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Week of Friday, October 26, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 43

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SPOOKTACULAR HAPPENINGS

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

Your complete guide to freaky fun is inside

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SPAGHETTI NIGHT IN THE PUMPKIN PATCH 5:30 to 8 p.m. Kauai Beach Resort Jasmine Ballroom Spaghetti, garlic bread, salad, hot cider. $15. Games for kids, costume contest for keiki and adults.

OHANA MOVIE NIGHT FEATURING DISNEY PIXAR’S “COCO” 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Shops at Kukuiula Join for a family movie night under the stars, complete with popcorn and lucky prizes. Free event. Movie starts at sunset.

BOOS AND BOOZE 6 p.m. Waimea Theatre Drinks, movie, the original “Halloween.” Costume contest, trivia, treats, swag bag for first 25 to register. $35 advance, $40 at the door. Proceeds benefit Relay for Life of Kauai. Info: www.teampurplepalooza.myevent.com EDGAR CAYCE STUDY GROUP 4 p.m. Kapaa Neighborhood Center Studying cooperation, meditation, reincarnation and the EC philosophy. Info: George, 214-762-3045 SATURDAY

KISS ROCKTOBER CONCERT 7 p.m. All Saints Church, Kapaa Suggested donation $10. Kauai Island Singers Showcase presents its annual concert with lots of rock ‘n’ roll songs — some with a Halloween theme.

KAUAI MEN’S CONFERENCE 2018 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Smith’s Tropical Paradise The conference will explore perspectives of manhood that are cultural, military, socio-political, and religious/spiritual to gain clarity and promote understanding and growth. Register: kauaimensconference.com SUNDAY

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SPEAKS 5 p.m. Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club ballroom Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, 95, will share his story of his fight for survival and his message of hope. Student tickets $5. Register: www.thekauaievent.com THIRD ANNUAL HALLOWEEN BIKE PATH COSTUME RIDE 4 to 5:30 p.m. Kapaa Neighborhood Center

Ride north on Ke Ala Hele Makalae. Presented by East Side United Soccer Club.

Free to all riders. Helmets required for bicylists under 16 years old. Info: Butch: 635-0388 POOL CLOSED The county Kapaa swimming pool is closed today due to staff shortage.

WALK THE PATH OF 88 SHRINES Lawai International Center, guided tours at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m.

Enjoy at day at this archaeological and hidden cultural treasure in Lawai Valley.

The center is open to the public on the second and last Sunday of every month or by appointments only. Donations are appreciated. Info: www.lawaicenter.org TUESDAY

HALLOWEEN BUSINESS AFTER HOURS 5 to 7 p.m., The Specific Chiropractic Center, Lihue Haunted house, pumpkin-carving contest, costume contest. $30. Info: 245-7363 WEDNESDAY

HEALTH FOOD HANDOUT 5 to 8 p.m., stone building on Kilauea Road Emerald Isle Properties will be handing out healthy organic goodies. All ages welcome. Info: 808-443-8839 PLASTIC-SORTING PARTY 3:30 to 6 p.m. Plastic Pollution Processing Center, 4532 Lehua Street, Kapaa Volunteer to sort and recycle plastic. Info: 635-2593 BREATH OF LIFE FALL-O-WEEN FESTIVAL 5:30 to 9 p.m. 4303 Rice Street, Rice Shopping Center, Lihue Candy, face-painting, games, pizza. Info: 246-6102 BOOT CAMP FOR BUSINESS OWNERS, INNOVATORS 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Kukui Grove Center, Unit E7 Kauai Economic Development Board has partnered with Startup Experience in San Francisco to run a one-day camp to help create new opportunities for growing your business. $65. Register: bit.ly/2A74P3L

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HALLOWEEN FUN FOR ALL H

alloween can be the scariest night of the year — or it can simply be a whole lot of fun and a great time to dress up, party and eat candy.

Here’s a list of where you’ll find plenty of ghost and goblins waiting to have a spooky good celebration.

Friday, Oct. 26 w Trunk or Treat: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free and kid friendly. Kings Chapel, Hanamaulu. Trunks full of candy, costumes and games, food booths and concession stands. w Kauai Christian Academy’s Annual Fall Festival: 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Kauai Christian Academy campus. Professional magician, pumpkin patch, corn maze, pony rides, petting zoo, live music, bounce houses, hay rides, carnival games, enchanted castle, cotton candy and local food vendors. w Tahiti Nui’s Voodoo Ranger Party: Featuring music, three bars and a voodoo swamp vibe. Costume contests on tap.

