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Front cover: Mele Kalikimaka, a painting by Linda Rowell Stevens.

4 Table of contents: Christmas Pineapples, by Barbara Hanson.

Read more about the artists on page 45.

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Arts

Traveling to the Unknown

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Hāwane Rios Shares Her Soul’s Purpose

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With a Recipe for German-style Fruitcake

By Brittany P. Anderson

By Ma‘ata Tukuafu

Business

Managing with Aloha 39 The ‘Ohana in Business Model: Our Economy Done Better

By Rosa Say

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Community

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200 Years at Mokuaikaua Church

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Hobby Garden

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Hawaii Brown Bag Ministry

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Then and Now

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By Fern Gavelek

By Stefan Verbano

By Lara Hughes

Reflections on World War II and Its Current Relevance

By Pete Hendricks

Culture

Sharing Aloha Spirit Worldwide

Ka Puana: Closing Thoughts 2870: Ulu o ka lā

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Mary Kawena Pukui. Olelo Noeau: Hawaiian Proverbs and Poetical Sayings

Ka Wehena: The Opening Aia Kahi Kapu

Na Kumu Keala Ching

Sustainability

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Back to the ‘Āina

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Is Stepping It Up To Test Coast Water Quality

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I’m writing this in early October, nearly a month before this issue publishes, and a month away from our next US and local elections. COVID-19 is still a significant factor in deciding whether to reopen our island in time for holiday travel, or not.

Tempers are heated, even between neighbors and families, and no one knows what 2021 will bring.

For Hawai‘i Island, food security and resiliency need to be our focus. Regardless of who wins any of the elections, we still need to be able to feed ourselves. As Brittany Anderson reminds us in her story “Back to the ‘Āina,” Hawai‘i Island was once able to grow enough food to feed all its inhabitants, and we can do it again if we make a concerted, organized effort.

From the very first Ke Ola Magazine we published in December 2008 until today, weʻve included King Kamehamehaʻs 1843 proclamation at the top of our masthead: UA MAU KE EA O KA ‘ĀINA I KA PONO: The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. We also added, “Its sustainability depends on doing what is right,” because we felt so strongly about its importance, and itʻs now more important than ever.

I love this issue’s cover painting, Mele Kalikimaka, by Linda Rowell Stevens, and also Barbara Hanson’s Christmas Pineapples on our table of contents pages, because they both reference our island’s year-round abundance. There are so many opportunities for us to support each other. Let us unite for the greater good of all, and remember we are part of the same race—the human race.

During this holiday season, as we reflect on so many different aspects of our lives, I express my hope for us all to accept the kuleana (responsibility) of providing sustenance for ourselves and our community.

Since I announced our transition to more paid circulation, our readers have been responding kindly by purchasing subscriptions. We are so grateful to see this increase, knowing that you value Ke Ola Magazine and want to see it continue.

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Ka Wehena

Aia Kahi Kapu Na Kumu Keala Ching

Sacred place that is seen Upon the billowy and long clouds Lono clouds travel to the highest Acknowledge the ancestors of life

Aia kahi kapu i noho aku ai I ke kuahiwi, i ke kualono I ka lewalani, pi‘o i ka iū Aia kahi noho o nā kūpuna ola

Sacred place that exists Upon the highest mountains Heavens arched to elevation Acknowledge the ancestors of life

Aia kahi kapu i hui aku ai I ke kumu ‘ōhi‘a, I ke kumu koa I ke kumu ā ke a‘a, mole i ka wai Aia kahi noho o nā kūpuna ola

Sacred place that gathers Upon the ‘ōhi‘a and koa trees Rain upon trees, roots, and water source Acknowledge the ancestors of life

Aia kahi kapu i lana aku ai I ke kahawai, i ke kahakai I uka ā i kai, i ka hāpapa Aia kahi noho o nā kūpuna ola

Sacred place that floats Within the streams to the seashore Uplands until the shoals Acknowledge the ancestors of life

Aia kahi kapu i ulu aku ai I ka lo‘i wai, i ka lo‘i malo‘o Kupu maila i ke kānaka Aia kahi noho o nā kūpuna ola

Sacred place that grows Upon the wet and dry land terrace Recognizing people Acknowledge the ancestors of life

Aia kahi kapu i au aku ai I ke kaiālua, I ke kōī au Au aku ka i‘a i ke ko‘a mālamalama Aia kahi noho o nā kūpuna ola

Sacred place that flows Two currents upon the flowing currents Traveled lives upon an enlightened coral Acknowledge the ancestors of life

Aia kahi kapu i kū aku ai I ke kai hohonu, I ka moana ala Lanalana a‘ela, pi‘o i ka iū Aia kahi noho o nā kūpuna ola

Sacred place that stands The deepest and large ocean Floating, arched to elevation Acknowledge the ancestors of life

Eia kahi oli hāli‘ali‘a i nā kūpuna i ola ka‘apuni aku ai iā kākou āpau. He mea i ho‘omaopopo aku ai iā lākou.

A chant honoring the memories of our elders (ancestors) that inspires us daily.

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Aia kahi kapu i ‘ike aku ai I ke ao ‘Ōpua, I ke ao loloa I ke ao Lono, welo i ka ni‘o Aia kahi noho o nā kūpuna ola

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Hawaiian Islands lives on today as an active and caring fellowship called Mokuaikaua Church. Founded in 1820, the church is commemorating its 200th anniversary with a massive preservation of its landmark church building in the heart of Kailua-Kona.

Missionary Arrival Inspired by Henry ‘Opūkaha‘ia The church was founded in 1820 by Reverend Asa Thurston and his wife Lucy who arrived that year in Kailua-Kona on the brig Thaddeus. The couple was among 14 American Protestant missionaries who sailed on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Hawaiian Islands to spread the Christian faith.

These missionaries were inspired by the zeal and memoirs of Henry ‘Opūkaha‘ia, one of the first native Hawaiians to become a Christian. A student at the Foreign Mission

School in Connecticut, Henry showed promise in 1817 as a future evangelist for his people back in Hawai‘i. Tragically, the aspiring seminarian died of typhoid fever at the age of 26 before spreading the gospel in Hawai‘i. The Memoirs of Henry ‘Opūkaha‘ia, a small book about his life and philosophies, was published within a year of his death to benefit the mission school. The book circulated throughout New England and prompted others to go to Hawai‘i in Henry’s stead.

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Bedecked with garland for the holidays, the 1910 memorial arch standing at the entrance of the church grounds commemorates the arrival of the first missionaries in 1820. photo courtesy Mokuaikaua Church

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King Kamehameha II (Liholiho) at the site of today’s church. In 1823, Rev. Thurston dedicated the first wooden church and named it Mokuaikaua.

According to Place Names of Hawai‘i, the church got its name from the forest area above KailuaKona, where timber was sourced for construction. With the kōkua (cooperation) of 4,000 people, the church was built under the direction of Royal Governor John Kuakini.

“The roof was thatched with pandanus leaves, and, according to [missionary] William Ellis, stones from an old heiau at the same spot were used for the foundation,” says Place Names. “Queen Ka‘ahumanu was present at the dedication on December 10, 1823.”

Mokuaikaua’s congregation soon outgrew the original 60-by-30-foot building and a new wooden church with a thatched roof was erected in 1826, but it succumbed to fire. Rev. Thurston was once again tasked with building a church, sending men mauka (upland) to gather sturdy ‘ōhi‘a timber.

The church’s website describes the process: “This time, the wooden structure was joined with ‘ōhi‘a pins and huge cornerstones, repurposed from existing heiau…Kona’s upland forests were scoured for the roof’s 50-foot spanning beams. Coral, dragged from the ocean floor and burned for its lime, supplied mortar for the walls of the church, which measured 120 by 48 feet. Building construction merged the expertise of native Hawaiians and foreign workers. The new sanctuary was dedicated on February 4, 1837, and has lasted to this day.”

Nationally Recognized Landmark Located on the mauka side of Ali‘i Drive, the church is directly across from Hulihe‘e Palace, which was also built by Governor Kuakini. Similarly constructed of lava rock and coral lime mortar in 1838, the palace had the same original exterior as Mokuaikaua before it was stuccoed in the 1880s by King Kalākaua.

Mokuaikaua underwent major repairs in 1865 and 1937.

In 1910, a memorial arch was placed at the entrance of the church grounds to commemorate the arrival of the first missionaries. The 112-foot steeple, designed by renowned Honolulu architect Charles Dickey, was added in 1926. The New England-style steeple stands sentinel today over historic Kailua Village and is a reminder of the enthusiastic efforts of the missionaries and their Hawaiian converts.

In addition to being the first founded church in the Hawai‘i Kingdom, the iconic building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. In 2014, it was named one of America’s 11th Most Endangered Historic Sites by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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Congregation and Miracles Push Project Kahu explains that as a congregational church, “The congregation as a whole is the force that leads.” Decisionmaking is by vote and leadership is by the majority. As such, Kahu says a collective action plan was formed and trustees and members with a building construction background got involved to facilitate it. That included David Ross, a civil engineer, and Mike Franke, an architect.

Kahu explains: “I saw the need and called attention to the congregation, telling them, ‘We are the generation responsible for this landmark.’ And by the grace of God these people appeared to help. They embraced the project and donated so much free time.”

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Termite Inspection Signals Structural Building Problems Kahu (Reverend) David de Carvalho is the 31st pastor of Mokuaikaua Congregational Church and has been at the helm since 2011. He came to the Kona church after serving as pastor nine years at Kalāhikiola Church in Hāwī. Kalāhikiola is a sister church to Mokuaikaua; it was founded by the same family of missionaries.

Kahu David says a routine termite inspection in 2013 alerted the church board to critical problems with the building.

“We knew we had termites and were seeking bids,” describes Kahu David. “A termite inspector said termites were the least of our problem.” The contractor recommended the church consult with a structural engineer about a variety of issues.

The church board of trustees called in the same structural engineer who examined the building after Hawai‘iʻs 2006 6.7 magnitude earthquake. “In addition to termites, we learned there were numerous problems that needed to be addressed and so the board decided to come up with a building preservation plan,” he details.

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“Another miracle is when Alan Quesnel of Canada shows up,” continues Kahu. “He told me he liked Sunday’s message and wanted to be part of the church. He said he was a philanthropist and wanted to offer a $450,000 matching grant—and then increased his donation to $3 million more!”

Another unexpected donation of $250,000 came in from global real estate investor Kennedy Wilson, thanks to the efforts of project contractor Nathan Hendricks of Ali‘i Builders.

