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Week of Friday, November 28, 2014 | Vol. 2, No. 47

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

HISTORY OF STEEL GUITAR

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS • FRIDAY NIGHTS WITH SANTA • HANAPEPE SALT Island Calendar and much, much more!

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. LIGHTS:

Festival of Lights

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Hanapepe Salt

6. FLICKS:

Mockingjay, Part 1

7. TUNES:

Hawaiian Steel Guitar

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN RESTAURANT GUIDEBOOK RELEASE PARTY 5 TO 6:30 P.M. THE FERAL PIG Kauai food writer Marta Lane is releasing her new edition of “Tasting Kauai.” A portion of all book sales will go to Hawaii Food Bank, Kauai Branch. $37 includes autographed book, pupus and one cocktail.

OCEAN MOVIE 7 P.M. KAPAA PUBLIC LIBRARY

FINE ART FESTIVAL 10 A.M. TO 4 P.M. HANAPEPE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Holiday event featuring original paintings, photography, pottery, sculpture, mixed media and more from the Woman Artists of Kauai. There will be entertainment, food and more. 631-9173

FRIDAY NIGHTS WITH SANTA 6:30 TO 8 P.M. STORYBOOK THEATRE Christmas storytelling, snacks, pictures with Santa.

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HANDWORKS CHRISTMAS FAIR 8:30 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M. WILCOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAFETERIA Handmade items by local vendors.

8-9. CHECK DA SCENE: Fundraiser

10. SING:

FOOTBALL LUAU 5:30 P.M. KAPAA HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA $20

Aha Mele Concert

10. CHRISTMAS:

Friday nights with Santa

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639-4300 AHA MELE CONCERT 4 P.M. ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH The hour-long concert will also feature the Kauai Voices, led by Director Randy Leonard, and special guest musicians: Vocalist Juno Apalla, Larry McCreery on the French Horn, and Victoria Aiu on the violin. Free, donations accepted. 822-4267

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Marta Lane will be having a book signing 5 to 6:30 tonight. at The Feral Pig. $37 includes book, pupus and cocktail.

MON TUE WED FULL MOON STROLL Join the Sierra Club to take an evening stroll on Hanalei Bay under a full moon.

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WEIGHT WATCHERS 5:30 P.M. ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH Weekly Weight Watchers Meetings held same time on Tuesday.

NUTRITION PROGRAM 7 P.M. KAUAI ATHLETE CLUB, NAWILIWILI Short film followed by samples, talk with certified-nutritional adviser Jane Riley. Free.

‘CHOICES’ 4 TO 5:15 P.M. LYDGATE BEACH PARK CSL Kauai, a new and growing spiritual community is reaching out to teens ages 13 through 17 with their youth program “Choices.” 755-9177 BASKET WEAVING 3 P.M. KAUAI MUSEUM 90-minute basket weaving classes with Uncle Onio weekly on Thursdays. Class fee is $25 which includes admission to Museum. Reservations required. 245-6931

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Lighting up the season Annual festival to kick off on Dec. 5 LIHUE — Elizabeth Freeman said she always gets a little giddy around this time of year when she and her army of volunteers put the finishing touches on the Festival of Lights displays. “It has been my vision, every year, to create what I call the architecture of light and aloha,� said Freeman, who established the annual festival and has served as its art director for the past 18 years. “When you walk into the Historic County Building, once you’ve got all of the displays in there, everybody just goes, ‘Oh my gosh! It’s so beautiful,’ and that’s what you want.�

The entire process, however, starts long before most people begin their holiday shopping or even think about playing Christmas music. “Creating is such a process for me, so I begin thinking about this in May,� Freeman said. “Once I look at the display last year, I decide what’s going to happen this year.

I am an artist and designer professionally, so coming up with the ideas is one thing, but I also have to create all of the samples and then gather all of the materials that are needed so that, when the volunteers come in, I give them a complete tutorial on how to craft what goes on the tree. Obviously, I want this to look as beautiful and professional as possible.

It’s like a director for a film — you gather all of the peo-

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Sabrina Barrier, a Kauai High School student, twizzles aluminum strips to create a sea anemone out of a recyclable soft drink can for the Festival of Lights.

ple around but they have to know what they want.�

Though the annual holiday festival showcases many displays from previous years and even some from Aunty Josie Chansky, whose elaborate Christmas decorations served as the inspiration for the festival, Freeman said she always tries to think of new ideas. “We always update — we don’t ever want anybody to say, ‘Oh, I saw it already,’�

Freeman said. “We always want it to stay new, fresh and fun, and have it be something special for people to come back to see.�

This year’s new Christmas tree display, Freeman said, is called “Lure of the Sea,� featuring sea creatures, such as sea anemones, jellyfish, starfish and sea urchins, that are made out of recyclable materials like plastic bottles, aluminum beverage cans and pipe cleaners.

