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Week of Friday, June 13, 2014 | Vol. 2, No. 24

The InsPirates Inside: • Kauai Beer Factory • Summer Fine Art Festival • Matisyahu & Steel Pulse Out & About, Island Calendar and much, much more!

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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. TUNES:

Matisyahu & Steel Pulse

4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI:

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN THE INSPIRATES 8 P.M. WIT’S END, COCONUT MARKETPLACE The InsPirates Improv Comedy Crew is back for a June run of Friday nights. $10.

Kauai Beer Factory

6. FLICKS:

‘Edge of Tomorrow’

7. ART:

Summer Fine Art Festival

8-9. CHECK DA SCENE: Kids Summer Fest

10. THEATRE: The InsPirates

11. ISLAND CALENDAR

On the cover: InsPirates, from left, Thalyn Nikolau, Ron Soderstrom, Emma Palumbo and Philip Brautigam.

Photo by Philip Brautigam

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‘PETER RABBIT’ 10 A.M. WAIMEA LIBRARY AND HANAPEPE LIBRARY The Honolulu Theatre for Youth present “Peter Rabbit and the Garden,” a special stage production of the Peter Rabbit story, at Kauai Libraries.

This 30-minute, interactive version is suitable for ages 3 and older. Two shows today, first begins at 10 a.m. at Waimea library, last at 3 p.m. at Hanapepe library.

BON DANCE 5:30 P.M. WAIMEA HONGWANJI TEMPLE There will be games, food booths and a performance by Taiko Kauai.

A DAY ON KOKEE TRAILS Join the Sierra Club on a day hiking Kokee’s trails. 5 miles. 346-1229 KSA PRINT SALE 11 A.M. TO 5 P.M. KSA EXHIBIT AREA, KUKUI GROVE CENTER Kauai Society of Artists is having its first annual Print Sale begins today through June 29.

KING KAMEHAMEHA DAY PARADE & CELEBRATION 9 A.M. TO 3 P.M. HISTORIC COUNTY BUILDING LAWN BON DANCE 5:30 P.M. WAIMEA HONGWANJI TEMPLE There will be games, food booths and a performance by Tsunami Taiko.

SUMMER FINE ART FESTIVAL 9:30 A.M. TO 3:30 P.M. NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, SOUTHSHORE VISITOR CENTER Original art, prints and gifts will be for sale with a portion of the proceeds supporting NTBG. 742-2433 FATHER’S DAY DANCE PARTY 7:30 TO 9:30 P.M. KOLOA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER Birthday and Father’s Day dance party with dancing, food and more. 6343773 SLACK KEY GUITAR CONCERT 3 TO 5 P.M. HANALEI FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER Multi-award winning traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele concert featuring songs and stories of its history. $20.

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DISASTER PREPAREDNESS 6 TO 7:30 P.M. PRINCEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY Makaala Kaaumoana, executive director of the Hanalei Watershed Hui, will describe the planning process for a disaster resilience plan for the North Shore. 826-4310 HARDWARE SCIENCE 6:30 P.M. WAIMEA PUBLIC LIBRARY One-hour program where children will learn how to think like a scientist and experience live science demonstrations using simple tools.

‘SHREK THE MUSICAL’ ISLAND SCHOOL Auditions for Hawaii Children’s Theaters performance of “Shrek the Musical,” begin today and run through June 25. Actors, singers and dancers over age 8, male and female, are invited to audition. 246-8985 RICE & SAKE 5:30 P.M. KAUAI MARRIOTT RESORT, PUNA COURT TROPIC CARE 8 A.M. KAPAA MIDDLE SCHOOL, ELEELE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE Free medical care service runs through June 26.

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Matisyahu, Steel Pulse join forces

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eggae fans on Kauai have more than one reason to celebrate Sunday.

American reggae rapper Matisyahu and English roots reggae band Steel Pulse join forces for a live concert Sunday at The Kilohana Plantation, along with special guest Makua Rothman.

Steel Pulse may have explored various styles of music since they started out in 1975, but when it comes to the message, this Grammy Award-winning reggae band has remained close to their roots. The group has continued its commitment to fighting injustice, educating the masses and promoting positive

messages through spiritually uplifting music. “We just can’t ignore the politics, because every life and soul that’s born on this Earth is a political maneuver for someone, at some stage,� said founding member, guitarist and lead vocalist David Hinds. “We deal with positive spirits. It means putting aside the guns, the drugs and all of the things that are ailments of society.�

Matisyahu first made a name for himself with his album “Live at Stubbs,� followed quickly by “Youth.� Both albums subsequently went Gold, and “Youth� was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.