Capital Campaign, Grants Raise Funds Church member Tricia Muramoto volunteered to help spearhead fundraising and the “Campaign of Spiritual Renewal” was launched in early 2016, chaired by Reggie Lee. In addition to the previously mentioned monies raised, the project received a $250,000 grant from the National Fund for Sacred Places, a historic preservation grant-making program.

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A structural steel system was designed from the floor up to reinforce the 1837 church while damaged ÿöhiÿa posts and beams were replaced. photo courtesy Aliÿi Builders

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visits. Kahu simply describes these occurances as “miracles that needed to happen.”

One of them brought Peter T. Young, former Hawai‘i County deputy managing director, to the church when the project was “stuck.”

“Our preservation plan wasnʻt fitting into any of the county’s permit categories,” Kahu explains. “Then Peter knocks on my door, saying he was driving by, saw the church steeple and felt like God was telling him to come and talk to me. He asked me, ‘What do you need?ʻ” After Kahu relayed the permitting challenge, Peter

The annual Christmas Eve service at the landmark Mokuaikaua Church is a long-standing community tradition. photo courtesy Mokuaikaua Church

best use their historic facilities to strengthen the community.

In 2017, Partners for Sacred Places determined Mokuaikaua’s Economic “Halo Effect” totaled more than $3.3 million with the church’s Sunday services, counseling, and ministries.

Construction Enhances Structural Integrity Kahu says the church’s vision for the project was to keep the building historically intact while making it structurally sound.

Construction began in April 2019. Work included strengthening the entire structural system from the floor up to reduce stresses in the original stone masonry walls, installing large steel beams for stability, replacing ‘ōhi‘a posts and beams damaged by rot or termites, conserving plaster walls, replacing electrical wiring, and preserving the steeple.

Kahu adds, “We redid the roof and finally attached it to the walls with brackets. We straightened the walls, reinforcing them and the mezzanine. We built a new stage for our organ and piano. We restored our old bell to have a functioning bell—we had to take it apart, have some parts remade and then reassemble them. Steel beams were covered with ‘ōhi‘a to make it beautiful. So it’s not exactly like it was before, but it is as much as possible.”

Kahu credits the detailed preservation efforts of architect Glenn Mason, whose firm is known for its restoration work and research on historic Hawai‘i buildings, as an invaluable contributor to the project. Another important supporter has been the Historic Hawai‘i Foundation, which provided $75,000 towards restoration of the iconic steeple.

Project pieces still in the works at this writing include strengthening the steeple with steel, increasing the width of the front gates to accommodate a fire truck, and cosmetic

work around the property. Kahu estimates $1.5 million is needed to complete the project. The church continues to accept project donations, which can be made via the church’s website.

Church Open to the Public for Services The weekly service is Sundays at 9am, which is Pictured with wife Kim, Rev. David de Carvalho is the 31st also streamed pastor of Mokuaikaua Congregational Church. online and via photo courtesy Mokuaikaua Church the church’s Facebook page.

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very other day, the big four-engine seaplanes would roar over Johnson Lum’s grandfather’s

home on the main Fiji island of Viti Levu. The Sunderland Flying Boats were on rescue and reconnaissance missions over vast, isolated stretches of the Pacific Ocean, operating out of an air base at Laucala Bay near the capital city, Suva. Johnson lived with his family just a few miles away.

The sight and sound of the World War II-era British plane, with its broad belly and more than 100-foot wingspan, sparked

a burning desire in Johnson’s impressionable six-year-old mind to become a master of machines someday.

It was what set him on the path to be a self-taught engineer, who now, at 66, happily surrounds himself with anything that has a motor and moves. He spends his days constantly tinkering away at his verdant home-turned-amusement-park in East Hawai‘i. Many years after those formative moments in Fiji, Johnson finally built a Sunderland “flying boat” of his own—albeit one-tenth the size—from fiberglass and wood, covered in a skin of thin aluminum sheets and painted to look The Hobby Garden features a real working model train for keiki passengers that Johnson Lum built himself. Johnson is also its conductor and repairman, constantly at work during off-hours repairing the track that winds through the shaded complex of exhibits and educational models. photo by Stefan Verbano

like the real thing.

Johnson’s model Sunderland hangs from the ceiling and forms the centerpiece of what he calls “The Wow Room,” a

museum-like showroom of plexiglass display cases full of every imaginable sort of model machine, including planes, cars, trucks, tanks, sailboats, steamships, rocket ships, and much more. Everywhere there are Hot Wheels treasure chests, painstakingly arranged everywhere. The room, named after the excited exclamations made by wide-eyed visiting schoolchildren, is just one piece of Johnson’s life’s work: “The Hobby Garden”—his and his wife’s home-based, family-friendly amusement park located in Hawaiian Paradise Park that is part science fair, part petting zoo, part museum, and part teaching farm.

Hobby Garden has everything: songbirds, tortoises, rabbits, ball games, cultural dioramas from around the world, a tabletop concrete volcano with built-in fog machine, homemade seaworthy boats, a fishpond teeming with fish, rods with barbless hooks for kids to catch them with, and a working, rideable model train that loops through it all. Johnson is its conductor, and drives the mini-locomotive along a narrow track running atop thousands of hand-laid, hand-painted wooden railroad ties.

Within the massive fishpond, koi, tilapia, midas, and an

Sustainable Learning Center imposing dark grey South American Amazon fish called the red belly pacu, crowd each other at the bank, fighting over dry catfish food which gets tossed out in generous handfuls. The 150,000-gallon pond contains thousands of tilapias, some for eating and some for selling to local aquaponics enthusiasts.

Standing on the covered lānai adjacent to the pond, leaning

feed each other. Just like this, itʻs already sustainable.”

A fruit tree nursery takes up one corner of Hobby Garden’s grounds, functioning in a similar way to the fishpond; some of the saplings Johnson and his wife Yamna transplant as food for their own kitchen, and some they sell for extra income.

They make a good team—Johnson helping customers select trees from the nursery, Yamna hanging back with a clipboard and calculator noting each treeʻs price, adding up the total, handling cash and giving change.

Johnson’s Secret Recipe for Learning Everywhere around Hobby Garden there are education stations. Trees in the orchard have wooden placards slung

around their trunks listing their common names. Laminated signs posted around the edge of the fishpond include pictures and short descriptions for each of the species that can be seen sloshing away below.

Just inside the park’s front entrance is its “solar power experiment station,” a small solar panel mounted to a table at an angle facing the sky, wired through a homemade switchboard to power a series of small gadgets: electric fans and electric motors mounted around the table that buzz and

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on the childproof railing as he pitches out feed, Johnson spots a particularly large pacu at the surface—a fish that can be three feet long and weigh more than 50 pounds full-grown.

“No oneʻs supposed to catch that fish,” he says, chuckling to himself. “It would break the pole.”

Surrounding the pond are fruit trees of every type— breadfruit, avocado, soursop, citrus, papaya, Brazilian cherry, and sapote. Whatever food from the land Johnson and his wife can’t eat becomes compost to feed the fish, and periodically the two work together to fertilize the surrounding plants with sediment-rich water pumped from the pond. To Johnson, this is real sustainable farming.

“I can eat the fish, I can eat the fruit,” Johnson says. “They

Inside a gallery in the main building that Johnson Lum calls “The Wow Room,” a scale model of a British Sunderland Flying Boat forms the room’s centerpiece. This massive four-engined WWII-era seaplane sparked Johnson Lum’s imagination in engineering when he was a young boy growing up in the Fiji Islands. While staying at his extended family’s home near a naval air base, Johnson vividly remembers seeing and hearing Sunderland planes flying overhead on a regular basis. photo by Stefan Verbano

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At the back of Hobby Garden, owner, founder, and tour guide Johnson Lum explains the inspiration behind his “Happy Sustainable City” model: a sprawling tabletop grid of tidy houses, streets, commercial buildings, farmland, natural spaces, industrial complexes, and everything else needed for his vision of a green utopian society to function, all of it made from everyday household items. photo by Stefan Verbano

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whirl on interminably on clear days. At this station, Johnson is again tour guide, and with a well-rehearsed move he raises his arms up over the panel to block the sunlight. The buzzing and whirling stops. “Kids will get it immediately,” he says with a grin.

At Hobby Garden, it seems heʻs found the secret recipe for getting kids interested in learning: draw them in with the flashy, whizz-bang stuff, and then teach them some real knowledge on the side while theyʻre being entertained.

“Education has got to be a part of it, otherwise itʻs a waste of time—a waste of ideas,” Johnson says.

Amidst the boats and planes and trains and smoking volcanos inhabiting Hobby Garden are a million opportunities to learn about anthropology, biology, physics, engineering, and world history. An entire quadrant of the garden is filled with cultural dioramas depicting scenes of everyday life from various continents and time periods. Thereʻs the Great Wall of China interspersed with heaps of Chinese artifacts, next to a

replica of the Eiffel Tower and a scene of French culture, along with models of the White House, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Statue of Liberty—even an outer space moonscape scene with astronauts and rovers.

At one end of the avenue of cultural dioramas, a Polynesian exhibit includes the fog-machine volcano whose lava-textured pāhoehoe (smooth, ropy lava) Johnson formed by squeezing wet cement out of an icing bag—a nod to his original occupation in Fiji as a baker and pastry chef. There’s also a tabletop replica of the ancient Hawaiian division of land known as the ahupua‘a, complete with taro patches draining into a spiral fish pond, a pig cooking in an imu (a traditional Hawaiian earthen oven), and a row of handsomely built model outrigger sailing canoes.

When Johnson is out and about in town, people call him “Hobby Garden Guy.” No doubt heʻs known by the same moniker among Hawai‘i Island’s schoolchildren, who visit the garden on field trips.

Johnson Lum looks over a display case in “The Wow Room” filled with models of seagoing ships throughout modern history. photo by Stefan Verbano “They are so happy to be here,” Johnson says about the visiting keiki. “When itʻs time for them to go home they sing a song to me. Thatʻs a big reason why I keep this going: to bring them that joy.”

Another crowd of perennial garden guests has been visitors to the island, who would be hard-pressed to find a competing amusement park with this level of flair. Johnson keeps a large rectangular cookie tin around the reception area, and itʻs full of feedback forms written by people from faraway places like Japan, Germany, and Russia—papers peppered with exclamation points, smiley faces, and hearts.

from what Johnson calls a “water battery,” a continuous energy generation system where water is pumped uphill into a holding tank through massive pipes using solar power during the day, and then released at night to slowly drain down again, turning turbines built into the pipes as it falls, generating electrical current until next sunrise.

