Week of Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 | Vol. 4, No. 43
Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend
The Green coming to Kauai
PERFECT POUR
Imua Coffee Roasters opens in Wailua
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Weekly at KCC Campus! GOT NONI!
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Try some Hawaiian Noni products for your health. Look for Lucas & Lola Frailey.
From Farmers Market to Farm Fair The Kauai County Farm Bureau Supports Agriculture
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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:
Top picks for the week
3. COMMUNITY:
The Green comes to Kauai for concert
4. DINING OUT KAUAI: Imua Coffee Roasters
6. BOOK REVIEW: “Hawaiian Night Before Christmas (Ka Po Ma Mua O Kalikimaka)”
7. CHECK DA SCENE Senior craft fair
OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY FREE MOVIE NIGHT 7 to 9 p.m. Anaina Hou Community Park Anaina Hou Community Park and Kauai Invasive Species Committee are showing the DreamWorks Animation film “Antz” and a free screening of the sevenminute documentary “Fire!, Little Fire Ants in Hawaii.” Info: 821-1490. FREE KEIKI MOVIE 2:45 to 4:15 pm., Lihue Library Please join us for a monthly keiki movie in the Lihue Library conference room, where we show a G or PG rated movie. A small snack will be provided, while supplies last. Keiki under 5 years old must be accompanied by an adult.
BOOS AND BOOZE 6-9 p.m., Historic Waimea Theater Drinks, food and frightful fun. Costumes encouraged. Food trucks, costume contest, drawings. Proceeds benefit Relay for Life Kauai. Tickets are $40. Info: Laurie Yoshida, 212-5602, or www. teampurplepalooza.myevent.com. CHARITY WALK BOWLING FUNDRAISER 6-9 p.m., Lihue Bowling Center. Teams of six for a fun night. HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Vendors will be inside and outside the hospital hallways. Drawings, food, crafters, orchids. NTBG FALL FROLIC AND PLANT SALE Noon to 3 p.m., National Tropical Botanical Garden South Shore Visitors Center You’ll find the perfect pepper, pod (cacao) and perennial pick-meups for your home garden. Info tmcswain@ntbg.org.
KAUAI MENS CONFERENCE 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Smith’s Tropical Paradise The purpose of the conference is to supply men with a toolkit of knowledge to support their relationships with their family and community. Info: 217-1831.
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FALL PADDLING CLINICS Runs from Today - Nov. 4, Kauai Outrigger will be running six clinics in the fall of 2016 to the summer of 2017. Register at kauaioutrigger.com.
STRANGER THINGS HALLOWEEN PARTY 6 p.m., Kapaa Neighborhood Center Join Lambda Aloha’s Stranger Things Halloween Party, based on the hit Netflix series. There will be a drag show, dancing, and contests! Info: 826-4429. FALL FESTIVAL: 4 to 9 p.m. Kauai Christian Academy Campus Fall Festival offers food, silent auction, live music, art vendors, and carnival activities. KNL BONSAI WORKSHOP 9:05 a.m. Kauai Nursery & Landscaping. Get to know how to start your bonsai! Info: 245-7747.
KAUAI WRITERS CONFERENCE Na Aina Kai. The festival will be held Oct. 31-Nov. 3. Info: 652-8751.
TUESDAY HALLOWEEN CANDY BUY BACK 3:30 to 6 p.m., Kalaheo Dental Group. Info: 332-9445. “HOW THE WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS CHANGED HAWAII AND THE WORLD” 5:30 to 7 p.m., Kauai Community College. NTBG and KCC present: ‘What in the World’ public lecture series. Join Chipper Wichman as he discusses the recently concluded International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Conservation Congress and what it means for Hawaii and the world. Info 332-7324.
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TAMBAWEEN WITH THE GREEN
POIPU — Zion Thompson, guitarist and lead vocals for award-winning Hawaiian reggae band The Green, says he can’t think of a better reason to come to Kauai on Saturday than performing at the Tamba Halloween party at the Photo by Mason Rose Poipu Beach Athletic The Green band members Caleb Club. Keolanui, Ikaika Atone, J.P. Kennedy, Zion “We want to thank Thompson, Brad “BW” Watanabe and Kauai on behalf of Jordan Espinoza will perform on Kauai The Green for always Saturday.
