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Week of Friday, April 13, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 15

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Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

A RARE PAIR The Butcher and The Fisherman opens in Lihue

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TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK THE NEXT STEP FRIDAY

SPRING DANCE PARTY 7:30 p.m. Church of the Pacific, Princeville.

6:30 p.m. potluck, dance lesson.

Variety of swing, Latin and ballroom music. All levels welcome. No partner necessary. $5.

“DOG SEES GOD” 7 p.m. Puhi Theatrical Warehouse Tickets, kauaicommunityplayers.org SATURDAY

INTERNATIONAL MARCH FOR SCIENCE 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. northwest corner of Ahukini and Kapule Highway To call attention to the importance of science, fact-based decision making, and to support science for the common good. This is a non-partisan event whose objective is to underscore the value of science for every aspect of our lives.

ROOT ‘N SHOOTS FUN RUN 8 a.m. National Tropical Botanical Garden 3.1-mile fun run, un-timed, through scenic McBryde and Allerton gardens. Food, drinks, silent auction. $50 adults, $40 students. Info: bit.ly/2Ip2hjB KEIKI FUN DAY, FITNESS CHALLENGE; YOUTH AMATEUR ‘BURN OUT SUICIDE’ FIREKNIFE COMPETITION 10 a.m. Kapaa Beach Park Entertainment, food, crafts, prizes, fitness course.

DRIVER SAFETY CLASS 8 a.m. to noon, Lihue Civic Center first-floor conference room Fee for AARP members is $15, nonmembers $20. Register with Marga at 823-9635.

“DOG SEES GOD” 7 p.m. Puhi Theatrical Warehouse Tickets, kauaicommunityplayers.org SIERRA CLUB HIKE Halemanu, Back Pipe, Canyon, and Kamuela trails on the Westside The loop includes Waipoo Falls, great views of Waimea Canyon to the ocean. Strenuous 5 miles. Leader: Ken Fasig, 346-1229 KALALAU TRAIL WORK DAY Haena trailhead, 7:30 a.m.

Meet at the trailhead. Tools are provided. Bring food, water, eye protection, gloves. Normally return to trailhead by 1:30 p.m. Carpooling is available from as far away as Lihue. Info: Mark, 639-4746 SUNDAY

JUNGLE RUN Wai Koa Loop Trail, Kilauea, from 7:15 a.m.

Run 7:15 a.m. Wai Koa Loop Trail, walk at 7:20 a.m. $45. Includes one family fun day pass and Jungle Run hat. 1.7-mile student run/walk. Students $25. Run starts at 9:30 a.m., walk at 9:35 a.m. Awards. Info: kilaueajunglerun.com “DOG SEES GOD” 4 p.m. Puhi Theatrical Warehouse Tickets, kauaicommunityplayers.org COOKING DEMONSTRATION WITH RAYMA MONTERO 4:30 to 6 p.m. Sun Village clubhouse, Lihue This month’s recipes: avocado pesto pasta, golden chia pudding, immune health tonic.

Presented by The Vegetarian Society of Hawaii.

RSVP. For info: 858-776-2910 or rayma.montero@gmail.com.

MONDAY

WEST KAUAI BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEETING 6 p.m.

Second quarter general meeting. Speakers will include Kauai Island Utility Cooperative on pumped hydro project and Bill Arakaki, state Department of Education Kauai area superintendent, on school issues.

TUESDAY

SIERRA CLUB HIKE Awa‘awapuhi and Nualolo trails with the newly reopened Cliff Trail connector An all-day hike on the Westside in Kokee. Very strenuous 10 miles. Sweeping views of the ocean from the tops of ridges. Shuttle cars for a one-way hike. Leader: Bob Nishek, 346-0476 WEDNESDAY

HEALTHIER BONES FOR A HEALTHIER LIFE TALK 5:30 p.m. Wilcox Medical Center Free open house and talk-story about topics related to bone and joint health with members of the Wilcox Bone & Joint Center team.

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Movie, discussion encourage respect and dignity

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free community forum and fundraiser addressing sexual misconduct and abuses of power will share ways to move society toward healing and universal dignity.

The impetus behind this forum for societal change is Nadya Wynd, president of Tropicbird Entertainment, a nonprofit theater and entertainment organization based on Kauai.