“50 to 80 percent of the bad things in society would be gone if we lived like this,” Johnson says about his utopian metropolis. “If we franchise this all over the world, we could change the world in three generations.”

At first glance, it may seem like just another curious tabletop diorama, all within an amusement park overflowing with so many miniatures. But to Johnson it represents a real-world solution, formulated over a decade of sociological study, relying on modern technology and a traditional Polynesian communal work ethic.

“If you give people good direction—a pathway where theyʻre happy, theyʻre content,” Johnson says, “When they have food and a job, then they know they donʻt need to be mischievous.”

Hobby Garden is located at 15-1695 12th Avenue, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kea‘au. ■ For more information about Hobby Garden’s exhibits, admission pricing, and updated social distancing and sanitation rules: 808.982.5604

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Johnson’s Vision of a “Happy Sustainable City” In the afternoon heat, Johnson takes a break from his rounds and slouches in a plastic lawn chair on the fishpond lānai, his sun hat resting on his belly. He starts to talk about his “Happy Sustainable City” model—another intricately designed diorama he started in 2015 which takes up a different corner of Hobby Garden. This model is a sprawling tabletop grid of tidy houses, schools, commercial and industrial buildings, farmland, nature parks, utilities infrastructure, and everything else needed to make his vision of a green utopian society function, all of it made from everyday household items.

There is no crime, no civil strife, no hunger, and no homelessness in the Happy Sustainable City. Instead of a police force, thereʻs a team of “community advisers,” and a regular work day for residents is only six hours long. Food production is completely self-sufficient with the help of sustainable farming innovations. Electricity for the city comes

Johnson Lum’s Honu Kai remote-controlled model tugboat, powered by a modified 4-stroke Honda weed-whacker gasoline engine. Johnson built the 140-pound, nearly 7-foot-long tugboat in 2003, and for almost a decade used it to tow his family in a 14-foot kayak around Hilo Bay. In mid-2017, Honu Kai was refurbished and put on permanent display at Hobby Garden. photo by Stefan Verbano

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elping people is a common theme that both boiler room that blew up. It was below deck and it was very John and Theresa Kaiwi have enjoyed throughout their lives. hot. We had to pull the guy out and medevac him...It was so Theresa and John run Hawaii Brown Bag Ministry, in Hilo. rewarding; I was so happy that the Lord pushed me toward John graduated from Kamehameha Schools and University that heart that I already had instead of taking lives.” of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is a Navy combat veteran who now Just like John, Theresa has always had a passion for serves as the neighbor island area manager for a Hawai‘ihelping others. She and her four siblings were raised by her based employment agency. Theresa is from San Antonio, grandmother in San Antonio. “I remember as a child, she Texas, and ran a number of different businesses before retiring converted our garage into this area where she had boxes and and moving to Hawai‘i in 2015. They met in Kona in 2016, boxes of clothing labeled for all different sizes. She would have and moved to Hilo this key around in 2018. Theresa her neck for when glows, “When we homeless people met, we knew would come to immediately that the house. My we were meant to grandmother would spend the rest of sit them down on our lives together!” the front porch The couple and go in and get teamed up for the them clothes, and first time in May go to the kitchen 2018 to volunteer and make them when the lava food, and she eruption hit Leilani would give them Estates. In 2019, whatever little bit still wanting to help of change she had feed those in need, in her pocket. That Hawaii Brown Bag Ministry founders John and Theresa Kaiwi. photo courtesy of Hawaii Brown Bag Ministry they started Hawaii is where I saw the Brown Bag Ministry, first delivering lunches to 20 people. Today giving heart.” Theresa recalls her oldest brother telling their they help distribute more than 350 meals per week, and their grandmother his concerns that the people she was helping corporate partners include The Salvation Army, IHOP, The Food were not stable and his worry that one of them might harm Basket, and Southwest Airlines. her. “My grandma looked at him with that confident face that she always had and she said, ‘What if it is God knocking at the Having Heart door and I don’t answer it. I cannot live with myself knowing John used to take the bus to school and he would have that it could be our Lord and I have turned him away. If it is to walk through Fort Street Mall in Honolulu on the way. He my time to go, it is my time to go.’” Theresa says, “That is the remembers keeping change in his pocket after buying 25-cent way I live my life—you never know who you are going to help coffees. He would give the extra money to the people on the and no one is above anyone.” street. At the time, John also worked in the cathedral parish, Theresa went on to become a successful business owner. answering phones in the evening for the chancery. They would “I ran all sorts of businesses, from full-service luxury spas give out peanut butter sandwiches to the homeless who would to telecommunication companies, and eventually worked for come in. “I would always give them two, or three, or four, Nationwide Insurance. I was working anywhere from 12 to and I would always get in trouble with the pastor,” he says, 16-hour days, and I said, ‘That’s enough’. I decided to retire laughing. “Growing up, I always had that heart—I can’t see and move to Hawai‘i.” When asked what drew her to Hawai‘i, people go hungry.”

Theresa says, “I just woke up one morning and decided I Later, John joined the Navy and served as a combat wanted to live in Hawai‘i.” She moved to Hilo, sight unseen, in search and rescue operator attached to a helicopter combat 2015. squadron in Kuwait during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

He reflects, “There were a lot of different missions that The 2018 Lava Flow in Puna we were on, whether it be a medevac, or rescuing a sailor John and Theresa started volunteering together with Puna from an explosion on a ship, to rescuing Navy SEALs that Relief after the volcanic eruption in Leilani Estates forced are literally running for their lives at an extraction point, or people to abandon their homes in May 2018. Their church rescuing civilians on the water.” John does not recall how many asked people if they could help fill volunteer shifts to serve people he helped rescue, but he says, “It was a lot.” He still breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The hardest shift to fill was remembers the feeling he had after his first rescue mission: the 3am breakfast shift every Thursday. John recalls, “We 20 “We were aboard the USS Detroit and we were called out to volunteered every Thursday at 3am from May all the way a United States Navy frigate where there was a sailor in a until October.” They would prepare the food—scrambled eggs,

Helping Hearts, Serving Our Community sausage, rice, quiche, and fresh fruit. They would do all the dishes, load everything into a van, drive it over, and set it up.

When they started serving, Theresa says there were about 300 people that came every morning, and when they ended in October, there were about 17 people who were still displaced.

There were a lot of volunteers when they started in May; John and Theresa were the last two volunteers serving food.

made them ourselves,” Theresa says excitedly, “We went and bought bread, peanut butter, jelly, little snacks, and juice pouches.” This was done with their own funds and coordinated with The Salvation Army to distribute the lunches from their facilities. They handed out the bag lunches and The Salvation Army invited them to come back the following week.

Their joy was infectious and after sharing her experience at hula the following Monday, a few women came The Birth of Hawaii Brown Bag up to Theresa to ask how they could Ministry help, “Five or six of my hula sisters Helping people during the 2018 asked, ‘What do you need?’ and I eruption inspired the couple, and in said, ‘Okay, each loaf of bread feeds January 2019 John said to Theresa, “I 10 people. So, you bring two loaves, just feel like we aren’t doing enough.” you bring two loaves, you bring a jar In the early morning on March 25, of peanut butter, and you bring a jar John had been to downtown Hilo. He of jelly….The next Friday we fed 40 went back home and woke Theresa up, people.’”

“You know, downtown is tent city in Hawaii Brown Bag Ministry was the middle of the night? These people born. Soon, the hula sisters brought are hungry,” to which Theresa replied, their husbands and it wound up being “Okay, what do you want to do?”

17 people contributing every Friday Just a few of the more than 1,300 hand-sewn masks that Theresa has On March 29 they served 20 brown morning. They now serve up to 200 donated to anyone who wants via the Brown Bag Ministry’s website. bag lunches to the homeless. “We bag lunches every Friday, and so far, photo courtesy of Theresa Kaiwi

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Some of the Brown Bag Ministy crew, Don and Debbie Loepoldo, enjoy some down-time with Theresa, John, and Theresa’s son. photo by Lara Hughes the only Friday they have missed as a group was when news of the coronavirus broke out in Hawai‘i.

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Helping During Coronavirus After they skipped that one Friday, John and Theresa renewed their dedication to provide food for Hilo’s homeless.

With the lockdown causing fewer people to be available for charity, and closed restaurants having no leftovers to give away, meeting the needs of the homeless has become more challenging than ever.

In response, the Hawaii Brown Bag Ministry expanded their services and now provides food to the homeless and others in need twice a day on Tuesdays and Fridays, and in the evening on Saturdays.

Theresa also began sewing face masks in April, which they give away for free. The couple were featured on the KHON2 news, which got the attention of the Hilo IHOP staff.

After seeing what Hawaii Brown Bag Ministry was doing, the manager contacted them to get involved.

IHOP staff began making 20 plates to donate, and now provides 50 plates during the Tuesday and Friday offerings provided by Brown Bag Ministry and The Salvation Army.

“What I noticed,” says John, “is that when we started this it was just the homeless…now we have white-collar and bluecollar people that are unemployed. I see people like you and me standing in line, waiting for meals—children, as well. They just lost their jobs—they ran out of resources.”

Their serving hearts did not stop there. John also jumps on his bike every other day to deliver Food Basket supplies and

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The amazing IHOP staff who help feed those in need each Friday: Isaaca Hanson, Darlene Perez, Caroline Vallin, and Janet Alaoan. photo by Lara Hughes

The Hawaii Brown Bag Ministry volunteers. Standing: Carlene Wolf, Brenda Kenui, Joyce Kepoÿo, Dale Pregil, Mia Abreu, Pamela Mendoza Lau, Kami La Canfora, Greg La Canfora, and Debbie Leopoldo. Sitting: Bill Kepoÿo, John Pregil, John Kaiwi, and Don Leopoldo.

photo courtesy of Theresa Kaiwi

snack packs that Southwest Airlines donated to The Salvation Army. “Total round trip from our house,” John says, “is about 20 miles.”

He also takes face masks that Theresa sews and hands those out as well. Their masks are available for free on the Hawaii Brown Bag Ministry’s website for anyone who needs them. To date, Theresa has made and donated more than 1,300 masks.

