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The Colorful Songwriters of Hawai‘i

By Léo Azambuja Long before Polynesians arrived in the Hawaiian Islands more than a 1,000 years ago, songbirds were already firmly established in coastal and upland forests. They painted the island with their brilliant colors and harmonious songs.

The only mammals in Hawai‘i were sea mammals – monk seals, dolphins and whales – and the hoary bat. Birds had no natural predators, and thrived and evolved here for hundreds of thousands of years.

Perhaps one of the most fascinating cases of adaptive evolution in the Islands is the Hawaiian honeycreeper, which evolved into at least 59 species. Most of them are bright-colored and sing melodic songs. They are significantly diverse, with many species having unique bill shapes for different purposes.

Some eat only nectar, or fruits and seeds, while others eat insects and snails.

When the Polynesians arrived in Hawai‘i, they found a tropical paradise for all the species thriving here, isolated from the rest of the world. But for some of those species – especially the songbirds – this paradise would soon come to an end.

There were at least 113 species of endemic birds in Hawai‘i before any human set foot here. Between the Polynesian arrival and the first Europeans in Hawai‘i, at least 48 species of birds disappeared. Many of them were hunted for their plumage, which was used in feather capes and helmets made for Hawaiian royals and nobles, and high-ranking officials.

Polynesians also brought rats, which prey on nesting birds and their offspring.

Since 1778, when Capt. James Cook first landed on Kaua‘i, another 23 species of birds went extinct. Since European contact, cats, urbanization, habitat loss and mosquito borne diseases such as avian malaria and avian pox added to the mix.

I can only applaud the work of conservationists who are keeping the remaining birds from becoming extinct.

The ‘alalā, or Hawaiian crow, had already gone extinct in the wild many years ago. Today, there are less than 100 ‘alalā that have been introduced into Big Island’s The ‘akeke‘e is only found on Kaua‘i, and there are about 1,000 of them left. forests, with a few more in captivity. It is technically the most endangered bird in Hawai‘i.

The kiwikiu, or Maui parrotbill, is right behind. Lisa “Cali” Crampton, program coordinator for the Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project, said that after conservationists translocated some kiwikiu to a habitat on Leeward Maui, almost all the birds succumbed to avian malaria. The number of mosquitoes there turned out to be much higher than suggested by any previous research. Researchers thought the number of kiwikiu was around 300, but it is much more likely to be between 100 and 150 birds, she said.

On Kaua‘i some of the most endangered birds are the puaiohi, the ‘akeke‘e and the ‘akikiki. All of them are only found on Kaua‘i, and are present in very small numbers. Both the ‘akikiki and puaiohi have about 500 or less individuals left, and the ‘akeke‘e about 1,000.

The puaiohi is also known as small Kaua‘i thrush, and is related to the extinct kama‘o, or small Kaua‘i thrush. The kama‘o was last seen in 1989, and declared extinct in 2004.

Despite having very small numbers, these three Kaua‘i birds have a shot of survival. Crampton is confident the birds are able to survive until their major threat, mosquito borne diseases, can be effectively controlled through the release of sterile males in the forest in a couple of years.

If we look at the ‘alalā’s recovery, and also the nēnē, or Hawaiian goose, Crampton’s confidence is backed by a solid precedent.

At one point, there were as few as 37 nēnē left, all of them on the Big Island. A long-standing captive breeding and release program was able to bring the nēnē back from the brink of extinction. Today, there are close to 3,000 nēnē across Hawai‘i.

If you want to hear and learn more about the colorful songwriters of Hawai‘i, check out the free Symphony of the Hawaiian Birds at Kaua‘i Community College Performing Arts Center on Feb. 23 at 4 p.m.

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The Feathers that Hold the Forest

By Léo Azambuja

have,” Crampton said.

Before Polynesians arrived in the Hawaiian Islands, Deep into the Alaka‘i Plateau, the crimson-red lehua blossom of the there were at least 113 species of birds endemic to Hawai‘i, ‘ōhi‘a tree provides the food for the ‘i‘iwi, a Hawaiian honeycreeper according to the state Department of Land and Natural sporting a long, curved bill, a body covered in scarlet-red feathers, Resources. By 1778, when Europeans first arrived in Hawai‘i, and black wings and tail. Its call is as mesmerizing as its looks.

