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IN FOCUS KPCC’s Fun Fundraiser

By Léo Azambuja Kaua‘i’s Filipino community knows how to plan an event like nobody else.

About 500 people attended the Kaua‘i Philippine Cultural Center fundraising at the Grand Ballroom of the Kaua‘i Marriott Resort and Beach Club May 16.

A lavish dinner buffet and top-notch entertainment by the Youth String Ensemble, dancers, and Waianae singer Kristian Lei, along with musician Pierre Grill and entertainer Shawn Thomsen, contributed to the evening’s success.

The KPCC, “a place for all,” was first envisioned in 2010 by Lesther Calipjo. Soon after, careful and consistent planning and hard work has brought the center closer to become reality. Groundbreaking is expected for later this year.

KPCC will be built next to the YMCA swimming pool in Puhi. It is intended as a place for community events and cultural activities. It will offer community programs and services, exhibits, festivals and educational events.

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Art for the Masses, by the Masses

By Léo Azambuja

Creativity takes courage, the late French painter Henri Matisse once said. For Karlos and Kathy DeTreaux, this sounds just about right.

With 15 minutes to decide whether to embark on a 12-year lease for an all-inclusive art center in the heart of Hanalei Town, Kathy took the leap of courage. Karlos followed suit, and brought along a few partners — Chris Serve, Linda Lee-Brake, Dean Rogers, Amy Sue, Frank Hagen and Stuart Martin.

This is somewhat how The General Store of Hanalei, housed in a historic building constructed in 1906, came to life earlier this year. And the art world says thank you very much.

“It’s really crazy but it’s really exciting,” Karlos said.

On Feb. 2, the Chinese New Year, the gallery had a soft opening, and had to make “an honest sale” as required by one of the landlords, who is of Chinese descent, Karlos said. In March, they opened for good, representing a wide variety of artists.

In May, the gallery hosted Why Be Board?, a skateboard art show with 120 artists. There were no rules, and the result was art made with all kinds of media; metal sculptures, musical instruments, lamps, mosaics, stained glass, watercolor, paper, color pencils and etc. There were artists as young as 4 years old.

“We realized there’s a need for art that is not in the high-end level, that’s community art,” Karlos said.

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The next exhibit, Art is Medicine, will be late July, and will be open to 100 artists. In August, they plan to distribute 100 ukuleles for an event similar to the skateboard show.

Meanwhile, the gallery has art for every taste and budget. Their artists range from children to a 79-year-old line artist, and the prices can be as little as $20 or as high as $10,000.

From left to right, theater director Donovan Cabebe and business partners Chris Serve and Manager Jennifer Hawkins said when Karlos DeTraux. people walk in, the gallery’s energy just moves them. printmaking and jewelry, and will be equipped with six iMac comput “We have so many different levels of artists, and different levels ers for an Internet café. of talent that there’s something here for everyone, something that There’s also a room for dance classes, a lanai for plein-air artists, a everyone can relate to, and it just feels good,” she said. “It’s a place room for resident artists and another for art classes. where everyone feels like they belong.”

Outside, in the back parking lot of Ching Young Village, a 20-foot But art exhibits and sales are just two aspects of this ambitious container will house gardening classes and pottery making. project. The General Store is taking the art center seriously.

Karlos said because there are so many partners in the project, and In the back of the gallery there is a stage setup with professional they all have jobs, no one has to live off the project at least for the first lighting, sound system and projector screens. The space will be used couple years. So they can take the time to do it right, he said. for music, community meetings and anything else imaginable.

The late Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, a lifelong friend of Matisse, “I grew up playing music, I love music and art,” said Chris, adding once said, “Everything you can imagine is real.” he likes the aspect of a gathering place for artists and the community, The crew at The General Store of Hanalei is proving just that. something Hanalei lacks.

They are at 5-5150 Kuhio Hwy., at Ching Young Village, and can be The side entrance will have an espresso and kava bar. reached at 825-6441.

Upstairs, a small room will have chairs and a collection of some Visit www.facebook.com/thegeneralstoreofhanalei for more 1,500 art books donated by the community. The next room will be for information.

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By Léo Azambuja

Mahalo nui loa to all our readers and supporters! It was because of you For Kaua‘i received a prestigious state journalism award last month. We were the only publication from Kaua‘i to snatch a prize during the Hawai‘i Publishers Association’s 30th Annual Pa‘i Awards, held at the Plaza Club in Honolulu May 15.

