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KAUAI PANIOLO FRIDAY SHOWDOWN RODEO “THE SHADOW BOX” 9 a.m. to pau, The Friendship 7 p.m. Puhi Theatrical Do Ranch, Waimea Warehouse Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Info: www.kauaicommuntyplay- Town Celebration. Admission is ers.org $5 for adults, $3 for children (5 to 12 years old).

“PROOF” 7 p.m. Wit’s End Theater, BASKETBALL Kukui Grove Center TOURNAMENT A Women in Theater produc6 to 9 p.m., Waimea Athletic tion. $20. Info: www.brownpap- Field ertickets.com Part of the 42nd annual Waimea “THE ADVENTURES OF TOM Town Celebration. The cost is $10/player (school division) SAWYER” and $25/player (adult division) 7 p.m. Island School for the three-on-three tourney.

Annual fifth-grade production.

Late registration is at 5 p.m. on Tickets are on sale from cast Friday for adult male teams. members and at the school Youth teams’ late registration is office. They are also available 8 a.m. on Saturday. at the door. Info: 246-0233 or www.ischool.org/page/news FREE TAO CHANG HEALING EVENING 6:30 to 8 p.m. Happiness Planting Center, 3343 Kanakolu St., Lihue, the old Immaculate Conception School site Learn about Tao Chang and experience firsthand how it can help clear blockages in one aspect of a life with Master Pamela Uyeunten. Info: 561-2020

PLATE LUNCH ORDER DEADLINE Team Sign Art is selling pastele plates as a fundraiser for their American Cancer Society Relay For Life teamn, and today is the deadline to order. Info: 246-6812 CANCER SURVIVORSHIP WORKSHOP 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Hilton Garden Inn Kauai Wailua Bay Free. Registration, info: www. surveymonkey.com/r/MY85TC9, 808-692-7480, valerie.yoshida@ doh.hawaii.gov

Annual fifth-grade production.

Tickets are on sale from cast members and at the school office. They are also available at the door. Info: 246-0233 or www.ischool.org/page/news

BAZAAR 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lihue Hongwanji Mission Baked goods, nishime, barazushi and sekihan, vintage Asian apparel and more.

RIVER WATER USE MEETING 2 to 4 p.m., Kapaa Public Library Information on the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative hydropower projects involving streams in the Wailua area. The WailuaKapaa Neighborhood Association hosts KIUC President and CEO David Bissell discussing the pending Blue Hole diversion long-term water lease for the Waiahi hydroelectric plants, public trust resources and streamflow restoration. Free.

Info: Sid Jackson, 821-2837 or www.wkna.org.

THE BA GUA, FIVE ELEMENTS AND YOU WORKSHOP 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Happiness Planting Center, 3343 Kanakolu St., Lihue, old SLOW PITCH SOFTBALL Immaculate Conception TOURNAMENT School site 5 to 9 p.m., Waimea Athletic SATURDAY Join Master Pamela Uyeunten Field in a workshop. $20, or $35 Part of the 42nd annual Waimea “THE SHADOW BOX” includes this workshop and Town Celebration. Double-elim7 p.m. Puhi Theatrical “Writing Tao Calligraphy for ination tournament. Admission Warehouse Happiness and Health” workis free. Info: 645-0996 Info: www.kauaicommuntyplay- shop on Sunday, Feb. 24. Info: ers.org LIVE ENTERTAINMENT, 561-2020 MORE “PROOF” SLOW PITCH SOFTBALL 5:30 p.m. to midnight, old 7 p.m. WIT’s End Theater, TOURNAMENT Waimea Sugar Mill site Kukui Grove Center 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Waimea Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Women In Theater’s production.

Athletic Field Town Celebration. Continu$20 in advance, $25 at the door. Part of the 42nd annual ous live entertainment, food Info: www.brownpapertickets.

Waimea Town Celebration. booths, games and rides, craft com Double-elimination tourney. and merchandise vendors, a “THE ADVENTURES OF TOM Info: 645-0996 silent auction and a beer garSAWYER” den. Admission is free, all ages LIVE ENTERTAINMENT, welcome.

7 p.m. Island School MORE

10 a.m. to midnight, old Waimea Sugar Mill site Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Town Celebration.

Continuous live entertainment, food booths, games and rides, craft and merchandise vendors, a silent auction and a beer garden. Admission is free. All ages welcome.