48 species of birds had already been lost, and since then, at The ‘i‘iwi needs protection, along with more than 90 percent of least 23 have gone extinct. Only a few of the remaining 42 the remaining forest birds endemic to Hawai‘i. Otherwise, these endemic species aren’t considered vulnerable, threatened or unique birds found nowhere else in the world will likely have endangered. Habitat loss, rat predation and introduced avian the same fate of dozens of other Hawaiian forest bird species – diseases were major contributors to the decline and demise extinction. of endemic birds.

“The birds are an integral part of Kaua‘i,” said Lisa “Cali” At one point there were 16 forest bird species on Kaua‘i, Crampton, project coordinator for the Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery according to KFBRP. Today, there are only eight species Project. “We lose the birds, we lose our cultural heritage, we lose remaining; ‘akeke‘e, ‘akikiki, ‘anianiau, Kaua‘i ‘amakihi, these important ecosystem drivers, we lose the forest.”

Kaua‘i ‘elepaio, puaiohi, ‘apapane and ‘i‘iwi. All but the last Robby Kohley The birds, Crampton said, control insects in the forest, and two species are found only on Kaua‘i. pollinate trees and disperse seeds so the forest can regenerate.

KFBRP is a collaboration between the State of Hawai‘i Though the ‘i‘iwi is abundant on the Big Island and Leeward Maui, there Without trees, the island would fall apart, because they play a key Division of Forestry and Wildlife, the University of Hawai‘i are only about 2,500 of them left on Kaua‘i. role in soaking water and doing flood control. Without trees, there at Mānoa, and the nonprofit Garden Island Resource, The ‘akeke‘e are greenish above and yellow under, with a yellow would be “massive erosion” into the Pacific Ocean, she said.

Conservation & Development. This gives KFBRP flexibility to meet crown and a black mask. Recent surveys show their population to be “We can just think the birds are a nice to have; they’re a must to the needs of the birds, lets the project secure land access and less than 1,000 – a steep decline from about 5,000 in the 1970s. permits more easily, allows different avenues to In the past, the USGS did most of the conservation and research fundraise, and provides different gateways to the on endangered birds. A new project took over the task in 2003, community, according to Crampton. working with both seabirds and forest birds. In 2006, the project KFBRP promotes knowledge, appreciation split, and KFBRP was created. and conservation of Kaua‘i’s forest birds, putting USGS researchers in the 1990s were the first ones to realize the their focus on four forest birds; three Hawaiian puaiohi’s severe situation, and that a conservation program should honeycreepers (‘i‘iwi, ‘akikiki and ‘akeke‘e) and be implemented. They collected about 16 eggs and transferred them one thrush (puaiohi). All of them live in the a facility at the San Diego Zoo in California. The USGS would then forest uplands of Koke‘e or in the Alaka‘i Swamp. release the grown pauiohi into the wild. Both those projects were The puaiohi, ‘akikiki and ‘akeke‘e are listed as handed to KFBRP. “critically endangered,” and the ‘i‘iwi is listed as The USGS also did the first mosquito and avian disease surveys on “threatened.”

Kaua‘i, setting an important baseline that is now used to measure The ‘i‘iwi was once found statewide from against new surveys. By taking blood samples from birds and coastal lands to the forest uplands. A USGS Contributed photo collecting mosquitoes, researchers were able to establish avian study published in 2013 estimates there are malaria was already present in the Alaka‘i Plateau at very low levels The ‘akikiki, endemic to Kaua‘i, is one of the most endangered birds in Hawai‘i, about 600,000 ‘i‘iwi left on the Big Island and in 1997. with less than 500 left.

Maui, mainly on high elevations. On Kaua‘i, their “We published an important paper with USGS in 2014 showing population is in steep decline with only about that from 1997 to 2013 what we call the prevalence – the frequency 2,500 ‘i‘iwi left. of which birds that you capture show signs of malaria – had The puaiohi, or the small Kaua‘i thrush, has increased dramatically just in those 16 years,” Crampton said. a short tail, a white eye-ring and a relatively “Having that baseline data was really fundamental to being able to simple song when compared to its extinct show that malaria and other bird diseases are critical components of relative, the kama‘o, or large Kaua‘i thrush. A the declines in the forest bird populations.”

