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Is results oriented: This is a good predictor of success. Results-oriented
Tells you how he or she will achieve top priorities: Once a candidate identifies top priorities, how will they be achieved? Answers like “I will form a committee and collaborate with stakeholders” or “I will fight for you!” aren’t really a plan of action. The more specific the answer is, the more likely a candidate will be to deliver results.
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Has a sense of urgency: Our next mayor will face numerous challenges to the health and welfare of our people and our islands. Which candidate best understands this and,
if elected, will attack the job with the urgency needed to get things done?
—Mark Hyde, Kihei
Is an effective communicator: Which candidate best speaks to you—clearly, concisely and specifically—when compared to those who ramble in generalities without really saying anything?
Letters to the editor by readers like you.
Selection of Maui County’s next mayor is critical to our well-being. Please consider the following to decide who merits your vote.
When I moved here from Windjammer Honolulu in ‘77, I only knew a few female skippers; Leslie from Dive Maui, a few others I can’t remember. Then a few women I worked with got their license and started driving the boats they had worked on for years. Patty Gill started in 1981 driving Viajero, A 1935, 67-ft. ketch, with an all-girl crew. Jeannie Gaylord, Sherrie Menze, Patty Muncie, Joyce Nagy, Lisa Wilson, Carol from Lāhainā Divers, and a few more I don’t know the names of, drove a variety of charter boats big and small starting in the late ‘70s, early ‘80s.
Identifies his or her top priorities if elected: What exactly are they? Examples of inadequate promises: “Make Maui a better place for families.” “Diversify our economy.” “Take care of the ‘āina.” Examples of specific priorities: “I will increase affordable housing by X percent during my term of office.” “I will prioritize water projects to bring a reliable water supply to Upcountry Maui.”
Has a reputation for honesty, integrity and fair dealing: All candidates must meet this test.
leaders come to work to get things done, not simply to show up and see what’s on the calendar. They attack problems, aren’t content with business as usual and measure success by things done, not meetings attended.
Has management experience: Because our charter requires Maui mayors to be both leaders and managers, an extremely rare combination (the managing director position is a mere aid to the mayor), electing a mayor with awareness of the special skills and management techniques needed to get work done is critical to the County’s success. In order to find both qualities in one individual, look for evidence of management expertise. Examine each candidate’s background, education, training and commitment to life-long learning. Is it there or not? Probe how an incoming mayor will select a management team. What criteria will he or she use?
Perhaps contacting the company owners would provide a more detailed list of women who earned their stripes with them in that period. That era, (1970-90), was a colorful time with lots of stories of early startups, like Trilogy, Seabird, Windjammer, Unicorn, Scotch Mist, plus all the beach cats of Kā‘anapali. —Steve Sadler, Kahului
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Is likable and approachable: A mayor should be welcoming of people and ideas (including criticism), curious, a good listener, and open to learning new things. Bombastic and defensive individuals make poor leaders. Who among the candidates would you feel comfortable sharing your thoughts with and expect to be heard?
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Boats changed in the ‘80s from old classics to the big, 65-ft. cats you see today. The girls adapted as easily as the guys and I saw no animosity from the guys they worked with or next door to. Nor was there any special treatment from the employers to encourage or discourage women captains. They simply had to earn their stripes and respect of their crew and bosses.
Captain Susie Grubler and first mate Oliver, aboard One Eyed Jack—Lāhainā Harbor.
Lots of Great Women Captains
Thanks for the Lāhainā captains story (Navigating the Gender Gap, June 2022), very nice!
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All of these above qualities are what we should be looking for in our next mayor.
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Shows passion for the job: Which candidate best demonstrates passion for the job compared to those who appear to seek the position mostly because it’s the next logical career move, or just because?
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For instance, will a candidate just appoint someone they know as managing director or will they fill the managing director post by looking for a person of integrity who has served in a key management role in a similarly sized city, county or private enterprise, has a degree in management, is certified by the International City/ County Management Association or similar body and who has a proven record of success in a responsible management position?
Commits to transparent government: Without transparency there is little or no mayoral accountability for performance. Lack of transparency allows a mayor to slip and slide around. “Vote for me” is about all you get. Then more of the same at the next election. Who will give us visibility into key county initiatives and regularly report progress to citizens so we can judge how a mayor is performing during his or her term?
Is a leader: Besides integrity, this is a top criteria to consider and should be heavily weighted. Leadership is not dictating nor is it simply the act of appointing multiple committees. Talk, talk, talk. Leadership is the act of developing direction based on the community’s critical needs, formulating a plan of action and bringing people along to get things done.
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Manaʻo Radio KMNO FM 91.7, Maui’s eclectic all-volunteer community FM station, was honored by a County Council resolution June 8 in honor of the station’s 20th anniversary. Started by veteran broadcasters Kathy Collins and Barry Shannon as an alternative to commercial radio, Mana‘o began airing its unique mix of music and local news at 6:00 a.m. on March 11, 2002—with a broadcast originating from Collins’s teenage son’s bedroom.
Bright lights cause seabirds to become disoriented, crash and burn. They die from impacts or get knocked to the ground where they are eaten by feral cats and mongoose. Bill 21 will help stop the carnage.
Calling the ruling “extreme” and “outrageous,” Gov. David Ige affirmed that abortion-ac cess for women in Hawai‘i wouldn’t change after the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In a statement, Ige said, “Hawai‘i law already protects the right of individuals to make their own deeply personal repro ductive health decisions, in cluding the right to seek abor tion care.”
Manaʻo Radio Celebrates 20 Years On The Air
But hey, folks, it really is all for a great cause. So, go get that degree in electrical engineering so you can figure out which lights to buy, pick up a bunch of opaque fixtures, point it all at the ground, and repaint your house in the matte color of your choice. Our seabirds will thank us for millennia to come. Because they will still be here.
What Passage of Seabird Lighting Bill Means for You
Surfer, snowboarder, and actor Gerry Lopez and skat er-filmmaker Stacy Peralta were among the honorees at the 22nd Annual Maui Film Festival, held July 6-10 at the MACC. Lopez received the festival’s Visionary Award while Peralta, whose documentaries include “Dogtown and Z-Boys” and “Riding Giants,” was given the Rainmaker Award for special achievement in filmmaking at the July 6 premiere of his new documentary about Lopez, “The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez.”
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New Cat Café Seeks Volunteers, Donors
Animal lover Moriah Diamond has spearheaded the effort to open Maui’s first cat café in Kahului’s Queen Kaahumanu Center and she’s seeking do nations and volunteers. The gift shop and feline lounge offers kitty-inspired accessories and apparel and functions as an adoption center for the nonprofit Maui Cat Rescue in partnership with the Maui Humane Society. The cats at the Maui Cat Café are selected for their sociable personalities and they are all spayed/neutered, vaccinated, micro chipped, and ready for adoption. It is located upstairs in the mall, across from the movie theaters. Interested in volunteering? Go to MauiCatRescue. org/volunteer. Or you can contribute at GoFundMe.com by searching for “Cat Cafe Maui.”
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In addition, all outdoor fixtures must be “down-directed with no light shining above the horizontal.” Wall-mounted fixtures must have opaque shields and if the light hits any walled surface, that surface must be repainted with matte paint.
Mr. Pipeline, Z-Boy Filmmaker Honored at Maui Film Fest
First, the good news: Bill 21 will help protect Maui’s seabird populations by regulating “all outdoor lighting fixtures, including swimming and decorative pool lighting, to be light emitting diode fixtures that are down directed, fully shielded, and mounted as low as physically possible to limit light trespass and reflection off ground surfaces to protect native Hawaiian seabirds from becoming disoriented by artificial light.”
“Blue light content means the ratio of the amount of energy emitted by the outdoor light fixture between 400 and 500 nm divided by the amount of energy between 400 and 700 nm.” So, just ask the
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The new lighting requirements for everyone on Maui are going to be time-consuming, confusing and, in general, a pain in the okole. We will all have to replace our outdoor lighting (except for neon, so your Heineken sign’s safe) with “filtered light emitting diode fixtures that limit short wavelength content to no more than two percent of blue light content,” according to the
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Debris removed from a single hard-to-reach beach near Kahakuloa by Love The Sea volunteers on March 7.
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1. Citing logistical hurdles and high shipping costs, organizers canceled the Maui County Fair for a third consecutive year. In what year was the fair first held?
When it becomes law, HB 2510 will increase Hawai‘i’s minimum wage from its current $10.10 per hour to $18 per hour. The new min imum pay for workers will rise incrementally with an increase to $12 per hour on Oct. 1 of this year followed by Jan.1 increases to $14 in 2024 and $16 in 2026 before reaching the maximum $18 in 2028.
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But Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a conservative business think tank, has been tell ing all who would listen, including the governor, that the 2010 research is flawed. As proof, they cite a new study that says the original 2010 study didn’t take into consider ation whether or not the cross-border counties were commuting zones—meaning they were economically interconnected in that way. Translation: The new study did some thing a little different than the old study (considered commuting zones) and therefore the new study gets to declare the old study is no longer correct in its findings.
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On the surface, it would seem a real battle of the researchers. But does any of this research matter in Hawai‘i? The median price of a Maui home hovers around $1.23 million. Restaurants have been forced to raise their prices through the roof as the cost of ingredients and rent have skyrocketed. And anyone who has walked out of a grocery store of late can attest to the devastatingly high price of food. If you haven’t considered it, both pieces of research cited above as pro or con are nearly worth less when applied to an island state. No minimum wage workers are commuting cross-border to their job in Hawai‘i from California, Oregon or Washington. They ar en’t even commuting cross-county from other islands. So, none of the cited research is really a great fit.
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In 2010, researchers examined low-paying jobs such as restaurant workers in local economic areas that included pairs of counties on opposite sides of state borders. Their findings have been used as strong evidence that raising the minimum wage does not cost jobs in low-paying sectors.
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But that doesn’t mean everyone is happy about this ground-breaking legislation that is expected to give workers in Hawai‘i the high est minimum wage in the United States. Some business interests and conservative think tanks have been vocal critics of the bill, claiming it will cost the state jobs in the long-run. But that argu ment seems a little shaky at best.
3. A law that takes effect Nov. 1 will prohibit Hawaiʻi’s governor and the four county mayors from doing what?
Percentage of Hawai‘i residents who think abortion should be legal in most cases, second in the U.S. toandMassachusettsVermont(70percent)
4. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allocated a quarter-million dollars to protect which endemic Maui insect (pictured)?
“From the moment of fertilization. No exceptions for rape and incest.May not travel to another rightspotentialSupremestate.Jailingdoctorsandmothers.Punishingmomsforamiscarriage.Thisismedievalpolicy.Anyonetellingyoutochillisnotpayingattention,doesn’tcare,orlikesthisstuff.”Hawai’iSen.BrianSchatz,viaTwitter,addressingtheCourt’s6-3decisiontooverturnRoev.Wadeandfurtherreproductive-restrictions
Hawai’i Minimum Wage: Common Sense Trumps Research
But what we do know is that a minimum-wage worker making between $1,400 and $1,750 a month can’t afford to rent an apartment and eat, let alone feed children, drive a car or pay for anything else. Sometimes common sense trumps research.
2. “A candidate who’s going to run and say we don’t need government— clearly I think this pandemic showed why government is important,” Gov. David Ige told Hawaii News Now. Who was he talking about?
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The bill was signed into law by Gov. Da vid Ige on June 22.
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practitioners) from throughout Hawaiʻi. Local dishes will be served, while Hawaiian musicians entertain between the silent and live auctions.
The theme this year
Dust off your aloha shirts and muʻumuʻu’s and head on down to one of Maui’s Best Bars as they celebrate seven years in Lāhainā. All day live entertainment will be provided by Brant Quick "The Music Man," Shawn McLaughlin & Friends, Caitlin Fisler, Tripp Wilson and DJ Sandy Cheeks.
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CHARITY WALK, MAUI COUNTY
The Charity Walk, one of the largest single-day fundraisers in the state, will be held simultaneously on Kauaʻi, ʻOahu, Maui and Hawaiʻi Island. Filled with fitness, fun, entertainment, and giveaways.
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FRUIT FLY MANAGEMENT CLASS
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LEARN TO PLAY KONANE
"WHITE HAWAIIAN": ERIC GILLIOMʻS ONE MAN SHOW
Furiously donning outlandish wigs with gaudy costumes, the entertainingstage-showautobiographicalwillreliveEric’scareer,highlightsandfollies.
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AUGUST 2022 9 NO KA ‘OI 9 Karen Romero AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 3 KAULUHIWAOLELE 2022: MAUI FIBER ARTS CONFERENCE
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In this class provided by the University of Hawaiʻi Master Gardener Program, gardeners will learn to identify various fruit flies, damage prevention, and what crops & areas attract different types. Partic ipants should bring empty one & two liter plastic bottles to make lured and baited traps to take home.