KAUAI PANIOLO SHOWDOWN RODEO 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., The Friendship Do Ranch, Waimea Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Town Celebration. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children (5 to 12 years old).

PANIOLO HAT LEI CONTEST 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., West Kauai Visitor Center, Waimea Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Town Celebration.

Drop off lei entries from 7 to 8:30 a.m. Awards will be given at 6 p.m. There will also be Hawaiian cultural demonstrations and exhibits open to the public.

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Waimea Athletic Field Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Town Celebration.

The cost is $10/player (school division) and $25/player (adult division) for this three-on-three tournament. Youth teams’ late registration is 8 a.m.

CAPER FUN RUN 7 a.m., Waimea Plantation Cottages Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Town Celebration. Cost is $40 for adults and $25 for students 17 years of age and younger. Register online.

NA I ‘OLE KAUMUALI‘I CANOE REGATTA 8 a.m. to noon, Waimea Landing Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Town Celebration.

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Traditional Hawaiian outrigger canoes race along the Waimea shoreline. Divisions for men, women and mixed crews.

Lunch will be provided for all paddlers.

ICE CREAM EATING CONTEST Noon, Old Waimea Mill site Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Town Celebration. Free.

Sign up at 11:30 a.m. next to the big stage at the Heritage of Aloha Ho‘olaule‘a.

UKULELE CONTEST 1 p.m., Old Waimea Mill Site Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Town Celebration.

Register in person between 10 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. at the information booth. The contest begins at 1 p.m. at the Heritage of Aloha Ho‘olaule‘a.

SIERRA CLUB HIKE Nualolo Trail, Kokee State Park This is a moderately strenuous, 7.5-mile trek. Info: Julio Magalhaes, 650-906-2594 SUNDAY

“THE SHADOW BOX” 4 p.m. Puhi Theatrical Warehouse Info: www.kauaicommuntyplayers.org “PROOF” 4 p.m. WIT’s End Theater, Kukui Grove Center A Women In Theater production. $20 advance, $25 at door.

Info: www.brownpapertickets. com “THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER” 3 p.m. Island School Annual fifth-grade production.

Tickets are on sale from cast members and at the school office. They are also available at the door. Info: 246-0233 for www.ischool.org/page/news WRITING TAO

CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Happiness Planting Center, Lihue, old Immaculate Conception School site Master Pamela Uyeunten will conduct the introductory workshop on writing Tao calligraphy. $30 SLOW PITCH SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Waimea Athletic Field Part of the 42nd annual Waimea Town Celebration.

SIERRA CLUB HIKE Mahaulepu and Makawehi Cave Reserve A moderate, three-mile trek. Info: Allan Rachap, 212-3108

WALK THE 88 SHRINES Lawai International Center Guided tours at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. Info: 629-4300, lm@hawaii. rr.com, www.lawaicenter.org MONDAY

“DYSLEXIA 101” VIDEO SERIES 5:30 p.m. Lihue Public Library Followed by informal discussion. Free. Anyone interested in learning more about dyslexia and helping struggling readers is encouraged to attend.

LIVE HAWAIIAN MUSIC 6 to 9 p.m., Aqua Kauai Beach Resort near Hanamaulu The annual E Kanikapila Kakou program is in its 36th season, and features Mauna Hape, composed of Jee Au Hoy, Adam Asing and Kapono Lopes. Donations suggested. Info: 245-2733, giac05@ icloud.com TUESDAY WEST KAUAI COMMUNITY PLAN UPDATE MEETING 5 to 7 p.m., Hanapepe Public Library This is a transportation-focused meeting. Dinner will be served.

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LEFT: From left to right, Taylor Howell, Andrew Wolenter and Erin Gaines in a scene from “Proof.” ON THE COVER: Gaines is contemplative in another scene from the play opening today at WIT’s End Theatre in Kukui Grove Center. It is a Women In Theatre production.

THE ‘PROOF’ IS ON THE STAGE

Women In Theatre opens new season that will feature five productions BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

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omen In Theatre’s home is perhaps not what you would expect of a community theater.

The chairs are not lined up in neat rows.

The stage is not smack in front of you.

The space is comfortable and inviting, more like you’re dining out. Conversational comes to mind.

“She wanted to create something that was not like any of the other community theaters,” Cass Foster said of his wife, Nell Foster. “She wanted to create something more intimate.”

