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Week of Friday, September 21, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 38

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PLEDGE FOR PEACE 6 to 7:30 p.m. Kauai Soto Zen Temple Zenshuji, Hanapepe Peace walk, blessing, drumming, song, dance, exhibit of artwork by Eleele School students.

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PAWS FOR CELEBRATION 5:30 p.m. Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club main ballroom Music, food, auctions. Fundraiser for Kauai Humane Society. Tickets are $125.

“LIFESONGS” BY KATHLEEN DAHILL 7:30 p.m. St. Michael & and All Angels’ Episcopal Church Kapaa Kauai flood relief fundraiser. Performers will be Deborah Baumung, Liz Hahn, Kamele Woodard. Donations, canned goods accepted at the door.

9TH ANNUAL WESTIN PRINCEVILLE JAZZ AND WINE FESTIVAL 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. on the resort’s main lawn Array of wines, island-inspired cuisine and jazz music headlined by the Leonard Patton Quartet. Silent auction proceeds will benefit the Kauai Lifeguard Association. Tickets are $110. Info: 827-8700 MATSURI KAUAI 2018 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall Lihue Japanese cultural demonstrations, food, more.

MOVIE NIGHT Sunset, All Saints Episcopal Church and Preschool front lawn, Kapaa The Ke Akua Youth Group presents “Peter Rabbit” and “Avengers: Infinity War.” Free. Donations welcome. There will be a concession stand with food and drinks for sale. Proceeds will go toward Ke Akua Youth Group’s outreach activities, mission work and conference events.

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1 to 6 p.m. Princeville Community Association clubhouse.

DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE GATHERING 7 p.m. Golden Lotus, Kapaa Dances in a circle with easy-to-learn movements and songs are taught, accompanied by live musicians. The intention is to connect as a community to support a desire for peace while having fun.

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KAUAI ISLAND SINGERS SHOWCASE 6:30 p.m. Kapaa All Saints Episcopal Church gym Vocal playtime workshop with jazz artist Leonard Patton. $10 donation at the door. Info: kisskauai@gmail.com TUESDAY

BEGINNING QI GONG CLASS 1 to 2 p.m. Lihue Neighborhood Center Free for all ages. Promotes balancing the body for greater health, increasing vitality and radiating more energy. Info: 635-0306 THURSDAY

KAUAI EXPORT SEMINAR 9 to 11 a.m. Kauai Community College Free. Will cover opportunities in growing markets and offer consultations to attendees. Register: www.hisbdc.org LIHUE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION MEETING 7:30 to 9 a.m. at Duke’s Canoe Club at Kalapaki Free and open to the public. Will be talking about lessons learned from the responses to this year’s significant weather events.

Speakers include Padraic Gallagher, director of disaster services, American Red Cross Kauai; Lauren T. Guest, public health preparedness planner, state Department of Health Kauai District Health Office; and Elton Ushio, emergency management administrator, Kauai Emergency Management Agency.

TALK STORY WITH AUTHOR BILL FERNANDEZ 5 to 7 p.m. Kauai Museum courtyard Celebrate the release of his latest book, “Hawaiian Rebellions: Book Three of the John Tana Triology.” Public welcome, 20 percent of book sales donated to museum. Light refreshments.

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‘Kathleen THESE SOUNDS ARE GIFTS’ Dahill writes music for

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mao resident Kathleen Dahill has been writing songs since her early teens and this weekend music lovers will have the opportunity to hear some of her music at a flood-relief concert.

“This is my way of saying ‘thank you’ for allowing me to participate in this community, for allowing me to share my music and Dahill my skills,” she said.

Dahill has written more than 800 songs. They usually come to her in the wee hours of the morning when everyone else is asleep.

“I hear the music first and these songs come to me. I sit, I listen and write it down. They come from a spiritual place.

These songs are gifts,” she said.

Every song Dahill writes tells a story.

