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MAHELONA HOSPITAL’S FIFTH ANNUAL BREAST CANCER WALK 9:30 a.m. Ke Ala Hele Makalae, behind the Kapaa Neighorhood Center Refreshments, roses, entertainment.

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MATSURI 2017 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall Mochi making, tea ceremony, singing, Japanese dance, Orizuru Peace Tree, soba noodle making, iris folding, crafts, benot, kendo, bonsai, taiko drumming, Torao Hikariyama and Chinami Kaminishi.

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Torao’s notes of nostalgia will ring from the stage at EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Bill Buley | bbuley@thegardenisland.com | 245-0457 about noon.

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It became popular in prewar Japan and lyrics usually revolve around lost love, loneliness and jealousy, and a longing for an idealized Japanese past.

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old and has performed in Japan after being scouted by a producer for Japan’s Fuji TV. The Matsuri Kauai Festival commemorates the 20th anniversary of Hiroshima and Hawaii being sister states, and the centerpiece of the festival is the Orizuru Tree of Peace and Aloha.

The Orizuru Tree is dedicated to Sadako Sasaki, a young girl from Hiroshima who survived the bombing on Aug. 6, 1945. She died Oct. 12, 1955, at the age of 12 from leukemia caused by the fallout.

The tree is also dedicat-

ed to Aiko Nakaya from Waimea, who taught origami art on Kauai. She passed away in June.

On Oct. 7, people can fold orizuru at the festival and place them at a designated Orizuru Tree area.

Japanese origami papers for folding will be provided

by Kauai’s four sister cities in Japan.

“We have the usual,” said Pearl Shimizu, one of the event organizers. “We have drumming and some singers and Japanese dancing, and we have martial arts and mochi pounding, bonsai and a craft fair outside.”

There’s also an opportunity to try on traditional Japanese formal wear, and kimonos will be on hand to dress up in and take pictures, for a fee.

In addition to Torao Hikariyama’s performance, guests can take in a magic show by Shu “Mister Magic” Igari from Iwaki city, as well as dances, songs and taiko performances, an omotesenke tea ceremony, shigin (poetic singing) and soba-making and tasting from Iwaki city.

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OASIS IN PARADISE Beachfront restaurant offers fine dining, live music and ocean scenes

Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner

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Kapaa 4-1387 Kuhio Hwy.

Lihue Harbor Mall, 3501 Rice St.

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Open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Daily (Friday and Saturday til 10 p.m. at Harbor Mall location)

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here are multiple types of sea breezes flowing through the open-air dining room at Oasis on the Beach in Kapaa, and one of them you can most certainly order at the bar.

The restaurant, tucked in a corner of the Waipouli Beach Resort, has a banquet on the beach kind of feel and boasts relaxed oceanfront dining with a menu made of locally sourced ingredients.

Honey-glazed calamari, fresh catch crudo, and crispy

cocktail from Oasis’ creative bartenders who blended the bourbon with cherries, fresh squeezed and locally Okinawan sweet potato chips start off the menu for sourced lime, grapefruit and orange juices, St. Germaine dinner, which begins at 4 elderflower liquor and p.m. daily. house-made ginger beer.

The organic West Coast While the drink didn’t clams in achiote oil and white wine with Portuguese come with a name, its fessausage, cilantro, garlic and tive flavor made me think of shallots made it to my table Christmas.

Dinner entrees at Oasis on on the Tuesday night I chose the Beach are served in half to try out dinner at the and full portions. The Grilled restaurant.

The succulent clams were Catch is worth diving in and ordering the full dinner. paired with a Makers’ Mark JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY

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Chef Sean Smull’s pairing of chermoula sauce and a sherry reduction caters a juicy and pleasantly flaky fish. But, it’s what accompanies the fresh-catch that makes this dish sing — a kabocha pumpkin mash that further instilled a holiday feeling with every bite.

Dinner prices at Oasis on the Beach range between $8 and $15 for pupus. Full sized dinner entrees are priced from $28 and half sizes start at around $16.

The restaurant also serves breakfast, starting at 8 a.m., lunch starting at 11 a.m., and has a happy hour from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily.

A grassy hedge is about all that separates the tables from the ocean, and the dining room’s doors can be closed in short order when an impromptu Hawaiian rainstorm comes through.

The friendly staff lends a classy and casual air to the place, and the bar’s design, reminiscent of a voyaging canoe, creates a good atmosphere for after-dinner drinks.

Food allergies are accommodated without hesitation, and Smull is able to modify nearly the entire menu to accommodate those with gluten and dairy allergies. As with most restaurants, it’s always nice to call ahead and let them know about allergies so the kitchen can prepare in advance.

The beach is just a few feet from the restaurant and a walk in the surf is a great way to end a meal at Oasis, especially if there is live music on tap — and if you time it right, you might just catch the sunset, too.

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Slow Roasted Prime Rib Alaskan King Crab Legs SALADS Fresh Local Greens, Vegetables, Cheeses and a selection of Salad Dressings, Sweet Potato, Potato Mac

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MENEHUNE, MYTHS, LEGENDS AND FOLKTALES CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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loha readers!

You’ve heard of the “Menehune”…

The so-called “little people” of Hawaii (and more

specifically of Kauai) have a plethora of myths, legends, and folktales related to their existence. While there are modern-day interpretations of them as imp-like, similar to gnomes or dwarves (or even leprechauns), it is most fascinating to read what the oldest recorded stories about the Menehune have described these quasi-mythological people to be like.

