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SONGS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS Slack-key concert supports nursing, music students

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ince 1916, The Mokihana Club has been supporting Kauai’s healthcare system, starting with the first public health nurse hired to the island that year.

And Saturday, March 9, the club is continuing the tradition into 2019 with a fundraising concert that will raise scholarship money for nursing and music students at Kauai Community College.

“Each year the club does some big event to raise money,” said Terri Gately, club spokeswoman and member. “In the past they’ve done the golf scramble, and this year we’ve decided to do this big concert.”

Headlining The Mokihana Club Scholarship Benefit Concert and Silent Auction are Hawaiian slackkey guitar masters Keola Beamer and Jeff Peterson, with Moanalani Beamer.

“We’re real excited about that, and love their music, and most people in the community are familiar with them,” Gately said.

The silent auction items have poured in from all over the island, and people can bid on hotel stays and restaurant gift certificates, spa treatments, quilts and tours.

“There’s such a variety of items in all price ranges, with something for everyone,” Gately said.

There’ll also be a no-host bar so people can get wine and beer.

The event will be at the AquaKauai Beach Resort. Doors open at 6 p.m. for the silent auction and the concert starts at 7 p.m.

Proceeds go to the scholarship fund. That partnership between

Photo by Kim Taylor Reece

Jeff Peterson will perform slack-key guitar music at the Mokihana Club’s scholarship fundraiser Saturday, March 9, at the Aqua Kauai Beach Resort near Hanamaulu. ON THE COVER: In this contributed file photo, Keola Beamer performs live on stage.

The Mokihana Club and KCC was created in 2003.

Music came onto the scene in 1955, when The Mokihana Club sponsored the first performance of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra on Kauai.

Though the sponsorship of music programs was taken over by the Kauai Concert Association, The Mokihana Club was still interested in helping young people with

musical talent.

An annual music scholarship was established, one that awards scholarships to qualifying high school graduates who wish to pursue musical studies.

Lately, The Mokihana Club has about 20 people apply for the scholarships in total, with a majority of the applications coming from SEE SONGS, PAGE 3

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Becky Fries, chair of The Mokihana Club Nursing Scholarship Committee (back center), is pictured with nursing students who received Mokihana Club scholarships in 2018.

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the medical sector of study.

In 2018, about 15 scholarships were given out for nursing students, and six were given out to music students.

“It’s a nice amount so they (students) can get started in college. Each scholarship might be different,” Gately said. “Usually, it’s

about $20,000 to the nursing program and $5,000 or $10,000 for music students, depending on funds. There’s far more nursing students who apply.”

To date, a total of $112,000 in scholarships has been awarded to honor and support students who choose to study nursing.

Founded by Mable Wilcox, The Mokihana Club is open to all women, and the mission is to “be a force of

social and cultural stimulation, and to undertake civic development and improvement on the island of Kauai.”

Tickets are $50 for general admission and $75 for golden circle admission. They can be purchased at www. themokihanaclub.org or by calling 755-5235.

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For the second straight year, Island Volcano Seasoning captured the Golden Chile First Place Cook Off — Dry Seasoning/Rub Fowl category at the Fiery Food Challenge in Irving, Texas.

“Salty Wahine made a huge repeat splast at the Fiery Food Challenge with our second entry in this prestigious event,” said Laura Cristobal Andersland, owner of Hanapepe-based Salty Wahine.

“Salty Wahine erupted for five awards — two first-place awards, first place People’s Choice in Spice Rub for the second year, and two third-place awards. I can’t believe we beat all these Texas barbeque rubs for two years in a row. It is nice to know that Kauai products can compete internationally and hold our own.”

In addition to the Golden Chile first place in the Dry Seasoning/ Rub Fowl category, Island Volcano earned a second Golden Chile in the Dry Seasoning/Rub Pork category, and went on to earn its second People’s Choice award in the Dry Seasoning/Rub category.

Third-place awards include Island

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Wynona Adams of the Salty Wahine visitor center celebrates the firm’s Island Volcano.

Volcano getting third for Cook-Off Food: Seasoned Salt category, and Cook-Off Food: Table Seasoning category.

Salty Wahine Hawaiian Rub earned third place for Dry Seasoning/Rub Fruit Vegetable category.

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sumer Ready, for Salty Wahine Passion Fruit, Orange, Guava Pepper, and a third place for Island Curry in the Condiments Exotic category.

Cristobal said her sister, Lori Cardenas, owner of Aunty Lilikoi Products, also captured two Golden Chiles at the Fiery Foods Challenge — one for her Passion Fruit

Wasabi Mustard and the other for her Passion Fruit Keawe Barbeque Sauce. Aunty Lilikoi also earned a second-place award for her Passion Fruit Wasabi Dressing.

The Fiery Food Challenge pits products from across the United States and internationally against one another in more than 85 cate-

gories. Professional judges evaluate hundreds of sauces, salsas and other spicy treats before awarding first-, second- and third-place prizes in each of the categories.

The awards are also displayed at Zest Fest, a spicy, zesty and flavorful food event held during the Fiery Food Challenge at the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, Texas.

“Island Volcano was developed by my son Sean just three years ago,” Cristobal said. “He wanted a rub better than his mom’s Hawaiian Rub, and came up with a spicy version of Hawaiian Rub. With the Fiery Food Golden Chiles, Island Volcano has already earned 18 international awards. Salty Wahine has picked up 36 international awards for its products, 17 of which belong to Island Volcano.”

Wynona Adams, the most recent associate in the Salty Wahine visitor center, said Island Volcano brings heat to food.

“I use it on a lot of stuff I cook with,” Adams said. “I like the heat, and it’s easy to use. I use it on fish, pork chops, steak, and even white rice — you know, how people use shoyu?”