Many of those decorations, she said, were made by volunteers from Kauai High School’s Academy of Hospitality and Tourism and Duke’s Kauai.

Freeman said she and other volunteers from Kapaa High School’s Interact Club have also freshened up a Christmas tree that is adorned with flowers made from plastic bottles and was created years ago by students from the Academy of Hospitality and Tourism. “It’s a tree that’s very special because, actually, the decorations on it were first presented on a tree in (late) Sen. Daniel Inouye’s office in Washington and he fell in love with it,� Freeman said.

The Festival of Lights, and the Lights on Rice Parade, kicks off at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5 at the Historic County Building in Lihue with a Kauai Chorale performance.

After the parade, the displays in the Historic County Building will be open until 8 p.m.

The festival is open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening afterward from 6 to 8 p.m. through Dec. 21. The final night is on Saturday, Dec. 27.

For more information, contact Freeman at 6398564.

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Preserving culture with salt

produces white crystals, the middle layer produces pale pink crystals and the bottom layer is light gray. Sometimes the salt is mixed with alae, a red clay from Kokee. As tradition has established, the salt cannot be sold. It is only given as a gift.

MARTA LANE Last October, Slow Food Oahu invited Santos to speak at Terra Madre and Salone del Gusto in Turin, Italy. aking salt is part Individuals from all over the of who I am,” world, who are passionate says Kuulei SanContributed photos about good, clean and fair tos. “Not many people can Above: Kuulei (far right) takes a break from lining one of 12 beds. Right: Come late September, food, made the pilgrimage say, ‘I’m standing in the exact three types of flaky salt are harvested. to be a part of the world’s same place my grandmother largest food and wine fair. tunnels, it fills wells inside explained. Hawaiians have stood, doing the exact same experience, but we keep For 12 days, Santos let peothing.’ I love to teach children doing it because we love our been making salt at the Salt the Salt Flats, where there ple taste Hanapepe Sea Salt are more than 460 rectanguFlats near Salt Pond Park in that there is more to their history and paakai is part of while sharing her story. lar “ponds. ” Hanapepe for many genculture than just learning a that.”

“It was an eye-opening Santos’s family mainerations. As seawater flows word or singing a song. It’s Paakai means “the hardexperience,” she recalls. “I tains 14 ponds and has through underground lava hard work and a humbling ening of the sea,” Santos access to two tunnels. Every learned there’s a difference between organic chicken spring, her family uses dark gray clay they have gathered and regular chicken. Organic tastes better, for one! I never from the surrounding area thought about how food to line the bottom of the gets to my table, or how beds, allowing seawater to many miles it has traveled. evaporate instead of being The markets were overflowabsorbed into the ground. ing with very fresh, affordCome late September, able produce, meat and fish. three types of flaky salt are You can’t get that here.” harvested. The top layer

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Even though the Salt Flats are listed on the State Register of Historic Places, Santos feels powerless as she watches a number of factors in the neighboring area disregard this culturally significant site. As Hanapepe Sea Salt becomes harder to make, the treasured legacy becomes even more rare.

No physical structures protect the area, which make the Salt Flats’ clay vulnerable to broken glass, trash and sand. Feral cats roam the area and when people drive on the beach, a sand berm is compressed, allowing the tide to flush the ponds. Old asphalt was dumped on the drainage area, which limits the amount of water that can reach the beds. Santos says that in 2011, the county earmarked

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$90,000 to remove the asphalt, but as of today, the asphalt is still there.

Earlier this year, Dow AgroSciences offered to pay for improvements of the bathrooms located at Salt Pond Beach Park. The plan was to clean and paint the restrooms. Santos had found a local artist who made sketches with high school kids, and they were going to paint murals on the bathrooms as well.

“I didn’t do it because I got a lot of hate mail from the anti-GMO people,” says Santos, who is reconsidering her decision. “It’s horrible down there and it’s important to it clean up. If it looks ghetto, it’s going to be treated ghetto. But if it looks nice, people will do a better job of taking care of it.

Above: Kuulei in Turin, Italy, with a woman who makes citrus oil for cooking. Below: Every spring, families use dark gray clay from the surrounding area to line the bottom of beds.