For Kaua‘i won Second Best Editorial Opinion for “The Dream of Lasting Peace,” an editorial against racism published last August.

And we won it simply because I listened to you.

Besides double- and triple-checking facts for accuracy, good reporters really listen to people. Facts are essential to tell the story, but it is the human experience that connects us to each other.

So over the years, I’ve listened to people a lot. I gave them an outlet for their suffering as well as their joy. I’ve listened to those who’ve lost homes to fires and who’ve lost spouses and children to accidents and murders. But I’ve also listened to people who’ve accomplished extraordinary things, and there is no shortage of those on Kaua‘i.

Each time, I became more human. So thank you for that.

Last year, while getting ready to write my monthly editorial column for August, I came across international news that a man running

Editor’s Notes to become the head of Italy’s soccer federation referred to African players as “banana eaters” in a public statement.

Disgusted by such news, I wrote a passionate editorial opinion against racism. When the paper came out, I uploaded the editorial to our website and then shared it on Facebook. To my surprise, the editorial immediately caught the attention of dozens who shared it on their Facebook pages.

Earlier this year, while deciding on a handful of entries to submit to HPA for the Pa‘i Awards, one of the main reasons I chose “The Dream of Lasting Peace” was how popular it was among our readers.

I’m well aware no one is a better critic than our readers, and the award we won this year just validates this.

This was not my first rodeo at the Pa‘i Awards.

Before taking the editor job at For Kaua‘i, I was a county government reporter at Kaua‘i’s only daily newspaper. Over the years, I won several Pa‘i Awards in many categories, including photography, enterprise reporting, investigative reporting, online news, a couple editorial series and a special section on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane ‘Iniki.

But this one has a special feeling.

This is the first time For Kaua‘i has won an award. It is the first award I have won as an editor rather than as a reporter. We are the only publication on Kaua‘i that has won anything at this year’s Pa‘i Awards.

But best of all, we only have 12 editions a year, and the Editorial

Opinion category is a coveted prize. We competed against several daily and non-daily publications throughout Hawai‘i, and yet we snatched one of the two top prizes.

It was truly an honor to represent our island at the Pa‘i Awards this year, and I’m already looking forward to next year’s event.

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Fukushima Four Years Later: Are We Safe?

By Ruby Pap

This may go without saying, but don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. It is disheartening to see so much misinformation bleeding online.

Four years ago, after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, there was a bright red “radioactivity map” all over the Internet claiming to depict the radioactive plume on its march of death across the Pacific Ocean. Some sleuthing revealed the blatant lie it was – a model of the Tohuku tsunami waves rather than radiation.

What did really happen, and what is happening now?

When the tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima plant, four reactors released significant amounts of radiation into the atmosphere and the ocean. The radioactive isotopes released include iodine-131, cesium-137 and cesium-134.

Large doses of these isotopes cause serious long-term health impacts. People closest to the site, particularly workers at the plant, are most at risk. The accident compounded the tragedy of thousands lost and displaced after the tsunami.

For Hawai‘i it is a much different story – one that requires continued monitoring to fully understand.

After the accident, Dr. Ken Buesseler from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute organized the first of many international expeditions to study the spread of radionuclides from Fukushima to the Pacific. I spoke with Dr. Henrieta Dulaiova, from the UH School of Ocean Science and Technology, who took part in the effort.

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Dulaiova said cesium-137 and cesium-134 also come from the nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. Since cesium-137 has a 30-year half-life, if it’s detected in Hawaiian waters, it’s impossible to tell if it’s from weapons testing or Fukushima. Therefore, cesium-134, with a two-year half-life, is used as a Fukushima fingerprint.

Today, the data shows no detectible Fukushima-derived cesium isotopes in water samples around Hawai‘i. The levels of cesium-137 that are detected (less than 1.5 Bequerels per cubic meter Bq/m3) are well below the Environmental Protection Agency’s limits for human health concerns, and are likely from historical weapons tests. Dulaiova continues to monitor Hawaiian waters, but so far the coast is clear.

Anything arriving in Hawai‘i is expected to be significantly diluted.

Dulaiova’s students are also monitoring mushrooms and fish, both of which can act as indicator organisms to detect radiation because it bioaccumulates in their tissues.

While the fisheries off Fukushima remain closed, the fish should be safe to eat here. This is based on the assumption that most of the fish we eat do not migrate far from their home waters. One exception to this is Pacific bluefin tuna. To be clear, the ahi readily available here in Hawai‘i is yellowfin.