“Light,� his 2009 album, reached No. 1 on the reggae albums chart and stayed in the top spot for 34 weeks. And his fourth studio album, “Spark Seeker,� also debuted at No. 1 on the reggae chart.

The 21-and-up concert begins at 5:30 p.m., with doors opening at 5 p.m. General admission tickets cost $39 in advance and go up the day of the show.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.flavorus.com or at select island retailers, including Deja Vu Surf Hawaii ‚ Kukui Grove, Rainbow Gas and Mini Mart in Kapaa, Pono Market in Kapaa, Healthy Hut, KMART and Progressive Expressions in Koloa.

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TIANA VICTORINO TGIFR!DAY t’s a statewide tradition that’s right at home on Kauai.

The annual King Kamehameha Day Celebration Parade will usher down Rice Street at 9 a.m. Saturday in honor of the great leader who established the Hawaiian Kingdom. “This is the 98th year that the parade has been happening statewide,� said Melissa Sugai, interim commissioner for the Kamehameha Day Celebration.

The local parade took a hiatus a few years ago, but was resurrected after county grants

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helped fund the tradition. Sugai didn’t know how many years Kauai has been doing it, but it was a huge tradition in the past with the goal of returning to that standing. “All participants will be on horseback,� Sugai said, adding the theme will showcase the Hawaiian monarchy tradition of pa’u riders that began in the 1800s. The parade will include a fully clad grand marshal and king’s court, as well as riders representing the eight main Hawaiian islands through color and dress.

The procession will start at Vidinha Stadium near the

airport and proceed up Rice Street, lasting about an hour.

Guests are invited to Hoolaule’a, an after-parade event on the Historical County Building lawn, for live entertainment, craft vendors and food booths until 3 p.m.

Hoolaule’a is free. Sugai encouraged people to celebrate the rich culture and heritage of Hawaii.

Last year, around 75 entries floated down Rice Street. Organizers said this year’s number is slightly down, but they expect the floral displays and costumes to be just as beautiful.

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n September 2013, Jim Guerber and his son Justin opened Kauai Beer MARTA LANE Company. What began as a humble TASTE OF craft brewery, serving beer just two KAUAI days a week, has bubbled into a lively hangout that’s slowly adding food to its hoppy offerings.

PHOTOS BY DANIEL LANE During Truck Stop Thursday, three

food trucks park outside the brewery and serve a steady flow of people.

Trucks rotate every week and have included The Green Pig, Little Greek Town, Kickshaws and Trucking Delicious. The Right Slice or Haole Girl Island Sweets provides dessert.

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“At KBC, it’s all about the beer,” says Fox. “Make food that tastes great with beer, but doesn‘t fill the diner up.“ After graduating from the International

Culinary Institute in Campbell, Calif., Fox worked at La Mere Michelle in Saratoga Calif. He cultivated cooking techniques at the French restaurant by butchering whole animals and making everything from scratch. At Caffe Lucio, in Santa Cruz, Calif., chef Lucio Fanni taught Fox how to create simple meals using

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a few, high-quality ingredients.

He combined technique and simplicity as the sous chef for the Poppy Ridge Golf Course in Livermore, Calif., and in his free time, brewed beer at home.

Today, Fox can be found at the farmers market talking with farmers, selecting produce and building his menu. “If tomatoes aren’t in season, I use cucumbers,� he says. “I pretty much make everything, including mustard and dressings and I use fresh, local organic eggs for aioli.�

Right now, you can only enjoy Joe’s food one day a week during Finally Friday, which debuted May 30. Each dish on the “9 to 5 Menu� aims to satiate the working stiff, and his (or her) wallet. Prices range from $5 to $9, except for $3 pretzels made by Judith Capertina of Haole Girl Island Sweets, who uses the brewery’s spent grain.

