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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

3. FUN IN THE SUN: ‘Earth Day Rising’

4-5. DINING OUT KAUA‘I: Kilauea Bakery

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRI SAT SUN EASTER EGG HUNT 10 A.M. HANAPEPE FOOTBALL FIELD Over 7,000 candy filled eggs, prize giveaways, the Easter bunny, kids Easter show, food booth and life-size puppets. 335-06845

GARDEN FAIR 9:30 A.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE, FRONT LAWN The biggest one stop shop for the garden on Kauai. There will be a farmers market, garden talks, plants for sale, keiki activities, egg hunt, food booths and more.

GOOD FRIDAY PROJECT 7 P.M. ST. MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH Artists will respond to the profound themes of Good Friday and the Crucifixion. 245-3796

EARTH DAY 7:30 A.M. KAMALANI KAI BRIDGE, LYDGATE Community work day. 639-1018

6. FLICKS:

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7. ART & THEATER: Women In Theatre

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10. THEATER:

‘Of Mice and Men’

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EARTH DAY KOKEE Join the Sierra Club and celebrate the Earth with a weekend in Kokee. Bunkroom accommodations, Friday and Saturday nights ($30 for 2 nights) at the CCC camp. 826-7302

MS WALK 4 P.M. KAPAA BEACH PARK Walk MS is a fundraiser to support innovative research for a cure and supports programs and services that aid over 1,200 families living with multiple sclerosis in Hawaii. Dinner will be provided by Dukes after the walk. www. walkmshawaii.org EASTER BLAST 8 A.M. TO 3 P.M. KEKAHA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER A mini-carnival, crafts, and food fair to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Waimea for their summer activities. 639-1832

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‘LAUNDRY & BOURBON’ AND ‘LONE STAR’ 7 p.m. WIT’s End, Coconut MarketPlace Women In Theatre two plays, two sexes, two viewpoints. Tickets cost $18 in advance, $20 at the door. 635-3727

EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE 6 A.M. TO 12:30 P.M. KAPAA BEACH PARK Church service followed by continental breakfast, worship, hula, art, lunch and more. DAY OF HOPE 10 A.M. TO 1 P.M. KAPAA BEACH PARK Ohana Christian Fellowship Church will be providing a free hot lunch to the community’s less fortunate in observance of Easter Sunday. There will be a Easter egg hunt for keiki following the luncheon. 245-6857

Kalei Hines was the first overall finisher at the 2013 MS Walk. Come on down to the 2014 MS walk 4 p.m. Saturday at Kapaa Beach Park to support multiple sclerosis in Hawaii.

MON TUE WED ADULT & PEDIATRIC FIRST AID/CPR/AED 9 A.M. TO 3:30 P.M. BREATH OF LIFE CHURCH American Red Cross is having several classes for First Aid/ CPR/AED. Cost starts at $70. To register or find out about other classes call 1800-733-2767 or go to www.redcross. org/take-a-class HULA CLASS 5 P.M. HAWAIIAN CULTURAL CENTER, COCONUT MARKETPLACE Halau Hula O Leilani is having hula classes for ages 4 to 12 at 5 p.m. and teens and wahine at 6:30 p.m. 651-0682

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SPRING CONCERT 6:30 P.M. KAUAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE, PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Island School spring concert $10 for adults, $5 for students.

EARTH DAY 6:30 A.M. PMRF There will be a highway, beach cleanup, planting of the Ti-leaf and a trail walk.

‘RACE TO NOWHERE’ 4:30 TO 6:30 P.M. KAUAI HIGH SCHOOL, LIBRARY

Screening and discussion of “Race to Nowhere.” A national discussion about education, childhood and healthy success for our students.

LOVE AND RESPECT 7 TO 8:30 P.M. KAUAI BIBLE CHURCH A five-week marriage relationship building class based on biblical principles. www. LoveAndRespectKauai.com ‘THE LIVING SEA’ 7 P.M. KAPAA PUBLIC LIBRARY PARENT NIGHT 6 P.M. CHIEFESS KAMAKAHELEI MIDDLE SCHOOL Parent night event for 8th grade students and their parents. MAUKA TO MAKAI 5 TO 8 P.M. KAUAI SOCIETY OF ARTISTS GALLERY Opening reception for the KSA exhibit “Mauka to Makai.”

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his weekend, islanders will join together for an ohana-style celebration of Earth Day. The fourth annual “Earth Day Rising Festival” Friday to Sunday at Waipa will feature music, workshops, arts and crafts and camping. “We’ve always been involved in events that bridge different segments of the community and brings them all together in one common cause,” said Keone Kealoha, executive director of Malama Kauai, which is hosting the event. “We’re creating an environment that more easily facilitates relationship building with a shared love of music, food, working together and preservation of special places, among all people.” The festival is expected to attract around 250 participants. Saturday morning will be a volunteer work session. In years past, participants pulled weeds around the taro area, planted koa trees and worked in the organic gardens. “It’s a way to give back,” said Kealoha. “When you use a place, like we will this weekend, we’re teaching about how to give back because you utilized it.” Sunday workshops will teach the concepts of edible landscaping, cheese making, the uses for all parts of the coconut and how to butcher and clean a chicken. “That seems to be a lost art in the last generation,” said Kealoha. Locally grown foods and crafts made using

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island materials will be for sale. There will also be a toy exchange. After the Easter egg hunt, children will have the opportunity to paint their own rocks. “We figured it would be a way to create mementos from the event,” said Kealoha. Camping info: http://tinyurl.com/EDRCamping The official Earth Day is April 22 and is coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year.