There is still much to be learned about the radiation traveling from Fukushima. Also, there is increasing concern about strontium-90, which is leaking from the groundwater to the ocean at Fukushima.

Strontium-90 mimics calcium and can concentrate in bones where

Former UH Manoa Department of Geology and Geophysics postdoctoral researcher Jan Kamenik is seen here collecting samples at Sans Souci Beach on O‘ahu.

it remains for long periods. According to WHOI, so far, strontium-90 levels in fish are far lower than cesium-137, but if the leaks continue, it will become a greater concern.

Unfortunately, government funding for a coordinated multinational monitoring effort is not available. WHOI recently launched www.ourradioactiveocean.org where you can fund a monitoring site.

Also, www.whoi.edu is a treasure trove of reliable scientific information.

Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is tracking the issue as well: kauai.surfrider.org/ • Ruby Pap is a Coastal portfolio-item/ Land Use Extension fukushima-radiationAgent at University of monitored/. Perhaps Hawai‘i Sea Grant Colyou could post these lege Program. She can links to your Facebook be reached at rpap@ page? hawaii.edu.

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Hawai‘i and the Rising Sun

By Léo Azambuja

Of all ethnic groups comprising Hawai‘i’s melting pot, no other had more impact in the state’s modern socio-politico-economic landscape than early Japanese immigrants.

When large sugar plantations began to lead the Hawaiian Kingdom’s economy in the second half of the 19th century, immigrants from all over the world started pouring into the islands.

“At that time in Hawai‘i, the sugar industry was taking place, and there was a need for cheap labor for the sugar plantations,” said Gerald Hirata, president of the Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple in Hanapepe.

It was mainly the sugar plantations, and later pineapple, that provided the fuel for the fire under Hawai‘i’s melting pot. Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Puerto Ricans, Koreans, Filipinos, Spanish, Germans, Russians, North Americans and others, all came to Hawai‘i to take part in the then-boiling agricultural businesses.

But those from the Land of Rising Sun would outnumber everyone by large digits.

Between 1868, when the first Japanese arrived to work in the plantations, and 1924, when the Federal Immigration Act limited the annual number of immigrants to the United States, 200,000 Japanese came to Hawai‘i. About 40 percent of them returned home, and the rest merged into local society.

By comparison, 120,000 Filipinos came here between 1906 and 1946. About 50,000 Chinese came between 1852 and 1887, when their immigration fizzled following the 1882 U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act. Other groups came in much smaller numbers.

Hole Hole Bushi The issei women, the first generation of Japanese immigrants, worked long hours in the sugar fields and sang songs called hole hole bushi. Their work was to strip hole hole, or dry leaves, from sugar cane stalks so that it produces more juice while providing fertilizer for the growing plant. It was a job assigned mostly to women. The hole hole bushi songs used old Japanese folk tunes, and mixed Hawaiian and Japanese words for dramatic lyrics.

When I left Japan I left all alone But now I have children And grandchildren too

Nihon deru tok’ya yo Hitori de deta ga Ima ja ko mo aru Mago mo aru

A real look at the Man I am to marry The picture bride system is Despicable

Are ga tsureso Hito to ka mireba Shashin kekkon Urameshii

Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i I came, chasing a dream Now my tears flow In the canefield

Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i, to yo Yume mite kita ga Nagasu namida wa Kibi no naka

Why settle for 35 cents a day Doing holehole work When I can sleep with a Chinaman And make a dollar!

Sanjugosen de yo Horehore suru yori Pake-san to moi-moi sur’ya Akahi kara

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“Because the Japanese came in great numbers and represented a large percentage of the island population, many of the native Japanese culture and traditions could flourish in the islands,” said Hirata, who is a third- and fourth-generation Japanese in Hawai‘i.

By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, prompting the U.S. to enter World War II, there were 160,000 Japanese living in the Territory of Hawai‘i.

They represented roughly 40 percent of the islands’ population. About three-quarters of Brian Howell them were Americans by birth.

The bon dance at Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple in Hanapepe is the largest on Kaua‘i.

On the Mainland, 120,000 Japanese – three-quarters of Hirata said he had a rich cultural upbringing because there was them American citizens – were sent to 10 internment centers from a Buddhist temple in the plantation village he grew up on Kaua‘i’s February 1942 to 1945.

Westside. But just like most ethnic groups here, the local Hawaiian In Hawai‘i, probably because of the large percentage of the culture super-imposes all that.