2017 U.S. Geological Survey/KFBRP study counted By comparing USGA data from 16 years ago and contemporary 494 puaiohi in the wild. The puaiohi appears to data, researchers can see the Alaka‘i Plateau is experiencing rising be less succesptible to avian malaria than the temperatures and less rainfall, creating more favorable conditions for honeycreepers. Their major threat is rat predation, mosquitoes to develop from eggs to adults. This means a continuous which affects nesting females more than males. loss of safe habitat for Hawaiian honeycreepers, which evolved The ‘akikiki is a tiny honeycreeper. Their without natural defenses against mosquito borne diseases. bodies are dark grey and olive above, with a Part of the solution, Crampton said, was to remove some birds witish under. The numbers for the ‘akikiki might from the Alaka‘i Plateu and keep them in mosquito-proof cages in Contributed photo have been nosediving quicker than researchers facilities on Maui and the Big Island. Those are the same facilities previously thought, with perhaps less than 500 KFBRP staff, left to right, Emma Cox, Tyler Winter, Kathryn Temple and Maria that are raising the ‘alalā, or Hawaiian crow, which had been extinct individuals left in the wild, according to Crampton.

Costantini, are seen here working in the forest.

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in the wild. A captive-breeding project reintroduced close to 100 ‘alalā on Big Island’s forests. Despite being technically the most endangered Hawaiian bird, the ‘alalā now has a real shot at recovering.

Despite many threats to Hawai‘i’s endemic birds, Crampton remains confident in a positive outcome.

“I think that the future for most of our species, if not all of our species, is really great, because the solution to the avian diseases, the mosquito borne diseases, is right around the corner,” said Crampton, adding in the next couple years they should have the tools to control mosquitoes at the Alaka‘i Plateau.

“It uses bacteria that naturally occur in mosquito guts to render the eggs infertile, so the mosquitoes

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Two puaiohi hatchlings are seen here in their nest. The critically endangered puaiohi is only found on Kaua‘i.

Contributed photo KFBRP staff Elizabeth Abrahams bands an ‘akeke‘e, endemic to Kaua‘i.

can’t reproduce and their numbers nosedive,” she said. The plan is to release male mosquitoes that have the bacteria. Unlike females, the males don’t bite and therefore don’t transmit diseases.

By adding other habitat management activities such as conservation fencing and rat trapping, Crampton said she thinks there is enough resilience in the system for the birds to make it until those sterile mosquitoes are released.

Besides cultural and ecological drivers to save Hawai‘i’s endemic birds, there is also an economic reason – birding.

“Birding has become a major economic venture, and that’s true for Kaua‘i,” Crampton said. “Some

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We need to make sure these birds are there for all of us, including our kids, to enjoy, and to make sure we still have Kaua‘i as a place to call home, she said.

In late February, the University of Hawa‘i at Mānoa’s Wind Esemble will perform two free concerts at Kaua‘i Community College Performing Arts Center. The concerts educate about Hawai‘i’s native birds and promote their conservation through science, music and art.

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HAWAI‘I WISDOM Ho‘okolo aku ia ka nui manu.

“Go inquire of the other birds.”

Go and consult others. From the following story: One day a man went up to the mountain spring for water. On the way down he paused to rest, then fell asleep. An ‘elepaio lighted and, seeing the man’s gourd bottle, pecked a hole in the gourd. The sound of th epecking woke the man, who saw the water running out. In anger he threw a stone at the ‘elepaio and injured its leg. It flew away and met an ‘io.

“O! ‘Io, I was injured by a man,” ‘Elepaio cried.

“What did you do?” asked ‘Io. “Pecked the man’s bottle.”

“Then the fault is yours,” answered ‘Io. ‘Elepaio flew and met Pueo. The same words were exchanged between them. So it was with ‘I‘iwi, ‘Ō‘o, and all the others. ‘Elepaio’s disgust grew greater with ‘Amakihi, who laughed at him in derision.

Receiving no sympathy, ‘Elepaio sat and thought and finally admitted to himself that he, indeed, was to blame.

Source: ‘Ōlelo No‘eau, by Mary Kawena Pukui.

The ‘elepaio is a small flycatcher weighing about half an ounce. In old Hawai‘i, the ‘elepaio was considered ‘aumakua, or guiding spirit, for canoe makers. The ‘elepaio is found on Kaua‘i, O‘ahu and Big Island, but the Kaua‘i ‘elepaio is a supspecies endemic to Kaua‘i.

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E-Cigarette, or Vaping Associated Lung Injuries

By Tommy Noyes Concern over the vaping epidemic is in the news daily for valid reasons.

