Week of Friday, March 3, 2017 | Vol. 5, No. 9
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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:
Top picks for the week
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AN EXPLORATION IN DANCE AND SONG 7 to 9 p.m. Hongwanji Mission, 41170 Kuhio Highway, Kapaa. $10 to $20, sliding scale. Also cirque arts like firespinning and aerial silks, wild light shows and more.
VEGAN POTLUCK AND LECTURE 4:30 p.m., Sun Village clubhouse. Cuckoo for Coconuts, A Vegetarian Society of Hawaii Kauai presentation by Thomas and Janie Eisendrath. Free lecture. For potluck, bring a vegan dish. Info: VSH, 378-4170.
2-3. MUSIC:
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4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI: Dave Hubbard is NTBG’s Volunteer of the Year
6. BOOK REVIEW: ‘ Ordinary ‘Ohana’
7. CHECK DA SCENE Kauai Eat Dessert First
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WELCH FAMILY MUSICAL GROUP CONCERT 5 to 6:30 p.m. Princeville Public Library. “Songs From Our Hearts.” Free. Sponsored by the Friends of the North Shore Library at Princeville as part of the Dotty Nakea Memorial Speaker Program and by the Princeville Public Library. NEW NORDIC WALKING COURSE FOR SENIORS Wednesdays 4.30 to 6 p.m. Kapaa Neighborhood Center. Two-month course starting. Walking sticks for class are provided. No cost for seniors (55 up). Info: 822-4599, esti@bobstropicals.com. THURSDAY LOVE AND RESPECT 7 p.m. Lawai warehouse, 3540 Koloa Rd. Repeats every Thursday until April 6. Male/ female relationship building DVD class. Singles welcome. Based on Christian principles. No journaling. No sharing. Tim and Lynn Mira are facilitators. Info: register@loveandrespectkauai. com, 332-7406
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DAVID MCCRACKEN TGIFR!DAY PUHI — A year ago, Peggy Ellenberg had never heard of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book, “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” Nor had she seen the Oscar-nominated film adaptation directed by Wes Anderson. In fact, Ellenberg had never heard of Anderson until one of her students expressed a passion for the story. “Last year, I was the senior adviser to a senior who did his senior project on Wes Anderson. And I knew nothing about Wes Anderson. But he was so excited about it, I thought that since it will be Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday this year, I looked around and found two scripts. This one was done with David Wood and Dahl, and it just fit.” Directing her 81st play at Island School, Ellenberg and her cast of 23 fifth-grade students will put on a production of Fantastic
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Even though these students are only in the fifth grade, a couple of them told TGI that performing is something that they’ve been interested in pursuing throughout their careers at Island School. “I’ve always wanted to be in a play. It feels amazing to be on stage. This is my first play
and It’s like a dream come true,” said Connor Tavares. Tickets for the show are available from cast members and Island School’s front office. Tickets are $5 in advance and $16 for a family pass. Tickets are $7 and $20 for a family pass at the door.
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Emily Do and Bailey Ponce told TGI that their favorite part of the play is the cider scene with all the foxes.
Mr. Fox at 7 tonight and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday in the school’s Main Hall. Although Ellenberg enjoys working with the kids and putting on large productions, she still describes the process of putting all the pieces together in a simplistic, yet understandable manner. “Total chaos,” Ellenberg calls it. “You just do it. You have help, though. Everybody is constantly doing something. We’re working everyday for about two weeks. It takes a village,” she added. For many of the 10-11 year olds in the production, this will be their first time performing on a stage in front of other people. But when TGI asked Titus Schweitzer if he was feeling
nervous about being in front of an audience, he shook his head and smiled, saying he’s not nervous at all. “I’m super excited! I love watching movies and when I watched Fantastic Mr. Fox, I thought it was a really good movie,” Titus said. Titus will be portraying Bean. He won’t be playing Mr. Fox in the play, nor will he be playing an animal. Zach Ing, on the other hand, couldn’t be more elated about playing the role of a badger in the play. “I like acting as an animal and being on stage. This is my first actual play, so I’m excited about that. I tried my best and I got to be a badger which is going to be really cool and fun.”