By Shan Kekahuna
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Hawaiian Cultural Director, Kalapana Kollars will teach the ancient Hawaiian strategy game of Konane. Played on a board or stone, similar to checkers, the object of the game is to block the opponent from further moves.
This invitational exhibition brings together a dynamic group of artists who will explore the themes of water and wind through the medium of paper, deploying and altering its materiality with methods of printing, painting, folding, shredding, and stitching. New York artist Wes Bruce will return to build an immersive paper installation in the MACCʻs Schaefer Gallery and lead out a residency with community workshops.
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"PE-NEL-O-PE"
Set on the beachfront, experience the finest cham pagnes from the Veuve Clicquot portfolio accompa nied by a plethora of freshly-caught seafood dishes.
When young Penelope finds herself in detention, her dream of being a singer becomes a lot more challenging. With some unexpected help from some wild visitors, Penelope must overcome one obstacle after another as she follows her courageous heart in this hilarious and inspiring new play by local playwright J.J. Minniear.
CHAMPAGNE HALE AT CLIFF HOUSE
DOWN THE HATCH 7 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
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By Jacob Shafer
Wendy Mink
Remembering the life and legacy of Maui’s Patsy Takemoto Mink
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t is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority—and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.”
Mink served as chair of the Honolulu City Council from 1983-'85.
—Patsy Mink
Wendy Mink
The term “trailblazer” gets thrown around a lot, to the point where it’s become a cliché. But there is no more apt or succinct description of Patsy Takemoto Mink.
Patsy was excluded from male-dominated medical schools— her early life goal had been to become a doctor—and rejected by several top-tier law schools (she ulti mately earned her law degree from the University of Chicago in 1951). Those experiences, Wu said, motivat ed her to spearhead Title IX.
“A lot of people associate sports with Title IX, but it really encom passes the entirety of educational institutions,” Wu tells Maui Times.
Mink served as Assistant Secretary of State for Ocean and International, Environmental and Scientific Affairs under President Jimmy Carter. She was an early opponent of the Viet nam War. As a legislator, she championed paid maternity leave and affordable child care.
“It’s about scholarships, facilities, employment. It goes so much beyond sports, although sports are sort of the glamorCollegeresult.”officials, blanching at the thought of giving women the same opportunities as men, resist ed Title IX. University of Michigan athletic director Don Canham asked President Gerald Ford to overturn the law, and provided subpar facilities to female athletes. Other schools and athletic direc tors followed suit.
The first woman of color elected to the United States House of Represen tatives, Mink—who was born in Paia in 1927 and graduated from Maui High School—dedicated her life to gender equality. Her most enduring and impactful accomplishment is Ti tle IX, the landmark 1972 legislation which she authored that prohibits gender discrimination—famously in youth and collegiate athletics, but also in admissions, educational op portunities, and a host of other areas.
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‘Fierce and Fearless’
Wendy Mink
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“Title IX is her most visible legacy, but there are layers,” Mink tells Maui Times. “That includes an integrity that was unshakable over the course of her public service, the incredible courage to take a stand.”
The battle was steep and protracted. But Mink laid the foundation for generations of female athletes and scholars to learn and compete on a more-level playing field.
In 2014, 12 years after her death at age 74, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of “EveryFreedom.girl in Little League, every woman playing college sports, and every parent, including Michelle and myself, who watches their daughter on a field or in the class room, is forever grateful to the late Patsy Takemoto Mink,” Obama said at the Eleventime.years earlier, in 2003, Con gress also honored Mink by dedicating the U.S. post office in Paia in her name. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX and the release of “Fierce and Fearless,” a biography co-authored by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, a professor of Asian American studies at UC Irvine, and Patsy’s daughter, Gwendolyn Mink.
‘Beyond Sports’
Mink campaigns with her daughter Wendy and husband John, circa 1966.
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“This idea of being able to have control over your body, that you have bodily integrity—as a woman, it’s something that was deeply personal for Patsy,” says Wu. “She advocated for other women as a broad political principle, but it was also something that reflected her own experiences.”
Wu says she recently spoke to a classroom of elementary school chil dren, roughly half of whom were girls. She asked if they’d ever heard of Patsy Mink or Title IX. No hands went up.
“A lot of people associate sports with Title IX, but it really encompasses the entirety of educational institutions.”-AuthorJudy Tzu-Chun Wu
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Barack Obama awards Mink a posthumous Pres idential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor.
The morning event was well-attended, but didn’t receive the fanfare it deserved. It seems some icons ar rive with trumpet blasts while others simply stand on their merits.
‘We Have to Be Vigilant’
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2002 Title IX is named “The Patsy Mink Equal Opportunity in Educa tion 2014Act.”President
While she was pregnant with her daughter Wendy, Mink was given DES, a synthetic hormone that had
1976 The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sues to quash Title IX. The suit is dis missed two years later.
ers and ensured their opportunities to pursue their dreams.” The same holds true in other sports, from soccer to softball and beyond.
1991 The International Olympic Committee requires all new sports to hold both men’s and women’s 1994competitions.President Bill Clinton signs the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act, which requires yearly reports on gender-based equality in sports.
1981 Seventy-five years after its founding in 1906, the NCAA agrees to oversee and officially acknowl edge women’s sports.
In 1972, when Title IX passed, women earned fewer than 10 per cent of all law and medical degrees. Now, that number stands at roughly 50 percent. In that same span, the number of women competing in collegiate sports has increased more thanStill,six-fold.sexism persists. Women’s rights remain under attack. What would Patsy—known by Congressio nal colleagues for being outspoken but respectful—think of today’s strat ified political culture?
A biography of Mink, authored by her daughter Wendy and professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Title IX.
shown promise in protecting against miscarriage. Mink didn’t consent to be part of the experiment, which was conducted in 1951 and 1952 at the University of Chicago. In 1977, Mink and two other women filed suit after it was found DES led to vaginal and cer
“I won’t speak for her, but I think there would be a level of revulsion,” says Mink. “That said, it’s not like there weren’t rancid political actors and speakers in the 1960s or before that. During the heyday of civil rights legislative innovation there were haters who were right-wing Southern racists who would get up on the floor of the House and say terrible things.”
2022 An NCAA report titled “The State of Women in College Sports” finds female participation in colle giate athletics nearly doubled between 1982 and 2020. At the same time, men’s programs received more than twice the resources of women’s programs.
1996 The Women’s National Bas ketball Association (WNBA) launch es. As WNBA.com writer Michelle Smith put it recently: “The…players that dazzle us and inspire us only know a landscape in which a land mark piece of civil rights legislation 50 years ago knocked down barri
2022 US Soccer reaches a settle ment with women players regarding unequal treatment. Under the terms of the agreement, the players receive $24 million and a promise by their federation to equalize pay between the men’s and women’s national teams.
It’s a good thing there was no
Twitter in those days, right? Mink an swers with a wry chuckle, “Right.”
ing? As a champion of women on the ballfield and in the classroom? As an anti-war and civil rights icon? An en vironmentalist? A trailblazer?
How should people remember Patsy Mink, 20 years after her pass
“It’s a reminder that we have to be vig ilant, that these laws and victories don’t simply stay forever unless we remember how important they are,” says Wu. She was speaking about her experience in that classroom, but also indirectly answering a question about the recent Supreme Court opinion regarding over turning Roe v. Wade.
“I hope when people think of her, they think of her in varied ways,” says Mink. “She brought issues to the table that hadn’t been thought about or talked about as legitimate. Her leadership in those respects—rais ing the question of child care in the 1960s. Talking about the issue of rac ism in our war in Vietnam. She was incredibly bold, but not rash. She’s an exemplar of civic engagement.”
Addressing it more directly, Wu shares this: “When she was expecting her child, Patsy was subjected to a medical experiment.”
Title IX: Sports-Centric Triumphs and Setbacks
1972 Title IX, authored by Maui’s Patsy Mink, is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
In June, Wu appeared in person and Mink appeared via Zoom at an event promoting their book and honoring Patsy at UH Maui College. The book discussion was hosted by the Ameri can Association of University Women.
vical cancer in a small but significant percentage of women who took the hormone—and their daughters.
The answer, if you’re keeping score at home, is all of the above.
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Big wave surfer Campbell Farrell, founder and Executive Director of Love the Sea, commands the cleanup crew from the helm of his jet ski.
here is a sense of urgency in Campbell Farrell’s voice as he explains that conditions for the mission should be ideal in just a couple of days. He’s working the phone, recruiting a band of ex perienced watermen and women to help out on an expedition to Maui’s remote Kahakuloa coastline to clean up some of the island’s most diffi cult-to-access beaches.
Not just anyone gets the call. Far rell hand-selects experienced watermen and women and dedicated conservationists to join the mission. His sons Sage, Lyon, and Jett, and daugh ter Phoenix often help out. Volun-
Athletes, celebrities, jet skis, and a helicopter join forces to scour some of Maui’s most remote coastline
By Dan Collins
In 2017 he was invited to help or ganize a free concert in Honolulu to promote awareness of the growing problem of plastic pollution in the ocean, and from that event the non profit group Love the Sea was born. Coastal cleanups began the following year. As co-founder, Farrell serves as executive director and coordinates fundraising and cleanup efforts out of his home in Kuau.
The same currents and wind con ditions that make these rocky beaches hard to get to also make them a natural filter, capturing all manner of flotsam and jetsam, much of it dis carded commercial fishing gear.
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is very rocky and exposed to the tradewinds—and the accompanying east swell—light winds and calm waters are necessary to safely get people onto the beach and, later, to extract them, along with the hun dreds of pounds of garbage they anticipate collecting.
teers from Surfrider Maui, Parley for the Oceans, and the Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund regularly join in the effort.
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“A lot of these adrenaline ocean junkies, if you want to call them that, they don’t necessarily want to wake up on a Sunday morning and wander down the beach picking up lolly wrap pers,” he says. “But they will jump on a jet ski and go ten miles down the coast and jump off and swim into
“A hot spot is a hot spot because of the geography, like a bay that faces dead east, where the trade winds and currents are just hammering into it,” Farrell explains. “These hot spots are consistently trapping debris, so once we know where they are it’ll be easy to return to those same places.”
There’s a flurry of activity as two boats and a fleet of jet skis loaded with people are launched and begin the 45-minute trip to the target area. At Farrell’s signal, the boats come to a stop and the jet skis begin to ferry crew members to the first of several rocky beaches. Further on, another team is deployed at the mouth of a cave that we can see is filled with debris. The process is repeated until all the cleanup volunteers have been assigned to a beach.
“We’ll only go if the conditions are right,” Farrell insists, before ending the call abruptly. He has a couple of dozen more phone calls to make and time is Sinceshort.theparticular stretch of shoreline the group intends to clean
rocks and pack bags and then swim them out and work like a team—like a Navy Seals special ops mission. It’s more exciting for them and they get to give back to the ocean and community that’s done so much for their careers.”
Farrell, 50, is a Kiwi big-wave surfer and part of the crew that pio neered tow-in surfing at Peahi near Ha‘ikū, site of a rare, massive surf break known globally as “Jaws.”
There is a chill in the air and a sense of anticipation as the crew gathers at Kahului Harbor’s boat ramp in the murky light of dawn. Farrell assembles the volunteers to discuss the plan for the day, em phasizing the importance of safety and sticking together out on the water. “Just take care out there,” he concludes. “I’m really hoping we’re going to have smooth seas and fair winds to help us get to shore easily.”
“These hot spots are consistently trapping debris, so once we know where they are it’ll be easy to return to those same places.”—Campbell Farrel
For these first few years, Farrell and his crew have been in a “deep cleaning” mode, hitting stretches of coastline that have never been cleaned before. “We’ve done a lot of the heavy lifting,” he asserts. “Hope fully, we’ll reach a maintenance phase where we can go back to those areas that we know are prone to gathering this debris.
Farrell supervises from the water as pilot Don Shearer airlifts bags of beach debris to a waiting truck.
Two months pass before Farrell is able to arrange a second mission to collect the bags of debris left behind. He’s been waiting on the availability of Don Shearer, master helicopter pilot—and the guy Farrell is counting on to airlift the remaining debris off the beach. Shearer and his wife, Don na, own Windward Aviation, whose bright yellow Hughes 369D copters are easily spotted airlifting cargo, put ting out fires, assisting with search and rescue missions, and flying low over Peahi to film surfers when Jaws breaks big in the wintertime.
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He commends Farrell’s decision not to push too hard to get the last
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In the end, Farrell had to make a difficult call. It was determined that we would leave the bags of trash there, above the high water mark, and return for them another day. It would take another twenty minutes just to get the six volunteers off the rocks as set after set pounded the shoreline.