At the End of the Day Theresa is a firm believer that the more we help, the more we get. She reflects, “We are enthusiastic about making a change in our community and we know that change starts with us. If we don’t do it, nobody else is going to do it.” ■ For more information: hawaii-brown-bag-ministry.business.site/

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Then and Now

Reflections on World War II and Its Current Relevance

By Pete Hendricks

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marks the end of World War II in the Pacific in 1945, 75 years ago. The fear, uncertainty, and anxiety in the days after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack changed the way of life in Hawai‘i permanently. Similarly, the novel coronavirus will have long term impacts. Then, as today, the threat was real, with the immediate future uncertain.

The devastating attack on December 7, 1941 was a complete surprise to most people in Hawai‘i; however, there had been earlier warnings. Japan’s expansion into Asia started with the building of a western-style modern army and navy, with a naval victory over Czarist Russia in Tsushima Strait between Japan and Korea (1905). Taiwan had become part of Japan in 1895, and Korea was annexed in 1910. Japan, then an Allied nation, was awarded extensive mandates in the western Pacific after World War I. Japan continued to expand its control in southeast Asia, under the stated policy of the “Greater Southeast Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”.

Hawai‘i’s relationship with Japan started in 1881, when King David Kalākaua, on his worldwide tour, had visited Japan and met with Emperor Mejii as an equal. At the time, Japan’s ruler was seen as a god. Kalākaua suggested a partnership to create a Union of Confederation of Asiatic Nations and Sovereigns. The king even suggested a future marriage between his niece, Ka‘iulani and a young Japanese prince.

Neither suggestion became reality. Kalākaua’s visit facilitated a large number of Japanese immigrants arriving in Hawai‘i, first as labor for the growing sugar industry, and later many moved into trades and businesses. By 1941, a third of Hawai‘i’s people were of Japanese descent, and dominated one important business— commercial fishing. About half of Kona’s residents were Japanese.

Hawai‘iʻs Significance Hawai‘i’s strategic position in the Pacific was of interest to all the world powers by the time the monarchy was overthrown in 1893. Prejudice against immigrants grew in the later 1800s, with some fearing Japanese national expansionism.

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by ranking military in the 1920s. General (then Lt. Colonel) George Patton assessed the threat to Hawai‘i while stationed here from 1935–37. Patton predicted the attack on Pearl Harbor in a study memo named “Surprise.” Patton also wrote a study titled “Plan Orange,” which included martial law and internment of numerous local Japanese people after an attack on Hawai‘i. US military intelligence was aware of the imminent conflict, but the obvious flash points were far away in the Pacific and Asia.

The Pearl Harbor attack was planned by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a talented officer who had a practical understanding of the US and its potential military strength.

Yamamoto served as language officer and special student at Harvard, and later as naval attaché for Japan in Washington, DC (1926–28). Yamamoto cautioned Japanese leaders against conflict with the US, but he was loyal to his country. A successful Pearl Harbor attack, destroying the US Pacific Fleet, might cause the unprepared America to sue for peace.

Hawai‘i didn’t know if there was an invasion force accompanying the attackers, and rumors were rampant after the December 7th attack. The Honolulu Advertiser headline for December 8th read “SABOTEURS LAND HERE.” With no evidence at all, rumors circulated that the Japanese in Hawai‘i were supporting Imperial forces and expecting an invasion. However, a force of Japanese fleet submarines was in Hawaiian waters as part of the attack. On December 31 the Japanese sub I-1 was to attack Hilo harbor at night with its deck gun.

Other submarines shelled Nawiliwili (Kaua‘i) and Kahului (Maui) harbors, inflicting minor damage.

Immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack, the Hawaiian Islands were completely locked down. All the other islands outside of O‘ahu dricks ete Hen P y b initially had to pho Beach. a n u p a l at H emoria ewes m r D p m Ca

no idea what was going on.

Invasion was considered a real possibility.

By Sunday afternoon, December 7, 1941, Hawai‘i Territorial Landing Ship Medium (LSM) 261 and others approaching a Governor beach during landing exercises. photo courtesy of USS LSM/LSMR Poindexter Association via navsource.org, used with permission agreed with the senior military officer in Hawai‘i to declare martial law. Lt. General Walter C. Short quickly issued the proclamation: “Pursuant to section 67 of the Organic Act of the Territory of Hawai‘i, approved April 30,1900, the Governor of Hawai‘i has called on me, as commander of the armed forces of the United States in Hawai‘i, to prevent such LSM-261 and LSM-266 beached at Iwo Jima, February 15, 1945. [Japanese] photo courtesy of James Tusing via navsource.org, used with permission invasion; has suspended the writ of habeas corpus; has placed the territory under martial law; has authorized me and my subordinates to exercise the powers normally exercised by the governor and subordinate civil officers.”

Within days, strict rules were in effect. Hawai‘i Island residents were told to tune into KHBC, the AM radio station in Hilo, for information. Radio stations had been off the air during the attack, to prevent attacking planes from homing in on radio signals. The Hilo Tribune-Herald continued printing, subject to censorship. Complete blackout was ordered from dusk until dawn. Permits were required for vehicles on the roads. Food and gas rationing were soon to come. Gas masks

Army transport ship Royal T. Frank was sunk by a Japanese torpedo 30 miles from ÿUpolu Point, North Kohala, on January 28,1942. photo courtesy of US National Archives, a US Army

Signal Corps photo via navsource.org, used with permission

Tragedy Strikes On January 28, 1942, the Army transport ship Royal T. Frank was on its way from O‘ahu to Kawaihae and Hilo. The 200-ton vessel was carrying draftees who had just completed basic training at Schofield Barracks in Honolulu, which by 1938 had become an Army garrison of 14,000. Due to the threat of Japanese submarines, the Royal T. Frank was in a convoy that morning, together with a Navy destroyer and a tug towing an ammunition barge. About 30 miles north of ‘Upolu Point in the ‘Alenuihāhā Channel, several torpedoes were sighted coming toward the ship; the third torpedo exploded and the Royal T. Frank sunk within a minute. Nine of the 33 survivors were Hawai‘i island soldiers; they became known as “the Torpedo Gang.”

Some authorities believed that other islands besides O‘ahu, especially Hawai‘i, with its size, scant defenses, agricultural base, and low population, would be a likely place for the potential invasion. US Army and volunteer units were soon active on the island. More military followed quickly. Every possible invasion beach had its contingent of military and volunteer coverage. The combined Army Air Field (AAF)/Naval Air Station (NAS) in Hilo became a busy flight center. Morse AAF was established at South Point. The US Marines were to be the largest military presence on Hawai‘i Island during WWII. After the horrific 1943 battle for the atoll of Tarawa, exhausted surviving 2nd Marines were transported to the port of Hilo and sent by railroad, many in open flatcars, to Pa‘auilo, where they were bused to Waimea. The Marines, ill-clothed and fresh from a tropical hell, had to camp at first

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The Landing Vehicle, Tracked (LVT), also known as the amphibious tractor (Amtrac), was essential to US forces during WWII. Practice landings by Amtracs in Pololö Valley in 1945 proved disastrous because of the rough terrain they encountered coming in from the ocean.

Much of the equipment was stranded there, and the 1946 tsunami pushed it up into the valley where it remains today. photo by Pete Hendricks

were issued. Gatherings of more than 10 people were to be by permit only. All arms and ammunition were to be turned in to local police. Māhukona port was closed (there was not yet a commercial harbor at Kawaihae). Kona was split into north and south districts; a permit was required for travel between the two. Kīlauea Military Camp in Volcano was to become a transition stop for the few Japanese from Hawai‘i Island sent to internment camps on the mainland. However, no Japanese American or alien resident was ever convicted of crimes against the US in Hawai‘i during the entire war in the Pacific.

The Army took overall control under Military Governor Short. Hawai‘i would still be under some wartime restrictions until 1944, such as nighttime blackout (“dim out” by 1942), when the Pacific war had moved thousands of miles away.

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The first atomic bomb used in conflict was on August 6, 1945, and its effects killed 140,000 humans by the end of 1945. The second more powerful bomb hit Nagasaki six days

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Out of Conflict Comes Hope After the cataclysmic end to WWII in the Pacific, major tensions remained in the world, and competition among nations continued. However, there were those who sought real peace. Masayuki Matsunaga, born on Kaua‘i, and nicknamed “Spark,” served with the Army in Europe with the renowned 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Wounded in battle and a decorated US Army Captain, Spark Matsunaga later graduated from Harvard Law School and eventually represented Hawai‘i as a US Senator from 1977–90.

Senator Matsunaga had a vision that there should be a dedicated US organization promoting peace and helping resolve conflict. His greatest legacy is the Institute of Peace Act, passed in 1984. URL references to the resolution are listed below.

The beginning of the winter season brings the shortest day and longest night of the year. Many in Hawai‘i and worldwide are working toward a brighter future, with peace and aloha extended to everyone. Each of us has a part to play. A special mahalo to all our veterans, then and now. ■

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Traveling to the Unknown with a Recipe for German-style Fruitcake

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By Brittany P. Anderson

Much of the year has been spent at home, distanced from loved ones, and separated from friends. It is as if we’ve been on a long voyage without knowing where or when we reach our destination.

Centuries of exploration of the seas are documented from oral histories to journals. We know that these voyages were lonely, dangerous, and beautiful, oftentimes all at the same time.

At the time of James Cook’s third arrival in Hawai‘i in 1778, as controversial as it may be, three young German sailors were aboard the HMS Discovery. One such German, Johann Heinrich Zimmermann, defied Captain Cook’s orders and kept a personal diary, which he then published in 1781 beating Cook to print by three years. It contains humorous follies of the captain in addition to matter-of-fact observations of the excursion and launched Zimmermann to fame. He wouldn’t be the last German sailor to bring Hawai‘i to European readers.

1815 the Russian naval ship Rurik with German scholar and aristocrat Adelbert von Chamisso aboard was on an around-the-world scientific journey. While docked in Kailua Bay, Chamisso—a poet and author who decided to try his hand at botany—explored the flora of upcountry KailuaKona. He selected several native plant samples, including the hāpu‘u, which was later assigned the scientific name Cibotium chamissoi in his honor.

While anchored on Hawai‘i Island, Chamisso dined with Kamehameha, shaking the king’s hand, an act which left a lasting impression. On Chamisso’s return to Europe, he wrote several Hawai‘i-centric books, including grammatical documentation of the Hawaiian language. His approach to Hawaiian culture was that of profound honor, admiration, and he appreciated the sophistication. It was a unique perspective of the time.