In 1999, after working in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles and witnessing sexual misconduct firsthand, she wrote, produced and directed “The Beautiful Illusion,” a powerful psychological drama starring Delane Mathews and Tyrone Power Jr. On April 27 at 7:30 p.m., Tropicbird Entertainment presents the drama, along with a panel discussion, #MeToo and Beyond: Taking the Next Step, at the Kapaa Public Library.

“When I tried to market the film in 2000 and 2001, it was a challenge, due to the fact that about 90 percent of the positions of power in the film industry were held by men and the film seemed to make a lot of men uncomfortable,” said Wynd. “With the attention and awareness that the #MeToo movement has generated, I am very grateful that the relevance of the story and theme of ‘The Beautiful Illusion’ can finally be appreciated by a wider audience.”

The 33-minute, narrative film addresses the sexual exploitation of actresses, as well as the ability to forgive. Produced as a Screen Actors Guild experimental film, “The Beautiful Illusion” was an official selection of the New York and Los Angeles Independent Film Festivals, and aired on PBS. In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Tropicbird Entertainment is hosting this event with a screening of the film to start the conversation, followed by a discussion led by a panel of experts. Issues of sexual misconduct and abuse of power in professional relationships, plus solutions

Photo courtesy of Tropicbird Entertainment

Author Robert Works Fuller is keynote speaker and will be part of an April 27 panel discussion to demonstrate how societies can overcome abuse of power and promote dignity.

to the problem, will be explored.

“We also want to invite men to become important allies to women who have been the victims of abuse,” Wynd said. “Attendees of the event will receive the knowledge, understanding and tools to create positive change in their sphere of influence around the fundamental causes of abuse of power.”

The forum will include special video addresses by U.S. Reps. Tulsi Gabbard and Colleen Hanabusa, both of whom are co-sponsors of the ME TOO Congress.

Gabbard has been spearheading the move to end the culture of unwanted sexual exploitation and sexual assault in Congress, the Army, universities and schools across the nation.

“This event is just the beginning,” said Wynd. “Going forward, attendees can stay involved, informed and supported with a list of resources we will provide as they leave.”

Keynote speaker will be Robert Works Fuller, a founder of the Dignity Movement and co-author of its handbook, “Dignity for All.” He is an educational reformer, adviser to presidents, citizen diplomat, author and SEE STEP, PAGE 3

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former president of Oberlin College. Fuller will demonstrate how societies can overcome rank-based abuses of power and promote universal dignity.

One of the most influential female leaders of Kauai, Sabra Kauka, will share her passion for Hawaiian culture.

She has taught Hawaiian studies and hula at Island School and been coordinator of Hawaiian studies for the state Department of Education. She has also been a journalist, historian, environmentalist, anthropologist and activist.

China Huffman, a senior at Island School with her own #MeToo story, will be a voice of youth on the panel.

Kauai marriage and family therapist Donna Charron, a graduate of the American School of Professional Psychology/Argosy University, will share her views as a

Photo courtesy of Tropicbird Entertainment

Island School senior China Huffman said she is excited to inspire social change as a voice on the panel of #MeToo and Beyond: Taking the Next Step.

private practitioner.

“What makes this event especially important is that the independent, non-commercial network Link TV will film the forum for broadcast to 40 million U.S. homes receiving satellite television on DIRECTV, DISH Network, and in 11 Southern California counties on HD channel

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Wynd founded Tropicbird Entertainment in 2015 with two other women — Melissa Mojo and Laurel McGraw — with a mission to produce quality, family theater on Kauai, with an emphasis on social values.

Currently, the organization is fundraising to produce “Nobody’s Boy,” an original, family musical that offers timely messages about the value of home and family, forgiveness and reconciliation, and appreciating differences in culture, religion and language.

“Our generation was the first to enter the workforce after the inception of the women’s movement in the 1960s,” said Mojo, who in 1976 was one of the first women to break through the traditionally all-male barrier in the newspaper industry and work in the newsroom of the New York Daily News. “We had to learn how to navigate the patriarchy of the business world

CENAC’S COMEDY SERIES AIMS TO INFORM, ENTERTAIN DAVID BAUDER ASSOCIATED PRESS

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EW YORK — Wyatt Cenac, the latest entrant in late-night television comedy with a series that debuts Friday on HBO, took inspiration from John Oliver in his desire to inform along with being entertaining.