Champion outrigger canoe paddler Kai Bartlett, captain of one of the es cort boats, agrees with Lickle about the decision to abort the mission. “You can imagine the waves just funneling into that cove,” he said. “It didn’t make it easy for the skis to get in there with people. Everybody really had to just body surf into it,” he recalls. “It was pretty cool watching it though!”
The last beach to be cleared of debris is in a tiny bay protected by a fringe reef with just one small opening through which the jet skis could pass.
“It’s amazing how much trash we got,” recalls Schweitzer. “It was quite a team effort. The coastline is really rough there, so we used this giant in flatable stand up paddle board that I have so four of us at a time could get in over the rocks…and load up these big, industrial bags with debris.”
Farrell assembles the floatilla into a “V” formation for a quick drone shot as we head back to the harbor. He un derstands that documenting the work is an important part of the equation.
Just in time to rendezvous with the helicopter, the flotilla once again launches. It’s a smaller crew this time, with just one boat and a half dozen jet skis. Sprecklesville philanthropist Ed Freedman—a ma jor contributor to Love the Sea—has joined the crew and brought along his friend and fellow kiteboarder, ac
“It was total chaos. I wasn’t comfortable at all, going in or out through that channel area,” recalls reknowned waterman Brett Lickle, who was at the helm of his jet ski that morning. “Some of the bays, you can go straight in, do a big swooping turn, drop your guys and head out. This bay was too small. Once they’d gotten in there, that’s when they kind of realized how intense it was.”
led by champion stand-up paddler and windsurfer Zane Schweitzer and his best friend, boat captain Kavica Kinimaka, launched from Mala Wharf in Lahaina and worked their way towards Kahakuloa from the West Side, past Honolua Bay, to reach northwest-facing beach es near the Nakalele blowhole.
tor Ed Norton, Jr., and Norton’s wife, film producer Shauna Robertson.
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Kiteboarder and actor Ed Norton, Jr. hops on the back of a jet ski as he and his wife, producer Shauna Robertson, prepare to hit the beach.
few bags off the beach under those conditions. And Lickle knows rough seas better than most. It was his in flatable Zodiac that proved it was pos sible to tow surfers into the monster break at Peahi, before Laird Hamil ton and Dave Kalama showed up with jet skis and made Jaws famous.
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The short swim to shore is challenging, as the swell wants to pick us up and toss us onto the steep, rocky shore. Clambering up the slippery boulders with giant collection bags in hand, we fan out like ants at a picnic, immediately going to work gathering and bagging the dozens of colorful floats, nets, cargo pallets, and car tires that have been deposited by the waves. A huge mass of heavy rope is buried in the sand beneath the rocks and it takes several minutes to free it. Then we tie off the bags and wait to be
By the time the skis return to pick us up, the swell has started to come up, making it difficult to swim the heavy, wet bags of junk from the shore out to the jet ski sleds. But we manage to load both boats up and lash the rest of the bags onto the backs of the skis for the ride home. Almost all of them, that is.
The boat crew and the other vol unteers on board afford Norton an astonishing degree of anonymity for a three-time Oscar nominee. The French film crew that has come along to document the cleanup ef forts seem completely oblivious to the actor’s fame as he assumes the role of a crew member, hosing off the deck and helping to stow gear. Norton, Robertson, Freedman, and a few others are dispatched to the beach and begin to gather up the debris. Most is still in the bags, but some has been scattered across the rocks again. And in the two months since we were here last, even more has been washed up on the shore.
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“We had to be mindful not to load them too heavy to the point we couldn’t move ’em,” he continues, “so we’d probably load about 300 pounds at a time and then shuttle it back to the boat. We did that dozens of times throughout the day.”
The two crews meet just north of Pu‘u Koa‘e (Kahakuloa Head), the
Farrell’s wish for calm seas had held for most of the morning, but now waves were lashing the shoreline, churning up rough waters that obscured the reef, making it hard to spot the channel.
We hear the helicopter before we see it. Shearer suddenly appears in his trademark yellow chopper, flying low over the water, buzzing the boat. He drops his air hook down to be attached to the bags by the beach crew as he hovers overhead. One by one, he lifts the bags and ferries them to a flatbed truck waiting on the highway nearby. The job is quickly completed and the helicopter disappears behind the cliffs. It’s quiet for a moment. Then the yel low chopper bursts around the mouth of the bay, sounding its siren and tip ping its rotor as it screams past, just overhead. We wave back and cheer as Shearer soars into the distance.
giant half-dome-shaped rock where Kahekili II, the father of Kamehame ha I, is said to have leapt into the water—some 200 feet below—to demonstrate his courage and prowess.
The plastic garbage, nets, and lines that remain are packed into a 40-foot shipping container which, when full, weighs about 40,000 pounds. It’s shipped to partners on Oahu with Parley for the Oceans, an interna tional conservation group which also provides the giant collection bags.
“But I still think it’s meaningful for people to address the local compo nent of it, you know, the beach plas tics,” Norton continues. “If people
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After each mission, the debris col lected is trucked to a baseyard where it is weighed and sorted with the help of Hannah Bernard and some of her people from the Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund, a longtime partner of Love the Sea. There, they separate the non-re cyclable trash, like car tires, styro foam, wood, and fiberglass from met al items that can be recycled. Some items deemed reusable are given away or saved for use in trash-to-art proj ects, which help spread awareness.
“They’re making too much money to look up, you know? But the people who are buying their products can stop pur chasing them. And that will send a mes sage to the manufacturers for sure,” says Farrell. “Voting with your dollar is a way to act as a consumer.” In time, Farrell hopes increased awareness will lead to better consumer choices that will help stem the plastic tide.
He acknowledges that beach cleanups are only a small part of the solution. “It’s a drop in the bucket, but we’re taking care of our own backyard,” he says, “and if everybody does that around the world, at least we can put a dent in it.”
rally together and hit their little pock et of it and do so with some regulari ty, at least you’re taking off the larger stuff before it gets broken down into smaller stuff, which is what causes bigger problems in terms of what’s entering the food chain.”
“This issue didn’t exist when I was a kid,” Farrell recalls. “There was no plas tic plaguing our beaches like it is now. It’s all changed in the last 40 years. And plastic production is just increas ing.” Today, he says, a typical half-day cleanup mission removes about 5,500 pounds of garbage from the coastline.
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“Things like ocean plastics obviously are a huge systemic problem,” he says, “and probably the biggest component of the problem is the plastics that stay in the ocean—things like the big gyres and stuff—because those are the ones that are breaking down into the micro plastics and really entering the system.”
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“And honestly, I feel like Hawai‘i has responded,” he says, pointing to a recently-enacted countywide ban on plastic take-out food containers as an example. “There’s no question that awareness has increased.”
Longtime coastal conservationist Kahi Pacarro, Director of Parley Hawai‘i, receives the container and directs the plastic to various recycling, reuse, and waste-to-energy programs.
“I think it’s important that people like Campbell are doing what they’re doing,” says Lickle. “And I think more people need to just walk their own beaches. If you see a piece of trash, pick it up,” he pleads. “If ev ery single person just picked up one piece of trash a day, it would just make such a huge difference.”
The real solution, he asserts, is stop ping plastic at the source. And it’s not just a matter of politely asking the world’s manufacturers to stop what they’re do ing. It takes economic pressure.
Back at the harbor, Norton and I discuss the challenge of reducing ocean plastic. “I’m the United Nations Ambassador for Biodiversity and I’ve been involved in conservation efforts for a long time,” Norton tells me. “This was a fun, local effort. We just happened to be along for the ride.”
“A lot of these adrenaline ocean junkies… they don’t necessarily want to wake up on a Sunday morning and wander down the beach picking up lolly—Campbellwrappers.”Farrel Parley.tv/updates/parley-HawaiiMaui.Surfrider.orgWildHawaii.orgLoveTheSea.org
“We’re grabbing the large, low-hang ing fruit,” Farrell admits. “We make videos and tell our story to build awareness of how big this problem is and how it’s continuing to grow.”
Media, he hopes, will help sway public opinion and change consumer habits.
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Septic systems are upgraded ver sions of cesspools in that they include a treatment system, typically
over time. Unfortunately, in very permeable soils, or in cases where cesspools are close to bodies of wa ter or the ground water table, it is common for pathogens and nutrients like nitrates to contaminate these water resources. The state of Hawai‘i finally decided that cesspools were not a good idea in 2017 and will now require all cesspools to be replaced by 2050, but that is a long time off.
While cesspools and septic systems can—and have been—scaled up to serve commercial buildings, apart ments, and communities, they are most typically built for use at private residences. As we examine systems built to handle sewage collection and treatment for entire communi ties and large developments such as hotels, we find that these projects are designed at an industrial scale to be both cost-effective and efficient.
It’s Time
Maui is experiencing drought con ditions, with historically low rainfall and stream levels being recorded all over the island. As we find ourselves in the dry season, parts of the island are likely to face shortages of potable water—the water we typically use for domestic purposes and agriculture. The areas that will be most affected and hardest hit—including Upcountry, Central Valley, and West Maui—rely largely on surface water for their pota ble needs. Ironically, all across Maui, potable water is literally going down the drain every time we flush our toi lets. At the same time, Maui County is injecting millions of gallons of re cycled water into the ground—water which taxpayers are paying the county to treat—that could readily be used for agricultural and irrigation purposes. Before you judge what is going on and who to blame, let’s consider how we got here.
ater is a precious commodity in Hawai‘i, despite our islands being home to some of the wettest places on Earth where rainfall is recorded in the hun dreds of inches. Proper management of this resource is complicated, but it doesn’t make sense to pump usable water into the ground when dry con ditions persist throughout many of our microclimate zones.
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Things changed when the 1948 Federal Water Pollution Control Act (which you probably know as “the Clean Water Act” or CWA) was amended in 1972, 1977, and 1987
Our relationship with water and waste is continuously evolving and remains far from perfect. Being able to flush, rinse, wash or drain our waste has been a boon for hygiene and our quality of life. Yet most of us never consider what happens to those things that go down the drain— neither the waste nor the water.
Defining “treatment” can be difficult as the process varies from place to place and even by type of activity. Before 1972, it was perfectly legal to run a long pipe over the reef and dump the wastewater from a sewer system right into the ocean. And that was exactly what was happening on Maui until roughly that year.
a leach field. Since 1991, the Hawai‘i Department of Health has required the installation of septic systems rather than cesspools in new con struction. With these more advanced systems, when they’re functioning correctly, the waste liquids run out into a network of pipes, and contam inants get broken down by naturally occurring soil bacteria. Because the liquids drain over a much wider area than a cesspool, the process is
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If you’ve had the pleasure of us ing a simple pit toilet/latrine/privy, we can agree that the flush toilet is much more pleasant to use. The pit toilet with a flush added—aka a
By John Starmer to Recycle of Maui’s Wastewater
far more efficient. Solids are retained in a tank and composted to some ex tent, but still need to be periodically pumped out. However, when septic systems fail to operate as designed, they pose similar pollution problems to those created by cesspools.
Unfortunately, while these systems allow our waste treatment to be out of sight and out of mind, for the most part, it is clear that these solutions do not work as well as advertised.
FLUSHING MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN
cesspool—is still very much in use these days; the Hawai‘i Department of Health estimates that 12,000 such toilets are active on Maui alone. This means that whatever you flush into the perforated tank either sits and drains into the surrounding soil or seeps into cracks in less-porous rock or has to get pumped out periodi cally. In theory, the pathogens contained in the waste die and other substances such as nitrates break down
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be used, it is simply not an option for those that might want it. Those with uses for reclaimed water or who feel that using recycled water on Maui or statewide should be a priority, must let their state rep resentatives and county council members know.
Modern plumbing fixtures are typically much more water-efficient and provide the same function as older, obsolete fixtures. An aerator on your kitchen faucet can save five gallons or more each day. A modern low-flow toilet can save five gallons or more every flush. A modern, efficient showerhead can save you up to five gallons every minute without sacrificing pressure.
Turn off the tap while brushing your teeth or shaving. In the kitchen, rinse food off of dishes and utensils, then fill the sink with soapy water to clean them, drain and then give your dishes a final rinse with clean, hot water.
A little leak can waste a lot of water. A slow drip on a faucet can waste 25 gallons in a day. To check for less obvious leaks, turn off water through the whole house and any outside irrigation. Check your water meter. Check it again about two hours later. If it has moved, something’s leaking. Check toilet leaks by putting a few drops of food coloring in the tank and waiting 15 minutes. Any color in the bowl indicates a leak.
Depending on your shower head, each minute you shower uses three to six gallons of water. Get wet, soap up with the water off, then rinse. How many gallons can you save?