The small menu changes, but always features a meaty slider (one for $5 or two for $9) with homemade pickles and slaw; a large sandwich ($9) with homemade BBQ potato chips; and a salad. The Brewer’s Fresh Salad ($8) combines Growing Strong Farm greens, house-smoked gouda cheese, spent grain pretzel croutons and a vegan Caesar dressing made with avocados from Kauai Glory Farms.

The Pork belly steam bun

slider piles tender slices of pork belly on a steamed bun drizzled with a soy and Lihue Lager glaze. It’s served with pickled cucumbers and kale cabbage slaw that’s topped with shavings of local, toasted coconut.

The beer-brined jerk chicken panini with scallion lime aioli, is hands down, the most flavorful sandwich I’ve had on Kauai.

Juicy chicken thighs are crusted in a 13-ingredient, smoldering spice mix that Joe learned how to make while living in the

Bahamas.

Last week’s slider was mustard and pretzel crusted chicken drizzled with a KBC Maibock honey glaze. For the sandwich, Fox stacked his fennel and sage pork sausage, with homemade chorizo bacon, torched tomatoes, caramelized onions, pesto and spicy arugula between slices of Midnight Bear Breads and ciabatta roll.

On tap, there’s Kauai Juice Company’s kombucha, plus five KBC beers including two mainstays: Lihue Lager, a light

beer with 4.4 percent alcohol by volume and Black Limousine (4.4 percent), which looks like Guinness stout, but is light bodied. “Tonight’s Finally Friday 9 to 5� menu features summer saison fresh garden spinach salad, with roasted squash, onions and cucumbers tossed in a scallion-cilantro lime vinaigrette and topped with Kauai Kunana Dairy goat cheese.

You’ll also get to try the pork belly steamed bun or that beerbrined jerk chicken panini. For the first time, there’s also black limo braised oxtail stew with Kauai kiawe cornbread and island honey compound butter. For dessert: gingered beer upside down cake with Asian pears and a nitro mild ale shooter.

Kauai Beer Company is located at 4265 Rice Street and is open Wednesday through Saturday 3 to 8 p.m. You can contact them at 245-2337.

First page: Nate Yahnke serves a thirsty crowd during Truck Stop Thursday. Left: Chef Joe Fox combines his passion of beer and fresh food for the Kauai Beer Company. Far top: Fresh peer on tap. Above: The smoldering beer-brined jerk chicken panini with scallion lime aioli.

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‘Edge of Tomorrow’ the right kind of rerun

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he time-shifting sci-fi thriller “Edge of Tomorrow” has perfectly encapsulated what it is to be a summertime moviegoer. We’re dropped into a battlefield of digital effects with the fate of the world at stake. Torrents of gunfire and explosions surround. Some alien clonks us over the head.

We black out and it all happens again. And again.

“Edge of Tomorrow,” in which Tom Cruise plays an officer who continually relives a day of

combat against extraterrestrials, probably isn’t a commentary on the repetitiveness of today’s blockbusters. Its star, after all, has been the unchanging, unstoppable avatar of big summer movies.

But in the film directed by Doug Liman (“Swingers,” ‘’The Bourne Identity”), the action-star persona of Cruise is put into a phantasmagorical blender. As military marketer Maj. William Cage, he’s thrown into battle against his will by an unsympathetic general (the excellent Brendan

Gleeson), and then finds himself stuck in a mysterious time loop.

Cruise dies dozens of times over and over, often in comical ways. Does this sound like a great movie, or what?

The selling point of “Edge of Tomorrow” may indeed be seeing one of Hollywood’s most divisive icons reduced to Wile E. Coyote. He’s like a real-life version of the video game “Contra,” with the code of seemingly endless life. Dying again and again, Cruise has

rarely been so likable.

Based on the 2004 Japanese novella “All You Need Is Kill,” ‘’Edge of Tomorrow” begins in the de rigueur fashion of news clips that catch us up on five years of alien invasion that has - with historical symmetry - encompassed Europe and left the beaches of northern France as the primary point of battle.

Cage is dumped on an aircraft carrier, callously sent into battle by a commanding officer (a very fun Bill Paxton,

spouting lines like, “Battle is the great redeemer” in a Kentucky accent), and outfitted in a high-tech exoskeleton he doesn’t know how to operate.

When he lands on Normandy or thereabouts, he’s an easy target for the aliens, dubbed Mimics.

The Mimics resemble black, scampering dreadlock wigs or electrified Rorschach Tests. When a particularly big one swallows Cage, his day resets. This is “Groundhog Day” with guns.