Cenac’s “Problem Areas” is described as a comedy “docu-series,” and resembles Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” in how each episode has a central story approached

trates on different facets with journalof one story, in this case istic rigor, and policing and how it affects quicker comedifferent communities. dic bits. Oliver The show will air Fridays is an executive at 11:30 p.m. Eastern and producer and Cenac Pacific times. the show’s Podcasts like “Serial” backstage is populated with convinced Cenac that some people who worked with him and also at their shared people are interested in alma mater, “The Daily Show.” stories told in depth, spread over several episodes.

“Problem Areas” has no With its creative graphics studio audience, and in each episode, Cenac travels and a cool vibe, “Problem somewhere different in the Areas” establishes right away that viewers have landed in country to explore aspects of the main story. His entire a different spot than other 10-episode season concen- late-night comedy shows.

and all that came with it, including the glass ceiling and the abuse of power through sexual misconduct, intimidation and harassment.”

McGraw agrees: “It’s heartening to be present at this momentous time when all people are coming together to explore new ways to

address and solve the basic human issues of dignity and respect for all.”

The event is free. Donations will be accepted.

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OUT OF THE BOX AND BEYOND BETHANY FREUDENTHAL TGIFR!DAY

coming into his shop and saw that he had a kitchen, he said there was a demand to start serving box lunches, jerky and poke.

IHUE — For over a de“I just have to roll with cade, one Kalaheo man dreamed of owning his the punches and learn how to cook and see what the own business, but it wasn’t until his 41st birthday in late customers like and eventually then I have to, once the November that his dream kitchen was going smooth, became a reality.

Sitting in his new shop on then I could bring in my Peleke Street, Kelly Hadama meats and fish, so it was like said he started “The Butcher the total opposite way of and The Fisherman” because what I wanted to do,” he said.

Every day, he says, is a he has a passion for cutting challenge. meat and fish.

“I don’t want to be like “It’s a thing I did all my life, good, I want to be always with fishing and hunting. better. What I did yesterday Growing up here on the is, ‘I can do better,” he said. island, it’s a way of life,” he On average, he serves said. “I just grew a passion for about 65 customers during cutting meat and the art of the lunch hour. breaking down the carcass With a focus on locally and having all these different sourced beef, pork and cuts of meat and different seafood from throughout textures and different ways Hawaii, Hadama said starting to prepare it.” his business has been chalHis dream, he said, was to be an old school butcher, lenging because people on Kauai don’t like change. but when people started

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“If you could get people to try new things and step out of the box, it would be great for everybody,” he said.

One of the ways Hadama says he’s doing that is to show local people there’s more than one way to prepare an item.

Though his favorite way to prepare meat is on the grill, he said since opening his business, he has also had to learn new preparation techniques.

“We’ve been trying to put it out there to our box lunches and they seem to like it, so hopefully they’ll catch on and say, ‘let me try and then I’ll try to make my own, and I’ll come in to try the meat,’ they’ll buy the Photos by Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island fish and go home and try to ABOVE: Kelly Hadama of The Butcher and The Fisherman works on an ahi in the facility’s cutmake something similar,” he ting room. BELOW: Casey Ching-Pacheco “sauces” gravy onto the hamburger steak plate at The Butcher and The Fisherman in Lihue. said. “That’s what I’m trying to catch, that crowd.”

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his business is holding onto the local mom-and-pop island style stores he grew up with.

“I’d like to have a oneon-one relationship with the customer and me, I can better serve the customers

by having the one on one relationship and understanding what their needs are and what they’re looking for,” he said.

The supply, he said, is endless, because he can get anything his customers are looking for.

“I can source them out and find them and bring them in,” he said, “so it can

benefit the customer.”

His next goal is to work with chefs in the restaurant business who want to promote local beef and pork.

He’d also like to work with farmers to sell their produce.

“There’s no place you can actually go and say, ‘I want this cut, or that portion, or I want a six-ounce steak, or an eight- ounce steak of this

cut of local beef,” he said. “If they want to put local beef on the plate, I’m pretty sure they have to buy the whole carcass, or half the carcass.”

At his shop, Hadama said he’ll be able to use the part of the carcass the chefs don’t need.