TIP #4 - Use water-efficient fixtures
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Injection wells are essentially wells in reverse—rather than pump ing something out of the ground, they pump something in. When in jection wells are used to dispose of wastewater, solids are removed, and the water may be treated to some degree—for example, to remove pathogens—before being pumped into the ground. The removal of solids is practical—they would oth erwise clog the system. Much like cesspools and septics, the theory with injection wells is that any other contaminants will be degraded over time, but we know now that this isn’t always the case.
TIP #5 - Water your lawn less than twice a week
TIP #7 - Use a nozzle on your hose
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TIP #1 - Don’t let your faucet run
Hawai’i’s water resources are limited, and under greater stress during the current drought. Also, less water down the drain means less wastewater! Try some of these easy water conservation tips.
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If you run sprinklers during the day, you’re not watering the lawn, you’re watering the air, as the sun will evaporate a lot of that misty spray before it makes it to the ground. It is best to water between late evening and early morning. Doing so will ensure your water soaks deep into the ground and encourages your grass to grow deep and resilient roots.
While making greater use of recycled water saves our potable water for more important uses, like drinking and hygiene, it will require the political will to put the necessary money into building the infrastructure to support it. Until R1 water is piped to where it can
And these amendments radically changed what could be discharged legally into any body of water—riv ers, oceans, or wetlands—without appropriate authorization. Notably, the CWA does not include ground water but rather surface waters only. Due to this unfortunate omission, private entities and local govern ment on Maui started to transition from sewage outfalls impacting surface waters to injection wells that can contaminate groundwater.
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shown to bubble back up along the Lahaina shoreline in as little as three months and to have had damaging effects on the reef along Kahekili Beach Park. Modeling of the plume from the injection well at the Kihei Wastewater Reclamation Facility suggests that injected water from that system is returning to the sur face along the coastline by Kalama Park. It is worth noting that county injection wells are not the only ones with problems. The private injection wells at Ma‘alaea have similar issues and the Maui County Council recent ly approved a proposal by Council Member Kelly King to develop a new wastewater treatment plant for the community to allow the closure of thoseConsideringwells. that it’s been 50 years since dumping raw sewage into the ocean around Maui (and the nation) was banned, we still have a long way to go when it comes to effectively and safely managing our waste water. For instance, Maui County would love to use its treated waste water, also known as R1 water, for other purposes. However, R1 water is not suitable for drinking, so it needs its own distribution system. These systems are being built and Maui County is slowly expanding them. If you’ve been in Kihei or La haina and seen purple pipes or utili ty covers, these are indicators of re cycled water being used. R1 water is perfectly safe for use in agriculture and landscape irrigation. Indeed, the nutrients in R1 water that are so bad for coral reefs are actually beneficial for irrigation use in that they provide free fertilizer.
TIP #2 - Check your house for leaks
TIP #6 - Water your lawn in the dark
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The general approach to wastewa ter disposal, even today, has been to separate the solids from the liq uids and hope the contaminants in the liquids naturally degrade in the ground. Unfortunately, while these systems allow our waste treatment to be out of sight and out of mind, for the most part, it is clear that these solutions do not work as well as ad vertised. Injected wastewater from the Lahaina Wastewater Reclama tion Facility has now famously been
Lawns should not be watered every day. Watering once every three days promotes deeper root growth, making your lawn healthier and resilient. Bonus: Nutgrass—a weed that thrives in wet environments—will often die off if you water less.
A running garden hose can pump out hundreds of gallons of water in just a few minutes. Using a nozzle makes sure you only use the water you need when watering your plants, rinsing your gear, or washing your car.
TIP #3 - Take shorter showers
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Despite its grandeur and prestige, the experience of competing at this level is about more than publicity, prizes or podium places.
When they arrived at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Thompson says they were both slightly overwhelmed by the crowds, TV cameras and sheer spectacle—but mostly ecstatic.
“We were pretty devastated,” says Thompson, who lives with James in Wailuku and was joining his brother in bocce ball as a unified partner. They missed the opening cere monies and the single-player competition, but kicked COVID in time to compete together in the unified doubles and unified team events, fin ishing fourth in both.
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Jamey Burkett, James Thompson, and Taralyn Fukushima represented Maui at the 2022 national Special Olympics in
“We were doing everything we could to get well,” says Thompson. “I would have dumped milk over our heads under a full moon if I thought it would have helped.”
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Joining the Thompson brothers in the Maui delegation were swimmers Taralyn Fukushima and Jamey Bur kett of Kahului, who competed in the 50-yard freestyle. Fukushima placed sixth while Burkett earned a bronze medal, taking third.
The 2022 International Special Olympics were set to be held in Kazan, Russia, but were canceled after that country’s invasion of Ukraine, mak ing Orlando the year’s main event. Portions of the games were televised nationally on ESPN and ABC.
n June 1, Eric Thompson and his brother, James, tested positive for COVID. That was less than a week before they were set to compete in the Special Olympics in Orlando. After months of training and anticipation, their spot in the na tional games was in serious jeopardy.
Founded on a Maryland farm in 1968, the Special Olympics have grown vastly in scope. Nearly six million athletes have competed in the games to date. But the organization’s mis sion remains unchanged: to promote “physical fitness, courage, and joy.”
“When it was over, James said, ‘When can we do this again?’” recalls Thompson. “I had to tell him, ‘Well, buddy, this is probably a once-ina-lifetime thing.’ I know James will never forget it, and neither will I.”
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In all, 30 athletes from the state wide Hui ‘O Hawai‘i delegation brought home 22 medals: five gold, 10 silver, and seven bronze.
“The whole thing was a total inspira tion,” says Thompson. “Thousands of volunteers, all the other athletes and their families. People coming up to us, loving that we’re from Hawai‘i. A trip to Disney World. It was incredible.”
Olympains return from the national games in Orlando with pride, a bronze medal and indelible memories
“It’s such a transformative expe rience,” says Adrienne Laurion, the regional director of Special Olympics Hawai‘i. “The energy is incredible. And these athletes get to meet people from all over, and make connections for a Thompsonlifetime.”says he and James have already been in touch with friends they made at the games, including their unified team partners, H’opi’o Balaz and Jon Katsuda of Oahu.
For some, the lockdown was a re spite, where we honed our gardening skills or finally baked the perfect loaf of sourdough. But for others whose liveli hoods depend on tourism, it was more of an Orwellian nightmare wherein all the unknown repercussions are just now beginning to surface.
I was, apparently, not the only one in search of such extravagance. The first sign that others had the same idea was when I called in to make a last-min ute flight reservation. The wait-time on hold was four to five hours. I now know the human tolerance for on-hold music (approximately three hours) unless of course your phone dies first. Damn, and I was so close.
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Stevie Nicks performing in 2017.
A Trip To New Orleans Revives the Aloha Spirit
If you don’t already know, Jazz Fest is one of the largest and best musical and cultural festivals on the planet. Featuring 12 stages of live music—
We’ve experienced that last one “bigtime” locally, with Maui being singled out as one of the top destinations world wide. It’s quite a culture shock after an almost two-year global lockdown.
I flew in on the first weekend, initially settling in on the quiet West Bank just across the river from the French Quarter in Old Algiers. I took the ferry across the muddy Missis sippi and cruised in with the masses on a new Costco E-bike through the dozens of impromptu street parties, crawfish boils and front-yard BBQs.
An old friend and mentor, Quint Davis, who’s been the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival director and producer since its inception over 50 years ago, welcomed this island boy back home with some major south ernThehospitality.weekend’s weather was per fect: blue skies, puffy clouds, mid 80s. The 145 acres of the Heritage and Cultural Fairgrounds was filled
including all genres of indigenous world music along with folk, rock, funk, Cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, Afri can/Caribbean, R&B, rap, hip-hop, country, gospel, blues and even a little jazz—it all happens over a two-week period at the beginning of summer. With thousands of artists and almost half a million tourists like me pouring into NOLA to join the locals, Jazz Fest is truly a one-of-a-kind event.
with hundreds of hand-picked arti sans in their booths and local food was offered up at every turn. It was all good company for the 12 strate gically-placed stages with their nonstop music from 11 a.m. until sunset. The opening weekend was beyond my expectations. It was like the big gest and coolest backyard party in the nation.
The Whoʻs Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend.
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If you are a musician or relied on the live entertainment industry to survive, all your off-island tours or local bookings instantly hit a very hard zero. Perhaps you migrated to Facebook or Zoom as your main cre
I found myself onstage with The Who and a full 60-piece orchestra, which was truly unexpected. Both Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend enthusiastically greeted the massive crowd and started with the upbeat in tro to “Who Are You?” whipping the crowd into an early frenzy that said, “Yes world, we are back.”
We had been teased for so long that things were beginning to open up that I was actually craving some sort of massive musical event, an extravaganza.
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Just witnessing those 20,000 rental cars parked in the fields behind the Ka hului airport for more than a year was a stark reality check. It reminded us how many tourists normally share our island’s roadways and beaches. The shutdown was truly a local wake-up call that was mind-bending to witness.
s we have all observed lately, things are finally beginning to officially and systematical ly reopen across the globe. And in a mass exodus to escape our domiciles, we are returning to restaurants, gatherings with old friends, live en tertainment venues, and vacations to far-away lands.
Reflections on the Years the Music Paused
We had been teased for so long that things were beginning to open up that I was actually craving some sort of massive musical event, an ex travaganza. And that’s why I decided to roll the COVID dice and hit New Orleans for the Jazz & Heritage Festi val, which had already been canceled twice due to the pandemic.
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Although I’ve been on Maui for many decades, my musical roots in produc tion began in New Orleans as a kid in the mid ’70s. I got my start in the music biz at Jazz Fest. So, this trip was extra special for me. Besides having not trav eled in several years, getting back to the Big Easy where I first cut my chops in engineering live audio and stage man aging felt like an overdue visit home.
ative outlet. At least there, fans and followers could tap into a random “live home music session,” contrib uting with a Venmo or PayPal link. Things have been so bad, such dig ital entertainment actually became the norm. Different, and cool for a while—we were always amused to see a meandering cat strolling by a random living room webcam, hello kitty!—but ultimately, it was not like live music being played right in front of you, in person, beer in hand.
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despite any of our unspoken dif ferences, Jazz Fest was a joyful and beautiful experience.
All in all, it was great to be out and about again as a cultural am bassador, sharing some of our sweet aloha.
There is truly no other city in the United States quite like New Orleans, especially when it comes to food and music. It felt like everyone was final ly coming out of the cave. With spontaneous street parties and live brass bands seemingly popping up on every other corner and front porch surrounding the festival, everyone seemed joyful to be getting out after a huge worldwide shutdown and our global paradigm shift.
They continued on a “Who’s who” through their musical catalog, per forming dozens of their hits and a full 90-minute set. Townsend’s younger brother, Simon, was on rhythm guitar accompanied by Ringo Starr’s son, the amazing Zak Starkey, onSomedrums.of the other 2022 Fest head liners included Stevie Nicks, appearing beautiful and refreshed after being on stage for her first show in front of an audience in over two-andhalf years. She dedicated “Landslide” to Taylor Hawkins, drummer of the Foo Fighters. The Foo Fighters had canceled their appearance at Jazz Fest just six weeks prior due to Haw kins’ untimely death.
The Willie Nelson Family Band and Melissa Etheridge band were forced to cancel last-minute due to COVID cases in their ranks.
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Being off-island and away from home for a couple of weeks brought me to the beautiful realization that the aloha spirit—and southern hos pitality—are alive and well. And
As Mark Twain once said, perhaps after cruising down the Mississippi, or rolling boulders down into Haleakala Crater in the 1860s: “Travel is fatal to
Maui’s own Lukas Nelson and his band, Promise of the Real, played an inspired set to a capacity crowd at the packed Gentilly Stage. Visiting with the POTR guys backstage, all were feeling the local spirit. Lukas said it was great to be back out on the road again and passed along an “alo ha” to Maui.
You could tell all the artists were as excited to be there as the audience. Other high energy sets were delivered by The Black Crowes, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jimmy Buffett, and Ziggy Marley. Guitar virtuoso Billy Strings brought his A-game along with classic performances by Randy Newman, Erykah Badu, Elvis Costello, Trombone Shorty, Norah Jones, Boz Scaggs, Buddy Guy, and dozens more.
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From Fine Dining to Food Truck
a new restaurant where he returned to the kitchen, this time as a sous chef. He eventually moved on to become an apprentice at Red Light, a pan-Asian fusion restaurant run by Chef Paul Wildermuth from Oahu. Wildermuth had graduated at the top of his class at the Culinary Institute of America and became Cereceres’ first mentor.
Erik Cereceres is the owner of the Aloha ‘Āina BBQ food truck alongside Hana Highway in Ha‘ikū, located beside a small farmers’ market on the right side of the road just as you emerge from Maliko Gulch, east of Ho’okipa Beach.