“I don’t ever sit down with the intention that I’m going to write a song. They just come to me. I’m very blessed because they’ve been coming nonstop,’ she said.

Originally from the East Coast, Dahill said she’s had a fascination with Hawaii since she was a little girl and has always wanted to live here.

A couple of years before the 2009 financial crises, her husband was working in corporate America, but when things started getting slow, he left. The couple ended up SEE GIFTS, PAGE 3

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having to sell their home to get out from underneath their mortgage.

To get away from the stress of the situation, Dahill and her husband decided they’d take a trip to Kauai for 10 days.

While on Kauai, they met a group of kupuna in Anahola, who told them they should move to Kauai permanently.

That meeting changed their lives, so they returned home and sold almost all of their belongings in order to make the move.

“We sold everything in our home, except our computers, my piano, one box of belongings. We got rid of practically everything. We left that Western life because of the elders we met in Ana-

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hola who said we should come live here,” Dahill said.

They came to Kauai totally cold, she said.

Life on Kauai hasn’t always been easy for Dahill and her husband. They are still working on creating income for themselves because it’s a difficult place to find work, she said.

“We keep getting little jobs here where we get little chunks of money to pay the bills,” she said.

Though she’s written so many songs throughout her life, Dahill said she doesn’t think of herself as a musician.

“It’s a healing experience.

I think of myself as a sound healer in the community,” she said.

She continued: “The concert is our way of connecting with the community because what happens in one part of the community

affects us all.”

Throughout the years, Dahill said she’s done some arrangements for Kauai Voices, where she met Liz Hahn and Deborah Baumung, who will be performing with her this weekend. Kamele Woodward is also performing with the group.

For years they’ve been talking about their desire to sing more, and decided to collaborate for this concert.

They’d been talking about making it happen before the flood, and then when it happened they decided to make it a relief concert.

Though the flood was a natural event, it was like a bomb went off on the North Shore.

“We have people who are emotionally struggling.

They’ll need long-term support. It’s like a war zone.

I want them to know that they’re in our thoughts and

A CD will soon be available, with proceeds going toward flood relief efforts.

••• Bethany Freudenthal,

prayers,” she said.

The concert is at St. Michael & All Angels’ Episcopal Church in Lihue at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.

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PET PROJECT

‘Paws for Celebration’ to raise money for Kauai Humane Society set for Saturday JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY

dog from the shelter out for a day on the island.

Hiking and walking through island towns, beach aya the dog is a mix of trips and treats are all on the menu for the field-trip dogs, hunting-type breeds and lucky pups like Naya get that recently landed a ticket to a new home in the at Kauai Humane Society, and now lives in Washington process.

But that’s just one of the with new owners Bret and ways that the Kauai Humane Samantha Granquist.

Society finds homes for cats “Naya was adopted and dogs. From sponsoring through the field-trip Pet of the Week features program,” said Laura Lee, deSundays in The Garden Island velopment director with the to amping up the transfer Kauai Humane Society. program, KHS works to keep She’s one of dozens of dogs that have been adopted pets in homes, and their annual fundraiser helps them through the field-trip procarry out their mission. gram, which allows visitors Set for 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the and residents alike to take a

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Bret and Samantha Granquist with their dog Naya on Kauai prior to bringing her back to Washington with them, where they live.

Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club main ballroom on Saturday, Paws for Celebration has been an annual event since the 1980s.

Tickets can be purchased at the KHS website and are $125 a piece. Admission includes dinner and entertainment from Ka Ohana o Kauai.

Items at the live auction include a seven-night cruise in Tahiti, a Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa two-night stay, a night at the Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club Presidential Suite, and a four-person trip to Italy for seven nights.

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Picasso, left, the shelter’s longest-tenured dog, meets Banshee and a Kauai Humane Society staffer on an afternoon outing in the KHS shelter courtyard in Puhi Wednesday. On the cover, in a photo also taken by Dennis Fujimoto, are several of the KHS staffers and a couple of dogs available for instant adoption.

