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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. MUSIC:

Disco-Dance-A-Thon

4. DINING OUT KAUAI: Lava Lava Beach Club

5. MUSIC:

In the Name of Aloha Concert

6. BOOK REVIEW:

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY BICYCLING SKILLS 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Kapaa Library Learn bike handling skills for adults. Free.

ROTARY CLUB OF HANALEI BAY GREATEST GARAGE SALE EVER 8 a.m. to noon Kilauea Mini Storage

BOOK SALE 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Koloa Library

CRAFTERS FAIR 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Church of the Pacific

QUILT SHOW 11 a.m.

Kukui Grove Center Kauai Society of Artists. Over 60 quilts will be on display with many for sale.

KOKEE HIKE Join the Sierra Club on a 7-mile hike. 346-1229 WALK WITH A DOC 7 to 9 a.m.

Wilcox Memorial Hospital Lobby A one-mile walk around the Wilcox campus with Dr. Stephen Coleman. Stay for breakfast. Free.

WHISKY-O CONCERT 7 to 9 p.m.

St. Michael’s and All Angels Church $12 advance, $15 door. 651-5819

Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii

SPLASH DAY 9 a.m.

Wailua River Park Puuwai Canoe Club is having a

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The Saturday Market for March

MON ‘LEAP INTO HAWAIIAN MUSIC’ 6 p.m.

Kauai Beach Resort, Jasmine Ballroom Music by Willie K and His Band. Tickets start at $38.

TUE 3D PRINTING 6 p.m.

Kapaa Public Library Learn how 3D printing and 3D modeling software work at this talk and live demo by Kauai Makerspace.

KILAUEA DANCE CLASS FOR ADULTS 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Kilauea Neighborhood Center Class costs $20 for 5-week series or $5 drop-in. Sponsored

by YMCA North Shore Dance Club and the Kauai Parks and Recreation Department.

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RAMP CONTEST 10 a.m.

Kauai Mini Golf Skate tournament for skaters 5 and up. Registration 10 a.m. to noon, with competition noon to 5 p.m.

828-2118 KEIKI DAY 9 a.m.

Na Aina Kai Botanical Gardens Play in the fountain, and discover kid-friendly features. $10 HAM RADIO EXAMS 3 p.m.

KIUC Conference Room Kauai Amateur Radio Club is having an exam session for obtaining or upgrading FCC Amateur Radio Operator licenses. No walk ins, register at hamexams@kauaimail.net

WED ‘THE TINY TREE’ 10:30 a.m.

Lihue Public Library 3 p.m.

Hanapepe Public Library The Honolulu Theatre for Youth will present “The Tiny Tree,” a free new show for preschoolers.

COMMITTEE MEETING 6 p.m.

Kapaa Neighborhood Center The KKCR Programming Committee will meet to agree on 2016 goals and action plans and to begin work on those plans.

DINNER AND MOVIE 5 to 8 p.m.

King’s Chapel GALA AUCTION 5 p.m.

Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa Island School’s gala with silent auction, dinner, entertainment and more. 246-0233 PRINCE KUHIO DAY 11 a.m.

Anahola Beach Park Celebrate Prince Kuhio with entertainment, hula performances, arts, food and more.

‘IN THE NAME OF ALOHA’ 6 p.m.

Historic Waimea Theater Film concert and Hoike. $15

THU ‘THE TINY TREE’ 11 a.m.

Princeville Public Library The Honolulu Theatre for Youth will present “The Tiny Tree,” a free new show for preschoolers.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Courtyard by Marriott The Kauai Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii on Energy Efficiency For Your Business workshop. $15, register online at cochawaii.chambermaster.com.

‘TWELFTH NIGHT’ 5 p.m.

Island School Theatre An entertaining comedy of mistaken identities, misguided love and mirthful revenge. $6 advance, $8 door.

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PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC …and dance to it, too.

This year, that show is titled The Mokan NoKan Roadhether you’re lookshow, and it’s based ing for “Funkytown” on a television show or a place where “It’s the studio is creating.

Raining Men,” you’ll find your “We’ve produced mark on March 26 in Lihue, the pilot episode where you can Boogie Oogie and the vision is to Oogie for three straight hours make it into a series to classic disco hits. featuring a lot of The Disco-Dance-A-Thon, our past students as sponsored by the Kauai dancers,” Bell-Gray Dance Center, is a fundraiser said. for student scholarships at All of the music the Kauai Dance Center. It and choreography runs from 3-6 p.m., and there has been created for will be prizes for the bestthe show, which will dressed disco dancer in the debut on May 14 at house. the Kauai Marriott Photo courtesy Mike Teruya There will also be a car Resort. It will feature Olivia Lutkevich dances in last year’s wash from noon to 2 p.m. dance styles like Kauai Dance Center’s production. and a silent auction. ballet, hip-hop, lyrical The nonprofit studio was and hula.