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—Erik “Chewy” Cereceres
bread, his meals draw a strong local following, in addition to being easily accessible to first-time Hāna High wayCereceres,adventurers.46,who goes by the nickname “Chewy,” started his cu linary career early, at the age of 14. Growing up in Chicago, where 15 was the minimum age to work in a restau
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At the behest of another girlfriend in St. Croix, he moved to Indianap olis and helped her to open Brix, a wine-themed restaurant located in an old brick building in a historic neigh borhood paved with bricks.
Would it surprise you to learn that the folks behind your food truck plate lunch might have come from the kitchens of some of the island’s most beloved and respected restaurants— places like Merriman’s of Kapalua or The Hāli‘imaile General Store?
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impressing owner Michael Kornick, purveyor of the renowned Chi Town eatery MK. (In 1991, at the age of 28, Kornick had been one of the youngest executive chefs ever hired by Four Seasons Hotel Company.)
he tremendous rise in popularity enjoyed by food trucks in the past few years has at tracted some unique entrepreneurs to Maui’s roadsides—chefs with storied careers who plied their trade at some surprisingly swanky places prior to going mobile.
Erik “Chewy” Cereceres, owner, Aloha ʻĀina BBQ, Haʻikū
His beef brisket, smoked chicken, fresh poke, and sautéed local fish plates are each as rich and flavorful as the next. Served with pohole fern salad and a warm slice of banana
The young apprentice was soon able to work any station on the line,
“I suffered and didn’t really make any money for a decade, but I was learning from great chefs how to do it in real time, so that was the best schooling for me.”
Under Kornick and Wildermuth, Cereceres learned a great deal about wine, as well, which inspired him to move to California’s Napa Valley. There, he went to work for celebrat ed chef Thomas Keller, and helped him open Bouchon, a sister restau rant to the famed French Laundry.
“When I started getting into fine dining [at age 18], there wasn’t that much going on in Chicago, culi nary-wise like they were doing in New York or Napa,” Cereceres ex plains, recalling that working in a restaurant kitchen was considered very blue-collar work back then.
At the advice of a girlfriend, he moved to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands for a change of pace in the off-season from Napa. There he made new connections and learned about preparing fish and lobster. He began wintering in the Caribbean and spent summers in Vail and Orlando.
rant kitchen, Cereceres forged his birth certificate to get a year’s head start. He landed a job at Buona Beef, a local Italian butcher shop and deli counter. Like many teenagers, he drifted from restaurant to restaurant, taking on whatever role was needed. While valet parking at an Italian joint called Carmines, he befriended the chef, who hired him to help open
Erik “Chewy” Cereceres made the leap from fine dining chef to roadside barbecue and never looked back.
Business was brisk until the pan demic struck and the National Guard blocked all non-residents from trav eling on the road to Hana. Unable to get to his workplace, Cereceres found a new location at a dragon fruit farm near Peahi and built a new grill and roadside stand. It did well for a time, but he couldn’t help wondering if he’d get more business before the turnoff to Ha‘ikū, rather than east of it.
“We had just opened, we were still in the review period, and it was very tense in the kitchen,” Cereceres recalls, calling it hot, cramped, and miserable, with 20 or more staff working in a small space. “Plus, no body’s getting paid very much. You do it for the knowledge.”
“When you have a restaurant that’s been there so long and some of the peo ple have been there forever—regardless of how good they are—they wield a
Chef Chewy’s beef brisket is among his most popular dishes, but the high cost of beef has cut into his bottom line.
Problems developed with the front of the house and personality conflicts in the kitchen were be coming a nightmare, he says. At the same time, he was going through a divorce. The corporate chef saw that he was burning out quickly and gave him the option of an amicable, negotiated exit. “I like to have all my ducks in a row and have the future planned and have another job before I quit,” Cereceres asserts, “but I just walked away, and it felt great.”
The young family moved to St. John, where Skylar’s sister, Halia, was born. Shortly after, they decided to move to CereceresMaui.started working as a sous chef for Bev Gannon at Joe’s in Wailea,
While looking for work in New York, he reconnected with David Burke, a culinary school roommate of Kornick’s who had gone on to TV fame on Top Chef. Cereceres had assisted Burke with a special event in Napa years before and Burke needed staff for his collaboration with the famed restaurant designer, Donatella Arpaia. Cereceres helped to open David Burke and Do natella on East 61st Street and remained
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So, once again, he pulled up stakes and prepared to open a real brick and mortar kitchen at the new Maliko
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Merriman’s in Kapalua was more than an hour drive from Ha‘ikū, so he wasn’t very familiar with the restau rant when he applied. Nor were they familiar with him, but his former boss David Burke was friends with the chain’s corporate chef and gave him a stellar recommendation. He soon took over as head chef.
certain amount of power in the power structure there, only because they’ve been there for so long,” he explains.
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“It was rough from the start,” he recalls. The commute was atrocious, he says, and three of his four sous chefs were gunning for his job. “They had been there for a while and saw me as an interloper.”
The launch of The Food Network in 1993 and the subsequent rise of “celebrity chefs” have drawn a new generation to the kitchen, but they’re a mixed bag, Chewy says, some of them talented, some not so much.
Chewy met Danae, the woman who would become his wife, while she was on a girls’ trip to New York with her longtime friend, blues singer Gretch
there for a time, but it was stressful.
Aloha ʻĀina BBQ’s chicken gets a simple brown sugar and shoyu glaze, letting the smoker add much of the flavor.
(It’s a play on words, he explains, stating the obvious.) While working there, another friend from St. Croix invited him to stay at her place in New York while he went to see Widespread Panic perform and the two of them promptly fell in love. So, he abruptly left Indianapolis for the Big Apple.
“Don’t go to school. It’s such a waste of money,” he advises. “If you want to do it, go and do it. I suffered and didn’t really make any money for a decade, but I was learning from great chefs how to do it in real time, so that was the best schooling for me.”
“It’s this wicked cycle that chefs get into where they get burned out and want to take a break from fine din ing,” Cereceres explains. “And then you do that for a while and you get bored and then you really want to get back into fine dining and hone your craft some more, even though it’s hard work and a pain in the ass.”
A friend told him about some folks who were working a roadside barbe que stand out by Keanae and needed help, so he joined their crew. As the others moved on, he eventually found himself running the business alone. He got things organized and removed some old cars and debris from the property, adding more parking spaces. But before long he found what he felt was a better loca tion at the Garden of Eatin’, an established roadside attraction nearby.
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“Kids were going into culinary school thinking they were going to come out chefs,” Cereceres laments. “I’ve seen so many cocky kids who think that they’re so incredible, when they really just have the basics. Most of them don’t even belong in a pro fessional kitchen.”
“It’s this wicked cycle that chefs get into where they get burned out and want to take a break from fine dining, and then…you get bored.”
en Rhodes (now a Maui resident). The couple hit it off and Danae agreed to meet him for a music festival in Las Vegas later that year. He proposed at the same festival the following year. The two got married on a white sand beach on Jost van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands and their son, Skylar, was born less than a year later.
About a year later, the storied wa tering hole Charley’s Saloon in Pā‘ia had an opening and he was anxious to move on. So, Cereceres took the job, revamped the kitchen, and learned the business side of things from owner Jonathan Hermann. Af ter a while, he got the itch to get back to the fine dining world.
which has since closed. He was only there for six weeks before the chef at Haliimaile General Store quit and he was asked to take over as executive chef there, where he continued to learn under Gannon’s tutelage.
Farms market at the edge of Maliko Gulch. But the county wouldn’t give him a permit to install a required vent hood in the building due to zoning issues, he says, so he bit the bullet and bought the glossy black food truck that now bears the Aloha ‘Āina BBQ name.
half and half, visitors and locals. He’s beginning to make money and picks up catering jobs weekly that help the bottom line. He thinks that the many five-star reviews he’s logged on Goo gle and Yelp! make a big difference.
It’s taken more than a year to turn a profit, but now that the tourists are back he says his customers are about
bottom line than the rising cost of meat. He had to take baby back ribs off his menu and limit the amount of brisket he sold for several months be cause they have the highest cost and he couldn’t justify raising the retail price more than he already had. He says he strives for a balanced menu, with less costly dishes that have a higher margin, like chicken and pork belly, to balance out the slimmer margin on expensive cuts of beef.
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Pohole fern salad and corn bread with lilikoi butter round out mixed plates of savory pork, beef, and chicken.
His smoked and grilled meats are a hit among residents and visitors alike, and he’s garnered a strong local fol lowing. But because the land is zoned agricultural, he must close at sunset like the farmers’ market, which limits his dinner hours. This puts a damper on the live music he had scheduled weekly for a few months last year.
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The free performances had drawn a following at a time when live music was scarce, but it’s not worth the effort if he has to close down at 6:00 p.m., he says. Aside from that, he says that he’s had a good relationship with the Health Department and little trouble with the County since opening the truck up a year ago.
He encourages guests who make positive comments to post a review online and makes it easy by display ing a QR code for Google reviews on the front of the trailer. So, if you en joy Chewy’s juicy burgers and smoky barbeque plates, go ahead and leave him a nice review.
Competition from restaurants re opening has had less impact on his
While it was a major investment, the trailer was less than two years old, well equipped, and priced quite reasonably. A small business loan program offered during the pandem ic helped to cover the cost. It has enabled him to expand his repertoire to include more choices that appeal to residents, who now make up a large segment of his customer base. Hence the ribs, brisket, poke, and fresh is land fish added to the menu. “Now I had everything I wanted,” says Chef Chewy, “a fryer and ovens and all.”
“It’s super important to get those reviews built up and I think it took me a little later in the game to realize that, but I caught up pretty quick.”
His plates normally cost $17, but there’s a $2 up charge for brisket. “It’s not cheap, so it’s gotta be good. If it’s just mediocre, people are not going to come back at that price.” He says that he has to charge that much just to cov er food costs and his three employees’ salaries and make it all worthwhile.
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LEI MAKING - Learn how to make your own lei and gain understanding of their significance, traditional uses, gathering protocols, and how they are used today. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11am-12pm. Whalers Village (2435 Kaʻanapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); 808661-4567; Whalersvillage.com
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JOHN CRUZ ISLAND STYLE - The Grammy and Nā Hōkū Hanohano award winner shares lyrical stories about everyday people and experiences. $37.50-50. Wednesdays, 7:30pm. ProArts Playhouse (1280 S Kīhei Rd.); 808-463-6550; Proartsmaui.com
JIM JEFFERIES: THE MOIST TOUR - AUG 5. Sydney native, Jim Jefferies is one of the most popular and respected comedians of his generation, entertaining audiences across the globe with his provocative, belief-challenging, and thought-provoking comedy. $39.75, $59.75, $159.75 (VIP). 7:30pm. Maui Arts & Cultural Center (One Cameron Way, Kahului); 808-242-SHOW; Mauiarts.org
PAPER WATER WIND EXHIBIT - UNTIL-AUG 20. More details page 9. Participating artists are Zenobia Lakdawalla, Erin McAdams, Janetta Napp, Deborah Nehmad, Koichi Yamamoto, and Keith
ART CLASSES - Let your inner artist come out! A different theme is offered each day. Wednesdays-Sundays. Island Art Party (1279 S Kīhei Rd.); 808-419-6020; Islandartparty.com
POLYNESIAN SHOW - Watch a graceful Hawaiian hula performance as well as beautiful dances of Polynesia. Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:30-6:30pm. The Shops at Wailea (3750 Wailea Alanui Dr.); 808-891-6770; Theshopsatwailea.com
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MAGIC CLASSES - Come and learn multiple tricks from world-famous magicians from The Magical Mystery Show! Classtimes: 3pm daily, except Wednesday. Fairmont Kea Lani Resort (4100 Wailea Alanui Dr., Wailea); Hotel-magic.com
"WHITE HAWAIIAN": ERIC GILLIOMʻS ONE MAN SHOW - AUG 12-14. More details page 9. Tickets: $40; VIP: $60 (includes swag bag plus best-view seats in small groups with own side tables). Friday & Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 2pm. ProArts Playhouse (1280 S Kīhei Rd., Kīhei); 808-463-6550; Proartsmaui.com
KAULUHIWAOLELE 2022: MAUI FIBER ARTS CONFERENCE - AUG 31-SEP 3. More details page 9. A craft fair and mini-workshops will also be held in the lobby and are open to the general public. $289. Kāʻanapali Beach Hotel (2525 Kaʻanapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); Kbhmaui.com/kauluhiwaolele
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"PE-NEL-O-PE" - AUG 19-21. More details page 9. ProArts Playhouse (1280 S. Kīhei Rd., Kīhei); 808-463-6550; Proartsmaui.com
COCONUT WEAVING - Hawaiians have elevated coconut weaving to a fine art. Discover the basics of palm weaving and its many uses while talking with Uncle Ron. Fridays, 12-1pm. Whalers Village (2435 Kaʻanapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); 808-661-4567; Whalersvillage.com
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laughs, interaction, and more laughs. Select Sundays, 5-8pm. Gilligans Bar & Grill (470 Lipoa St., Kīhei); 808-868-0988; Gilligansmaui.com
Yurdana. Gallery Hours: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10am-4pm. Maui Arts & Cultural Center (One Cameron Way; Kahului); 808-244-SHOW; MACC.org
EMMA FARDEN SHARPE HULA FESTIVAL - AUG 27. Details not available at press time. Keawaiki (Lahaina Banyan Tree).