In 1836, just two years before his death, he published three of his journals under the title A Voyage Around the World, detailing his travels to Hawai‘i and other Pacific islands.

The book reflects that he had the fortune of shaking hands with three notable men. Chamisso’s shortlist includes King Kamehameha.

For the few traveling Germans that happened to set sail for the great unknown, it was an exploration likes of which they had never seen. Throughout the years, several Germans settled in Hawai‘i, blending their Germanic heritage with Hawaiian culture. Captain Henri Berger of Berlin spent decades conducting the Royal Hawaiian Band. Queen Lili‘uokalani dubbed him “The Father of Hawaiian Music,” as Berger wrote the score to King Kalākaua’s lyrics for the state anthem “Hawai‘i Pono‘i.”

In looking for a recipe that brings both the German explorers and Hawai‘i together in one dish, the fruitcake came to mind.

Fruitcakes are humored to be apocalyptic-proof due to their dense and long-lasting nature—a recipe like that seems even more appropriate in 2020.

German früchtebrot (literally translated to fruit bread, or loaf) is a product of avoiding waste; it is made from whatever fruits and nuts are on hand. Done in the Bavarian style, it is much more fruit and nuts than it is cake. For a Hawaiian adaptation, I used macadamia nuts, homemade dehydrated figs, mango, and banana. You can use any combination of nuts and dried fruits you have on hand, as long as the volume amount is equivalent.

Ingredients 1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped macadamia nuts 2 cups coarsely chopped dried fruits, such as fig, mango, banana 1/4 cup raisins 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 3 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract Method In a large bowl, combine the nuts and dried fruits. Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add this to the nut mixture, stirring until nuts and fruit are well coated. Next, in a small bowl, beat eggs until foamy, then stir in the vanilla extract.

Stir the egg mixture into the nut mixture and mix well. Pour into a greased 9x5inch loaf pan. Bake at 300°F for 1 hour 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before cutting and serving.

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Sharing Aloha

By Catherine Tarleton

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Former Hawaiÿi Island resident Kerri Kantor (right), dancing with Healiÿi’s Polynesian Revue in San Diego. photo courtesy of Bryson Kim

Kalim Smith receives a heartfelt embrace from one of the protectors on Mauna Kea. photo by Francois Waikoloa

30 Although there are some differences in techniques, Kalim Smith successfully grows kalo in California and Hawaiÿi. photo courtesy of Kalim Smith

hat does Aloha Spirit look like in places outside of Hawai‘i? To find out, we asked an ipu (gourd) artist who grows them in both Kona and California, a kumu hula who teaches in Asia and Europe, and an IT tech/hula student in San Diego.

Their stories, some surprising, some funny, some “chicken-skin,” tell us that the culture, values, and spirit of Hawai‘i are both vast and infinite, personal and global. Something you need to feel under your feet, and also something you can carry like a honu (turtle) shell wherever you go.

Kamehameha Schools defines Hawaiian values as: “aloha (to have compassion and empathy); ‘imi na‘auao (to seek wisdom); mālama (to care for and protect); ‘ike pono (to know and do what is right); kuleana (to take responsibility); ho‘omau (to preserve and perpetuate); and ha‘aha‘a (to be humble).”

More informally, Hawaiian values might be things we love and value: family, including ancestral family, food, nature, and the culture and philosophy that hold it all together—whether we live in Hawai‘i or elsewhere.

Kalim Smith Kalim Smith grows ipu and makes traditional rhythm instruments in both San Diego and at Hālau Ka‘eaikahelelani in Keauhou. He’s created ipu heke (double gourds) and ipu heke ‘ole (single gourds) for some of Hawai‘i’s most prominent musicians, kumu (teachers), and dancers, including Keali‘i Reichel, Robert Cazimero, and many others. He also grows food crops and raises Hawaiian pigs—all of which he shares with the community.

He holds two master’s degrees, in ethnic studies and anthropology, and was working on a PhD when a spinal cord injury “confined” him to a wheelchair. Indefatigable, it does not keep him from farming, traveling, swimming, skiing, teaching, or lifelong learning.

From an interracial family, Kalim has a strong interest in genealogy, and he was surprised to learn that he’s related to Hiram Bingham and Lorenzo Lyons. He’s also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and a Mayflower descendant.

“You can’t look at people in the moment. You have to look in a

Kumu Keala Ching’s haumana (students) in Switzerland. photo courtesy of Na Wai Iwi Ola

Spirit Worldwide historical trajectory,” he says. “If you never ask, you never know they’re from somewhere else.”

“DNA is like a time traveler, traveling with you,” he says. “Who you come from generally plays into who you are. The more I learn about family, the more comfortable I am in my own life…

Genealogy is a scientific endeavor. The genealogy of certain animals goes all the way back to creation. Hawaiians were genealogists of the universe. They studied the origins of not just family but all things.”

In August 2019 he traveled up Mauna Kea to present some ipu heke to the community for ceremony. “This place is Hawai‘i, if you are in Hawai‘i you have to go with what’s Hawaiian,” Kalim says.

“The Mauna is where I go for meditation, because of the mana [spirit] of the place.”

“I feel like my day is a prayer, Kalim says. “Everything I do in a day has to be to the benefit of mankind. I try to stay in a prayerful zone; it’s a very thankful, prayerful way of being. I try to be pono, and do what I can to help neighbors, to show you can still have a good day even in a wheelchair.”

Hundreds of ipu heke being played at the Edith Kanakaÿole Stadium in Hilo. photo courtesy of Kalim Smith

Kumu Keala Ching’s Japanese hula hälau throwing him a surprise birthday party via Zoom. photo courtesy of Nä Wai Iwi Ola KeOlaMagazine.com | November-December 2020

Keala Ching Kumu Keala Ching is a familiar face, and voice in the Ke Ola family, where his beautiful Hawaiian oli appear at the beginning of each issue. A dedicated student of Hawaiian culture, he has danced on the Merrie Monarch stage, and graduated as Kumu Hula through the ‘uniki protocols with Kumu Frank Kawaikapuokalani Hewett.

Keala’s hula hālau (school), Hālau Nā Wai Iwi Ola, has branches in Hawai‘i, Japan, and Switzerland. He says his foreign students seem to grasp the concept of aloha when he’s with them, but starts to fade after he departs. However, the Mauna Kea issue, with its wide media coverage, has been a way to connect his students more closely to Hawai‘i.

“I was excited. They were able to see the aloha, the culture, dance, chanting, all being revived. There is hope on the Mauna,”

Kalim Smith presented numerous ipu heke to the küpuna on the slopes of Mauna Kea.

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A selfie in Switzerland. Kumu Keala smiles with his hula students during a happy moment. photo courtesy of Nä Wai Iwi Ola

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Kalim has traveled all over the world.

Here he visits the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. photo courtesy of Kalim Smith

Keala says. “My students from Switzerland said, ‘Kumu, how can we help?’ and I told them, ‘Bring jackets.’”

Keala says students rounded up four suitcases of jackets, socks, and scarves, all things that were needed in wintertime Europe. “I was able to take it up there and present to the kūpuna,” says Keala. “When my students were given the opportunity to express their gratitude for what the culture has done for them, they really appreciated that.”

For the Japanese students, the concept was a little different.

“What’s unique in Japan about their fascination with the Hawaiian culture boils down to their original spiritualism, Shinto, that they had before Buddhism, Christianity, and others,” he says. “They are able to understand the aloha spirit, the culture, tradition, and so forth.”

It’s Keala’s hope that his students will build global connections. “I say to my kids who travel with me, ‘If Hawai‘i gets sovereignty, you are making relationships with those countries. If you did not make this journey then they would have no idea who they could trust…We are far from sovereignty, but if we continue to educate and connect with people of the world, they will understand our culture, and our tradition, and they will support it.”

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“I go because Kalākaua did. He circumnavigated the entire world, that’s why I go and I bring children. To stay connected, I take all the images of Hawai‘i with me…I would love to hear my students say, ‘I know I can’t and will never be Hawaiian, but I know you have shared with me values, concepts, culture, and I can help my people understand.’”

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Kerri Kantor Kerri Kantor is an educational IT technician in San Diego; she’s also a student with Heali‘i’s Polynesian Revue, a wellrespected hula school led by Kumu Hula Kathy Heali‘i O Nalani Gore-Stanley since 1967. Kerri joined the hālau in 2015, when she returned after 10 years on Hawai‘i Island.

Originally from San Diego, she grew up in a close-knit surfing community, where one of the neighborhood families was Hawaiian. “They had the lū‘au, kālua pig, all these plants and this giant plumeria tree. They would put the picnic tables out, order the ‘opihi, cook the pig in the backyard,” she says. “And one of them used to make me dance hula in the backyard…and I didn’t even remember that for years!”

That family had an important impact on her life. “They made me feel like this is my core. This is where I belong,” she says.

Because of them, she always wanted to live in Hawai‘i but had to defer that dream. “Years later, the timing was right, so I went to Waimea on the Big Island and thought, ‘Oh my gosh.’

I was transformed. ‘I’m home.’”

An ipu in progress in Kalim’s workshop. photo courtesy of Kalim Smith

Kumu Keala with his students in Switzerland. photo courtesy Nä Wai Iwi Ola

She began studying hula, and admits it wasn’t easy at first.

She remembers one particular class, about 2009, when she was trying to learn the kawelu (an advanced, scissors-like hula step). “I was stuck, my brain couldn’t grasp it. Then this huge memory came back…I realized this is what she was trying to teach me when I was little.” From then on things got easier.

Kerri returned to California in 2012, and says she retreated from Hawaiian culture for a while because she was sad to leave. “After a couple of years, I wanted to start with a new hālau, but each time after class I got back to the car and bawled my eyes out. I heard things like, ‘We’re a California hālau, not a Hawaiian hālau,’ and ‘You’re from the Big Island?

You won’t like this. We’re Kauai and O‘ahu style, small feet, little hips.’”

When she found Heali‘i’s hālau, she found her place again. “The first time made me cry, in a good way! I was so welcomed, so loved, so not judged,” she says. “This hālau is awesome. Before COVID we had 250 students, from age three up to the Hula Honeys, 70–80 years old. And the kāne are formidable. I was intimidated at first, but I’m so happy to be with them now.”

Kalim and his mother visit family estate in europe. photo courtesy of Kalim Smith

Kalim with his students after a workshop in Japan. photo courtesy of Kalim Smith

“I’ve been back in touch with the family in the old neighborhood since I came back to the mainland,” Kerri says. “One of my early teachers saw me dance, and she told me I’m a beautiful dancer, and I realized I’d finally made it. I had a family. And I feel like that’s what the aloha spirit and Hawaiian culture is all about.”