Tonight at 7, WIT officially opens its new season at its home of one year, WIT’s End Theatre at Kukui Grove Center. “Proof” stars Erin

HERE’S THE SCHEDULE Performances of Women In Theatre’s “Proof” are scheduled Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 7 p.m., and Sundays at 4 p.m., through March 10, at WIT’s End Theatre at Kukui Grove Center.

Gaines in the lead as Catherine, Andrew Rice as Robert, Andrew Wolenter as Hal, and Taylor Howell as Claire.

The cast promises to deliver a show that will pull in the audience and take them on an emotional ride.

“You’re vicariously participating in these relationships with these people,” Rice said.

“A lot of times there’s one character you’re rooting for.

In this play, you’re actually

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••• TGIFR!DAY rooting for all four of them, even Claire, the bossy older sister. You love her and you understand where her heart is.”

Those relationships have “real challenges and real emotions and real conflict from life,” he said. “You get sucked in and you root for these people ‘cause you end up loving them all.”

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“Proof,” winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for best play, is described as “a compelling, witty and well-structured story of a gifted young woman coping with the mental illness of her brilliant mathematician father.”

WIT’s season opener is directed by Professor Emeritus Cass Foster with lights designed by Chris (“Angus”) Sweitzer and the set designed by Nell Foster.

Cass Foster said he wanted to open the season with something special, and “Proof” is just that.

The writing, he said, is “absolutely brilliant,” as it deals with serious mental-health issues. But it leaves its audience well-satisfied as they connect with the characters.

“We’re hopeful they will walk away with a smile,” Cass Foster said. “I think we’re left feeling optimistic.”

The Fosters want their audience to feel right at home at WIT’s End, so the seating is four chairs to each table spaced around the stage.

Snacks, popcorn and drinks will be available, so it’s kind of like a night out. Sit down, eat, drink, relax, enjoy. It’s even air-conditioned.

“We’re calling ourselves a ‘boutique theater,’” Nell

Foster said. “Come with two more friends or meet two new ones.”

Early response was what they hoped for.

“The people walk in that door, they look around, (say) ‘this is amazing,’” Cass Foster said.

Women In Theatre has been around around nearly 20 years, but this is its first time announcing a season.

Shows still to come include “4, 3, 2 Gun,” May 16 to June 2; “Kauai Shorts,” Aug. 8 to 25; “A Tuna Christmas,” Oct. 10 to 25, and “Christmas from Home — 1941,” Nov. 28 to Dec. 15.

They used to have one, maybe two shows a year.

“Now five,” Nell Foster said.

“That was a big step for us, to make that commitment.”

The cast of “Proof” is ready to deliver on that commitment to quality.

Andrew Rice plays Robert, the brilliant mathematician whose later years are clouded by insanity.

He saw the 2005 movie version starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhall, Hope Davis and Anthony Hopkins, so when he heard Cass Foster was directing a local production, he wanted in.

“He’s an excellent director and he chooses really good material,” Rice said.

It’s been challenging.

“We’ve all had to do a

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Erin Gaines and Andrew Rice practice a scene from “Proof.”

a lot of hard work on it,” he said. “He works us all a lot but he’s very affirming.

It’s hard work, but it’s very rewarding.”

With a cast of four for the 90-minute play, it demands camaraderie. There is more opportunity to interact on a deeper level, and that comes across to the audience.

“Relationships are what makes this play,” Rice said.

“You have to get along, no matter what,” Howell

said.

“And you’ve got to have each other’s back,” added Gaines, who is on stage nearly the entire time. “Because when somebody else is on stage, them looking good makes you look good.”

Gaines referred to “Proof” as a “very conversational play.”

“Proof” was written by David Auburn.

“He writes conversation so naturally,” Gaines said.

There are twists and turns

that keep the audience engaged.

“You get very involved in it,” she said. “You get psychologically sucked into it, which is really cool.”

Gaines said this is her first in-depth role in a straight play. Her other leads have often been musicals, like “Mary Poppins.”

“So diving into a straight play is so exciting and so different,” she said. “I really wanted to dive into something meaty, different than what I’ve done.”

In “Proof,” every character has something to prove to the other characters in the play about who they are as a person.

“I think everyone can relate to a character in this show because they’re so real,” Howell said.

She pointed out there are different relationships — father/daughter, siblings, romantic.