HULA PERFORMANCE - Watch a beautiful hula performance and enjoy live music. Daily, 6:30-7:30pm. Huihui Restaurant (2525 Kā‘anapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); 808-667-0124; Huihuirestaurant.com
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THE MAGICAL MYSTERY SHOW - Let There Be Light! Go on a journey through a “portal” back in time into the styles of the Victorian era, as the world’s best magical entertainers bring you an evening of magic, mystery and mirth. Guests will leave stunned, entertained and amazed blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. $99-103; $39 (keiki). Showtimes: 5pm & 8pm daily, except Wednesday. Fairmont Kea Lani Resort (4100 Wailea Alanui Dr., Wailea); Hotel-magic.com
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PLANTATION MUSEUM - A visit to the Old Lahaina Plantation Era, the self-guided tour features a collection of authentic artifacts. Attendees can view historic information for the Camp Maps, which are the most complete and comprehensive maps of plantation workers’ housing locations. There will also be an educational video playing throughout the tour. Daily, 10am-6pm. Lāhaina Cannery Mall (1221 HI-30, Lāhainā); Lahainarestoration.org
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LEI PO‘O MAKING - Learn how to weave basic ti leaf lei using flowers and ferns that can be worn on the head or around the neck. Mondays, 2:30-3:30pm; Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30pm. The Shops at Wailea (3750 Wailea Alanui Dr.); 808-891-6770; Theshopsatwailea.com
Head on Down the Hatch and wish them a happy seven years in business! See details on page 9.
BIG GIGS
BO NAPOLEON - AUG 5. Napoleon’s biggest hit to date was the release of “If That’s Okay,” which had remarkable commercial success in Hawaiʻi with the support of Island 98.5, iheartmedia’s Reggae and Contemporary Hit station, and quickly crossed over to Top 40 Mainstream. $25. 8pm. Da Playground (300 Maʻalaea Rd., Wailuku); Daplaygroundmaui.com
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DOWN THE HATCH SEVEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY! - AUG 19. More details page 9. Brought to you by New Amsterdam Vodka - 7 Year Itch Feature Cocktail w/proceeds going to Save Honolua Coalition. 8am-close. Down the Hatch (658 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-661-4900; DTHmaui.com
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NEON BEATS: SILENT DISCO - AUG 18. Dance your heart out, with great tunes and delicious drinks. Multiple DJs, you choose the channel and get your groove on. $5 (headphone rental). 10pm. Down the Hatch (658 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-661-4900; DTHmaui.com
SLACK KEY SHOW - Enjoy a performance with the slack key ‘ohana featuring contemporary island music to heartfelt Hawaiian mele, and much more. $35-$60. Wednesdays & Saturdays. 6:30pm. The Napili Kai Beach Resort Aloha Pavilion (5900 Lower Honoapi‘ilani Rd., Lāhainā); 808-669-3858; Slackkeyshow.com
ART NIGHT - Walk through Lāhainā's Historic District and visit local galleries with live music and art demonstrations. Find all participating 20+ galleries online. Fridays, 5-8pm. Lahainarestoration.org
LIFE DRAWING - Join a unique noninstruction drawing class. To reserve or for more info, call or text. $5 (students); $15 (adults); $40 (4 sessions). Wednesdays, 6-9pm. Gallery Lele at Keawe Center (40 Kupuohi, Lāhainā); 808-205-1389.
MAKROKOSMOS - AUG 26. Pianist Nicolas Gerpe's (LA) performance of George Crumb's Makrokosmos, Volume 1, plus 12 newly
COCONUT FROND WEAVING - Weaving was a highly developed skill that Hawaiians used to make baskets, mats, jewelry and toys for the keiki. Learn how to make your very own keepsake. Thursdays, 4:30-5:30pm. The Shops at Wailea (3750 Wailea Alanui Dr.); 808891-6770; Theshopsatwailea.com
2ND FRIDAY LOCAL ARTIST SHOWCASE - AUG 12. This month features Maui photographer, Joy Armstrong with her love for photography and creative expression. 5-10pm. Down the Hatch (658 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-661-4900; DTHmaui.com
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SERIOUSLY SANDWICH SUNDAYS! - Satisfy your Sunday cravings, with more than just a sandwich. Enjoy sweet bread, American cheese, kalua pig, jalapeno bacon macaroni n' cheese, and Alabama style white bbq sauce on the side. Sundays, 10am. Down the Hatch (658 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-661-4900; DTHmaui.com
THE WESTIN KAʻANAPALI RESORT - Tuesdays & Fridays, 9am-3pm. (6 Kai Ala Dr., Lāhainā); Mauisfinestcraftfair.com808-268-9822;
MALA ‘TIL MIDNIGHT - Indulge in The Kitchen Assassin Chef Alvin Savella’s raw fish & Wagyu menu. Enjoy selections like spicy ‘ahi poke salad, sashimi, and the assassin burger. Plus select cocktails too! Fridays & Saturdays, 10pm-12am. Mala Tavern (1307 Front St., Lāhainā); Malatavern.com/late-night-menu808-667-9394;
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Kapalua Bay Maui After Dark Reserved for ongoing weekly entertainment (7pm or later)! Sundays Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays Saturdays Da Playground Maui 300 Ma‘alaea Rd. Aumakua Kava Lounge 149 Hāna Hwy., Pāʻia Down the Hatch 658 Front St., Lāhainā Haui’s Life’s A Beach 1913 S. Kīhei Rd. Heritage Hall 401 Baldwin Ave., Pā‘ia Lahaina Sports Bar 843 Waine‘e St., Lāhainā Wai Bar 45 N. Market St., Wailuku Paia Bay & Coffee Bar 115 Hāna Hwy., Pāʻia The Dirty Monkey 45 N. Market St., Lāhainā Trivia Night 8-10pm, (Weekly) Live Band 8-10pm, (Weekly) Live DJ 10pm, (Weekly) Karaoke 7-11:30pm, (Weekly) Karaoke 7-11:30pm, (Weekly) Karaoke 7-11:30pm, (Weekly) Karaoke 7-11:30pm, (Weekly) Karaoke 7-11:30pm, (Weekly) Latin Nights 8-11pm, (Weekly) Live Band 8-10pm, (Weekly) Live Band 8-10pm, (Weekly) Karaoke 10pm, (Weekly) BINGO 8pm, (3rd Wed) SIN (Weekly) Karaoke 9pm-close, (Weekly) Trivia Night (Weekly) Karaoke 9pm-close, (Weekly) Karaoke 7pm, (Weekly) Live DJ (Weekly) Strickly Vibes (Weekly) Open Mic 7-10pm, (Weekly) Live DJ 8pm, (Weekly) Live DJ 8pm, (Weekly) Live DJ 8pm, (Weekly) Entertainmet (Weekly) Entertainmet (Weekly) Entertainmet (Weekly) Entertainmet (Weekly) Live DJ 10pm, (Weekly) Live DJ 10pm, (Weekly) Live DJ 10pm, (Weekly) Live DJ 10pm, (Weekly) Mahalo Ale Works 30 Kupaoa St., Makawao
MONDAY INDUSTRY NIGHT - Industry workers can enjoy live music and receive 20 percent off all food and 50 percent off all beverages. (industry proof required). Mondays, 1pm-close. Paia Bay Coffee Bar (115 Hāna Hwy., Pāʻia); 808-578-3111; Paiabaycoffee.com
MARRIOTT’S CRAFT FAIRWednesdays, 9am-3pm. (100 Nohea Kai Dr., Lāhainā); Mauisfinestcraftfair.com
THE WESTIN NANEA OCEAN VILLAS - Mondays, 9am-3pm. (45 Kai Malina Pkwy., Lāhainā); Mauisfinestcraftfair.com
CHAMPAGNE HALE AT CLIFF HOUSE - AUG 14-16. More details page 9. 21+. Reservations with $35 cover charge per person required. Seating Times: 4pm & 6pm. Montage Kapalua Bay (1 Bay Dr., Lāhainā); 808662-6627; Champagne-hale.eventbrite.com
Honoapiʻilani Hwy., Lāhainā); 808-446-3007; Koholabrewery.com
MAUI SWAP MEET - Saturdays, 7am-1pm. (310 W. Ka‘ahumanu Ave., Kahului); 808-244-2133; Mauihawaii.org
SHERATON MAUI RESORT - Sundays, 9am-3pm. (2605 Kāʻanapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); Mauisfinestcraftfair.com
SUNDAY BRUNCH - Enjoy a crafted brunch menu by Executive Chef Roger Stettler. Kevin Brown entertains with a live slack key guitar performance, which is accompanied by a
beautiful hula dance. Sundays, 11am-1pm. Taverna Restaurant (200 Village Rd., Kapalua); 808-667-2426; Tavernamaui.com
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pick and sample a variety of tropical fruit right from the tree. At the end of the tour, pack a large box of fruit to take home. Mondays & Fridays. $375. Ono Organic Farms (149 Hāna Hwy., Nāhiku); 808-268-1784; Onofarms.com
Beautiful views & champagne at Cliff House. See details on this page.Courtesy
CRAFT FAIRS
LĀHAINA GATEWAY CENTERSundays, 9am-2pm. (305 Keawe St, Lāhainā); Mauigiftandcraftfair.com
WINE DOWN WEDNESDAY- Cool off on the Northshore, all bottles of wine are $20. Wednesdays. Paia Bay Coffee Bar (115 Hāna Hwy., Pāʻia); 808-578-3111; Paiabaycoffee.com
TAPROOM ART NIGHT - AUG 19. Local artists showcase their paintings, jewelry, swimwear, handcrafted items and more. There will also be a live guest DJ and a pop up food tent. 5pm. Koholā Brewery (915
THE WESTIN KAʻANAPALI RESORT - Saturdays, 9am-3pm. (6 Kai Ala Dr., Lāhainā); Mauisfinestcraftfair.com
LĀHAINA CANNERY MALL - Fridays & Saturdays, 9am-5pm. (1221 HI-30, Lāhainā); Lahainaarts.com
GUIDED CACAO FARM TOUR & CHOCOLATE TASTING - Your journey begins at the largest chocolate factory in the state of Hawaiʻi. This interactive and educational tour introduces you to cacao trees, hands-on fruit harvesting techniques, and finishes with an exclusive 9-piece tasting of award-winning chocolate. Daily tours happen every half hour between 9am-3:30pm. Maui Kuʻia Chocolate Estates (78 Ulupono St., Lāhainā); 808-793-6651; Mauichocolatetour.com
MAUI COUNTY EVENTS
MONTHLY SHAVE ICE PHOTO CONTEST - Take a picture, then tag and mention Down the Hatch and Breakwall Shave Ice on Instagram! Get silly, have fun and have a chance to WIN! If featured you’ll win a $100 Gift Card to Down The Hatch Maui & Breakwall Shave Ice Co. Eating shave ice is already winning, this is just a little perk! Instagram.com/dthmaui; Instagram.com/ breakwallshaveice
EXOTIC FRUIT ADVENTURE - Explore a farm aboard Kawasaki 4-WD "Mules." Stop to
PANG’S POKE AT LUANA LOUNGE - Pull up the best seat in the house and enjoy a taste of Hawai‘i’s modern culture through poke, cocktails, and live music. SundaysFridays, 4-8pm. Fairmont Kea Lani (4100 Wailea Alanui, Wailea); 808-875-4100; Fairmont-kea-lani.com
HYATT REGENCY MAUI - Thursdays, 9:30am-3pm. (180 Nohea Kai Dr., Lāhainā); Mauisfinestcraftfair.com808-268-9822;
FOODIE
BRUNCH AT THE BEACH - Enjoy your favorites like banana mac nut pancakes and focaccia eggs Benedict plus new offerings. Sundays, 10am-2pm. Hula Grill (2435 Kā‘anapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); 808-667-6636; Hulagrillkaanapali.com
KO’S SUNDAY BRUNCH - Featuring plantation inspired local favorites with live music, mimosa flights and Bloody Mary specials. $69. Kamaʻaina receive 25% off (limited time only and Hawaiʻi ID required). Sundays, 11am-2pm. Fairmont Kea Lani (4100 Wailea Alanui, Wailea); 808-875-4100; Korestaurant.com
TACO TUESDAY - Tuesdays, 1pm-close. Pāʻia Bay Coffee Bar (115 Hāna Hwy., Pāʻia); 808-578-3111; Paiabaycoffee.com
POʻOKELA FARMERS MARKETWednesdays, 8am-4pm. (200 Olinda Rd., Makawao); 808-419-1570
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FRUIT FLY MANAGEMENT CLASS - AUG 27. More details page 9. To register for the free class, call or email Eric DeMaria, agent of the UH Extension Program. UHMC (310 Kaʻahumanu Ave., Kahului); 808-244-3242, Ext. 228; Mauimgco@hawaii.edu
KEIKI KINE
UPCOUNTRY FARMERS MARKET Saturdays, 7-11am. (55 Kiopaa St., Pukalani); Upcountryfarmersmarket.com808-572-8122;
NAPILI FARMERS MARKETWednesdays & Saturdays, 8am-12pm. (4900 Honoapi‘ilani Hwy., Napili); 808633-5060; Napilifarmersmarket.com
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SUNSET MARKET - 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 4-7pm. (100 Wailea Ike Dr.); Waileavillage.com
AUMAKUA KAVA LOUNGE - Sundays, 5-7pm. (149 Hāna Hwy., Pāʻia); Aumakuakava.com
CLEAR THE SHELTERS - AUG 1-30. There’s a full month-long national adoption event happening! Stop in to find a new member of your ʻohana! 11am-4pm. Maui Humane Society (Mehameha Lp., Puʻunene); Mauihumanesociety.org
MAUI SUNDAY MARKET - Sundays, 4-8pm. (65 W. Ka‘ahumanu Ave., Kahului); Mauisundaymarket.com
FRESH FARMERS MARKETTuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 8am-4pm. (275 W. Ka‘ahumanu Ave., Kahului); Queenkaahumanucenter.com
PRINCIPLES OF KI AIKIDO SEMINARAUG 17. Taught by Joni Jackson, 6th Dan, class will include fundamental principles of Shin Shin Toitsu (mind and body unified) Aikido through interaction and basic movement. Activities will demonstrate how posture, awareness and calmness can aid the participant in day to day living as well as in a dojo. 6:30-8:30pm. Maui Ki-Aikido Dojo (194 S. Market St.; Wailuku); Mauiaikido.com
ʻUwehe ʻAmi & Slide on over to Whalers Vilage and learn the Hula! See details on this page.