No masks. “Designated driver” shuttles running from SEE HALLOWEEN, PAGE 3

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Princeville and Kilauea to Tahiti Nui. Cost is $10 cover at the door; 21 and over only. ◗ Spaghetti Night in the Pumpkin Patch: 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Kauai Beach Resort Jasmine Ballroom.

Family friendly event. $15 per person. All you can eat spaghetti, three types of sauces, garlic bread, salad and hot cider. Costume contest, silent auction, trick or treat at the scarecrow patch and more family fun.

Tickets available at the door.

Info: 245-1955 ◗ Nightmare in Waimea: Are you brave enough to go upside down and inside out? Folks are turning Waimea Canyon Park upside down and inside out at this year’s annual Haunted Village. We’ll be waiting for you. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. is the non scary time for younger children. 7:30p.m. to 11 p.m. is not recommended for

on Ke Ala Hele Makalae. Presented by East Side United Soccer Club. Free to all SEE HALLOWEEN, PAGE 6

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Visitors to the community haunted house at Kukui Grove Center brave the giant teddy bear.

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Halloween

stands. ◗ Third annual Halloween Bike Path Costume Ride: 4 to 5:30 p.m. Kapaa Neighborhood Center. Ride north

Free and kid friendly. King’s Chapel in Eleele behind Big Save. Trunks full of candy, costumes and games, food booths and concession

younger children. Donations accepted at the door.

Halloween movies starting at sundown. ◗ Boos and Booze: 6 p.m. drinks, movie, “Halloween,” original, 8 p.m. Costume contest, trivia, treats, swag bag for first 25 to register. $35 advance, $40 at the door. Proceeds benefit Relay for Life of Kauai. www.teampurplepalooza.myevent.com Saturday, Oct. 27 ◗ Trunk or Treat: 7 p.m.

St. Theresa Catholic School.

Games, contests, food, prizes. Costume contest for all ages, 6 p.m.; movie on the lawn, 7 p.m. ◗ Paint Your Own Sugar Skull: noon to 2 p.m. Painting Paradise Art Studio in Waimea, next to L&L Hawaiian BBQ. Artist Marionette Taboniar will demonstrate step-by-step how to paint a sugar skull while everyone does their own design on an 8x10 canvas. Free if you bring your own art supplies.

The cost is $20 for those who need arts and crafts

supplies. Reservations and costumes encouraged. Info: 631-9173 ◗ Kauai Christian Academy ‘s Annual Fall Festival: 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Kauai Christian Academy’s Kilauea campus.

Pumpkin patch, pony rides, corn maze, petting zoo, live music, bounce houses, hay rides, carnival games, enchanted castle, cotton candy and local food vendors. ◗ Alohaween Party: 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. WB’s Exclusive Lounge, Lihue. Hosted by Dj Lady Dee. Come in costume and be ready to have a blast with a best costume contest, dance shows, raffle prizes and give-aways. ◗ Rocktober Concert: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. All Saints Episcopal Church, Kapaa. Kauai Island Singers Showcase presents annual concert with rock ‘n’ roll songs. Room to dance, costumes encouraged, costume contest.

Suggested donation $10.

Sunday, Oct. 28 ◗ Glow Show & Trunk or Treat: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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PHO REAL, PHO KAUAI

Vietnamese eatery more than just noodles

BETHANY FREUDENTHAL TGIFR!DAY

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n any given weekday during the lunchtime hour, you’ll find a small, hole in the wall restaurant nestled between the Kauai Bowling Center and another eatery on Rice Street, packed with county and state workers filling their empty stomachs with warm bowls of golden, silky broth.

The robust broth is made daily and added to it are moist pieces of chicken and your choice of bean sprouts, mint, jalapeno pepper slices, tamari, siracha and a squeeze of fresh lime.

Become a regular and the waiters will memorize your order and greet you with an enthusiastic, “chicken noodle,”

or whatever it is you like.

But Pho Kauai is much more than just pho. A quick perusal of the menu will reveal a variety of fried rice, pad Thai, stir-fries spring rolls and salads.

The service is quick and the food is delicious, made fresh daily, with love and attention to detail.

Lovingly referred to by locals as Pho’s, I would never have tried the restaurant myself because prior to my first taste of the delicious soup,

The cornish game hen to go is enough to share.

I’ve never liked pho. Now, my week is not complete with at least one, big steaming bowl of the beautiful broth.

Vietnamese beef noodle soup is served with bean sprout, basil, hot green pepper and lime. An order ranges from $7.45 to $8.25.