Jennifer is a graduate of started in 1998 by husband The production will be London’s Royal Ballet, and and wife Jennifer and Mel Kauai Dance Studio’s 19th Mel is a singer/songwriter, Bell-Gray, who both have show on the island. filmmaker, and director. Tobackgrounds in dance.

“Everyone gets equal gether, they created a studio “We’ve created a program that caters to anyone from attention in these shows, that’s really including of peo- ages 3 to adult and gives so there’s not just one star,” ple,” Jennifer Bell-Gray said.

Bell-Gray said. “The shows are them the opportunity to “Our philosophy is anyone crafted around the dancers dance in an annual, original can dance.” and so they highlight their show.

strengths.”

Kauai Dance Studio started with around 40 students and now has about 100. Those students will bring pledge forms to the Disco-Dance-AThon, where supporters will

pledge money if they complete three hours of disco dancing that evening.

“It’s open to the public too, and it’s free so everyone can come out,” Bell-Gray said.

“Really, it’s an opportunity

to sponsor students for the upcoming year in dance.”

There will be refreshments and games. VIP tickets are $30, and include an organic plate lunch.

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TOES IN THE SAND JENNA CARPENTER TGIFR!DAY

“I couldn’t get people out of their chairs to turn the tables over because people estled on the Coconut were staring at the whales,” Coast of Kauai, Lava he said.

Lava Beach Club Located on Papaloa Road offers diners the ultimate in Kapaa, Lava Lava Beach experience: eating with their Club opened in January. It toes in the sand. already has become a staple “We’ve had some people for residents and tourists, leave their shoes here,” said Fuentes said.

Jose Fuentes, restaurant “We’ll have guys soaking manager. wet, come in, and grab a Lava Lava Beach Club table,” he said. gives its guests views of the Breakfast is a good stop sunrise, sunset and marine for people who want to get life. an early start before hiking A couple weeks ago, or for those who want to diners and restaurant staff award themselves with a watched in awe as whales nice breakfast after hiking all started jumping in and out morning, Fuentes said. of the water, Fuentes said.

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Lava Lava Beach Club offers unique dining experience the pancakes, which can be filled with macadamia nuts, bananas, blueberries or bacon, the Big Wave Burrito, Ahi Cake Benedict and Hapa Laka Loco Moco, a half Portuguese sausage and beef patty, which is served with two eggs, fried rice and mushroom gravy.

The pancakes are “monsters,” Fuentes said.

“You get three big, fat and stacked pancakes, so you have to be a hefty eater to finish it,” he said. “I never have.”

Executive chef Shane Galan said the Hapa Laka Loco Moco and the Ahi Cake Benedict are his favorite dishes.

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“The Hapa Laka is comfort food for me,” the Big Island native said.

Galan said he likes the Ahi Cake Benedict because it gives a new twist on a classic dish. The dish, which is served topped with cooked ahi and wasabi, “gives a Pacific infusion to a classic Jenna Carpenter / The Garden Island Eggs Benedict,” he Jose Fuentes, manager of Lava Lava Beach Club, poses with the Hapa said.

Lake Loco Moco, a breakfast dish made with Portuguese sausage and Galan, who was beef patty, served with two eggs, fried rice and mushroom gravy. worked as a chef on Galan’s favorite part about want to be outside,” he said. the Big Island and in Las VeLava Lava Beach Club got working on Kauai is the gas, said he was introduced its start on The Big Island. ocean. to the kitchen as a teenager.

The proprietors, Scott Dodd “I moved here from Vegas, “My mom was a pastry and Eric von Platen Luder, so all I saw was walls, ” he chef at the Royal Kona also own Huggo’s, On the said.

“Here, I get to smell, Resort, so I worked at the Rocks and Paradise Gourhear and taste the ocean. ” bakery,” he said. “I got my met Catering, all on the Big It’s that atmosphere that start in baking, but I wanted Island. gets people to keep coming to get in the food scene.”

There are prequisites for He worked as a sous chef back, Fuentes said. all Lava Lava restaurants, When breakfast is busy, for six years at various restauFuentes said. the staff can serve up to 200 rants, both on Hawaii and “You have to have a people.

And while there are the Mainland, before gaining beach, and you have to be inside dining options, most the executive chef title at able to take your shoes off people opt to eat outside, Lava Lava Beach Club on and have your toes in the Fuentes said.