“All those nuances that go into those relationships and they’re just right there in front of you. They’re not dumbed-downed or dulled in any way. They are what they are,” Howell said.

It’s a play, Howell added, that allows the actors to explore who their characters are.

“We all have moments where we really could all be crazy, but we really don’t know. Or we could just all be

OK,” she said.

Wolenter plays Hal, a Ph.D. candidate who looks up to Robert as his mentor and adviser. He also develops a romantic relationship with Catherine. He is very much put in the middle of things and struggles to balance his logical side, his mathematician side and his heart.

This is Wolenter’s first leading role in local theater on Kauai.

“It’s been great, a lot of fun,” he said.

While “Proof” sounds super serious, you won’t walk away sad, Gaines said.

The audience is very much involved in this relatable, believable, entertaining drama.

“It’s an experience while you’re here,” she said.

Nell Foster referred to it as “an evening immersed in the lives of a family. It’s just very, very compelling.”

Howell said “Proof” should prompt people to reflect on their own relationships.

It will leave you better than when you arrived.

“It’s like a warm feeling. It feels like home,” she said. “It’s like getting a big hug.”

“If you miss your family, definitely come watch this show,” Gaines added.

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ISLAND SCHOOL’S ‘SAWYER’ PLAY OPENS TONIGHT ON PUHI CAMPUS Entire fifth-grade class participates in Twain classic TGIFR!DAY

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sland School’s annual fifthgrade production, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” opens tonight and runs this weekend.

Showtimes are tonight and Saturday at 7 p.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday in the Island School main hall.

The much-loved story, adapted from Mark Twain’s novel by Dave Barton and Matt Bond, features the rascally Tom Sawyer, played

by Sawyer Munroe, who, coincidentally, was named for his character.

Tom and his brother, Sid, played by Tyler Stokes, are orphans being raised by their Aunt Polly, played

by Chloe Ayonon. Polly is beside herself, trying to raise Tom to be a “decent man,”

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TOP LEFT: The suspect of a graveyard killing, center, reacts to the mob, in a scene from “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” BOTTOM LEFT: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn watch as Indian Joe and his happy friend exhume a body in the graveyard scene in the Island School production. ABOVE: The fifth-grade class at Island School completes a dress rehearsal.

but Tom continues to play hooky, make faces in church, lies and is “actin’ a fool!”

When the Thatcher family moves to town, he unceremoniously dumps his girlfriend, Amy Lawrence (Lily Glick) in favor of the new girl, Becky (Braxtyn Montalbo).

The story darkens a bit when Tom and Huck (Hoby King) witness a murder in the graveyard, an innocent man

almost gets hung, and he encounters danger in a dark cave. But all ends well, as Twain’s stories usually do.

The entire class of 23 eager fifth-graders make up the talented cast, directed by theater arts teacher Peggy Ellenburg.

“These young actors are gaining confidence and, besides practicing theatre skills, are strengthening their

abilities to work as a team, manage their time effectively and be responsible,” Ellenburg wrote.

The cast also includes Makalapua Blake, Kennedy

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PENHALLOW-SCOTT PENS INTRIGUING TALE OF MYSTERY AT COCO PALMS BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

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here are titles of some books that make you want to read them. Here’s one: “Murder with Aloha at the Coco Palms Hotel.”

If that doesn’t grab your attention and make you want to start turning pages to find out what’s going on, well, we can only hope you buy this book anyway.

It does not disappoint.

This fine fictional story based at this iconic resort was written

by David Penhallow-Scott. He is one of Hawaii’s treasures, with connections that go back decades, knowledge of the Coco Palms that few possess and a delightful wit and charm that has him coming across as your best friend.

It’s a wonderful read. The plot

jumps in from page one. Penhallow-Scott sweeps his readers into an intriguing tale from the first chapter.

Here is a brief description, courtesy of the author’s preface: “Set in 1960 on the island of Kauai, this is a tale of grisly murders that take place at the legendary Coco Palms Hotel. These murders occurred days before Elvis Presley filmed ‘Blue Hawaii’ at the hotel.

“Coco Palms Hotel, as advertised in the Town & Country magazine, boasted a grove of a hundred coconut trees, a sandy beach, two swimming pools, sun in the winter months, and lots and lots of Hawaii atmosphere.