If it’s more than soup you’re after, rice plates with grill pork or chicken, shrimp or beef are in the $7 to $9 range.

One of the house specials is Vietnamese fried rice with

Photos by Dennis Fujimoto / TGIFR!DAY

ABOVE: Tiffany and Keith Do of Pho Kauai welcome guests to their restaurant in Rice Shopping Center. BELOW: The mocha bubble drink is a perfect ender to a great meal.

egg, shrimp, chicken, peas and pup-chong for $8.25.

Fried Rice with grilled shrimp runs $9.25.

Appetizers like shrimp rolls, fried calamari and Vietnamese deep fried egg rolls start at $3.75.

The only time I’ve ever been disappointed with Pho’s is when they recently closed for a week to remodel their kitchen.

“YES! It’s the day before payday and I have just enough money for a bowl of soup. NOOOOOO, they’re closed!”

The next week, owner Keith Do greeted me happily, “what did you do last week with no soup?”

Another favorite dish is their lemongrass chicken.

Served hot over white, SEE PHO, PAGE 5

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Photos by Dennis Fujimoto / TGIFR!DAY

LEFT: The chicken stir fry at Pho Kauai is flavorful and nutritious. ABOVE: The chicken katsu is a complete meal.

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steamed rice, my husband only slightly complains when I ask him for a bite. He never asks me why I don’t order something besides the soup.

Last week, Do told me they were so much more than pho. He showed me a fried Cornish game hen, a serving of fried rice and

recommended several other items on the menu.

“But nothing will satisfy you now because you have a taste for the soup,” he said.

I responded by saying that perhaps one day I’ll try the fried rice. He just smiled.

They close at 3 p.m. and reopen for dinner. The dinner crowd is a bit different from the lunchtime crowd. Mostly local families who know what a gem Pho’s is.

At a recent event I covered

for The Garden Island, a woman came up to me stating she recognized me. I told her I was a journalist and cover many events on Kauai, so she probably saw me at one of them.

No, that wasn’t it.

“I remember now! I saw you eating noodles at Pho’s!

I travel all the way from Hanapepe to eat at Pho’s,” she said.

I laughed telling her I was wishing to eat at Pho’s that night, but they would be

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closed by the time I arrived back in Lihue.

She laughed, stating that perhaps she’ll see me there again.

That’s when I knew I had a problem. An addiction to good soup. Pho real.

••• Bethany Freudenthal,

crime, courts and county reporter, can be reached at 652-7891 or bfreudenthal@thegardenisland. com.-

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LET ‘WHISPERS’ GUIDE YOU INTO NATURE BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

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f there is a book that succeeds in putting the beauty of Kauai into words and pictures, it is “Whispers on the Mountain.”

This collection of poems and photographs by Kapua Janai is a rare gem that is pleasing to peruse and provides a sense of calm when all can seem so chaotic.

One of my favorite is “White Smoke Spirals.” In this one, Janai writes: Humans need a sense of order, else we could not accomplish what we need to support our lives.

Yet Wonder and Beauty cannot be regimented Can we as humans walk a flowing path that allows these also in our

lives?

Can we move and change and live as gracefully as white smoke spirals rising gently into the air?

Words that are pure and clean.

Another poem which stands out (and happens to be on the very next page after White Smoke Spirals) is “The Company of Trees.”

It opens with these lines: In the company of Trees I am different somehow, not the same as I am when engrossed in the world of humankind.

Perhaps it is that in the company of Trees, I see with a different perspective.

I see a different part of myself emerge; a deeper part, a more connect part, a part that feels in some way more real.

This book is a collection of gifts from nature, writes Janai. It offers “glimpses of her treasures, secret message, magical moments created to delight us, and inspiration drawn from her wonders. Through these, Nature offers to you an invitation to visit her, spend some time and get to know her, and listen yourself for her Whispers.”

Her book is broken into sections: “Moments of Wonder,”“The Elements,”“Magical Places,”“Creating a New Connection,” and “Cycles and Seaons.”

Spending time in nature is something we should all do.

Certainly, for the peace of mind and soul that comes with being outdoors. And they say there are many health benefits for young and old that come from being in nature.

Janai puts it well:

“Nature has always called to me, and as I learned to respond I found that there were many gifts offered to me. If found that there was a healing energy in nature, a balancing, a re-centering, a way to

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riders. Helmets required for bicyclists under 16 years old.

Info: Butch: 635-0388.

Tuesday, Oct. 30 ◗ Halloween Business After Hours: 5-7 p.m. The Specific Chiropractic Centers.