While the number of books in-print about the Menehune is very scant, we are

fortunate to have available to us readers this reproduction of the 1951 treatise by Katharine Luomala: “The Menehune of Polynesia and Other Mythical Little People of Oceania”, which wonderfully gives us the meat of the information most of us who are interested have been wanting to find.

The Menehune of Hawaii are covered in every available extent that the author could find, relating both the historical records of the mentions

of their existence (such as the 65 self-identified Menehune dwelling in the “Laau” region of Wainiha during the census in the early 1800s) as well as any myths that were available at the time.

Covered in very good detail (including contrary reports) is an overview of their physical legacy: their stonework, to which many places today are still credited to their efforts.

What makes this work even more interesting is how

Luomala brings together all of the other Polynesian myths which are related to the Menehune (even similarly-named such as the “Manahune”), showing how these myths may or may not be related and why.

For anyone wanting to find perhaps one of the best primers on the myths and mythological origins of the ever-elusive Menehune, we highly recommend this book.

Once we started carrying it in our bookstore, it has

become one of our popular sellers!

Enjoy!

••• Ed and Cynthia Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.

Review: Romance, survival mix in ‘The Mountain Between Us’

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despite fine performances by Kate Winslet and Idris Elba.

Based on Charles Martin’s same-named novel, the film is No, no, no. Are you crazy?

They fall in love — kinda, sorta, ably directed by Hany Abu-Asmaybe. Actually, perhaps they sad and centers on the chance meeting at an Idaho airport should have tried something of a photojournalist hoping else because this romance to get home in time for her novel-meets-survival story doesn’t really succeed at either, wedding and a neurosurgeon needing to get back East for Puakea Junior Golf Academy Presents an important operation. An incoming storm shuts down all commercial flights and forces them to seek a charter plane, and it becomes one of the worst advertising for Monday - Wednesday & Friday 8:00 – 12:00 charter flights in history (Quick, $ sell your stocks).

65 per junior The pilot fails to file a flight plan and then crashes after having a heart attack (thanks,

he Mountain Between Us” is about two strangers who survive a plane crash only to end up in the unforgiving snowy Utah mountains, with no cell reception and precious little food. So they do what comes naturally. They try to eat each other.

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Beau Bridges). The crash sequence is remarkable and we’re terrifyingly trapped in the fuselage watching it unfold. Our couple — and an adorable lab owned by the pilot — emerge battered but alive, hundreds of miles from anything.

The film then somewhat unsteadily balances a cute, getting-to-know-you budding respect between two tentative lovers and the raw ravages of survival, which includes cougars, thin ice and deep snow (thanks again, Beau Bridges).

There’s a bit of “Cast Away” and “The Edge” here, as if directed

by Bear Grylls.

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makes our couple opposites — she’s impulsive and has a deep pool of caring and empathy, while he’s methodical.

He focuses on the brain, after all, and considers the heart just “a muscle.”

He thinks it’s wise to stay with the plane wreckage until a rescue team arrives; she thinks they have to venture out and rescue themselves.

“Look, I don’t want to die up here because you’re too scared to take a risk,” she tells him. He, in turn, calls her “reckless” and “selfish.” (His mysterious romantic life and refusal to talk about it also causes a rift).

Abu-Assad and cinematographer Mandy Walker are skillful at showing the freezing dangers our heroes face and do not romanticize the outdoors. They pace the growing affection between the man and woman nicely, too, not rushing the romance there either.

But it’s hard to know what’s churning inside these hearts during a struggle for bare survival. The kind of witty,

rom-com dialogue that can illustrate deepening love over, say, a milkshake and in-line skating can’t be used here (where they’re butchering a cougar) so it’s up to the acting — lingering eyes, a jacket tenderly placed over a sleeping companion — and some weird flashbacks to that jacket tenderly placed over a sleeping companion — must suffice. Elba, so cool at first, melts nicely, while Winslet (not completely convincing in an American accent) shows equal measure strength and softness.

Have they really fallen in love? Was it just situational?

What happens when their normal lives resume? How did the experience change them? All that stuff is sort of dealt with in the final third of the film, but it fails to actually grapple with much of what happened on the mountain. And the biggest question of all is left to the end — did they eat the dog? (No, no, no).

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Kayven Dato, Nevaeh Arruda-Kapu

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James Hauge, Kela Wood

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espite a late-afternoon deluge, things were looking good for the Kapaa High School homecoming at Vidinha Stadium. The junior varsity Warriors had locked up an 18-2 win over Kauai High School, and the score was locked at a 0-0 deadlock.

Homecoming King, wearing the No. 58 jersey of the Warriors, Justin Paleka was joined by Homecoming Queen April Barnes, escorted onto the field by Kaenen Lacaden to reign over the night’s festivities which featured the Kapaa High School Warrior band under the baton of Catherine Paleka and the convoy of specially-decorated golf carts.

Hailey Daligdig donned the crown of Miss Warrior, and Taylor Relacion reigned as Miss Touchdown. Kela Wood wore the banner of Miss Victory, and Erica Elterman was Miss Spirit.

Class representatives included Nevaeh Arruda-Kapu for the Class of 2018, Hannah Collins-Doijode heralding the Class of 2019. Ava Gutierrez led the Class of 2020 and Lily Cummings represented the freshman Class of 2021.

Justin Paleka

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