“When I was in Turin, I met so many people doing a lot of great things,” she says. “I learned that we are all facing the same types of battles.

It takes a community to protect a part of our history, a part of our culture. It is not just Kauai people; our salt goes around the world.

“I met a couple that are poi farmers on Oahu,” she continues. “They don’t have electricity. They can’t afford to eat out. But they work hard so the rest of us can eat poi.

People don’t understand that.

It’s the same with salt. If every single person who asked me for Hawaiian salt, first asked me ‘What can I do to help?’

we would be in a way better spot than we are today.”

Santos says everyone can help by catching a cat and dropping it off at the Humane Society, or walking around the salt patch and picking up trash. Donations are welcome and she is in the process of creating a nonprofit organization.

For more information, visit paakai.com or like “Protecting Paakai Farming at Salt Pond, Hanapepe” on Facebook. rrr Marta Lane, a Kauai-based food writer since 2010, offers food tours and is the author of “Tasting Kauai: Restaurants

— An Insider’s Guide to Eating Well on the Garden Island.”

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Revolution gathering in ‘Mockingjay’

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ll is not well in Panem.

At the conclusion of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” Katniss’s (Jennifer Lawrence) force-field shattering arrow left the society in turmoil. The desperate act was perceived as subversion, inciting populist uprisings and devastating counter attacks by the governing elite.

Thus, revolution is on the horizon in the franchise’s third installment, “Mockingjay - Part 1,” and it all hinges on Katniss, the unwitting face and spirit of the movement. You see, Katniss, much like the movie star actress who plays her, is just generally liked. Everything she does is slapped with meaning and significance, regardless of her intentions. She has become the property of the people.

This has always been clear to Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who aims to use her as a propaganda machine. But there’s a problem: the girl on fire has flamed out.

In the chaos that followed the conclusion of the second film, Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) was captured by the Capitol, District 12 was destroyed (though Katniss’ mother, sister and the steely jawed Gale (Liam Hemsworth) escaped alive), and Katniss was taken by the militaristic District 13. Their President, Alma Coin, (franchise newcomer Julianne Moore) needs her to be their poster girl.

“Mockingjay - Part 1” is, ultimately, a slow-burn portrait of the repeated rise and fall of dystopia’s most reluctant hero, nimbly told

- Part 1” is not for the faint of heart when it comes to the relentless emotional torture of its heroine.

Director Francis Lawrence, in his second outing in the franchise, stays fairly true to the original text, carrying over the war-torn bleakness of “Catching Fire” without any of the disturbing thrill of the Games. He sprinkles in a handful of fairly exciting action sequences (one of and devotion to the revolt through its examination of which was not actually dethe mechanics of propagan- is put to the test when she scribed in the book), but, he da. With the help of Plutarch, sees how the evil President mostly allows the film to luxHaymitch (Woody Harrelson) Snow (Donald Sutherland) uriate in the quiet moments. is manipulating Peeta and and the toned-down (but using him for his own propa- Yet too many involve Katniss still delightful) Effie Trinket tearing up while sitting on ganda needs.

(Elizabeth Banks), Katniss piles of rubble.

In the Games, the goal attempts to serve the cause In its best moments, the was simple: Keep Peeta alive. in her own way. movie has a tense, night beBut it’s not just a matter of Now, Katniss is powerless, fore the battle feel. Only the just a tool of the machine. convincing her to forget, or battle is still a year away. at least shelve, her past trau- Charred and fatally woundEver since the “Harry ed bodies aside, “Mockingjay mas. Katniss’s confidence

Potter” juggernaut split their final story into two separate films, it’s become standard practice in Hollywood for every successful franchise, regardless of whether or not the story is there. “Mockingjay - Part 1” is a serviceable entry into the conclusion of Katniss’s saga. It boasts some imaginative visuals, a few truly thrilling moments, and standout performances from Lawrence, Banks, Harrelson, and Hoffman, to whom the film is dedicated.

Still, even with Hoffman’s subtly brilliant reaction shots, it does not seem to be the type of movie that fans will revisit on its own. This half is part of a whole in the most cynical way.

You say you want a revolution? They’ll get to that next year.

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Above: Donavon Frankenreiter. Bottom left: Matt Morelock. Bottom right: Jeff Caldwell.

‘A History of Hawaiian Steel Guitar’ set for Saturday

Donavon Frankenreiter, Pancho Graham among featured artists

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everal years ago, Kauai musician Kirk Smart put on a series of shows entitled “A History of Jazz,” in which he walked his audiences through the history of the musical genre.