This time around, though, it’s not Sonny and Cher that wake him up each day but a drill sergeant calling him “maggot.” Whereas Bill Murray got to learn how to play the piano and fall in love, Cage must become a better killer.

He strives to make it through the battle, getting a little further each time before dying.

He quickly pairs with the most celebrated fighter in the war (Emily Blunt), who recognizes his strange predicament.

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Summer Fine Art Festival in Poipu Sunday LISA ANN CAPOZZI TGIFR!DAY nna Skaradzinska loves to paint portraits.

She also likes to create pictures of bugs, birds, fish and anything that inspires her.

“I work through observations on life,” Skaradzinska said. “I like to mix realism with abstract.”

Her original works of art along with the creations by other talented Kauai painters and sculptors will be one of the highlights at the sixth annual Summer Fine Art Festival on Sunday in Poipu.

The festival is produced by the Women Artists of Kauai organization and the National Tropical Botanical Garden.

“I like being part of a group like the Women Artists of Kauai.

Each of us is on our own path.

They are very inspiring. There’s no competition between us,” Skaradzinska said. “The best part is that 20 percent of the sales at the event go to a nonprofit cause.”

Established Kauai artists will include Patrice Pendarvis, Donia Lilly, Helen Turner, Suzy Staulz,

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Above: Anna Skaradzinska paints in her studio in Eleele. Right: “Bee Moment” acrylic on palm frond.

Leslie Hagen, Jennifer Rutt, Kathleen Bryan, Caylin Spear and Marionette Taboniar. In addition to displaying their works for sale, they will be on hand to discuss their art which is in a variety of mediums, from watercolors and

acrylics to plastics and clay.

Photography and textile art will also be exhibited.

Besides the display of original art and prints as well as art demonstrations, the event will feature live music and a variety of food. Proceeds of art sales

will benefit NTBG. The festival will run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Southshore Visitors Center. It is across from Spouting Horn at 4425 Lawai Road in Poipu.

Info: www.womenartistsofkauai. blogspot.com or call 742-2433.

Sake, rice and raw fish Fundraiser dedicated to craft of drink TOM LAVENTURE TGIFR!DAY t’s all things sake.

A special fundraiser seeks to showcase the versatility and variety of the gourmet alcoholic beverage that ranges from a perishable, unpasteurized variety to a sparking sake that tastes more like a champagne.

The Rice and Sake tasting will be at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, June 19 at Kauai Marriott Resort for anyone interested in the delicious (and potent) drink.

“We have scheduled a short presentation on rice by Lyndsey Haraguchi-Nakayama

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Daniel Braun displays a sake.

of Hoopulapula Haraguchi Rice Mill located in Hanalei,” said Sandi Kato-Klutke. “There will also be a wine sommelier who is versed on sake and how it is made.”

Daniel Braun, owner of

Princeville Wine Market, said the designation of sake grades comes with a rice polishing process. The polishing is the process of carefully breaking away the outer husk with more of the proteins, and leaves a more starchy inner kernel.

The most common misnomer of sake is that it must be served warm, he added. Most sakes are served cold to help bring out the distinguishable fruity tastes within.

As with most wines, sake was also made to accompany a food dish and tastes best when pared with those foods.

Sake was made to go with raw fish.

“People who enjoy the crisp white wines often like

sake,” he said.

A special menu will be paired with sake selected by Young’s Market. The menu will include a spicy ahi poke bowl; vegetarian forbidden rice salad bowl; spicy vegan tofu eggplant brown rice bowl; General Tsao chicken long grain rice bowl; Indian lamb curry basmati rice bowl; and sausage and seafood jambalaya rice bowl.

The desserts, including rice pudding, okoshi, butter mochi, and chi chi dango, will be served with a specialty Biwa (loquat) tea.

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DENNIS FUJIMOTO TGIFR!DAY undreds of families and keiki between 5 and 18 years old took advantage of the nice weather and the garden atmosphere of Smith’s Tropical Paradise to learn about having a safe and healthy summer.

Hosted by the Wilcox Memorial Hospital, a Hawaii Pacific Health organization, people participated in the various health and wellness workshops, met icons like Dr. Health E. Hound, and Tucker, the facility canine from the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.