Japanese community, only 1,500 Japanese were sent to interment “Growing up, although I always had a very strong sense of idencenters, and they were mostly community leaders such as Buddhist tity, I always perceived myself as local, because when I go to Japan, ministers, Japanese language teachers and other prominent memI feel like a stranger there,” he said. “So I think of myself as local boy bers, according to Hirata. who is multi-cultural but with a strong Japanese identity. And I think Despite widespread discrimination during the war, the Japanesethere are a lot of other ethnic groups that think the same way.”

Americans volunteered to fight for the U.S. and were banded th nd Giving koden is a Japanese tradition that has been incorporated by together in the 100 Battallion, 442 Regimental Combat Team. To this day, the “Go for Broke” regiment, as they became known, remain the broader local community. It is about offering money at a funeral to the surviving family, Hirata said. the most highly decorated unit in the U.S. military history.

“In Hawai‘i now, whether you go to a Filipino funeral, a Hawaiian When the war was over, many from the “Go for Broke” regiment funeral or Portuguese funeral, people will give koden to the family,” utilized the G.I. Bill to attend university. Among those was the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, who became the first Japanese-American elected he said.

Another folk Japanese tradition that found a home in the islands to the U.S. House in 1959 and to the U.S. Senate in 1962.

“We were convinced we deserved something better than the plan- is the bon dance during the summer. From June 6 through Aug. 8, all nine Buddhist temples on Kaua‘i will take turns hosting a bon dance tation and second-class citizenship. We wanted to exert ourselves each Friday and Saturday, with the exception of July 4 weekend. and participate in developing Hawai‘i and in making policy,” Inouye It’s a time when the spirits of the Japanese ancestors come back once said. to visit and dance with their living relatives. It’s a family affair, a Inouye remained in the U.S. Senate until his death on Dec. 17, happy time, Hirata said, with lots of dancing, music, singing and 2012. Because he was the longest-serving U.S. senator at the time respect for the deceased. of his death – and the second longest-serving senator ever – he And because it’s a festival in Hawai‘i, it inevitably involves food. was also the President Pro Tempore of the United States, third in the Hirata said every island has a different kind of bon dance. Kaua‘i is presidential line of succession. He was largely responsible for much the only one where we can find the famous Flying Saucer, an ovalof the federal funding for education, military and infrastructure shaped sandwich stuffed with sloppy Joe. projects in Hawai‘i.

Hirata, who grew up in a plantation camp, said the only choice for “My mom told me that we were the first temple to do (the Flying Saucer),” Hirata said. “I have enough sources to confirm that.” his generation was to leave the island to pursue higher education or He said the Kaua‘i Soto Zen has the largest bon dance on Kaua‘i, better employment. and some even say it’s the largest in the state.

“A lot of us had to leave, I wasn’t going to work for the sugar “Our temple’s goal is to really continue this folk tradition,” said plantation or the pineapple fields,” he said.

Hirata, adding they make sure people learn the dances, the drum Though O‘ahu had more choices in furthering education, many ming, the singing, and then “carry on with the food, making it a nice of his contemporaries left to Mainland colleges. Today, Hirata said, festival so people can enjoy it.” there are more work and educational opportunities on Kaua‘i and So this summer, keep calm and bon dance. across the state.

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Mayor-A-Thon 2015

By Tommy Noyes You’re invited to join the bicyclists, runners, walkers and strollers who will once again gather at Kapa‘a Beach Park early Saturday morning June 20 for the 7th annual Mayor-A-Thon.

The theme of this year’s Mayor-A-Thon is “Hats Off to Dads,” in recognition of Fathers Day. Participants who register for the event at www.GetFitKauai.com will be given hats (while supplies last) with this year’s Mayor-A-Thon logo printed in colors honoring Kauai’s five moku – Napali, Halelea, Koolau, Puna, and Kona.

“It’s a fun, family-oriented event that takes place on our beautiful coastal path! I encourage residents and visitors from across the island to join us,” Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. sums it up.

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This free, high-energy, annual event is co-sponsored by the Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition, Get Fit Kaua‘i and the County of Kaua‘i to encourage physical health and fitness among island residents, and to celebrate the multi-use path, Ke Ala Hele Makalae, or the path that goes by the coast.