Parents on Kaua‘i: please be aware that Electronic Smoking Devices (ESDs), also known as e-cigs or vaping, are rapidly growing in popularity among school kids nationwide.

The U.S. Surgeon General reports e-cigarette use among youth is a public health concern, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration states teenage vaping is now at an “epidemic proportion.” Hawai‘i youth usage rates exceed this dangerous trend – they are using e-cigarettes or vapes at an accelerating rate. The compelling health concern is that vaping is now creating a new generation of youth addicted to nicotine.

Vaping is so popular with kids because the candy-like flavors are tremendously appealing. The sweet flavors in these nicotine-laced

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devices get the kids started, and the nicotine hooks them. Nicotine is known to be highly addictive and can harm brain development.

Health advocates introduced bills in the 2019 Hawai‘i legislative session to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products in the state. While those bills did not make it into law, subsequent fatalities attributed to vaping and the ever-increasing body of condemning evidence that the tobacco industry is blatantly marketing to children have increased the urgency for Hawai‘i’s 2020 Legislature to pass bills regulating vaping and flavored tobacco products. You can help protect Hawai‘i’s children from a life of nicotine dependency by joining that advocacy effort in the coming months. Learn more by contacting the author at (808) 639-1018.

According to the most recent (2017) Youth Risk Behaviors Survey, 45 percent of high school students on Kaua‘i had tried vaping, and 25 percent were currently vaping. Middle school rates are similarly troubling. Hawai‘i’s vaping rates are twice as high as youth nationally.

The text of this article is primarily excerpted from the Hawai‘i Department of Health advisory issued in November 2019. The DOH confirmed four Hawai‘i cases of severe respiratory illness associated with e-cigarette use, or vaping. These cases appear to be linked to a national outbreak of E-cigarette, or Vaping, product-use Associated Lung Injury, (EVALI).

As of December 3, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends, “THCcontaining products continue to be the most commonly reported e-cigarettes, or vaping, products used by EVALI patients, and it appears that vitamin E acetate is associated

with EVALI. However, many substances and product sources are being investigated, and there might be more than one cause. Therefore, while the investigation continues, persons should consider refraining from the use of all e-cigarette, or vaping, products.”

The CDC also tracked 2,291 EVALI cases (including 48 deaths) among the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S. territories (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands).

The DOH’s Disease Outbreak Control Division is investigating all reports of potential vaping injuries. If you are concerned about your health after using an e-cigarette product, contact your health care provider.

Regardless of the outcome of the outbreak investigation, e-cigarette products should never be used by children, young adults, pregnant women or adults who do not currently use tobacco products.

Current recommendations on e-cigarettes and vaping are at HealthyHawaii.com/Tobacco-Free/ Vaping or at the DOH’s web site at www. health.hawaii.gov.

Youth vaping and associated lung illnesses are at epidemic levels according to the Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division of the Hawai‘i State Department of Health. Photo by Hawai‘i State Department of Health

• Tommy Noyes is Kaua‘i Path’s executive director, a League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructor and active with the Kaua‘i Medical Reserve Corps.

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Health, Wellness & Fitness Water Is Life

By Isabella Young Here we are on this verdant, green jewel, surrounded by a vast, blue ocean, blessed by frequent tropical downpours.

Rain showers. Steams rush. Waterfalls gush. Rivers flow.

And waves break all around us. The abundance of water on this island gives us a lush life. Water is our lifeblood. Yet, here in one of the wettest places on Earth, most people don’t drink enough water.

Chronic dehydration is a global epidemic. Most people do not drink nearly enough pure water every day. One fifth of children is the United States drink no water every day (according to a study published earlier this year at the Journal of American Medical Association Pediatrics), which makes it impossible for those children, and anyone who is not well hydrated to experience health or well-being.

Chronic dehydration leads to medical problems including pain, stiffness, arthritis, asthma, allergies, depression and sleep disorders. Without adequate water, the body’s ability to produce energy, detoxify and defend itself is compromised. The dehydrated body is in a state of great detriment. Not drinking enough water is a serious health threat.

The solution is to drink more water. Pure water, not tap water. Tap water contains fluoride and chlorine, which are neurotoxins. Neurotoxins cause damage to brain structures and functions. These poisons are added to the public water supply in unsafe, untested concentrations. Over time, the ingestion of these neurotoxins contributes to serious mental and physical health problems.