“I have no idea where I’m going in the future, just keeping this place alive and

trying to keep the island mom and pop stores going at least, if it’s a small corner, better than nothing at all, just keeping the local lifestyle alive,” he said. “It’s part of Kauai. If you lose that, than you lose Kauai.”

Kauai, he said, is the last place on the islands that have little mom and pop stores.

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“Eventually, they’re fading off, because none of the kids, my generation, if they’re parents owned a store, they’re all, ‘no I’m not going to do a store.’ If you do away with mom and pop stores, you no more that one-on-one connection with the customers and with quality products,” he said.

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THIS MEMOIR IS A REAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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loha readers!

It has been a little while since we reviewed a biography and we know there are readers out

there who especially love biographies!

If you loved “The Glass Castle,” then you will love this book as well!

For most of us, a formal education is an assumed part of life as much as having air to breathe.

But for some people, even in our modern societies, education is prevented or not allowed at all, and author Tara Westover, in her newly released autobiography entitled “Educated,”

helps us to see through her experiences that this can be a form of abuse in and of itself.

Tara Westover was denied an education while growing up in an incredibly extreme family situation on many levels. She was born to survivalists in the Idaho mountains, completely out of contact with our everyday world, without access to medicines, education, and help at all.

At the age of 17, she es-

caped her family and, after discovering the world most of us know, taught herself the basic education we take for granted. Eventually, by her own effort, she graduated with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Both gripping and provocative, “Educated” will keep you engrossed from the very beginning and doesn’t let go until you have finished the book.

This is a powerful memoir of Westover’s experience

of her own real life family drama. Most people could not relate to the extremes off what Westover experienced and yet we find to share some of the feelings she experienced in her very dysfunctional family in one way or another, which we think might make this autobiography quite universal.

Part of the challenge of reading this story is knowing that the family dynamic the author grew up in still exists and is a

heartbreaking continuing saga for the ones who have not escaped.

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DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON SURVIVES THE RUBBLE THAT IS ‘RAMPAGE’ JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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the diminutive one in “Rampage,” a hopelessly bland and bizarrely self-serious monster movie.

Johnson plays primatologist Davis Okoye in Brad Petyon’s adaption of a classic 1986 arcade game. Naturally, Okoye has some covert military history but — like so many highly trained international commandos — he’s now working at the San Diego Zoo. His time is especially focused on a hulking albino gorilla named George. They are pals, Davis and George, who fistbump and play pranks on one another.

The two are actually a winning pair, but “Rampage,” unfortunately, isn’t the Rock-andmonkey buddy comedy (“The Guerrilla and the Gorilla”?) we might crave. “Rampage” is professional-looking, thanks to the well-integrated effects artistry of Weta Digital. We have

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Dwayne Johnson and a friend appear in a scene from “Rampage.”

become spoiled, perhaps, by affecting computer-generated primates thanks to the “Planet of the Apes” franchise.

Johnson, so recently in the jungle for “Jumanji,” remains a truly indefatigable movie star capable of carrying even the most half-baked of premises with colossal charisma.

“Rampage” would surely sink a less sturdy action star, yet even here the wayward mishmash

of monster-movie tropes only seem to ping off him like bullets deflected by Superman.

The objective of the original 8-bit video game was to, while controlling one of three giant monsters (a gorilla, dinosaur or werewolf ), reduce a city to rubble.

What the film’s writers — Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal, Adam Sztykiel — have come up with from this

skeletal concept is something overly elaborate and curiously humorless.

Tthe only performance really of note in “Rampage” is by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays an agent for an unnamed government agency with wild-eyed, cowboy abandon. The scenery might be digital, but that doesn’t stop him from trying to chew it all.

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UHI — Hundreds of people braved the showers that blanketed Kauai Saturday during the annual Garden Fair hosted by the Kauai County Farm Bureau and the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.

The event was held at Kauai Community College, where Shaunte Sadora of PAU Violence worked on creating blue pinwheels in observance of April being Child Abuse Prevention Month. The pinwheels were joined by the field planted by the Girl Scouts from Troop 823 to welcome event-goers.

Adjacent to the sprawling layout of crafters, informational exhibits and a keiki activity area headed by the 4-H Clubs, the Boy Scouts of America laid out its annual Makahiki, showcasing its youth’s achievements in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math.

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