“The Mayor-A-Thon is an annual event – it’s a community event – it’s free, and it’s actually to celebrate a place on the island where we can walk safely, bike safely and support physical activity in a safe environment,” Get Fit Kaua‘i coordinator Bev Brody said. “We have had hundreds of people come out every year, and they use this

Tommy Noyes In addition to leading warm-up exercises and livening up the Zumba dancers during Mayor-A-Thon 2014, Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. biked Ke Ala Hele Makalae towing his granddaughter, Welina Carvalho-Brede, in a trailer. path that we are continuing to build.”

All registered participants are served a delicious, wholesome breakfast. This year, the breakfast fare reflects the growing popular interest in gluten-free baked goods. Mark’s Place will be catering the event, and their chef has found new ingredients to bake the glutenfree scones with an appealing taste and texture that will be served as part of the complete breakfast.

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Slide dance moves, loosen up their hips for the hula hoop contests, get funky with Zumba, enjoy family closeness and laugh a lot.

The 2014 Mayor-A-Thon attracted more than 1,300 people, including several folks from the Mainland who decided to visit Kaua‘i over other islands due to this event, enjoyed a beautiful morning full of fitness, dancing, games, breakfast and celebration.

The registration process includes an option to assist as a volunteer. If you add in the comments section that you’d like to work with Kaua‘i Path, you may be assigned to help move the large numbers out of the Kapa‘a Beach Park and onto Ke Ala Hele Makalae in an orderly process. Volunteers in this detail will still be able to fully participate in all aspects of the Mayor-A-Thon.

“I believe that the Mayor-A-Thon will get bigger and bigger each year,” Brody said. “Every year this event draws more people, and every year the team who put it together reach out and get more people involved.”

Visit www.GetFitKauai.com to register or you call Tommy Noyes at 808 639-1018 for more information.

• 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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Summer Adventuring, Kaua‘i Style

By Virginia Beck

Kaua‘i in the summer calls our wild nature, the part of us that cannot bear to be indoors or wear shoes a moment longer than necessary.

Even T-shirts and slippers seem too much, as bathing-suit weather beckons. The summer waves, rising swells on the South Shore, schools empty and beaches fill as families and friends celebrate the longer days with camping, picnics, boat trips and luaus.

We all feel the lengthening days with relief; there is time to relax at the end of the workday. Summer ball games. Surfing and beach

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Boat trips down the Na Pali Coast wash away the land-bound thoughts, bringing us spray and dolphins, and tradewinds that comb our hair free of dusty worries.

Engagements and wedding abound, romance is in the air. And what a romantic place for it! A full moon in Hawai‘i is so amazing, the brightness of the moonlight so clean and clear, it illuminates the surf and glitters off the night breakers. And the stars, oh glory, there is nowhere like Kaua‘i to watch the stars, especially down at the beach, away from the lights. “Hanalei by moonlight.” Or Polihale, or Kalalau by starlight.

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Think of a time when you were really kicking ass and taking names in any particular area of your life. Consider how much you were learning at that time. Feel into the energy of transformation and growth at that time. Exciting, right? There is ease there. There is motivation there.

Inspiration is alive there and it feels empowering.

Who was supporting you at that time? Who were those paramount pillars assisting you at that rock-star level? Take a moment and hear the answers.

Now, think of a time when you were struggling in any particular area. Feel into the energy. Frustration, doubt, defeat and fear are probably some of the influences that were part of this reality.

Who was supporting you at this time of struggle? Who was guiding you and coaching your way?

I bet the answers to the different scenarios are night-and-day. And hopefully, your answers are quite insightful.

These are great questions to ponder because no one purposefully chooses to feel incapable of reaching their goals, to feel like a failure or to struggle where there can be ease and enthusiasm. These questions will help you to make a powerful shift.

When I look back at times where I was “kicking ass and taking names” – I can go back to my competitive gymnastics days, starting my online business, my body building competition last year and even where I am right now – and see what all of these things have in common: I had a coach mapping out and supporting my dreams and desires!

I had a coach who I respected, I could learn from and I trusted to help me to get to where I wanted to be.

I am blessed to look back and see the wealth of coaches, teachers and mentors who have supported me in becoming who I am. I am also grateful for those who are in my life now, assisting me in becoming more of who I can be!

On the other hand, when I take a look at what kind of support, coaching or mentorship I had when I experienced great struggle and frustration, I see I had none. And this is pretty universal, my friends.