A special team from the Kapiolani Medical Center measured and distributed free bicycle helmets and Hoola Lahui offered samples of kale with an “I tried it!” button.

The activity extended beyond the luau hale where American Medical Response, the Kauai Fire Department and the Kauai Police Department had their vehicles on display for more hands-on interaction.

Scarlett Patterson, Wendi Hirsch, Tucker, Kalei A healthy snack and prize giveaway of a bicycle and helmet capped the day.

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InsPirates keep laughs coming as they create comedy on stage BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY bare stage and black walls might not sound like a place of laughter.

Doesn’t really seem like the kind of setting that would spark crazy creativity. And it sure doesn’t look like where you would find some of the most clever, spontaneous people on Kauai.

But when it comes the folks behind the InsPirates improv comedy, it’s all they need, if that.

Really, just give them a place to interact with an audience, give them a few scenarios, even just a word, and they’ll have you laughing in no time. They do it with expressive faces,

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voice inflections, body language, and some of the quickest wits you’ll likely ever witness. That’s the very heart of improv — and these folks are very, very good at it, starting with Thalyn Nikolau, leader of this comedy improv troupe who has been producing and performing theater events on the island for six years.

He calls it the jazz music of the theater world. “Improv takes a very unique blend of skills. Seemingly paradoxical at times,� he said. “When people come to wlearn, they usually show up on one end of the spectrum or other, from timid and contained to over

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bold and filter free. Getting to smooth, you figure it must be the art core of improv requires rehearsed. But it’s a new show, an ever-changing dance each night, depending between open freedom on the energy that InsPirates and specifically directional.� flows from the crowd. improv So what’s the key The direction of a story comedy to success? Anything on stage unfolds with Fridays specific they do well audience suggestions.

8 p.m. that makes things click “The more the audiWit’s End on stage? ence understands that Theater, “We listen to each with their suggestions Coconut other, we listen to the MarketPlace and energy, they are audience, we listen Tickets: $10 part of the creation, the to The Muse, all while better for everyone,�he contributing positively said. “It’s a group ride, to the unfolding story,� he said. not just a voyeuristic experience.�

From cleaning a fish to yodelA wonderful part of improv, he says, is “getting to surf the ing to showering, the InsPirates magic of discovery with everyone create a comedy routine that in the room. And revel in the plays off each other’s strength spontaneous genius that comes and skills. They tell stories, they from both player and audience.� dance, they jump, they yowl like It’s exactly why you’ll never cats. They sing, they shower, they grow weary of this act, because it’s blink. They can go from angry changes with each performance. to tearful to terrified to sassy to The InsPirates are performing possessed on command. every Friday in June, 8 p.m. at the And somehow, they make it Wit’s End Theater in the Coconut look insanely fun.

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everyman character with a constantly surprising arsenal of wit and physical comedy. r 1IJMJQ #SBVUJHBN JT PVS NJOE man. When we can pass him a ball that let’s him unleash his copious intelligence, we’re all in for a good ride. r %FNJBO .D,JOMFZ CSJOHT B rare combo of physical flexibility and deadpan to the stage. r 4 + -FIPWFO CMFOET IFS TIBSQ mind with an extra helping of goofball. r &SJO 0STIBM IBT HSFBU DIBSBDUFS flexibility and a highly satirical shine. “And I’m a light speed wit-slinger with friendly hosting charisma, and a 20-year professional theater background that gives me a multi dimensional insight into a broad spectrum of human behavior,�

Nikolau said of himself.

Nikolau started teaching improv on Kauai about four years ago and began recognizing some “troupe worthy talent.� The Kauai crew has been playing together for two years. While his love for improv is deep, it’s not without challenges because many people don’t know what improv is, how it works and aren’t sure they want to find out. It can be a bit out of your comfort zone to attend a live show and have the guy on stage look right you. “We not only have to provide good entertainment, we have to educate people on what it is and why they want it,’Nikolau said. “As long as we have a good venue and an audience, everything else kind of falls right into place.� “You might think that every so often, these guys would get stumped, draw a blank, not be able to come up with anything at a moment’s notice. Just once, maybe they’ve have that deer in the headlights stare. You would be wrong. “We’re usually moving so fast there’s no time to get stumped,�

Nikolau said.