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Silent-auction items include a wine pull, Tito’s vodka baskets, Marcus Mariota memorabilia, dinners at various restaurants, tickets to tours and jewelry.

Proceeds are used for operations to fulfill KHS’s mission of fostering respect, responsibility and compassion for all animals and enriching lives by nurturing healthy relationships between pets and people, according to Diann Hartman, president of the KHS board of directors.

The latest population numbers at the shelter are from August and show there are about 215 dogs currently at KHS and 250 cats.

Statistics from January through August show intake is down 11 percent to 2,205, with a total of 948 dogs and 1,257 cats. Adoptions are down 5 percent to 553, with 297 dogs and 256 cats adopted out.

Transfers are up 52 percent to 553 animals, with 266 dogs and 287 cats transferred to the mainland so far in 2018.

Euthanasia is down 24

percent from the year prior, to 985 animals — 124 dogs have been euthanized this year plus 62 owner-requested procedures. Some 426 cats were euthanized, plus 288 feral cats and 85 owner-requested procedures.

There have been 633 cats and 446 dogs sterilized so far in 2018.

Humane officers have responded to 968 calls thus far for things like strays, injured or dead animals, cruelty and neglect, leash-law violations, barking dogs, bites and scratches.

The transfer program has continued to be successful at saving more lives and finding loving homes on the Mainland for Kauai’s animals, according to Hartman.

“We have some amazing supporters, Destinations in Paradise, who challenged KHS with two matching $10,000 fund drives thus far in 2018, specifically for the transfer program,” she said.

She pointed out anonymous supporters who also did a matching $10,000 fund drive in May for the program.

“We have partner shelters and rescues from San Diego to Seattle where the demand for animals outpaces

the supply of adoptable animals,” Hartman said.

She continued: “By transferring animals, it opens a space here at the shelter for at least one more animal and provides those mainland shelters with grateful, loving Kauai dogs and cats ready for their new families and forever homes.”

Meanwhile, KHS is still on the hunt for an executive director since the November resignation of Scott Pisani, who held the job about a year. Currently the rest of the management team at KHS is taking on the responsibilities, Hartman said.

“The managers and board want to ensure we have the right candidate who has animal welfare experience, understands our culture, the community, and the animal-related challenges on the island,” she said. “We want to ensure they will fit well within the community and be an exceptional leader for our team.”

More info on Paws for Celebration: kauaihumane.org ••• Jessica Else, environment reporter, can be reached at 245-0452 or jelse@ thegardenisland.com.-

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A LIFE INSPIRED BY NANCY DREW that was published in 2006.

It is fitting that the foreword BILL BULEY of the book includes this quote: TGIFR!DAY “Unless life is a daring adventure, it is worth nothing.” — Helen Keller. abriela Taylor is an advenThat is Gabriela Taylor. Never a turer. A traveler. A person with heart who can’t help dull moment.

“It was Nancy Drew who inspired but care about what’s happening my life more than anyone during in this world around her and, in an era when women were relegatparticular, right here on Kauai, ed to the kitchen. Always in charge, which she calls home. she outsmarted the cops, the She is also the creator, designer and builder of the Keapana Center robbers, and even her own father.

Bed and Breakfast that once thrived Glued to the Nancy Drew mystery books as a preteen, I pictured myon Kauai and was host to many self leading a glamorous, exciting crazy characters who introduced life; living on Kauai and running the Taylor to unforgettable moments Keapana Center fulfilled part of that — some good, some bad, some fantasy.” simply nutty — on this island she This book of wonderful short stoloves. ries is full of laughs and smiles, but She shares those stories in her also includes some tears, heartache book, “Geckos and Other Guests,”

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and despair, too. They smack of someone who lives for adventure, whether it comes to her doorstep or she travels thousands of miles to find it.

You know these are going to be compelling-read tales with titles like, “Lazarus: The Dog Who Came Back from the Dead,”“From Avatars to Zealots: The Usual Suspects,” and “Closed: For Arts Sake.”