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Kauai’s Dave Hubbard is NTBG’s Volunteer of the Year
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olunteering at the National Tropical Botanical Garden’s Breadfruit Institute is more than a chance to learn the nuances of ulu for Dave Hubbard. It’s a way to put gratitude in action. “Service is really important to me. It has a big connection to gratitude,” Hubbard said. “Instead of just saying ‘I’m grateful’ and sitting back, I want to show it — be grateful in action.” And NTBG and the Breadfruit Institute showed their gratitude for Hubbard’s service this year by naming him Volunteer of the Year. He’s the first to receive the distinction, accord-
ing to Diane Ragone, director of the Breadfruit Institute. “We usually have a gathering where we recognize the volunteers, but this year they asked each of us to pick someone from our program for special recognition,” Ragone said. She chose Hubbard, eight-time dropknee world champion pro bodyboarder, because when he’s on-island he consistently invests his time into the Breadfruit Institute. “He works with the collection here at McBryde Garden,” Ragone said. “He harvests and monitors each of the trees.”
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Dave Hubbard accepts his Volunteer of the Year Award at the National Tropical Botanical Garden for his volunteer work at the Breadfruit Institute.
Data collection for research is also part of what Hubbard does at the Breadfruit Institute, as well as finding homes for the extra breadfruit. “Donating some of it to the food bank was his idea,” Ragone said. Sharing the abundance of the collection is one of the delights of the job, Hubbard said, and he likes to pass the extra fruit on to staff members and those attending the many functions at NTBG. When there’s a big harvest, though, he’s able to spread the ulu a little further around the island. “Last year 500 pounds of breadfruit went to the food bank — a quarter-ton. I felt that was cool,” he said. “If there’s abundance and it’s falling on the ground, let’s give it to people who need it. So that’s rewarding.” Hubbard started volunteering with the Breadfruit Institute in 2012, and by that time he’d already formed a passionate interest in ulu. SEE ULU, PAGE 6
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tells us that he doesn’t have an ordinary family. He has an “ohana”, veryone has a family, whether with a grandpa, uncle, and two we were born to one, adopted cousins with the same name. We by one, or made our own. And meet his grandma who he lives with, his aunties who he is related to, his in Hawai’i, “family” is usually a much aunty’s partner (or “aunty-aunty”), bigger affair! an aunty-cousin, half-brother, “Ordinary Ohana” by Maui-born step-brother, barbecuing Uncle Boo, author Lee Cataluna and Oahu-born aunties and cousins from California, illustrator Cheyne Gallarde, exemChina, Philippines, and Wisconsin! plifies the wonderfully unique and diversified nature that are the families This large patchwork of different of the islands, and is presented in the people with different backgrounds, form of a fun and entertaining young lifestyles, and ancestries is to him, well, ordinary! people’s book. But what makes this book great is Young Kainoa, raised in Hawaii,
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Dave Hubbard assists in research on the breadfruit collection at the National Tropical Botanical Garden.
Ulu Continued from page 5
The first time he volunteered with NTBG’s Breadfruit Institute was during a flour-making project. The goal was to test three pieces of equipment: a rotary shredder that shreds the raw breadfruit, a solar dry house to dehydrate the shreds, and a bicycle-powered mill that grinds the strips into flour. “I was one of the younger volunteers that was helping, so I would spend a lot of time on the bike,” Hubbard said. “Then later, in 2013, they had a breadfruit festival on the island and I had enough experience that they asked me to demo the machinery at the festival.” Since then, Hubbard has been acting as somewhat of an on-site collection manager for the McBryde breadfruit collection. In addition to his work at the Breadfruit Institute, Hubbard volunteers with youth at his church and is president of the Island School Alumni Association’s advisory council. He also takes information on the versatility and usefulness of breadfruit out to the community. “The ulu plant offers medicine and shelter and building materials and food and even clothing — it’s not necessarily comfortable, but you can make a type of cloth from the bark of a new shoot,” he said. “It’s so much for one plant to offer.” Spreading the word on the abundant plant is always helpful for the NTBG’s Breadfruit Institute, and for the garden overall. “From weekly harvesting, weighing and measuring of fruit in the research orchard, to his ambassador spirit involving education on breadfruit at Kauai and Maui schools, Dave does all with humble pride and graceful aloha,” Ragone said.
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