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A monk seal pup nurses from its mama on the beach. A volunteer for the Kaua‘i Monk Seal Watch Program explains this baby is about three weeks old and will be venturing out into the world on its own soon. He says the seals are carefully protected when they come ashore so they can get rest and feed their young. The endangered species is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, and is called ‘ilio holo i ka uaua, which means “dog running in the rough seas” in Hawaiian language.

At the Aloha-N-Paradise Art Gallery, satisfied customers thank Kelsey at the espresso bar for “the best coffee in town.” Kelsey indeed brews up some magic. “I had my first espresso ever here long ago,” she says. There is an art to making a perfect cappuccino, and this Waimea wahine has it down.

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Island Activities The Kaua‘i Makers Club discusses imaginative ideas for engineering projects big and small during a meeting at the Kaua‘i Beer Company. On the table is a “flame thrower” created by the man on the left in the yellow shirt, Dan Loeffler. He tells how the craft utilizes “the awesome power of free waste vegetable oil firing at 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.” On the right is Bryan Knopf, who specializes in laser cutting and etching at his business, Firelight Kaua‘i, and Chris Hardi, who regularly repairs surfboards along with numerous other projects that tickle his fancy. Club President Carl Lozar has a great enthusiasm for helping out his community with all the various ingenuities of the group in this Makerspace. The Kaua‘i Makers Club meets at 6:30 p.m. every first Wednesday at the Kaua‘i Beer Company and every third Tuesday at Ha Coffee Bar, and is “free to all to come share what you are working on!”

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Kau Kau Delights Going Feral at The Pig

By Anni Caporuscio

The Feral Pig refers to itself as “pork-centric”, which I take to mean “concerned with all things pork.”

This, however, is not what makes its clientele so comfortable.

The Pig – as its regulars call it – is a watering hole, a great place for a sandwich, a good place for news and to meet people. And it’s a friendly place where everyone actually knows your name.

Owner Dave Powers explains it as the marriage of an Irish Pub with Kaua‘i Island feel. And its mission: Really good food at a really decent price, using the most local ingredients as possible.

The Feral Pig strives to make in-house as much of what they serve; from salad dressings and sauces to smoked meats.

The Feral Burger is a mix of Kaua‘i Ground Beef, Smoked Pork Shoulder and their House-Cured Pork Belly (capitalized for respect, these are top quality meats). Sizzled with cheddar cheese, caramelized onions and Spicy Aioli Secret Sauce (SASS), and served on Passion Bakery’s Taro Brioche Bun. It’s not just a burger; it’s a work of art any meat eater wholly respects.

But let’s talk cocktails. Dave melts his passion for bartending with history, so he can talk the story of a drink and make you feel like you are participating in its re-creation. Try him. Just get him talking. He’ll ask you a few questions and then make you something good.

We asked about gin, and Dave took us through the history of the Tom Collins, starting with an Old Tom Tom Collins, a recipe dating prior to 1890. He keeps a handy drink list based on classics – 1935 or before.

The Feral Pig has a lively beer selection featuring many local brews, including beer from Kaua‘i Beer Company. And Dave can talk about beer as well, all the way down to temperature, yeast, hops, sugars, etc. He knows his product well.

The Pig has live entertainment every Sunday evening and on special holidays such as St. Paddy’s Day and Repeal Day, the day Prohibition was repealed, Dec, 5. They also do beer tastings and special food pairing events, very tasty and educational.

Find The Feral Pig at 3501 Rice St., at Harbor Mall in Nawiliwili. They are open Wednesday through Monday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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This historic cocktail is the Toronto, served up. Dating from around 1956, it’s an old fashioned with Canadian rye, fernet and a lemon twist.

The Feral Burger with house-made French fries and pickles. As far as pub burgers go, this one is luxurious.

The Fish Tacos is one of the more popular menu items. Almost everything in it is locally sourced, or at least from Hawai‘i. You have a choice of corn or wheat tortillas. The locally caught hebi, or shortbill swordfish, is blackened and quite spicy.

Dave Powers, pictured here, and Scott Kessinger opened The Feral Pig in August 2011.

Just a little bit of what goes on at a dynamic pub.

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As part of our gin tour, here is a simple Tom Collins. Nothing fancy or disrespectful, it gives you the full flavor of the gin with complementing citrus and a taste of tradition.

• Anni Caporuscio is a food lover and can be found daily at her Kapa‘a business, Small Town Coffee.

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Navigating Hawai‘i’s Oceans: Don’t be a victim of drowning Hawai‘i’s beaches are the envy of many, but as beautiful as they are, the ocean can pose great danger to the inexperienced or unaware.