Fluoride is added to tap water to promote dental health, but there is no scientific evidence that fluoride improves dental health in any way. Fluoridated water weakens our immune system and causes calcification of the pineal gland, the master gland of the brain that controls all physiological and psychological functioning.

When the pineal gland is unable to function, we are unable to function optimally. It is not possible to think clearly, sleep properly, or feel energized, safe, or well when the pineal gland is calcified. It is not possible to access higher knowledge or wisdom. Research shows that women who drink fluoridated water during pregnancy have children with lower IQs. Water that has added fluoride makes people passive and controllable, and should be avoided whenever possible.

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Drinking chlorinated water causes scarring of the arteries.

Low-density lipoproteins, known as the “bad cholesterol,” can attach to the scars and accumulate, which can lead to atherosclerosis.

We need to drink pure water, not tap water, flavored water, sodas, sports or energy drinks, or fruit juices. Most of these products are high in empty calories, sugars and other toxic chemicals that prevent optimal hydration and destroy brain health. Our body needs pure water for health and well-being.

Rain water. Spring water. Pristine stream water. Distilled water.

Water filtered by reverse osmosis.

For optimal hydration, drink six-to-eight glasses a day.

Feeling thirsty indicates dehydration is well underway. Avoid bottled water to reduce waste and ingestion of toxins. Use a water bottle. When our body is adequately hydrated, our urine is pale yellow, our skin is moist, the eyes are shinning, and we feel energized.

When tap water is used for drinking, and washing, cooking and growing food, we ingest the toxins. It is best to avoid drinking, cooking, showering, and watering plants with tap water. Washing and growing all fruits and vegetables in filtered water is optimal. A water filtration system is an excellent investment in our health – for the whole house or individual units for the kitchen sink and shower. Continuously detoxifying our body is beneficial.

Water provides information and energy that our body needs for optimal health and well-being. Water can store memory, according to the late Dr. Masaru Emoto. Water holds memory in crystalline structures, which are codes that communicate information to our body. These light codes are life-affirming when water is encoded, structured and treated naturally. It is ideal to drink water that has fallen from the sky, bubbled up from the Earth, swirled around rocks, and flowed along a riverbed collecting minerals, energy, light and information along the way. Our bodies function optimally when we drink water from nature – water that has been naturally structured and encoded by nature with information that promotes optimal health, vitality and longevity.

There are many ways to enjoy the healing benefits of water. Bathe. Splash your face. Take a shower. A footbath.

• Isabella Young is a Kaua‘i-based writer and author of “Feeling Better Naturally,” a compendium of ancient and natural medicines supporting optimal health and well-being. She can be contacted at isabellayoung19@gmail.com.

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Kau Kau Delights Popo’s Cookies – You’ve Tried da Rest, Now Try da Best!

By Léo Azambuja For almost four decades, Popo’s Cookies has made life a little sweeter for island residents and visitors. A grandmother originally started the business, and years later her granddaughter took over. About seven years ago, a couple from the East Coast bought the business and set up shop in the Westside.

“Popo‘s Cookies started on the island in 1982 in Kapa‘a by a grandma,” said Erin Cornett, baker and owner of the business. She added popo means grandma in Chinese. “She baked for many years, and her granddaughter baked under her for about 18 years.”

Cornett and her husband, Kevin, bought Popo’s Cookies in 2013, and then moved to Kaua‘i from the East Coast to operate the business. Along with the name and tradition of Popo’s Cookies, the Cornetts bought all 14 original recipes.

“All the recipes are the same; the ingredients are all the same,” Cornett said. “The only thing that we really changed was the location.”

Popo’s Cookies is now in Hanapepe Road, right there in the vibrant strip where every Friday evening the Hanapepe Art Walk brings an extra pulse of arts, food and entertainment to the island.

Even the cookies’ labels are still the same, but they now have color and have been updated to 20th century standards – yes, the 1900s – by including a UPC bar.

From May 2013 to October 2015, the Cornetts took their time to set up shop and and building relationships with original retailers. During that time, Popo’s Cookies was closed. But it has been back for more than four years, to the relief of old fans and the delight of new ones. If you haven’t tried the cookies yet, their slogan might just convince you: “You’ve tried da rest, now try da best!”

Besides selling their goods at the Hanapepe location, Popo’s Cookies is sold in original retail spots such as Sueoka Store, Ishihara, Kukui‘ula and Pono markets.