HĀNA FARMERS MARKET - Fridays, 3-4:30pm. (Mill Place, Hāna Hwy.); Hanafarmersmarket.com
MOBILE ADOPTION EVENT - AUG 19. Bunnies, guineas, and kitties are looking forward to joining your ʻohana. 12-2pm. Petco (50 Hoʻokele St., Kahului); Mauihumanesociety.org
KEIKI NATURE DAY CAMP - Come join accredited educators and experienced camp counselors in a day of gardening, arts & crafts, outdoor games, fire-building, nature skills and more. Select Saturdays, 9am-3pm. Laulima Garden Ohana (Haʻiku); Laulimagardenohana.com
COCONUT HUSKING - See demonstrations of traditional and modern methods of coconut husking. Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30pm. The Shops at Wailea (3750 Wailea Alanui Dr.); 808-8916770; Theshopsatwailea.com
SHOP THE STREET - AUG 14. Local vendors, kidpreneurs & keiki fundraisers at 4 locations: Rooted in Wailuku, DÔLISH, Maluhia Collective and Friends & Faire. 10am-2pm. (Main St., Wailuku).
COMMUNITY
SOUTH MAUI GARDENS - Thursdays, 9am-1pm. (35 Auhana Rd., Kīhei); Southmauigardens.com
INVEST LIKE A PRO WITH CONFIDENCE - It’s possible to build real wealth through real estate. Learn examples of education that offer a wide variety of strategies for real estate investors, entrepreneurs and business owners. Training is customizable and can be designed around your interests and schedule. Free. Wednesdays 4-6pm; Thursdays, 3-5pm; Saturdays, 5-7am. Wardell Cooke, 808-561-7757; Wxcooke@ gmail.com; Eventbrite.com
'OHANA & KEIKI EXCHANGE - AUG 6. Take what you need, bring what you can. Kids grow, clothes don't. Families can bring new and gently-used clothes for all genders and sizes, from birth to 6xl, toys, books, games, and baby items and take home what others don't need anymore. All items are high quality and sorted before being put out. 7am-12:30pm. Kihei Lutheran Church (220 Moi Pl., Kīhei); Facebook.com/OKEMaui
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VIRTUAL STROKE SUPPORT GROUP - AUG 17. Program provides education, encouragement, and helpful resources to individuals recovering from stroke or caregivers. Meetings focus on different topics with guest speakers. Request link to meeting by emailing Mariah. Mossman@kp.org. 4-5pm. Maui Health (221 Mahalani St., Wailuku); 808-244-9056; Mauihealth.org
RAB BIT VACCINATION CLINIC - AUG 13. There will be a free rabbit vaccination clinic for those rabbits that received the first dose of the RHDV2 vaccine on July 13, to help prevent any rabbits acquiring the disease. 9am-12pm. Maui Humane Society (Mehameha Lp., Puʻunene); somebunnytoloveMauihumanesociety.org/
ULTIMATE TODDLER TRAMPOLINE TIME - Bring your keiki to burn off that energy while having tons of fun. $22-$40. Kama‘aina: $17-$35. Socks required or purchase for $2. Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays, 10am-12pm. Ultimate Air Trampoline Park (21 La‘a St., Wailuku); 808-214-JUMP; Ultimateairmaui.com
43RD ANNUAL VISITOR INDUSTRY CHARITY WALK, MAUI COUNTY - AUG 20. More details page 9. The in-person walk will take place at the War Memorial Sports Complex, 7am. Additional information can be received by e-mailing Info@mauihla.org.
MAKAʻAKA LOʻI - Kumu Penny will teach keiki all about the different aspects of kalo, from how to make a loʻi to caring for and cooking kalo. She will also show how to make poi pounders from pohaku (stone) the traditional way. Students will also learn ecology, sustainability, hydrology, history, art and much more. Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30pm. Maui Hui Malama, 808-244-5911; Mauihui.org
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KŌ MAHIʻAI MĀKEKE - Saturdays, 8am12pm. (1819 S Kīhei Rd.); 808-359-9103
to log your steps so you can WIN PRIZES! Register at: charity-walkMauihumanesociety.org/
HULA LESSONS - Learn hula and the importance of preserving Hawaiian culture, language, history and stories through this sacred dance. Mondays 11am-12pm. Whalers Village (2435 Kaʻanapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); 808-661-4567; Whalersvillage.com
LĀHAINA JODO MISSION - 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 4-7pm. (12 Alamoana St., Lāhainā).
A LOOK AT MISSIONARY LIFE IN A HAWAIIAN VILLAGE - Tour the oldest house still standing on the island is a recognizable landmark in the heart of historic Lāhainā. Built between 183435 in what was then referred to as the “missionary compound.” Admission: $7 (Adults); $5 (Seniors/HI Residents/Military/ Veterans); Free: (Members & Children 12 & under). Tours begin every half hour. Selfguided: Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm; Candle Lit: Fri, 5pm-8pm. Baldwin Home Museum (120 Dickenson St., Lāhainā); 808-661-3262; Lahainarestoration.org
ʻUKULELE LESSONS - During a lesson with Uncle Ron, you can easily learn the basics of the ʻukulele: chords, finger placement, and a few simple tunes. Fridays, 10:30-11:30am. Whalers Village (2435 Kaʻanapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); 808-661-4567; Whalersvillage.com
WILDLIFE WEDNESDAYS - Join naturalists from the Hawaiʻi Wildlife Discovery Center and learn all about humpback whales, honu, monk seals and more Maui wildlife. Wednesday, 10am-12pm. Whalers Village (2435 Kaʻanapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); 808-661-4567; Whalersvillage.com
KAPALUA SUMMER JUNIOR GOLF CAMP - AUG 13 & 14. PGA Professionals Mark Nelson and Tony Aranda will lead this dynamic, developmental program that works with players looking to get ready for their upcoming High School and competitive seasons. Designed for players 13-17, instruction will focus on full swing and short game and includes on course contests. Call for more information or to register. $225.1-3pm (both days). Kapalua Bay Course (200 Village Rd., Kapalua); 808-877-KAPALUA
PAPA HULA - Discover the art of Hawaiian hula while having a great time at this dance workshop. Lessons include an overview of the music and instruments, the costume, and meaning of dance movements. Fridays, 4-5pm. The Shops at Wailea (3750 Wailea Alanui Dr.); 808-891-6770; Theshopsatwailea.com
VIRTUAL CHARITY WALK - AUG 13-20. Register and join Maui Humane Society's team to start fundraising for the 2022 Charity Walk! Registering also allows you
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and waterwomen, skateboarders, softball players, etc. If you are an athletic director, coach, unbridled enthusiast or all of the above, email jacob@ mauitimes.org with your story pitches or to set up a Zoom meeting. We want our sports features and listings to be as comprehensive, accurate, and engaging as possible. Mahalo!
BODY IN BALANCE CLASSES - Barre Sculpting & Toning, Aerial Yoga Hammock, Functional Barre, Functional Flexibility and more. Contact for schedule. Body in Balance at Emerald Plaza (142 Kupuohi St., Lāhainā); 808-661-1116; Bodybalancemaui.com
MAUI BEE TOUR - Join a unique and immersive look into the world of honeybees. Explore the internal workings of bee hives with an experienced beekeeper and taste honey directly from the hives. $65. Mondays-Fridays, 9am, 11am & 1pm. The Maui Bee Tour and Lahaina Honey Co. (700 Punakea Lp., Lāhainā); 808-793-4660; Mauibeetour.com
KAHUMOKU FARM TOUR - Join Hawai‘i’s Renaissance Man, Uncle George Kahumoku, Jr. Learn the cultural and nutritional benefits of farming and become familiar with ancient Polynesian canoe plants. For lunch, pick vegetables right from the garden and enjoy George’s Grammy-winning songs. $250. Fridays & Saturdays, 8am-12pm. Cliffs at Kahakuloa (555 Kaukini Lp., Wailuku); 808-280-9948; Kahumoku.com
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Creating beautiful images, Joy Armstrong will be featuring her photography at Down The Hatch, Aug. 12. See details on page 30.
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MAUI COUNTY EVENTS
SUGAR MUSEUM TOUR - Home to a wide variety of exhibits, explore and learn about sugar and plantation history. Exhibits depict 168 years of “King Sugar,” a chapter in Maui’s history that impacted the island’s landscape and multiculturalism. Mondays-Wednesdays, 10am-2pm. Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum (3957 Hansen Rd., Puʻunene); Sugarmuseum.com
SUNDAY SUNSET RESTORATIVE YOGA + SOUND BOWLS - Slow gentle movement designed to restore the body and calm the nervous system. Receive healing powers of the sound bowls, reconnecting body and mind to its harmonic vibration. $20. Sundays, 5pm. Wailea Healing Center (120 Kaukahi St., Kīhei); Eventbrite.com
MAUI ADULT BASEBALL LEAGUE - Aug. 1. It isn’t the pros, but the Maui Adult Baseball League features passionate players and squads with names like the Kihei Centipedes, La Perouse Pirates, and Upcountry Dirtbags. And their summer season is upon us. (Shout-out to the Makena Royals for winning the spring 2022 championship.) Games are held at Maehara Stadium (225 Kanaloa Ave., Wailuku) and various ballparks islandwide. Spectators and prospective players, visit: Mauiadultbaseball.com
YOGA FOR CANCER WARRIORS AND SURVIVORS - Designed to strengthen and lengthen while connecting mind, body and breath. All postures and moves can be modified to meet your needs that day. For participants of all abilities and all stages of treatment. Mondays, 6-7pm. Imua (411 Huku Liʻi Pl., Kīhei); 808-879-0077; Imuapt.com
Fridays-Sundays, 7:45-11am; Tuesday & Thursdays, 4:30-8:30pm; and a novice/ beginner only session on Wednesdays, 7:45-10:30am. Lahaina Civic Center, daily, 7-11am & 4-9:30pm. The Napili Park courts are available daily, 7am7pm (no set pickleball times). Waipuilani Park in Kīhei, daily, 8am-noon & 4-7pm. Kula Community Center, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8am-noon. Eddie Tam Gym in Makawao, Wednesdays, 9-11:30am. Everyone, from experienced players to beginners, are welcome.