Cristobal said Salty Wahine has been invited to submit its products for Best Rub on the Planet honors SEE VOLCANO, PAGE 5

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“We decided we were going to submit Island Volcano and Hawaiian Rub,” Cristobal said. “A mother-son combination. We’ll wait and

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The one week engagement starts Friday on over 1,150 screens in the U.S. and Canada.

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Aside from having a brilliantly designed, eye-catching cover, and a title and subtitle which we have seen capture the interest of a wide variety of people, this book’s true story speaks to that part of us that seeks greater meaning in our lives. Sometimes that part can cause us to just go and follow a calling without a clear direction, yet

but we have to go. And this drive can come at any age or any time.

Jaimal Yogis presents us with his exploration of following such a path. As a teen who felt deep within that there was something more than the life expected for him, he took off for Hawaii with a copy of Herman Hesse’s famed book “Siddhartha,” and bought a surfboard when he got there.

Jaimal takes us along with him on his own journey

of risk and discovery. His thoughts and writing touch with surprising, insightful depth, and his personal discoveries have a universal spiritual quality that speaks to the essence that is within all of us.

Jaimal Yogis tells his tale with humor in easy-to-read, short chapters, making it accessible to anyone of any age or background — a brilliant inspiration borrowed from Hesse’s writing style in “Siddhartha.”

In the end, we can tell this is a book that seems to hold special significance to folks who buy it in our store, because we almost never see a used copy brought back in for store credit!

Reason why: it a wonderful book to read again and again.

Explore Jaimal’s journey, and discover your own as well!

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

IN ‘APOLLO 11,’ THE THRILL OF LANDING ON THE MOON JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS

thing you don’t already know about the moon landing. But it will make you feel it, and see it, anew. Miller has condensed the eight-day expedihe 1969 mission to the moon tion into an immersive thrill ride, has been seen in many from launch to return, that puts you phases before, but never with in the shuttle with the astronauts the shining, crystal-clear fullness of and in Mission Control’s ear. It’s the Todd Douglas Miller’s extraordinary grandeur of Apollo 11 distilled down “Apollo 11” (three and a half stars to its still jaw-dropping essence. out of four), a documentary culled Much of the emphasis is on how from archival footage and audio the drive to the moon was so much recordings that in heart-stopping, broader than the two astronauts minute-by-minute detail, recaptures who carried out John F. Kennedy’s the propulsive force of man’s most 1962 pledge. Kennedy’s words glorious feat, giving new resonance Neon / CNN Films via AP (“We choose to go the moon in this to those beautiful, headlong Mission Astronaut Buzz Aldrin prepares for liftoff in a scene from “Apollo 11.” decade and do the other things not Control words: “We Are A Go.” because they are easy, but because toward the launch site.

It could be a Timed to the upcoming 50th dio recordings and, occasionally, the they are hard”) hang over the movie shot from “Star Wars” or any number sonorous gravity of Walter Cronkite’ s anniversary of the lunar landing, of science fictions the moon mission with a kind of fervor and ambition broadcasts.

“Apollo 11” was compiled partly birthed. Later we see Neil Armstrong, that today sounds downright alien.

The clarity of the large-format from a previously forgotten trove Later, while the spacecraft is in Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in and restored images is startling. So of 70mm film that includes footage mid-flight to the moon, news of from the launch, the Cape Canaveral much of the imagery from the moon their suits before putting on their Chappaquiddick and Ted Kennedy helmets, and it’s like we’ve never crowds watching outside J.C. Penny’s landing has by now flattened into will play on NASA television sets seen their faces — confident, with iconography, but, here, the event is and along motel balconies, and the while onlookers, drawn back to an almost mischievous glint — so brought back to life. Miller starts on astronauts’ recovery. It features no earth, momentarily gawk. talking heads or narration, just audio the cusp of launch as the enormous well.

But it’s in the thousands who “Apollo 11” might not tell you anyfrom some 11,000 hours of NASA au- platform is moved by giant tracks

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contributed to the mission that the magnitude of the effort comes through. Their faces are seen in montages and their voices are heard, again and again, on NASA radio: a multitude who at every significant turn confirms that their department is, indeed, “a go.”

We have, of course, been to the moon before at the movies. Most recently, there was Damien Chazelle’s rigorous if overly brooding “First Man,” which — despite its many fine attributes — looks all the more muted in comparison to “Apollo 11.” More notable was Al Reinert’s brilliant and similarly verite-styled 1989 documentary “For All Mankind,” which also used NASA archival footage and a good score (from Brian Eno) to recreate Apollo moon missions.

But in 2019, as we are writing obituaries for the deceased Mars Rover (“It was 15”), “Apollo 11” feels even more like another time and another world. What was this splendid, sunny American dream and where did it go?

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Bryon Schumuland Runners from Kekaha Crossfit collect trash

The start of the Captain Cook Caper Run 5K

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bout 200 runners completed either the 2K, 5K or 10K distances of the 42nd annual Captain Cook Caper Run on Saturday in Waimea.

Everyone, from the keiki to the kupuna who fell into the 51-to-99 age group, had a good time in the race that benefits Waimea High School programs.

The weather was pretty much close to ideal, with sunshine, blue skies and a nice breeze.

The race was part of the Waimea Town Celebration.

Kawaihoola Curnan was the 10K in 37:45. Alex Dutcher led the women in the 10K in 39:21.

Jeremy Gibbons won the 5K in 21:03, while Hildegarde Miyasir led the women in 24:06.

Sean Mullikin led the 2K in 8:37, while Makana Duncan was also clocked in 8:37.

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