“This is the next version,” he said of his upcoming show. “And it’s all based on the Hawaiian steel guitar.”

“A History of Hawaiian Steel Guitar” begins at 7 p.m. Saturday at Kauai Community College and will trace the history of the instrument from its invention here in the late 1800s up to today.

Along the way, the Hawaiian steel — which is played on the

lap with a steel bar — influenced country, blues, rock and roll and world music.

The event will feature performances by Donavon Frankenreiter, Pancho Graham, Eddie Lilikalani Punua, Lady Ipo, Malia Locey, Jeff Caldwell, Matt Morelock, students from the Hanalei Bay School of Music (Tone 11, OCDC, Violet Asuncion) and more.

The audience is “in for a really good variety of music,” Smart said.

“It’s really going to go through the range, early Hawaiian steel guitar styles through country, blues and rock and roll.”

Smart said he encourages

everyone — young and old — to attend, and that the show is all about promoting and perpetuating the instrument.

“Steel guitar is kind of in danger of dying out. There aren’t a lot of younger people playing it,” he said. “Part of the idea is to interest another generation in this great instrument, get the kids into it.”

Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children, and can be purchased at Hanalei Strings, Magic Dragon, Kauai Music & Sound, Scotty’s Music, Island Soap & Candle, and online at ksmartmusic.com.

Information: 652-7226

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Purses join laulau

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owell Kaleohano said the Hanapepe Hawaiian Congregational Church is one of the last places where laulau is still made using 55-gallon drums over a kiawe fire.

Jerry Hill said the church members created 650 bundles, or 1300 laulau, for Saturday’s annual fundraiser.

“The Marshallese women feel so empowered,” said Rev. Nani Hill of the variety of clutches and purses available for sale in

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addition to the rummage and fresh produce which supplemented the laulau pick up.

“This is the first time the women ministry has sewn these and are proud of the income it generates.”

Hill said the Hanapepe church is one of two United Church of Christ sites where Marshallese services are held.

The Marshallese clutches and purses will be available during the Friday Night Art Nights.

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Aha Mele Concert to benefit organ restoration

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t’s the latest in a series of concerts dedicated to saving the only pipe organ on Kauai, The Aha Mele Concert will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at All Saints Church, 4-1065 Kuhio Highway in Kapaa.

Organist Alan Van Zee will be accompanied by choral singers during the hourlong concert that is free and open to the public, although any donations will go to preserving the island’s only pipe organ donated in 1927 by the Wilcox family.

The concert is timed with the first Sunday of Advent to usher in the Christmas season of joy, love and expectation, he said. The organ needs some tender loving care and the concert is designed to showcase its beautiful sound but also illustrate the decay the amazing and historic instrument has experienced.

The Chorophone unit organ Opus 1351 was built

by Austin Organ Company in 1925. Several of the pipeswere replaced in 1983.

The program will include several pieces written by the German Baroque compos-

Alan Van Zee

then England, where he performed with the BBC Symphony Chorus for five years.

Van Zee moved to Kauai in 1987, where he is now director of music at St. Michael and All Angels’ Church.

Kauai Voices, under the direction of Randy Leonard, is accompanying Van Zee. In the past, the organ accompanied the choral, but Van Zee and the little-known pipe organ take center stage on Sunday.

“It’s going to be pretty tom laventure exciting,” Leonard said.

TGIFR!DAY “This is an effort from among the community of musicians and others who Above: Kauai Voices Choir 2014-15, front, from left, Karen Firl, Gregg Kiaha, Richard Etzel, Steve Backinoff, Morgan Liddell, Desupport the arts,” he added. lia Valentin, Randy Leonard (director), Wallace Castillo, Dotty Bekeart, Lolly Hagen, Erik Hagen, middle, from left, Jim Mayfield, Ken Curtis, Margi Padilla, Laralei Woodward, Shanda Rago, Billy Quevido, Fran Nestel, Gy Hall, Renee Lippmann, Michelle Blake, “It is a combination of Donna Breuer, Gale Lee, Damian Nash, Peggy Lake. Back, from left, Liz Hahn, Collin Dana, Nellie Foster, Dana Bekeart, Melissa music that takes advantage Mojo, David Collison, Trishana Star Cher Ellwood, Stacy Ramos, Lyle Bjork, Alan Van Zee. Below: Kauai’s only true pipe organ. of the wonderful organ at the church, with some of Apalla said she will be “Although I am retired as musicals, including Kauai er, Johann Sebastian Bach singing for the love of Kauai, our own pieces and some a performer, I sometimes Sings Gershwin!