According to the Hawai‘i State Department of Health Injury Prevention and Control Section, there were 861 fatalities among both visitors and residents due to drowning from 2004-2013.

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Additionally, ocean activities accounted for the majority of spinal cord injuries in Hawai‘i between 2009 and 2013.

“Spending time at the beach is a favorite activity for many of us, but it’s very important to understand the power of our ocean, as well as our own limits in order to prevent injury and loss of life,” says Monty Downs, MD, an emergency room physician at Wilcox Memorial Hospital and ocean safety advocate.

Downs advises people to always be vigilant. Swim only at beaches with lifeguards, and be extremely cautious when walking on rock ledges.

“Pay close attention to the intense ocean currents,” Downs says, stressing that the white water created by breaking waves is not your friend.

“The white water – or at times even clear-appearing water – can hold currents (rip currents) that will pull you out to sea,” he explains. “If you do get caught in a current and are being pulled out, the key is DO NOT PANIC. Don’t fight against the current or you’ll get exhausted.”

Instead, Downs says you should “go with the flow, and the current will release you. Then you can gather yourself and figure out what to do next – for example, wave for help, find another place to come back to shore or wait for a rescuer.

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Invitation to Ride

By Larry Feinstein

Pack your bags; we’re going for a ride. You have to meet me in San Francisco on the afternoon of Sept. 8 because that is when we pick up our Indian Chieftain, a legendary bike, beautifully brought back to life a few years ago. In all my years of riding, I have never taken a passenger, so this ride is a first for both of us.

How can you go along for a ride without being on the Indian with me? I am going to imagine your invisible presence, sitting close behind me.

You will not be paying any attention to the ride.

Each day, I am going to tell you what you missed.

Spending so much time together in close quarters could result in you wanting to share, and I am

Mind and the Motorcycle encouraging it. We’re going to roll on two-lane roads, meandering through Northern California, up into Southern Oregon and down the coastline of both states.

I am going to take pictures, write short posts on my blog and record daily podcasts to capture the immediacy of the experience Heading east on the big highways out of San Francisco will take me to my first stop, Groveland, the street address for the opening to Yosemite.

Sitting here, I can conjure the sensations from just yesterday on my own roads. When the sun is above the line of sight, with the trades blowing gently from the east, under a blue sky with shaggy, puffed clouds, surrounded by ocean and held together by an interior of lollypop green mountains, I melt into my bike. At some marker on the first day’s ride, this fleeting moment of familiar, biker bliss will slip in as Yosemite rolls into view.

The moment I thought about the ride, the urge to record it instantly attached itself. Writing is difficult for me. I am most comfortable when I have a person

or purpose drawing me out. I spent a year and a half writing my life story to my young grandson, a gift he will receive when his parents think he’s old enough, probably 30 years old!

The past few years have felt a little like word MMA, always ending in a draw. Giving myself permission to commit to this ride nearly a year ago pulled me quickly back into the world of shared words. I am now obligated to meet up with the Indian and tell crisscrossing stories, one in my mind and one from the road.

I am going way outside my comfort zone. A seasoned biker would likely think I am crazy. My primary experience is a dozen years riding on the stress free, familiar roads of Kaua‘i, on easy to handle Hondas. On our trip, we will be on a much bigger bike, riding on roads that will vary each day, with no idea what is around the other side of every blind curve. There are daily destinations, never staying in one place for more than a night.

I am not sure I’d be enjoying my life as much without taking chances, although sometimes I want to pull the covers over my head and disappear from the see-everything mirror. I don’t know how many times I have forced myself to overcome horrific trepidation, only to find that getting out of bed and folding into the day was not the monster I feared. Riding a motorcycle can be like that. You always have near misses or riding miscalculations that burn your throat and explode your heart, but cruising the coastline of Kaua‘i washes it gently away and you smile, leaving the anxiety ghost over your shoulder, behind you on the disappearing road.

Whenever you feel like it, get on the back and introduce yourself because I can’t turn around while I am riding.

• Larry Feinstein has spent a lifetime wondering what we’re all about. Visit www. mindandthemotorcycle.com email larry@ mindandthemotorycle.com to receive updates on plans for the ride.

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Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday on Channel #6 Islandwide at: 7:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, 4:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 12:00 midnight

Sat, June 6 Hanalei Canoe Club 8 Mile Ha‘ena Run Course from Ke‘e beach to the Hanalei pier. Pancake breakfast free for all runners, or just come and eat for $7. Entry fee $35/45.