showing us love and for supporting us,” Thompson said. “We’re super stoked to come and jam. A little bit of off time is something that we’re not used to, so we’re really antsy to get on stage and go mental. Plus, everyone is going to be dressed up and it’s gonna be just wild.” The four-time Na Hoku Hanohano award
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mua Coffee Roasters is all about setting their customers up for an epic journey, no matter what the plan is for the rest of the day. “’Imua’ that’s a word that’s used in canoeing and it means ‘to move forward’,” said Steven Meredith, owner of Imua Coffee Roasters. “It’s sort of a rallying call.” And that’s the goal of Imua Coffee Roasters: to be a rallying point for adventure-goers, working professionals and anyone else that needs a jump-start. But it’s not just their customer’s journey that has caught the obsession of Meredith and his team, the coffee bean’s journey from the plant to the cup is paramount to the company. “We want to do one thing and we want to do it well,” Meredith said. “So our place is very no frills. We have
no frills on our packaging and we have locally made pastries, but we focus on coffee.” That coffee starts with farmers around the world who are connected to Meredith through a Mainland company that directly trades coffee from farmers to roasters. Meredith gets profiles on the coffee and the farmers with the beans he buys. “We get to see the care that the farmer and his employees put into growing their bean and the drying process and they’re passionate because it’s their livelihood,” Meredith said. “Then it’s up to us to make the product worthy of the work they’ve put into it.” The beans aren’t the only piece of Imua Coffee Roaster that have been on a journey, the roaster itself started off
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in New Hampshire and had to be modified in California before it landed on Kauai. In California, the machine was modified with an oxidizer that filters the burnt toast smell that comes from roasting and once it was up to par, the roaster was put into a location that had been sitting empty for 10 years. That space is the corner space in Wailua behind the Coconut Marketplace and near the Aston Islander resort, and Meredith has owned the building for a decade. Throughout the 16 years he’s been on-island working as a finish carpenter, he’s held the dream of putting a roaster in that place. “So I had the space and I thought, what a great coffee
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shop,” Meredith said. “Then when I had the means to build a roasting company, I thought, why not have both.” Meredith took two years to completely renovate the space and did nearly all of the work himself. He does all of the roasting and he works behind the bar daily, taking orders and chatting with customers. He relies on three baristas, all of whom are highly trained, to make his roasting
Wholesale coffee roaster opens in Wailua sing in the various drinks available. Even the espresso, which is a blend of two different beans crafted to create the perfect balance with a caramel finish, took some time to formulate. “I tried out quite a few different blends and combinations before I found the right one,” Meredith said. The team over at Imua Coffee Roasters could spell out the reasons why they’ve changed their approach
on roasting from basing tastes on carbon content to focusing on the fruit flavors during molecular breakdown of the beans during roasting. But, they don’t require their customers to know that in order to get a perfect cup o’ joe from their counter. “We’ve got the science down so you don’t have to,” Meredith said. “You can just come in and get a cup of coffee here, but it’ll be the Jessica Else/The Garden Island best cup of coffee.” Steven Meredith brushes through freshly roasted beans at Imua Coffee Roasters in Wailua.
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ON KUMU AND KOLOHE, MOME AND MELE!
written and illustrated by Carolyn Macy, and her love and appreciation of Hawai’i is evident throughout her work. While “Hawaiian Night Before Christmas” follows in the same spirit as the traditional tale we are all familiar with, Carolyn Macy has crafted an entirely Hawaiian twist to the classic story that brings together all the nomenclature CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS and surroundings that make Hawai’i SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY what it is. For instance, who needs flying he holidays are upon us, and reindeer when you can have flying the biggest holiday of the year honu (sea turtles)! Now Koa and Keoni, for many people is approaching Peka and ‘Elele; On Kumu and Kolohe, fast! HO HO HO! It’s Christmas! Mome and Mele! Now that our bookstore carries For good measure, the book is also new books and new releases, we have dotted throughout with Hawaiian been adding more Christmas and holi- words so that young ones can learn day books, including plenty of “Hawai- a a few Hawaiian words as they enjoy ian” Christmas books. While doing this, the story. we recently happened upon this new The illustrations are vivid and colentry into the Hawaiian holiday book orful, bringing the story to life in a fun market we thought deserved attenand unique way to provide an entirely tion, created by a part-time resident of different visual experience. And with the islands! the extra wonderful details in each of “Hawaiian Night Before Christmas the pictures, your little ones can look (Ka Po Ma Mua O Kalikimaka)” is both and find so many more things that will
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winning-group returns to the Garden Isle after more than a year when The Green performed an acoustic set with the Dirty Heads at the same venue they’ll perform tomorrow night. For us, it’s going to be a fun show because we know we’re going to have everybody there who have been with us since day one,” he said. “And all the fans from Kauai, too, that we love and haven’t seen in a long time and maybe couldn’t make it to the last show we did. Fans may expect two new songs that haven’t been performed in front of the Kauai crowd. “‘Mama roots’ is an ode to roots reggae music; the song ‘Roots’ is the same thing,” Thompson said. “That’s where we came from. That’s where The Green came from. Those songs are a sign what our new album is. It’s going to be progressive, but it’s also going to be rootsy. We’ll be playing the old songs with that rootsy fire again.” Formed in 2009 on Oahu, all six members of the band were part of the same music scene. They got together, started recording and put out their first album in 2010. “Myself and Ikaika Antone, our keyboardist and other lead singer, we’ve been play-
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ing in Kailua for a long time in various bands along with Brad Watanabe (he was in Ooklah Da Moc and Melodious Solutions),” Thompson said. “We knew each other and there was also Caleb Keolanui and JP Kennedy from Next Generation. They had songs on the radio. We just stuck together and started recording together as this group.” The Green exemplifies contemporary Hawaii reggae with hints of pop and overtones of roots reggae sounds. If you ever walk on their bus, chances are you might hear Shania Twain, Bruno Mars, EDM, Hawaiian, country, Hip Hop. “We have a real wide diversity of music,” he said. “We just have a history of loving music and playing music in our families. Like most local families, we kind of just kept going and focused a little more and are blessed and lucky to be able to do that.” Coming off a summer tour on the East Coast and West Coast, The Green plans to put out a new album early next year and tour in venues which include New Zealand. Tickets may be purchased at TheGreen808.com. With special guest Shilo Pa, the Tamba Halloween Party begins at 5:30 p.m. All ages are welcome. Tickets are $40, while VIP tickets are $80. The VIP section is only for ages 21 years and older.
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utsy Okada of the Waimea Senior Centers was anxious to start cooking lunch Saturday at the Kauai Seniors Food and Craft Fair at Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall. “He just got through exercising,” said Basilio ‘Bunga’ Fuertes. “Now, he wants to start cooking, but it’s too early for lunch.” The county’s Department of Parks and Recreation and Na Kupuna Council hosted its annual senior food and
craft fair sprinkled with liberal doses of entertainment provided by the nine senior centers of Kauai. Doors opened to goods and foods created by the talented senior center members, clearly demonstrating their accumulated wisdom of living and their zest for life. Kauai senior centers are in Kilauea, Kapaa, Lihue, Koloa, Kalaheo, Hanapepe, Kaumakani, Waimea, and Kekaha.
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