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ISLAND CALENDAR

Original art, prints and gifts will be for sale with a portion of the proceeds supporting NTBG. 742-2433 Slack Key Guitar Concert 3 to 5 p.m.

Hanalei Family Community Center Multi-award winning traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele concert. $20. 826-1469

MONDAY

KING KAMEHAMEHA DAY PARADE FRIDAY The InsPirates 8 p.m.

WIT’s End, Coconut MarketPlace The InsPirates Improv Comedy Crew is back for a run of Friday nights. $10.

‘Peter Rabbit’ 10 a.m.

The Honolulu Theatre for Youth present “Peter Rabbit and the Garden,” a special stage production of the Peter Rabbit story, at Kauai libraries.

This 30-minute, interactive version is suitable for ages 3 and older. Two shows today, first begins at 10 a.m. at Waimea library, last at 3 p.m. at Hanapepe library.

Bon Dance 5:30 p.m.

Waimea Hongwanji Temple There will be games, food booths and a performance by Taiko Kauai.

KHS Class Reunion Kapaa High School, Class of 1969 is having its 45th reunion. 639-4123 or (781)5410075.

Red Cross Training Class 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Kauai Veterans Center North Shore Dance Party 7 p.m.

Church of the Pacific Enjoy tango music, swing, ballroom and Lation music. All levels welcome. $5.

SATURDAY AARP Smart Driver Course 8 a.m. to noon Lihue Neighborhood Center Learn safe driving strategies and defensive driving techniques. Fee for AARP members $15 and nonmembers $20. 245-4138

Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Historic County Building enjoy a parade dedicated to King Kamehameha, live entertainment, food booths, crafts and more.

KSA Print Sale 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

KSA exhibit area, Kukui Grove Center Kauai Society of Artists is having its first print sale begins today through June 29.

The Honolulu Theatre for Youth present “Peter Rabbit and the Garden,” a special stage production of the Peter Rabbit story, at Kauai libraries.

This 30-minute version for ages 3 and older.

A Day on Kokee Trails Join the Sierra Club on a day hiking Kokee’s trails. 5 miles.

346-1229

King Kamehameha Day Parade & Celebration 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Historic County Building lawn

Bon Dance 5:30 p.m.

Waimea Hongwanji Temple There will be games, food booths and a performance by Tsunami Taiko.

KHS Class Reunion Kapaa High School, Class of 1969 is having its 45th reunion. 639-4123 or (781)5410075.

‘Peter Rabbit’ 10:30 a.m.

Princeville Public Library

SUNDAY Father’s Day Dance Party 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Koloa Neighborhood Center Birthday and Father’s Day dance party with dancing, food and more. 634-3773 Summer Fine Art Festival 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

NTBG, Visitor Center

Tropic Care 8 a.m.

Kapaa Middle School, Eleele Elementary School, Kauai Community College Free medical care service runs through June 26. 241-3555

TUESDAY Tropic Care 8 a.m.

Kapaa Middle School, Eleele Elementary School, Kauai Community College Free medical care service runs through June 26. 241-3555

WEDNESDAY Tropic Care 8 a.m.

Kapaa Middle School, Eleele Elementary School, Kauai Community College Free medical care service runs through June 26. 241-3555 Disaster Preparedness 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Princeville Public Library Makaala Kaaumoana, executive director of the Hanalei Watershed Hui, will describe the planning process for a disaster resilience plan for the North Shore. Community

resilience is the ability of communities to withstand and recover from disasters, and to learn from past disasters to strengthen future response and recovery efforts. 826-4310 Hardware Science 6:30 p.m.

Waimea Public Library In this one-hour program, children will learn how to think like a scientist and experience live science demonstrations using simple equipment and tools.

THURSDAY ‘Shrek the Musical’ Island School Auditions for Hawaii Children’s Theaters performance of “Shrek the Musical,” begin today and run through June 25. Actors, singers and dancers over age 8, male and female, are invited to audition.

246-8985 Rice & Sake 5:30 p.m.

Kauai Marriott Resort, Puna Court Tropic Care 8 a.m.

Kapaa Middle School, Eleele Elementary School, Kauai Community College Free medical care service runs through June 26. 241-3555 Hardware Science 10 a.m.

Koloa Public Library In this one-hour program, children will learn how to think like a scientist and experience live science demonstrations using simple equipment and tools.

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