(1685-1750).

Hawaiian music to bring the love of her family and “We want to mix it up and still go on stage for these “When you think of the the cultures together.” friends, and to raise funds special occasions when I think it will be really interorgan and composers for to restore the pipe organ. esting for the audience,” Van the organ, you think of “This is such a beautiful Bach, first and foremost,” Van Zee said. “The horn and the instrument and such organ really complement Zee said. “This is a person a worthy cause,” she each other nicely.” who wrote hundreds, if not added.

Local soprano vocalist thousands, of pieces for Van Zee and Juno Apalla will accompathe organ and was really a Kauai Voices will ny Van Zee in performing pioneer for organ music.” each perform the Ave Maria, an 1825 Victoria Aiu, a Kauai High a few seasonal arrangement from Austrian School senior who was songs to close out composer Franz Schubert named to the Hawaii Youth the program.

Symphony in 2013, will play (1797-1828). Born in the “We want to make violin along with Van Zee in Philippines and raised on the audience aware that Kauai, Apalla graduated from a performance of “Jesu, Joy it is a beautiful instrument Pacific University in Oregon of Man’s Desiring,” considthat is in need of repair,” Van my friends call me out to and lived around the world ered to be among Bach’s before returning to play Kim play,” she said. “Singing Franz Zee said. most popular movements.

Juno Apalla Van Zee studied piano, Schubert’s Ave Maria is going in the Broadway musical Larry McCreery will play organ, percussion and voice to be a special performance “Miss Saigon” at Kauai Comthe French Horn to accomA pupu reception will since the age of 12. While pany Van Zee in performing, munity College, and has also because to me it means gofollow the concert. performed with Hawaii Chil- ing back to where I began as earning a degree in music “Sleeper’s Awake,” a joyful Info: 822-4267, allsaintsa singer on Kauai at Immacu- theory and performance, dren’s Theatre, Carol Culver’s hymn also written by Bach. kauai@hawaiiantel.net or late Conception Church with he went on a work-study Dance Academy, Women in McCreery is a musivisit www.allsaintskauai. experience in Mexico.

Theatre, and Artists Repetoir Mary Lardizabal’s children’s cian and singer who has org/aha-mele-benefit-conHe worked in Japan, and choir,” she said.

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Phil Worwa, “Santa in Paradise,” will be at Storybook Theater in Hanapepe for “Friday Nights with Santa” starting tonight and continuing through December.

Friday Nights with Santa Kids can visit St. Nick at Storybook Theater for stories, pictures

T

he most important night of the week to Phil Worwa, at least through the rest of the year, is Fridays.

That’s when the man known as “Santa in Paradise” will be at Storybook Theater in Hanapepe for “Friday Nights with Santa.” It is an opportunity to sit with keiki and share the spirit of the season, he said.

And it’s free.

“Just have a wonderful Santa experience they will never forget,” he said. “That’s really the goal of Friday Nights with Santa.”

The event will be held tonight, Dec. 12, Dec. 19 and Dec. 26, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Each evening will include a meet and greet with Santa, a reading of a Christmas story, nutritious snacks, trivia about Christmas events and movies, and holiday activities for children. There will not be one on Dec. 5, because Santa will be in the Christmas parade in Lihue, “Lights on Rice,” that night.

The theater will be decorated in colorful Christmas ribbons and bows and even a reindeer

sleigh. Worwa said there will be plenty of time for keiki and Santa to be together. Friday Nights with Santa will be part of Art Night in Hanapepe, so there will be a festive atmosphere in and out of Storybook Theater.

“It’s a nice opportunity for the keiki to be with Santa, not in a rushed atmosphere, in a way we can just talk,” he said.

Christmas is not just about getting gifts, Worwa said. Another goal will be to share stories with the keiki about the need to take care of their environment,

as Santa wants everyone to look after their community.

“I want to make sure we’re always living by the rules and taking care of our island here,” he said.

Worwa laughed as he explained why there will be nutritious snacks instead of candy and cookies.

“Santa is getting too fat,” he said.

Worwa said in years past, he’s done breakfast with Santa and Christmas programs on the radio featuring holiday trivia and

letters to Santa.

“This year, we thought what would be more fun to have Friday Nights with Santa,” he said.

Parents and grandparents are welcome to bring cameras, as there won’t be a photographer on site. “Selfies with Santa” are encouraged, too.

Donations will be accepted.

Santa in Paradise does weddings, vow renewals and visits resorts year-round on Kauai.

“This is where Santa comes on vacation,” he said.

Info: director@storybook.org

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