Editor’s Note: This story was inspired by a reader from Belgium, Ronald Letayf, a massage therapist who was trained in lomilomi on Hawai‘i Island and Europe. Ronald is creating a Hawaiian Retreat Center and organic farm called Aloha ‘Āina in Delta del Ebre near Barcelona, Spain, where he can share a touch of the aloha spirit with those who visit. ■ For more information: Kalim Smith: facebook.com/ipufarm Kumu Keala Ching: nawaiiwiola.com and keolamagazine.com/ people/kumu-keala-ching/ Kerri Kantor: healiis.com

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Mälama Mokupuni: Caring for Our Island Environment

Hawai‘i Wai Ola

Is Stepping It Up… To Test Coast Water Quality

By Rachel Laderman

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When government can’t catch up with a pressing environmental problem, concerned residents often step in. Here on Hawai‘i Island, water quality equates to quality of life, yet the state Department of Health (DOH) Clean Water Branch has only two employees to monitor all 750 miles of the island’s coastlines for pollutants.

The DOH prioritizes high-use areas and samples as frequently as funding allows, but is unable to visit all the popular swim spots. It’s not surprising, then, that volunteering to address coastal pollution has risen to a serious level.

34 Together we can help take care of our island water. Puakö shoreline, South Kohala coast. photo courtesy of Erica Perez

Cue Hawai‘i Wai Ola, a newly formed group with many partners focused on improving Hawai‘i Island’s coastal water quality. “We are training citizens in scientific methods to help collect data that can be used seamlessly with state sampling and empowers community with important science to showcase environmental impacts,” says Erica Perez, program manager for the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) and Hawai‘i Wai Ola’s lead organizer.

“Hawai‘iʻs poor water quality is largely an invisible problem. When you look out at the ocean, especially in places like Kona that don’t have widespread sediment runoff, the water looks pristine—clear and blue. It doesn’t ‘look’ like sewage, pesticides, fertilizer, and other pollutants are entering the ocean at an alarming rate,” says Kathleen Clark, who works for The Kohala Center and is the Kona regional coordinator for Hawai‘i Wai Ola. “Data we collect can help determine where the areas of most need are. Currently there are large data gaps and we are hoping to fill those gaps using a community stewardship model,” says Kathleen. “Volunteers will collect samples to identify areas of concern.”

Stepping In An example of how community involvement can bring about water quality improvements is at Kahalu‘u Bay. Volunteers have helped The Kohala Center staff monitor the coral at this popular beach over time. “After the 2015 bleaching event we lost about 90% of the cauliflower coral along the Kona Coast,” says Kathleen.

“Kahalu‘u Bay used to be dotted with hundreds of dark pink and brown cauliflower colonies and now there are

only a handful of colonies remaining.”

“For the past three years, with the guidance of other agencies and using local residents’ monitoring observations, we have successfully advocated for the closure of the beach park during spawning to allow for the undisturbed reproduction of this now rare species,” says Kathleen.

Stepping It Up The DOH is all for working with partners committed to quality-assured monitoring. Kim Falinski, with The Nature Conservancy and author of the Hawai‘i Wai Ola Quality Assurance Plan, originally created this model of citizen-science water sampling for the Maui program Hui O Kai Wai Ola. The goal of both programs is that approved sampling data go directly into the DOH system.

Building off this work, CORAL and other groups including the Hawai‘i Division of Aquatic Resources, Surfrider Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, The Kohala Center, Waiwai Ola Waterkeepers Alliance, Lynker’s Sustainable Pacific Program, and the South Kohala Coastal Partnership have organized Hawai‘i Wai Ola to be Hawai‘i Island’s rigorous citizen-science program. Roots for this program also go back over 10 years to work done by concerned residents in Puakō addressing declining water quality.

Hawai‘i Wai Ola aims to train volunteers to help with sampling, data management, quality assurance, and lab work. Beach sampling will take two or three people around three hours, as they follow testing protocols for enterococcus bacteria, nutrients, salinity, turbidity,

dissolved oxygen, temperature, and pH. Currently staff are sampling 16 locations in South Kohala, Kona, and Hilo, and the program plans to add sites as interest and support allow.

As Kathleen says, “Community stewardship programs like this are the perfect way to get the people who know and love a place to take an active role in its care. These places need a voice and we can try and help be that voice.”

How to Get Involved To volunteer with the Clean Ocean Team: hawaiiwaiola.com.

To look at DOH sampling locations and data: cwb.doh.hawaii.gov/CleanWaterBranch/ WaterQualityData/default.aspx To check current water quality advisories: eha-cloud.doh.hawaii.gov/cwb/#!/landing Rachel Laderman, Sustainable Pacific Program, Lynker LLC/NOAA Affiliate, Hawai‘i Island

Hawaiÿi Wai Ola is a collaboration between multiple agencies on the mission for clean water. Pictured here are representatives from Surfrider Foundation, Hilo Chapter; Waiwai Ola Waterkeepers; The Kohala Center (TKC); Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaiÿi; Lynker; and Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL). photo courtesy of Erica Perez

Corbin and Leslie Young sampling Richardson Beach Park in Hilo. photo courtesy of Erica Perez

Setup of sampling instruments for testing in the field, in back of a pickup truck. photo courtesy of CORAL

Back to the ‘Äina:

By Brittany P. Anderson

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Building a robust food sovereignty community is vital to he afternoon heat hangs heavy over the field. strengthening food security on Hawai‘i Island. One way of Two farmers continue their work seemingly unaffected by the making a sovereign and resilient food system is through the weather. Arms and legs bundled up to avoid being burned by farm cooperative model. the sun, they pluck beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes from the Farm cooperatives, or co-ops, involve a network of farmers vines, placing them into baskets, all but disappearing as they who do business as one entity. Farmer co-ops pool resources move swiftly along the rows. together for marketing, distribution, and purchasing supplies, For food producers on Hawai‘i Island, the work of feeding sharing in the risks and rewards. One of the most notable their community is never done. Over the past year, food farmer cooperatives on the island of Hawai‘i is the ‘Ulu security and sovereignty has come to the forefront of Cooperative. Started in 2016, the cooperativeʻs goal was conversations. From family circles to government officials, twofold. According to their website, the ‘Ulu Cooperative was everyone asks the same question: how can we make Hawai‘i founded to “revive the cultivation of ‘ulu [breadfruit] and Islandʻs food system more robust and more secure for all the strengthening Hawai‘i Islandʻs food security for a resilient food islandʻs residents? future.”

By all accounts, the cooperative has been a success. As local Connection and Relationship access to ‘ulu increases, demand and prosperity increase with A food sovereignty movement is awakened on Hawai‘i Island. it. When small farms are economically viable, not only does our Food sovereignty is rooted in the principles that the community food system benefit but every sector has a right to healthy, culturally of the community improves. As Kalani sees everything as relationships and connections. appropriate food produced through photo by Brittany P. Anderson island residents integrate ‘ulu back ecologically sound and sustainable into their diets, food sovereignty methods. It is also a bottom-up continues to grow, building stronger approach centered around what communities as a result. farmers grow locally and local control Kalani poses the question, “How over their food system instead of does the relationship come back into imported food distribution methods. industrialized ag?” Without skipping There is no one-size-fits-all approach a beat, he answers, “Itʻs a bunch of to food sovereignty because it focuses little farms working together. Better on the relationship between people to have a hundred small farms than and the connection to their culture. three really big ones.”

M. Kalani Souza, Hawaiian Across the mainland US, large practitioner, priest, permaculturist, commodity farms pump out high and cross-cultural facilitator, is volume crops and meat to feed actively engaged in Hawai‘i Islandʻs the nation. Mass systems of food food sovereignty movement. production fail to recognize unique “At the center of [Hawaiian] culture environments or unique cultures. is food, and the consumption of food On Hawai‘i Island, the detrimental is one of the most important parts,” environmental impacts from highKalani says in his soft voice. “In density commodity farming are eating, you take in the world around acutely felt, which is why small regenerative farms are another you, you digest it, and then compost the rest,” he remarks. critical component to a robust local food system.

For Kalani, everything comes down to relationships and connections.

Regenerative Agriculture Hawai‘i Island was once able to grow enough food to feed A herd of cattle cluster along their fence, eagerly eyeing up all its inhabitants. With the introduction of industrialized the green pasture that lies on the other side of the gate. For agriculture, much of the traditional farming methods were lost. this herd, the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.

“There has to be a relationship with growing food; without a They move paddocks every four days, building soil health relationship, there is no knowledge,” Kalani pauses, “and then and closing the carbon cycle as they fatten on the nutrientthere is no transgenerational knowledge.” He speaks like the dense grasses they help cultivate. Regenerative agriculture is thunderous clouds that hug Hualālai—profound and full of a holistic land management practice that uses the symbiotic intention. relationship between plants and animals to close the carbon Hawai‘i Island food sovereignty is getting back to a cycle, enrich the soil, and increase crop resiliency and nutrient generational understanding of farming and a self-regenerating density. system of producing food for everyone and everything within 36 Through regenerative practices, soil health is improved due the community.

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Strengthening Hawai‘i Island’s Food System to increased organic matter creating a diverse ecosystem above and below the ground. When the cows pass through a paddock, the manure deposited feeds the grasses, and in eating, they stimulate the grass to grow. As the cycle continues, more organic matter is created in the pastures, increasing carbon sequestration and decreasing runoff.

“When we started our farm, there was nothing here, no bugs, no birds, no worms, it was barren of life,” Bodhi Anderson of Sugar Hill Farmstead says as he stands surrounded by grass. Bodhi transformed his Hawaiÿi Island food sovereignty renews a Honomū property through connection with cultural staples like ÿulu. regenerative agriculture photo by Brittany P. Anderson practices, making him a firm believer in the approach. “Once we brought on the ruminants— the sheep and the cows—and rotated them around the farm, life started coming back.” Four years into the endeavor, he still

sees results. “Instead of constantly taking from the land, the animals are building soil. We have about eight inches of black dirt full of worms, and our Guinea grass grows six inches in a day.” For Bodhi, the best test for how successful regenerative farming practices are was apex predatorsʻ return. “We have five resident ‘io [Hawaiian hawks] and at least two pueo [Hawaiian owls] that have come back within the past two years. They donʻt touch our chickens, but they do cut down on pests.”