“I, Percy, the best, am the narrator of this tale. In this mystery I use real names: a few who worked at the hotel, Elvis Presley and his crew and four permanent residents of Kauai’s

community. Most of the characters are made up, especially in the Hollywood personalities like megastar Little Russell and her guests.”

I love this concluding paragraph of the preface: “Make yourself a tuna sandwich

slathered with gobs of Best Food Mayonnaise, loosen your girdle, and put your feet up as you join me on a flight of imagination like no other, as we are headed to a place of tropical dreams, mystery and intrigue, and shocking secrets will be revealed!”

Penhallow-Scott is a gifted writer, a man who writes clean, engaging copy, and delivers a fun, compelling storyline. He has written “The Story of the Coco Palms Hotel,” and wrote the plays “The Eudora Quartet.” This four-play saga told the story of plantation life in Hawaii before World War II and the years that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

First, there was “Bonzai Darling.”

Next came “Emma’s Last Dance” in 2014. The third play was “Matilda’s Waltz” in 2015. And finally, “Going Home.”

The Hawaii-born writer and director grew up on Kauai and was a boy on Oahu when Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, which left an impression that remains with him to this day. He lived here before moving to Hilo a few years ago. He is missed. He is a man with a wonderful sense of humor, but who is also deadly serious when it comes to his craft of writing, directing, and being one of the islands’ best ambassadors.

Ask anyone who has worked with him. He earns glowing reviews for his insight, wisdom and dedication.

You can likely find this book at The Bookstore in Hanapepe. If not, give me a call. I have a signed copy I’m more than happy to share.

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

‘THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH’ EXPLORES CLIMATE DOOMSDAY KEVIN BEGOS ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York magazine in 2017, and the book repeats the same formula. Wallace-Wells argues that it is past time he science is clear: Massive fossil fuel use to be very afraid about the devastation that humans by humans is raising temperatures in the oceans and ecosystems will suffer.

Some scientists criticized and air, the seas are rising, and we aren’t building near- the extreme tone of the magazine piece, but David ly enough green energy to Archer, a respected climate slow the process.

But does preaching global expert at the University doom inspire change, or just of Chicago, said then that Wallace-Wells “is not wrong, resignation? The worth of wildly misleading, or out of “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming” by David bounds of the discussion we should be having about Wallace-Wells (Tim Dugclimate change.” gan Books) hinges on that But if the book is justified question. in discussing worst-case “The Uninhabitable Earth” scenarios, Wallace-Wells reoriginated as a long essay for

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peatedly confuses the message by bouncing between alarm and caution. There’s the title, yet soon we’re told

that “it is unlikely that climate change will render the planet truly uninhabitable.”

He writes that the Syrian civil war was “inflamed by climate change and drought,” but later adds that scientists say it is “not exactly fair to say the conflict is the result of warming.”

Books should also have deeper narratives than magazine pieces, and “The Uninhabitable Earth” doesn’t.

Wallace-Wells speculates about climate doomsday from every possible angle,

but says little about the tremendous global progress in reducing wind or solar power costs. A single wonky chapter on the benefits, costs and challenges of bringing a green energy revolution to New York City would have been welcome, and timely. Generals motivate troops by searching for ways to win, not by telling everyone they are doomed to die.

The book suffers from unnecessary hyperbole, too.

Wallace-Wells loses credibility with claims that “global warming has improbably compressed into two generations the entire story

of human civilization” and that three or more degrees of warming “would unleash suffering beyond anything that humans have ever experienced through many millennia.” One wonders where Wallace-Wells places the Bubonic plague and deaths from malaria, typhoid, AIDS, starvation, war, the Holocaust and the like.

Yet the time to slow climate change is running out, so perhaps the tone of “The Uninhabitable Earth” is a necessary response. If the book inspires a new generation of climate activists, more power to Wallace-Wells.

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auai High School student Isabella Parsons and Waimea Canyon Middle School students Kale Kakuda and Kaylee Kakuda earned top honors in the Senior and Junior divisions, respectively, at the Kauai Regional Science and Engineering Fair at the Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club.

Students unveiled a variety of activities they were engaged in during the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Showcase that was presented as an inspiration to keep young students motivated to participate in STEM studies.

The Academy of Science and a host of sponsors provided promotional trips to the state fair to the first five finishers in the Junior division, and to the first seven places in the Senior division.

Parsons, as winner of the Senior division, qualifies for the Intel International event in Phoenix later this year.

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