Info 639-4048, www.hanaleicanoeclub.org Sat, June 6, 10:30am-2 pm Puerto Rican Festival Come and enjoy Kachi Kachi music, dancing, and delicious Puerto rican cuisine. Live entertainment by Wally Rita y Los Kauaianos. At Kaua‘i Museum.

Info www.kauaimuseum.org Sat, June 6, 4-7 pm, 7th Annual Love Life Creative Festival & All Styles Dance Showcase This event is purposed to create a drug free and suicide free culture on Kaua‘i through education and exposure to positive outlets such as dance, art, music, fashion, and food. At KCC. Info Lila Metzger 651-4383, kuganow@gmail.com

The Garden Isle’s Fossil-Rich Landscape

By Jan TenBruggencate

A lot of folks think of fossils in terms of dinosaurs – things a couple of hundred million years old.

A place like Kaua‘i, which emerged from the ocean just five million years ago, couldn’t have much of a fossil supply. Right?

Wrong. There are fossils all over the island – fossil shells, fossil birds, even fossil plants.

Let’s start with what a fossil is. It can refer to a form of life that has been preserved in stone or converted to stone, like dinosaur bones. But a liberal definition is any evidence of a form of life from a distant time. Even the burrows of ancient animals are considered fossils.

Most of our island’s fossils are stone memorials of sealife or coastal life.

They are actually quite easy to find in sandstone fields, like the lithified (turned to stone) sand dunes of Maha‘ulepu, east of the Hyatt hotel. There, fossil shells are common in the

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Kaua‘i geologist Chuck Blay, left, is seen here talking about geology and fossils with two members of the National Tropical Botanical Garden 2015 Environmental Journalism Fellowship.

rock. Kaua‘i geologist Chuck Blay, author of the book “Kaua‘i’s Geological History,” regularly takes tours to fossils in geological formations.

Fossils of extinct Kaua‘i birds have been uncovered in those same hardened dunes by Storrs Olson, curator emeritus of birds at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. His work proved that long before humans, numerous species of flightless ducks and geese waddled the island’s shores.

At the South Shore’s Makauahi Sinkhole, paleoecologist David Burney has found sediments dating back to long before humans arrived on the island. The fossil array, preserved in moist sediment, has been just amazing.

There were shells, and bird bones, but also a really remarkable archive of the ancient botany of the island. Burney was able to find fossil pollen, bits of wood and ancient seeds, and to identify plant species that once lived in the region.

One of the bits of evidence he was able to uncover was that

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the useful tree kou, Cordia subcordata, grew on these islands long before humans arrived. That was news, since it had long been assumed kou was brought by the first Hawaiian settlers in their canoes.

He also confirmed through pollen analysis that hala, Pandanus tectorius, fell into a similar category – it had previously been assumed a Polynesian introduction, but it was in the Islands long before humans.

There is additional fossil evidence for the hala – another kind of fossil. On a North Shore cliffside, in a lava flow several hundred thousand years old, are ancient hala impressions – molds in the black rock of hala fruit and hala trunks.

It was fossil proof that a hala forest had stood on the island’s north shore when the island was still volcanically active. Since the first humans only arrived about a millennium ago, that makes hala clearly indigenous.

Shell collectors like Reginald Gage have found evidence of many species of native land shells – now all extinct – in the soils of the island.

In sediment, sandstone, lava rock and soil, fossils, clearly, are all over the island.

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

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dazzling musicians, Hank Curtis on piano; Edd Cook on bass; Jim Fiore on drums. At All Saints Church, 1065 Kuhio Highway, Kapa‘a. Free. Info https://www. facebook.com/KISSKauai

Sun, June 7, 11:30 am 27th Annual Taste of Hawaii Rotary Club of Kapa‘a Signature Fundraiser, 27th Annual Taste of Hawaii - the Ultimate Sun Brunch. Serving Kaua‘i’s Youth, Community and Vocational. At Smith’s Tropical Paradise. Tickets www.tasteofhawaii.com

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Sat, June 20, 9am-4 pm Happiness Planting Festival The day’s activities include Japanese food making demonstration, local foods, games, vendor booths. Hiroshima peace exhibition, Ikebana flower display, Hula dance by Rose T. Warken Ceballows, Taiko drum artists Joyful Noise led by Aki

Conquest and music flute artist Omashar and Kyle Chew. At Happiness Planting Center, Lihu‘e.

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