Cornett has expanded to sell at Uncle Shave Ice, Whalers in Po‘ipu, ABC in Kalapaki, Island Country Market at Coconut Marketplace, Koloa Rum Gift Store and the gift stores at the Grand Hyatt and the Kaua‘i Marriott.

The three best sellers, Cornett said, are the Butter Dreams, the Chocolate Chip Macadamia Nuts and the Keola Deelites.

The Butter Dreams is basically a butter cookie, and you can’t go wrong with that.

But Popo’s Cookies takes it to another level by adding corn flakes, giving the right amount of crunchiness to the cookies.

The Keola Deelites is similar to a Mexican wedding cookie – hold it long enough and it might melt in your hands. The extra ingredient that makes it so good is the macadamia nut.

The Chocolate Chip Macadamia Nuts needs no explanation. Who doesn’t like chocolate or mac nuts?

The other flavors are Almond, Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Krispie, Coconut, Coconut Macadamia Nut, Chocolate Coconut, Peanut Butter, Macaroon, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, White Chocolate Cranberry, and Macadamia Nut. You’ll find most of them available at any given time at the Hanapepe location.

Popo’s Cookies is at 3900 Hanapepe Rd., Suite F, behind Little Fish Coffee. The store is open Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Friday from 12:30 to 9 p.m. You can reach them at poposcookies@gmail.com or at (808) 482-4545. They also have a Facebook page. more on page 18 Page 16

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Kaua‘i Business Marketplace Hesse Flooring

By Léo Azambuja Picking the right flooring for your home or office can be quite confusing and strenuous, especially when a budget is involved.

Should you buy tile or hardwood? What about vinyl? Is carpet a better choice? What kind of carpet? What color? Can you afford it?

And who is going to install it?

The answer to all those questions might be just a consultation away at Hesse Flooring in Nawiliwili.

“We have thousands different styles of carpet and flooring,” said Sutada Hesse, owner of Hesse Flooring. “I think we have the biggest showroom on Kaua‘i.”

Hesse’s warehouse carries a multitude of flooring samples from all types of carpets to tiles, hardwood floors, laminated wood floors, wall tiles, area rugs, oriental rugs, vinyl floors, and more.

There are literally thousands of flooring choices, but Hesse’s expertise will help you to find something that brings out the best in your home and still fits in your budget. After all, she says she looks at her customers’ homes as if they were her own home. Hesse also works with an interior designer “who makes everything look

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Hesse Flooring owner Sutada Hesse received her business degree from the King of Thailand.

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so good.”

The result is a nearly 100 percent satisfaction rate, she said.

Hesse Flooring can also install the carpet you buy there. They have a wide range of prices, from quite cheap to pricey. But the quality is always top notch, especially when you compare their products with other stores, Hesse said.

“We are very competitive,” she said.

“I’m not here to make money. I’m here because I like my customers.… I enjoy working with them and helping them out.”

For those needing to install carpet in only a small room or office, they might find some remnants in the warehouse, and the job might be quite inexpensive.

Hesse is originally from Thailand, where she attended one of the top-10 schools in the country and received her business degree, with a major in marketing, from the hands of the King of Thailand himself.

“It was a very proud moment,” said Hesse, adding she worked hard for her degree, but failed the first time around. Her friends then helped by tutoring her, and she finally made it. It was an important lesson for her, who said she would not succeed without support, and this goes for everything else in life, including school, business and relationships.

Hesse later moved to California to attend graduate school, and it was there that she met her ex-husband. They moved to Kaua‘i in November 1992, a couple months after Hurricane ‘Iniki, and opened Hesse Flooring. After divorcing her husband, Hesse continued the business on her own since the early 2000s.

Asked if she had any advice for women who are in business, Hesse smiled and said, “they’ll make it, women are tough.” In fact, times were difficult during the downfall of the economy in 2008, when “everybody had a hard time,” she said, but the business survived thanks to her resilience – and a promise to her late father-in-law.

“I learned a lot from him, he was a very successful man,” Hesse said of her father-in-law. “I didn’t give up because of him. I promised him at his funeral I’d take good care of his grandkids no matter what happened. So we got through the recession, even though I struggled.

I made it through because I kept my promise.”

Besides being a business owner and a contractor, Hesse is also an animal lover and a certified diamond jeweler.

Find Hesse Flooring at 3285 Waapa Rd. in Nawiliwili. Call (808) 2463700 for an appointment or just drop by Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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