PICKLEBALL - Games are played at the following locations: Wailuku’s War Memorial Complex (upper tennis courts),
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INTERACTIVE FARM TOUR - Come experience a wide variety of unique subtropical plants, learn about gardening techniques that can help any backyard garden, and have something fun for the whole family to do—all with a delicious farm-to-table snack, to boot. $40-55. Select Saturdays, 9-10:30am. Laulima Garden Ohana (Haʻiku); Laulimagardenohana.com
MAUI PADDLE & CANOE CLUBSPaddling enthusiasts can join clubs across the island to share their love of rowing and the water. A dozen clubs for various skill and experience levels can be found on the North Shore and East, West, and South sides. A list of clubs with contact information can be found at: Mauipaddle.com
SPIN REVOLUTION - High intensity class followed by a military boot camp-inspired segment! Bring a yoga mat. Fridays, 5:30pm. Enjoy the Ride MAUI at Emerald Plaza (118 Kupuohi St., Lāhainā); 808-667-7772; Enjoytheridemaui.com
IMPORTANT NOTE - Please confirm the time, location, and status of any sporting event with the venue, organization or school athletic department. For complete, updated high school sports schedules for the upcoming fall season, visit MILSports.org. Select MIL events can be streamed via NFHSNetwork.com (subscription required).
OUTDOOR YOGA - Join Certified Yoga Teacher Sandy Callendar in a gentle approach to traditional yoga postures. Experience stillness, balance the body & mind and feel more relaxed & recharged. No experience necessary. $10. Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays, 8-9:15am. Waipuilani Park (Kīhei); 808-214-2766; Easyyogamaui.com
FARM ADVENTURE TOUR - Experience an unforgettable adventure in paradise. The sanctuary was created to provide shelter and care for abused and rescued animals, and provide humane treatment education to the community. $50. Mondays & Wednesdays, 12pm & Saturdays, 10am. Leilani Farm Sanctuary (260 E Kuiaha Rd., Haʻiku); 808298-8544; Leilanifarmsanctuary.org
WILD FOODS HIKE - Forage with confidence. Internationally recognized wild food forager Sunny Savage has taught thousands about wild foods. She turns her observations of the natural world into storied solutions on personal hikes. Price of admission is for 4 people to attend. $200. Tuesdays, 10am-12pm. 808-206-8882; Sunnysavage.comSupport@sunnysavage.com;
FARM TOURS - Serving as a teaching farm to promote biodiversity and natural farming practices that nurture the environment, as well as a demonstration site to inspire community members to start a garden, the Maui Farm also offers support in designing, building, and maintaining a school, backyard, or community garden. Meet friendly animals, see how food grows, and learn how to start a garden. Every second Saturday, 9-11am. The Maui Farm (Makawao); 808-579-8271; Themauifarm.org
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LEARN TO PLAY KONANE - AUG 6. More details page 9. Free. Apuakehau Cultural Park (Lāhainā); Lahainarestoration.org
MIND BODY CYCLE - Join 45 minutes of beat-based, cardio blast ride. This is a fullbody cycling class to get physical in a socially engaging and exciting atmosphere! Mondays & Tuesdays, 5:30pm; Fridays, 8:30am. Enjoy the Ride MAUI at Emerald Plaza (118 Kupuohi St., Lāhainā); 808-667-7772; Enjoytheridemaui.com
SELF CARE SUPPORT GROUP - Join Sandra Diaz, LCSW, on a self-care journey. Each group will include rejuvenating mindfulness practices and include mantras, guided meditation, light movement, sound baths, and more self-care strategies to support you in your journey of connecting to and grounding yourself. $25. Thursdays, 5-6pm. Mindful Living Group (1300 Holopono Rd., Kīhei); Mindfullivinggroup.org808-206-9371;
AUGUST 2022 35 This month Lava Rock showcases the masculinity that leads our staff: OUR A.S.S.! Before you put your mind in the gutter, that stands for Artistry of Sultry Spirits!!! Our bartenders are sure to captivate you with their excellent service and talented mixology! Stop on in to say hi, or during UFC, The best place to watch all Pay Per View UFC fights!! You can’t beat our happy hour from 3 PM to 6 PM with ultimate food & drink specials! See you at Lava Rock Bar and Grill! 1945 S. Kihei Rd | LavaRockHawaii.com LAVA SHOWCASEROCK
KIMO’S - Daily: 6-8pm. (845 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-661-4811; Kimosmaui.com
DA PLAYGROUND - Fri, Sat & Sun: various times. (300 Maʻalaea Rd.); 808-727-2571; Daplaygroundmaui.com
THE MAUI FARMS PROGRAMS - Seeking volunteers to assist in service delivery and the maintenance of farm and campus. Individuals can participate in gardening, work in the plant nursery, farm or gardenrelated service project, carpentry, farm structure repairs, welding, mural design, planting, equipment work, assist with fundraising events and various marketing efforts. Tuesdays-Fridays, 9am-12pm. The Maui Farm (Makawao); 808-579-8271; Themauifarm.org
SOUTH SHORE TIKI LOUNGE - Daily: 4-6pm. (1913 S. Kīhei Rd.); 808-874-6444; Southshoretiki.com
MĀLAMA HAWAI’I VOLUNTOURISM
THE WHARF CINEMA CENTER - Mon-Thu: 5-7pm. (658 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-661-8748; Thewharfshops.com
MULLIGANS ON THE BLUE - Daily: 6-8pm. (100 Kaukahi St., Wailea); 808-874-1131; Mulligansontheblue.com
WEED AND POT CLUB - If you love working with native plants, then spend your morning helping the Botanical Gardens thrive through weeding and propagation. Volunteers will help to maintain the public native Hawaiian plant garden by weeding and then potting up plants in the nursery. Come prepared to work with covered shoes and gardening attire. Gloves, tools, snacks, and drinks are provided. Wear cover shoes. Free and open to all. Wednesdays, 8:30-10:30am. Maui Nui Botanical Gardens (150 Kanaloa Ave., Kahului); 808-249-2798; MNBG.org
DOWN THE HATCH - Daily: 8-10am & 3-5pm. (658 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-661-4900; DTHmaui.com
FLEETWOOD’S ON FRONT ST. - Daily: 7:309:30pm. (744 Front St, Lāhainā); 808-669-6425; Fleetwoodsonfrontstreet.com
INU POOL BAR - Sun-Wed: 3:30-5:30pm. (The Westin Nanea Ocean Villas, 45 Kai Malina Pkwy., Kā‘anapali); 808-662-6300; Westinvacationclub.com
MONKEYPOD KITCHEN - Daily: 1-3pm, 4-6pm & 7-9pm. (2435 Kā‘anapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); Monkeypodkitchen.com808-878-6763;
TOOHEY'S BUTCHERY & BISTRO - WedSat: 6-9pm. (824 Kokomo Rd., Haʻiku); 808-856-0311; Tooheysbutchery.com
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KOHOLA BREWERY - Sun, Wed, Fri & Sat: 6-8pm; Mon & Thu: 4-6pm; . (915 Honoapiʻilani Hwy., Lāhainā); 808-446-3007; Koholabrewery.com
NALUʻS SOUTH SHORE GRILL - Sun, Thu & Fri: 6:30pm; Mon-Wed & Sat: 7:30pm. (1280 S. Kīhei Rd.); 808-891-8650; Naluskihei.com
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MAUI BREWING CO. - Daily: 6:30-8:30pm. (605 Lipoa Pkwy., Kīhei); 808-201-2337; Mauibrewingco.com
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PROGRAM - Learn about Maui’s rich history by measuring, describing, photographing, and transcribing historic artifacts and documents from Lāhainā’s past, including Kingdom of Hawai‘i, Missionary, Whaling and Sugar eras. Tuesdays & Thursdays. Lahainarestoration.org
JAVA JAZZ - Daily: 7-10pm. (350 Lower Honoapiʻilani Rd., Lāhainā); 808-667-0787; Javajazzmaui.com
see a full list of events visit our website at calendar.mauitimes.org Submit your upcoming events to shan@mauitimes.org MAUI COUNTY EVENTS Help a goat in need! Volunteer while having tons of fun. See details on this page.
LAS PINATAS OF MAUI - Sun: 7-9pm. (395 Dairy Rd., Kahului); 808-877-8707; Pinatasmaui.com
FARM STAND FOOD TRUCK COURT - Fri: 6-9pm. (111 Stable Rd., Spreckelsville).
HALE KAVA - Sat & Sun: 8-10pm. (1794 S Kīhei Rd.); 808-344-0427
HULA GRILL - Sun-Wed: 2-4pm & 6:309pm. (2435 Kā‘anapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); 808-667-6636; Hulagrillkaanapali.com
DUKES BEACH HOUSE - Daily: 5:30-8pm. (130 Kai Malina Pkwy, Lāhainā); 808-662-2900; Dukesmaui.com
FARM VOLUNTEERING - In search of hands and hearts to help with projects around the farm. Gardening, animal care, carpentry, repair & maintenance, invasive plant removal and more. Mondays & Wednesdays, 9am. Leilani Farm Sanctuary (260 E Kuiaha Rd., Haʻiku); 808-298-8544; Leilanifarmsanctuary.org
WEST
ISLAND FRESH CAFE - Sun: 12:30-2:30pm; Wed: 11:30am-1:30pm; Sat: 12:30-2:30pm. (381 Baldwin Ave., Pāʻia); 808-446-0298; Islandfreshmaui.com
OLOWALU CULTURAL RESERVE - Learn about the environment and the culture of Native Hawaiian land and practices, while malama ‘āina. Help to preserve the biodiversity and beauty of Olowalu reef, which provides coral habitat, food, and shelter to marine species. Wednesdays & Thursdays. Sign up online. Kipukaolowalu.com
REFUGE - Connect with nature and work the soil. Volunteers will help with restoration and conservation projects, land stewardship. Fridays, 8am-12pm, and every third Saturday, 8-11am. Waiheʻe Coastal Dunes Base Yard (Halewaiu Rd., Wailuku); 808-744-AINA; Hilt.org
SOUTH
MAUI COFFEE ATTIC - Daily: various times. (59 Kanoa St., Wailuku); 808-250-9555; Mauicoffeeattic.com
MAHALO ALE WORKS - Mon & Thu: 6-8pm; Sun: 5-7pm. (30 Kupaoa St., Makawao); 808Mahaloaleworks.com
HUIHUI RESTAURANT - Daily: 2-5pm & 5:308:30pm. (2525 Kā‘anapali Pkwy., Lāhainā); 808-667-0124; Huihuirestaurant.com
VOLUNTEERING
OHANA SEAFOOD BAR & GRILL - Daily: 6-9:30pm. (1945 S Kīhei Rd.); 808-868-3247; Ohaseafoodbarangrill.com
LIVE CENTRALMUSIC
PA‘IA BAY COFFEE BAR - Sun: 11am-1pm, and some evenings. (115 Hāna Hwy., Pāʻia); 808-578-3111; Paiabaycoffee.com
MALA TAVERN - Daily: 2-4pm. (1307 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-667-9394; Malatavern.com
HONOKOWAI VALLEY - Beneath the foliage at Honokowai Valley lie numerous archeological sites, including homes, farms, trails, and heiaus. Join regular maintenance projects dedicated to preserving the valley. Saturdays. Maui Cultural Land. (1 Puʻukoliʻi Rd., Lāhainā); 808-276-5593; Mauiculturallands.orgEkoluMCL@hawaii.rr.com;
MONKEYPOD KITCHEN - Daily: 12-2pm & 6-8pm. (10 Wailea Gateway Pl.); 808-891-2322; Monkeypodkitchen.com
THE DIRTY MONKEY - Daily: 3-5pm & 6-8pm. (844 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-419-6268; Thedirtymonkey.com
GILLIGANS BAR & GRILL - Sun: 5-8pm. (Lipoa St., Kīhei); 808-868-0988; Gilligansmaui.com
WHAT ALES YOU - Wed: 6-8pm; Fri: 6:309pm. (1913 S. Kīhei Rd.); 808-214-6581; Whatalesyoukihei.com
THE POUR HOUSE RESTAURANT - FriSun: 5-9pm. (700 Office Rd., Kapalua); 808-214-5296; Thepourhousekapalua.com
WAIHEʻE C OASTAL DUNES & WETLAND
DIAMONDS ICE BAR & GRILL - Sat & Sun: 10am-12pm. (1279 S Kīhei Rd.); 808-874-9299
PITA PARADISE - Sun: 6-8:30pm. (34 Wailea Gateway Pl.); Pitaparadisehawaii.com808-879-7177;
THE SHOPS AT WAILEA - Wed: 4-6pm. (3750 Wailea Alanui Dr.); 808-891-6770; Theshopsatwailea.com
COOL CAT CAFE - Thu-Sun: 6:30-8:30pm. (658 Front St., Lāhainā); 808-667-0908; Coolcatcafe.com
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