Like the now-shuttered Bodhi Anderson measures his pasture grass. photo by Brittany P. Anderson Big Island Dairy, large animal operations often result in adverse environmental impacts such as groundwater contamination, air pollution, and ecosystem destruction. In the quest for food security, Hawai‘i Island can look to regenerative agriculture style farming and ranching for a solution to feeding

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its people and leaving a positive impact on the fragile island ecosystem.

Shifting the Paradigm The global supply chains that deliver food to the island of Hawai‘i are increasingly vulnerable as they are costly. Thatʻs why island residents turn to local sources for food and set out on their own to offset their reliance on imports. In many cases, it means ditching a traditional monetary system as well.

Crystal and Jarrick Dasalla found inspiration from island farmers, including Bodhi Anderson, on social media. Crystal, a nurse, and her husband Jarrick, a commercial driver for UPS, decided to raise chickens for eggs. “Iʻve always had gut issues, and eating healthy makes me feel better. But healthy food is really expensive,” Crystal says with a chuckle. “If we eat what we grow, I donʻt have to worry about what Iʻm eating,” she explains.

The young couple hasnʻt had an easy time growing vegetables; however, two of Crystalʻs friends started market gardens and they share their bounty. “When we have enough eggs, I trade for vegetables. They get what they need, and we get what we need,” Crystal continues, “Itʻs like the olden days!”

Thereʻs also a deeper connection to their community, “I see my friends more because we are trading for produce, it increases our ability to eat healthy and socialize,” Crystal adds.

Dayna Robertson, an Orchidland homesteader, increased her production recently, helping meet her neighborsʻ needs. “I have upped all my food production for ourselves, trading with our neighbors, and feeding our livestock,” she says. Trading has also become increasingly popular within her community. “I

have people stopping by because they heard from a friend that I have food and am open to trades,” Dayna continues, “which is super cool to get to know neighbors.”

As Hawai‘i Island residents begin to value locally grown produce and meats, it has created more opportunities for connection. “My friends are working on creating their own CSA [Community Supported Agriculture], and theyʻre working with other farmers,” Crystal says. “Iʻm inspired by how hard it is to grow food,” Crystal remarks as her tone shifts, “You put blood, sweat, and tears into the food and that food is so much better.”

The primal scent of rain on hot dirt, the clink of a chain as a gate is closed, the chatter of people picking kalo (taro), the gentle breeze dancing through a field—this is a food system strengthening. Hawai‘i Islandʻs food system is becoming more resilient as residents increasingly realize a deeper connection with their food. While the growing food sovereignty movement focuses on cultivation from a cultural perspective, it inspires the next generation of farmers and consumers. Through regenerative agriculture, farmers and ranchers help remediate the negative impacts of years of industrial agriculture and restore balance to ecosystems. Most of all, it is the people of the island of Hawai‘i, developing relationships, bartering, and connecting with one another in meaningful ways. That is whatʻs making Hawai‘i Islandʻs food system more robust and more secure for all the islandʻs residents. ■ For more information: olohana.org sugarhillfarmstead.com youtube.com/user/daynaandsteve

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Series 3 on Managing with Aloha, Bringing Hawaii’s Universal Values to the Art of Business Seventh in Series Three on Managing with Aloha

The ‘Ohana in Business Model: Our Economy Done Better

By Rosa Say

Tackling a readjustment of the entire model of the US economy is necessary but daunting, a staggering endeavor to be sure. Revising your own business model, however, so it will be ethical, equitable, and self-sustaining, isn’t—it is entirely within your own scope of influence and control. The only questions are what changes you are willing to make, and how much profit and prosperity you are willing to share with your partners—including your staff.

A business without a valid business model isn’t just a business without a recession-resistant roadmap, it’s a business without a conscience. Your intentions within your vision—good, values based, equitable-for-all intentions—are everything.

The pandemic has been painful, yet it gives us an opportunity to reset: let’s take it. Break the rules. Dust off your vision. Create a new one.

When you’re in business, you must be a visionary. You must want better for yourself, and all whom you employ, partner with, and serve. That’s what being “with Aloha” requires.

Consider your business to be a constant work in progress, theorizing on how more becomes possible. Experiment. Make a better reality for everyone involved, for visionaries keep hope alive and well. Here’s my vision, in part: • Everyone who works receives a living wage: their earnings sustain them in a good life.

• A business model is not valid or feasible, unless a living wage is what it creates and sustains for everyone involved with that business.

• Service jobs are admirable, appreciated, and valued by others, and worth having.

• There is no “paying your dues” or “working your way up” into a living wage: you get it upon hire with every job, in every career, in every business model whether for-profit, nonprofit, public or private sector. You get it if you’re hiring yourself in an entrepreneurial, self-employed model—ignore the Shark Tank venture capitalists who say otherwise.

Am I dreaming? In today’s world I am, but that doesn’t mean it has to be this way. We can change the world one business model at a time.

Be the visionary of an ‘Ohana in Business: I call them Alaka‘i Benefactors, because they are.

Next issue, we’ll talk about Key Concept 7: Strengths management.

Contact writer Rosa Say at RosaSay.com or ManagingWithAloha.com

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When I left the hotel industry to work for the Hualalai Resort back in 1996, I had been employed by a hotel or hotel chain for 22 years.

It no longer felt feasible or sensible to be a hotel employee to me. I felt the business model of the hotel industry was seriously, and irreparably, broken, and still do. When they profit, hotels make money for hotel owners, corporate holdings, and a few executives, but they don’t provide a good living for the rank and file who assure the hotel operates well, and who give customers the aloha-filled customer service hotel owners and executives market.

The hotels I had worked for did give back to the community, but I wondered if donations were sincerely given or simply more marketing at the local level, for shouldn’t a business operation take better care of the people it employed first?

When they recruited me, Hualalai offered me the director of retail position, and here’s what sealed the deal: they told me what their retail clerks were getting paid, nearly double the hourly rate of their hotel-employed counterparts. Why? “It’s the right thing to do—they need to make a decent living just as much as anyone else does.” Today, we refer to that as “a living wage.”

I hadn’t yet heard what they would pay me. I didn’t have to before knowing I’d made my decision to join them. After receiving their offer, I went home and put pen to paper on my first draft of what I felt a ‘Business with Aloha’ model would be, a document later anointed the ‘Ohana in Business model, Key 6 of the Managing with Aloha philosophy.

(To be clear, the Hualalai Resort focused exclusively on real estate sales at the time as a resort development firm which owned the hotel on their resort as a separate holding; the hotel was managed separately. The business model of the resort may differ today.)

The Covid19 pandemic has been a death knell for small business. By some accounts, small business owners by the thousands are closing up shop in the United States alone. In contrast, big business conglomerates are enjoying astounding profits, for one of capitalism’s most notable features is that wealth begets wealth. It has become blatantly obvious that the stock market is not a reflection of the economy: according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, “America’s richest 1% now own half the value of the US stock market. The richest 10% own 92 percent.”

There is something seriously wrong with this economic picture, convincing many of us who study business to question our assumptions, and many conventions we’ve long taken for granted, or did not pay enough attention to.

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Häwane Rios Shares Her Soul’s Purpose

By Ma‘ata Tukuafu

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he first time Hāwane Rios fully comprehended a legend told in the Hawaiian language, it touched her so deeply that she wrote a song to remember it. It is the love story between Poli‘ahu (goddess of the snow) and Kukahau‘ula (a god personifying the male force in the form of the rising sun), whose meeting caused Poli‘ahuʻs heart to melt, resulting in the snowmelt which formed streams and springs, providing life to the people.

“When I wrote the song, it sounded to me like their love,” Hāwane says, “and when I sing the song, I remember what that story means to me.”

Hāwane Rios, who grew up in Waimea, began writing songs at the age of 20 while studying Hawaiian language in college.

In her second year of classes she felt a calling to write music in Hawaiian rather than in English. She says she woke up one day with a feeling in her chest that signaled a song was coming.

“I heard this voice saying, ‘Pick up the ‘ukulele and learn it,’ and I felt the need to go inward, to create a bunch of songs,” says Hāwane.

After releasing a number of singles, she became a kia‘i, a protector for Mauna Kea, which took much of her time and energy. Now, 12 years later, she has rewritten many of her earlier songs and Hāwane’s album Kū Kia‘i Mauna—Together We Rise (Religious Records A&C), features both Hawaiian and English songs. The album was nominated three times in the 43rd Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards: Female Vocalist of the Year, Most Promising Artist of the Year, and Contemporary Album of the Year. The awards aired on October 10, 2020, with Hāwane winning for Contemporary Album of the Year.

In the Female Vocalist category, Hāwane was named alongside Amy Hānaiali‘i, one of Hāwane’s musical inspirations when she was growing up.

“I feel so deeply honored being nominated in the same category as Amy Hānaiali‘i,” says Hāwane. “When I was really young, I was watching her at the awards and listening to her powerful voice singing in Hawaiian. When she won, and I heard her speech, I wanted to be like her.”

Still from music video “Like A Mighty Wave,” directed by Mikey Inouye. photo courtesy of Mikey Inouye

It took four years for her to complete the full CD, and she has also released a “3D” version of it, which is a mixing technique to give listeners wearing headphones a feeling of being in the room with the musicians.

Adding to her recent accomplishments, she was asked to sing with Mark Yamanaka in a prerecorded session for the 2020 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards show, which was broadcast on October 10.

A Community of Creative Musicians Some of the best experiences Hāwane has had creating music are working with other musicians and hearing her songs come together.

“I love hearing Uncle Sonny [Lim] play his interpretation of my songs, and then the bass player fits her bass to his guitar,” says Hāwane. “It’s like a recipe, it brings in everybody’s energy and talent with their own connection to my song, and we are a community in creating music.”

Growing up, Hāwane was a dancer, and now it brings her great pleasure to watch others dance to her songs. She is quick to say that she is still learning, and is not the best musician. She has much respect for those who spend their lives honing their music. Much of Hāwane’s inspiration has come from musicians like the Keli‘iho‘omalu family from Kalapana, Lorna Lim, Kainani Kahaunaele, Genoa Keawe, India Arie, and Maisey Rika, among many others. The peoples of Oceania have also inspired and shaped her music, “because they read, speak and sing in both English and in their own languages,” she shares.

