and spicy. It dripped and drizzled. Tomato sauce burned my chin. Cheese slid off into my lap, still tied to the crust by long, swaying strings of mozzarella—another foreign word!

If my dad thought Mexican sandwiches were strange, I couldn’t wait to tell him about pizza. Italian pancakes smeared with cheese and ketchup!

• Richard E. Peck is a part-time Kaua‘i resident and a retired president of three universities. He has written numerous books, plays, columns and TV shows, and his work can be seen at www.richardepeck.com.

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