Haunted house, pumpkin carving contest,costume contest. $20 chamber members by Oct. 23, $30 nonmembers. 245-7363 Wednesday, Oct. 31 ◗ Cantu’s Spooktacular Haunted Yard: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Free and open to the public. Come and see a variety of spooky, zany and whimsical scenes at 5112 Ioana St. in Kawaihau Estates.

Dennis Fujimoto / TGIFR!DAY

Zombies from the Aloha Dance Studio erupt in a flash dance to “Thriller” by Michael Jackson on the mall at Kukui Grove Center during a recent Freaky Friday.

Park on Ohu Street. ◗ Harvest Fest: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Kapaa Missionary Church in Kapaa Town. Free popcorn, cotton candy,

games, trick or treat. ◗ Breath of Life Fall-OWeen Festival: 5:30 to 9 p.m.

4303 Rice Street. Candy, face painting, games, pizza. Info:

246-6102 ◗ Wilcox Health Annual Halloween Babies Parade: noon to 1 p.m. Little ones are invited to show off their

discover a deeper part of yourself, and to feel your connection with the rest of life.”

It’s all to easy to feel lost these days. To feel disconnected from this world we call home. The hours, the days, the weeks, the years, they pass by far more quickly than we realize. But nature has a way of putting life in perspective. It has a way of calming restless souls. It has a way of providing us with guidance.

We take so much for granted, but Janai urges us not to. She is right.

Consider Kapua Janai’s book your guide to nature on Kauai. Her advice is sound: “I do hope you will reach out to Nature yourself, and find the particular wonders and joys that she holds waiting for you.”

••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or bbuley@thegardenisland.com.

costumes as they trick-ortreat through Kauai Medical Clinic’s festive booths. Costume contests and prizes.

Refreshments served. ◗ Ghoulish Golf Halloween: All day at Anaina Hou Community Park. Dress in costume and enjoy a free round of mini golf. ◗ Dia De Los Muertos Halloween Party: Dance party at the new Monico’s Taqueria in Kapaa. Starts at 2 p.m. with drink specials and goes until closing. Costume contest, sweet treats. ◗ Trick-or-Treat at The Shops at Kukuiula: Delicious treats for keiki and shopping specials for the keiki-at-heart. ◗ Nightmare in Waimea: Are you brave enough to go upside down and inside out?

Folks are turning Waimea Canyon Park upside down and inside out at this year’s annual Haunted Village. We’ll be waiting for you. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. is the non scary time for younger children.

7:30p.m. to 11 p.m. is not recommended for younger children. Donations accepted at the door. Halloween movies starting at sundown.

Thursday, Nov. 1 ◗ Kalaheo Dental Group’s Halloween Candy Buy-Back: noon to 5 p.m. Kalaheo Dental Group will buy back Halloween candy from keiki for $1 per pound, up to five pounds, and donate the candy and toothbrushes to our troops through Operation Gratitude. Rainbow Plaza, Kalaheo.

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DENNIS FUJIMOTO TGIFR!DAY

Matteo Romero, Logan Manibog, Adrian Smith

Carlina Vea, Romang Peake

Ian Godfrey, Pakela Godfrey

Maura Tynanes, Liliana Matagiese, Siasau Matagiese

Joh Bisarra-Kaleiohi, Lea Nuesca

Lawton Sugihara, Russell Winkelman, Glen Takenouchi

Val Saffery, Danika Braun

Sandi Kato-Klutke

Chantel Ho‘okano, Cherisse Henderson, Summer Munos, Ryan Lee, Kyle Dela Cruz

SPOOKY FUN IN THE WAIMEA SUN

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omang Peake came home from New York to be part of the festivities Sunday when the Family and Friends of Agriculture presented its fifth anniversary Harvest Ag Festival at the Waimea Athletic Field.

“I’m a Tumbaga girl,” Peake said. “We, my sister Karlina Vea, always come to support this by coming to eat.”

Peake and Vea were part of more than 1,000 people who flocked to the festivities where more than 1,500 free pumpkins were distributed to eager keiki — 12 years and younger — in time to carve jack-o-lanterns for Halloween.

The festival featured entertainment, including an appearance by Kapena, to enhance the many food offerings presented by nonprofits, including the Purple Palooza American Cancer Society Relay for Life team which hosts a relay fundraiser Friday night at the historic Waimea Theatre.

Benjamin Buyat Jr., Shifu Zhen, Jacqueline Rank, Brent Gillis

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