Inspiration Hāwane’s creative flow depends on what she is thinking about. Because English is her first language, sheʻll write out the words quickly, as they come to her, and then the melody will come. She sits with her guitar or ‘ukulele and records herself playing the song. Sheʻll often go back and edit it, adding Hawaiian lyrics.

“I feel in my body and soul, the Hawaiian words that make me feel warm. I get this beautiful, ‘ono feeling, like a really good bite of texture and flavor,” says Hāwane. “I’ll start with

the words, and then I’ll the sky, the sky realm, the Together We Rise hear a melody that makes heavenly realm. The second

By Hāwane Rios me feel like eating dessert verse is about giving birth and that’s how I know that to the ocean realm. The Words of the wise echo in my soul And we’ll keep singing this is the one.” third verse, to the land Whispering aloha is a firm Ho‘okahi ka umauma In one of her original realm. It’s a reminder that commitment to pono Ho‘okahi pu‘uwai songs, “Mana Wahine”, we descend from these And we’ll keep singing Together we rise meaning empowered great powers that is in all Ho‘okahi ka umauma Together we rise women, Hāwane says, that we see, and all that we Ho‘okahi pu‘uwai E ala ē “I wrote this song after are. And to not forget this Together we rise E ala ho‘i spending some very truth, and to know it deeply.

Together we rise heartfelt and wombThis is my way of saying, ‘I E ala ē Chorus felt time with one of my see you.ʻ We’re singing into E ala ho‘i beloved sisters, Ngahuia all the wounds of the earth Chant – Kualena ka hei kapu Murphy from Aotearoa. and of women, and lifting Chorus Her work is so powerful us and praying us to Light And we’ll keep chanting Bridge and is centered around the and back to a space of real Kū kia‘i Hale Makua liberation of the womb and Mana within us because Kū kia‘i mauna Hale Makua the liberation of our blood that is who we are. And so, Kū kia‘i Hale Makua ties as women. I just felt I dedicate this song to the Kū kia‘i mauna Hale Makua this calling within me to many generations before E kū, e kū, e kū, e kū write about the strength of and the many generations Chorus women and how, from us, that will come after. May Linked arm in arm, one in mind, from this feminine energy, we know that we are mana light in heart Ho‘okahi ka umauma comes all life. It’s really an wahine.”

Remembering we’re stronger Ho‘okahi pu‘uwai ode to the goddesses, that Another musical influence united than apart Together we rise creative energy that we was Hāwane’s biological come from and a dedication father, who passed away to the long lineage of women that we descend from. Every earlier this year. Although she didn’t know him, she found out single verse gives honor to this incredible energy that has the that he played ‘ukulele and loved to sing. He was from the power to give life. The first verse talks about giving birth to Chamorro people, and she says their women never stopped

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Historic Kainaliu, Kona’s original shopping village.

Located 5 miles south of Kailua-Kona.

Immersive binaural version of Häwane’s album, released on August 27,

2020. photo courtesy of Shawn Pila & Religion Records singing. That legacy of music lives through her.

The Business of Music One of the least favorite parts of working in the music business for Hāwane is not being able to sustain herself financially solely from her music. She expresses that the music industry has been a competitive, male-dominated business and her goal is to continue to advocate for equality in pay, in opportunities, and representation. She believes all musicians should be supported, loved, and cared for as they work every day at their craft bettering themselves and the art they produce.

“I worked four years on a project, and it’s made available to the public for one dollar per song. We get cents on the dollar when we finally get paid,” says Hāwane. “Music is healing and unifying. I donʻt know many people who go throughout their days without listening to music. So how come we have to work

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Häwane in traditional regalia at Puÿuhuluhulu, Mauna Kea. photo courtesy of Kapulei Flores

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Hāwane feels it is her responsibility to continue the oral legacy that people have passed down through song and chant, and trusts that this is her soul’s purpose. She hopes to honor her family lineage, and Mauna Kea, and wants her music to gather people when she is “long gone.” She adds that when people honor themselves, the land, and community, it creates a more healed and unified world for the next generation to enter into.

“I believe we need to write about this time so the next generations will know through all our arts, how we lived during these times, what we stood for, and how we changed things.” ■ For more information: hawanerios.com

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Häwane writing her next album during COVID-19 quarantine. photo courtesy of Kapulei Flores

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Featured Cover Arist: Linda Rowell Stevens Linda Rowell Stevens moved to Hawai‘i in 1978, at age 21.

She began her art career as an artist doll maker, selling her dolls in galleries. Her dolls were award-winning—even shown in a Los Angeles museum. Since then, Linda has had several one-woman shows featuring her various mediums, including fused glass, jewelry, fashion design, watercolor painting, oils, acrylics, and her dolls.

Linda had a life-changing experience in the 1990s when she was inspired to create a doll the likeness of King David Kalākaua. To make the doll a true representation, she began to research the king, which led her to read the book he wrote and published in 1887, The Legends and Myths of Hawai‘i. The book so inspired Linda, she began to depict the stories she read, turning her talents to oil painting. Her only painting training had been a book entitled Painting Techniques of the Masters, which had been given to her as a gift.

In 2003, Volcano Art Center held a competition called Visions of Pele. Lindaʻs art was among the top entries in this competition and exhibit. Her image of Pele is still part of the permanent display at the Visitors Center in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.

Linda’s rendition of Pele is widely recognized and is used on banners during Merrie Monarch.

Linda also illustrated a book, written

by Victor C. Pellegrino, called Uncle Kaiwaiola’s Dream, about wetland kalo (taro). This experience was a highlight, as she bonded with the family portrayed in the book while at their kalo farm on Maui.

Linda uses no models or photographs in her paintings.

Instead, she sees an image in her mind and attempts to bring forth what she wishes to convey. Such is the case with Mele Kalikimaka on our cover, a scene Linda felt shows the family spirit so prevalent in Hawai‘i. In it, a family gathers around a table with the sights and sounds that enrich their souls; not the trappings of consumerism, but rather music and

togetherness to light the season, and thereʻs Santa coming through the door!

Linda was born in Utah, with years spent in Connecticut and Virginia. She attended college at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has one son, Nahele Kanoa Hillery, who was born in 1978. She married her second husband, Larry E. Stevens, in 1987. Linda and Larryʻs home is in Leilani Estates, in an area missed by the 2018 lava flow. They share their home with their beloved cat, Kalele. Linda spends most of her time in her painting studio, which is surrounded by what was once rainforest, now laid bare due to Rapid ‘Ōhi‘a Death.

Despite that and the nearby lava flow, their home is still miraculously surrounded by greenery.

Linda says, “It is not the myths and legends alone that inspire my oil paintings. It is the ‘āina, the land—it is from living here most of my life. This Hawaiian land is at the core of my soul. It is the love that has greeted me through the eyes of the people who live here. It is the hope for their heritage, the reverence for their past. I want my work to say, ‘Don’t let it slip away.ʻ May there forever be proud people who believe in who they really are. If in any way I can show how they shine through my work, then I am content.”

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Barbara Hansonʻs Art Gallery & Studio is located in historic and artistic Hōlualoa Village, overlooking the Kona coast. On any given day you can see Barbara working her magic with colors of polymer clay. Self taught, she blends and combines colors into canes, in which patterns run throughout. With 35 years of experience refining this unique method of layering the patterned elements, her vibrant 3D art comes alive. Each piece is truly one of a kind. Barbaraʻs inspiration ones from the beauty of the islands, Hawaiian culture, and the love of her ‘ohana. Call for an appointment or class!

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Offering to “top your dog the way you want it,” they gained popularity with an array of homemade sauces and toppings like their famous liliko‘i mustard sauce, garlic aoli, and homemade Russian sauerkraut. Later, burgers and fries were added, carrying through the same theme as “top your dogs.”

As BITD grew, Mike kept saying he wanted to open up a Top Dogs restaurant. As fate would have it, in 2016 Mike was putting new tires on his truck and talking with Mr. Tanouye, the owner of the tire store. When he mentioned Top Dogs, Mr. Tanouye told him he had a place for him. Mike and Robyn were so excited they went to look that day. They signed the lease soon after, and started with a takeout restaurant. In 2018 the bay next to them became available, so they added another 2,000 sq.ft. and turned it into a dining room, as well as a space for party room rental, seating up to 80 people.

In February 2020, an opportunity to add more space became available. The Mattos’ decided to expand their business again by opening up three karaoke room rentals and a common area for dining or private parties.

Robyn says, “We like to offer new and exciting dishes, whether it’s an old family recipe like Mike’s grandma’s Portuguese roast pork, or a new spin on old favorites like our Spudzilla French fries. We get Kikui Sausages (gyoza, pastele, kimchee) from O‘ahu and lamb sausage from Orchidland. We buy local whenever possible. We always say that Hilo is the best place to do business! It’s such a close-knit community with so much aloha! Our customers are part of our ‘ohana! We truly believe that LOVE makes us ‘ohana” Big Island Top Dogs Mike and Robyn Mattos 811 Laukapu St. #6, Hilo 808.657.4469

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Owners Chrissie Brown and Tyler Crook’s main focus is on customer care—making sure their customers have everything they need at the right price. Everyone who walks through their doors or places an online order is considered family. In 2016, HGS extended service to other Hawaiian Islands and Guam via their website, offering free shipping (excluding oversized items). The staff has been praised for their quick shipping times and handwritten thank you notes.

When asked what was the motivation for starting their business, Tyler says he and Chrissie are avid gardeners and were not happy with the offerings on the island. He shares, “We both feel that the gardening community here is special and deserves an enjoyable experience when purchasing tools and supplies for growing.” That led them to create HGS in 2015.

They were fortunate to find their shop’s location in Keaukaha.

With Hilo’s beautiful beaches right down the road, it’s hard to imagine a better spot for their garden center; however, it is a little hidden. It took some time for people to discover them and, as their business picked up, the 2018 lava flow hit. Tyler says, “We donated to the cause wherever possible and even donated all revenue to the affected community from sales of ‘Hilo Grow Shop–Lava Flow’ hats.”

“We are now in the middle of the pandemic which has presented its own challenges. Our team has worked relentlessly to meet the requests of the state as well as customers by offering curbside pick-up, phone orders, free face coverings, and free shipping to the people of Hawai‘i. We have been lucky to employ a wonderful team with a wide range of gardening knowledge and we truly appreciate them.”

Looking towards the future, they are considering expanding.

They’ve received many requests for more stores, and they hope to make this a reality, with multiple locations statewide.

Chrissie and Tyler say, “Mahalo nui to all who have supported our shop and our family. Let’s plant something!”

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