She introduces the reader to a cast of characters that certainly has you shaking your head and, yet, wishing you could have been there. Not every guest is what you would call normal, and Taylor deals with all of them as evenly as one possibly could.

They were surfers, models, airline flight attendants, writers and those Taylor calls “burlap people.”They lived under Taylor’s roof and brought their

lives along with them.

Operating a bed and breakfast comes with daily challenges — perhaps even more so on Kauai — and Taylor shares them with humor. Her clear and concise writing styles get right to the point. As in life, she is not one to waste words or time.

She summarizes her journey this way: “In looking back at this rich experience, a main focus in my life for twelve years, I ask myself: would I do it again? The answer is, unequivocally, ‘Yes!’ It was a great adventure, a creative endeavor that often challenged me to improvise in the moment.”

She goes on to write: “One main ingredient for happiness is a basic love of life and probably the most important trait is a sense of humor coupled with gratefulness.

When I look back at the evolution of the B&B and see myself in all those absurd and wonderful situations, I have to laugh. At the same time, I am humbled and give thanks.”

This book will brighten your day and give you insight as to life on Kauai.

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

‘LIFE ITSELF’ IS STAR-STUDDED, EARNEST BUT LACKING traumas are thrown together in Dan Fogelman’s “Life LINDSEY BAHR Itself ,” a curious cocktail of a ASSOCIATED PRESS movie (one and a half out of allmark sentimentality, four stars) from the “This is passionate defenses of Us” creator about all of life’s Bob Dylan’s “Time Out highest highs and lowest lows across generations and of Mind” and horrific head

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continents.

“Life Itself” starts over several times, it lies, it backtracks, it misleads and surprises all in service of trying to hammer in the thesis that “life is the unreliable narrator.” Life may be unreliable, sure, but

movies sure as heck don’t have to be to prove the point and this cynical device does not serve the earnest story he’s attempting to tell. Nor does all the head trauma.

If there is a beginning, it’s with Will (Oscar Isaac) and

Abby (Olivia Wilde), who are apart in the present, but not too long ago were married, living in New York, extremely pregnant and spending long mornings in bed cooing at each other under white linens and discussing that 1997

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Dylan album. Will is doing so poorly with the separation that he’s taken up screenwriting and berating baristas while pouring alcohol into his coffee at an hour when such behavior is generally frowned upon.

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Puna Kalama Dawson, Aunty Betty Weichhart, Beverly Newbury, Hami Parisi, Chie Takahashi, Minori Evans

Steven “Scoobyah” Buscher and friends - Hawaii

Steve Backinoff, Puppet, Maronda Rice

Robert “Zippedy the Clown” Gluckson and friends

Kathryn, Bowie Davis, Al Albergate

Rachel Kattlove, Nathalie Kelly

Taylor, Wailani, Anndrias Ray

Angelina Kissida, Rayn, Jayden Kirk

Sheenah Kelly, Lyn Wandell

COMING TOGETHER FOR PEACE

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veryone was invited to create peaceful relationships Sunday when the Interfaith Roundtable of Kauai presented its International Day of Peace celebration at the Lydgate Beach Park main pavilion, where Middle Fields with Darren Dzurilla, Antwoine Woody, and Rachell Kattlove set the tone with their unique, sedating music.

Kumu hula Puna Kalama Dawson blessed the event with a mele, “Pili Pa‘a,” an original composition that speaks of how all become one with each other.

Annaleigh Atkinson led a series of presentations on conflict-resolution skills while children adjourned to a puppet-creating station and stage where they could present their puppets under the leadership of Robert Gluckson, known to the children as Zippedy the Clown.

Atkinson also loaned the maluhia (“peace” in Hawaiian) crane display to Gerald Hirata of the Kauai Soto Zen Temple, which will be hosting its own International Day of Peace observance today from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Hanapepe.

Sola Radiante, Tara

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