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eeply rooted in the Kahiko nd Auana of Kau’ai, reminisce as we tell the story with the essence of our Kupuna.” — Ka Ipu Ha’a ‘O kekau’ ilani Na Pua Hala ‘O Kau’ai “In the Name of Aloha Concert” presented by Kumu Puna Kalama Dawson and her Haumana Ka Ipu Ha’a ‘O kekau’ ilani Na Pua Hala ‘O

Kau’ai, will feature a documentary film and a concert of Hawaiian mele and hula. Join them in the sharing lei of memories to honor Loea Kumu Hula Lokalia Montgomery and their Hula lineage, Aunty Sally Woods Naluai, Aunty Nana Kekau’ilani Kalama, Aunty Maiki Aiu Lake, and Aunty Nellie Wong Hookano Nunes on Saturday at the

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and/or second-generation kumu hula uniki (graduated) under her, or is an off-spring Continued from page 5 of one who has worked closely with Aunty Nana. tions. She realized the only A special guest of honor way to change this was to is Kauai’s own Aunty Nellie go out into the world and Wong Hookano Nunes who educate people through moved to Kauai just two hands-on experiences. days after her kumu hula With Hawaiian musicians uniki, when she married Puand hula dancers, she na’s Uncle Arthur Hookano. traveled around the globe Aunty Nellie has been a to bring people together in the name of aloha. This was mentor to Puna, especially during her early childhood the intention in everything she did. After she passed on, visits to Kauai to work in the her son Kai continued on her salt beds at the Hanapepe Salt Ponds. work until he joined her in From Aunty Nellie’s teachheaven. ings, Puna gained a deeper Today, Aunty Nana’s understanding of how daughter Kumu Puna Kalathe kupuna created mele ma Dawson carries on her mother’s wishes to the spirit and hula to preserve and of Aloha around the world in perpetuate significant details programs she calls — In the in culture. Aunty Nellie raised her family in Hanapepe and Name of Aloha. celebrates hula with her chilLast September was the dren and grandchildren.

50th anniversary of Aunty Education is a high priority Nana’s legacy. This weekend’s concert will showcase for Puna, who passionately contributes to Kanuikapono the lineages of each Kumu Charter School in Anahola who contributed to Aunty Nana’s legacy as either a first and Kauai’s Polynesian voy-

aging canoe the Namahoe.

Puna is quoted, “Kanuikapono is a big part of our haumana. Both the charter school and the Namahoe are important education centers for our island. The Namahoe will soon be in the water, and how lucky we are to have our own floating classroom.”

Today, working quietly, Puna continues to connects people and nurtures relationships to bridge na ohana — families and communities. Joyfully warms hearts and uplifts spirits by simply sharing hula and Hawaiian ways, all the while paying close attention to signs sent from her ancestors.

Currently, Puna is developing an international student exchange program between Kauai, Japan and Europe.

In the Name of Aloha Concert program begins at 6 p.m., doors open at 5:30 p.m. and tickets are $15.

Info: (808) 651-0799 or email: inthenameofalohaconcert@gmail.com.

HERE’S HOW HAWAII GOT HERE

first contact with Hawaii and the United States annexation of the Republic of Hawaii. Indeed, as Haley points out, those 120 years afCYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS fected the culture SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY and history of the Hawaiian Kingloha, fellow readers as dom in ways that well as history lovers! were ultimately One of the most inevitable. exciting aspects about “Captive Parastudying history is that dise” makes the there are always a variety of case that Hawaii, viewpoints, especially with due solely to its the vast array of informageography and tion that is out there. easy to upset both those for the geopolitical forces of “Captive Paradise: A and against such a notion. the time, would have been History of Hawaii” by James However, we have forced to make a choice Haley, is a wonderful exerfound Haley’s book to be eventually regarding its cise in objectivity. There is a well-crafted and highly future on the world stage. often a trend in history to researched examination of Haley argues, convincingly, pick one side or the other the numerous moments that given Hawaii’s growing when histories are being in Hawaii’s history that led strategic importance in chronicled. Indeed, even it to the place we know the Pacific Ocean, had the Hawaiian sovereignty is still it as today. Haley demonannexation not happened a hot topic, and it can be strates how little-known by the United States, then it facts make clear that both would have been Russia, or those of non-Hawaiian even Japan. influence and those within Haley’s book definitely the Kingdom itself each creates conversation and a equally participated in what desire to delve even deeper became of Hawaii. into a complicated history Following in the that is still controversial well-studied tradition of today. Enjoy!

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MARKETING FOR EVERYONE K arin Panui and her sister Made Jimenez have the best items, said Diane Piskun of Buffalo, New York, during the Saturday Market at the All Saints’ Preschool and Church in Kapaa.

“We always make it a point to come and see what they have,” Piskun said.

“Today, we have visitors from Massachusetts, Patty and Dennis, who we invited to come with us.”

The market on the second Saturday of the month coincides with the county’s eWaste program.

“The program is going to end soon,” said Cece Caldwell. “We set it up so people

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wouldn’t be making all those trips to the collection site.

They drop it off here and we save anywhere up to a dozen trips to Lihue, if not more.

We probably have one, or two more times remaining so I’m hoping they work out something.”

The Saturday Market for March benefited the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event coming up in April.

“The kids got a sleepover out of this,” said Rev. Ryan Newman. “The ladies hosted the kids from after school, Friday to prepare for this market, and they ended up staying overnight.”

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