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A tolerance for intolerance at Pau Hana Bakery

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ince 1990, Kilauea Bakery & Pau Hana Pizza has established itself as a reliable source of delectable baked goods and savory, wholesome meals. Located in the historic Kung Long Center, cheerful visitors and dedicated residents share laughter over

food or tap on laptops using the bakery’s free Wi-Fi. Even local author, David Katz, wrote a good portion of his book Round Trip at the bakery. The restaurant’s popularity may be the result of good food, 30 happy employees, or a convivial atmosphere

anchored in community. But I would argue that the secret behind their success is owner Thomas Pickett and his insatiable appetite for invention. Pickett, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y.,

in 1981. He, along with wife and business manager Katie, moved to Kauai in 1985 when the couple transferred from the Sheraton Waikoloa on Hawaii, The Big Island. Today, the bakery uses a sourdough starter that Pickett made in 1986 while working as

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a pastry chef at the Sheraton Princeville. Days begin at 4 a.m., when loaves of bread are popped into the oven after proofing for 18 hours. “Our molasses rye is always mentioned when Kilauea is mentioned,” Pickett tells me as we share lunch under an

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umbrella at one of the bakery’s outside tables. Defying my image of a baker, his blue eyes shine as he feeds his lean frame with massive slices of fresh baked pizza. “It was first made famous at the Dolphin Restaurant and then Jaques’ Bakery, where it became statewide famous,” Pickett concludes. Other fresh baked loaves include whole wheat and ciabatta, an Italian bread with a springy crumb. While the bread cools, Pickett’s team prepares 40 pastries including New York-style bagels, Polish bialys (like holeless bagels with savory fillings), dark chocolate dipped guava macaroons and éclairs filled with local coconuts. Frustrated with the cost and landfill waste of canned coconut milk, Pickett invented and patented a “coconut faucet” and a friend built Vlad the Impaler. About 50 pounds of North Shore coconuts are drained using Pickett’s faucet before they’re cracked open on Vlad. Three pounds of coconut meat are harvested, whipped into pastry cream and loaded into éclairs, which are draped with dark chocolate. Next to Vlad is a noni press, which Pickett created to make Tom’s Super Sonic Noni Tonic. Similar to a cider press, ripe noni is pressed and a clear juice is collected. Ginger, turmeric and Hawaiian chili pepper juice is added to soften the pungent blue cheese flavor while boosting nutritional properties. Fresh made soup is offered daily, homemade bacon is cured in passion fruit syrup and rosemary; and whole, fresh pork butt is made into sausage that is served on pizza and in daily specials such as calzones, sandwiches and stromboli. Even though the sausage is labor intensive, it tastes better and is cheaper than buying the prepackaged kind, which also contributes to the landfill. A better product, lower cost and less landfill waste is what prompted Pickett to grow basil

Virginia Ortal, an employee since 1995 for the bakery’s pesto. He found a variety that doesn’t go to seed and over the course of three years, planted 300 of them. “We save about $3,000 a year this way,” says Pickett of his pesto made with macadamia nuts, “and it tastes way better than that stuff that’s loaded with fillers.” Nurturing what Pickett calls a tolerance for intolerance, the bakery is a “trans-fat-free zone” that offers gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free and vegetarian food options. Tony Custodio “We’ve got a great formula called the ‘Nuthin’ Formula,’” explains Pickett. “There’s nothin’ bad in it. Our Nuthin’ Muffin is dairy-free, glutenfree, has berries, Sucanat instead of sugar and it is delicious!” As my husband Dan and I leave, we pass the bakery’s book cart, which has raised more than $22,000 for the literary program at Kilauea Elementary School. It seems the bakery owner has a hand in just about everything. Kilauea Bakery & Pau Hana Pizza, 2484 Keneke St., in Kilauea is open from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. everyday. Info: 828-2020

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REVIEW ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKE COYLE

‘Transcendence’ like a clunky TED talk

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AL has come a long way. First, we had Scarlett Johansson as a human-like operating system. Now, Johnny Depp has been uploaded. If the singularity — when artificial intelligence surpasses human smarts — is indeed coming, at least it has decent taste in movie star avatars. First-time director Wally Pfister’s “Transcendence” isn’t so much the “Him” to Spike Jonze’s “Her” as it’s a more dystopian vision of the meeting of human consciousness and computer intelligence. It turns out that when computers get sophisticated, worse things can happen than Joaquin Phoenix getting his feelings hurt. But whereas “Her” was playful and personal about familiar futuristic concepts, “Transcendence” is clunky and lifeless. It’s like the movie version of a paranoid TED talk.

In the early scenes of “Transcendence,” Dr. Will Caster (a disappointingly sleepy Depp) is a TED-style master of the universe, speaking confidently in front of large video screens to eager listeners about neurology and artificial intelligence. But there are also protesters to his potentially all-powerful invention: the Physically Independent Neural Network (PINN), an early artificial intelligence propelled by a room full of computers that Caster believes could, among other things, cure cancer. An assassination attempt with a radiation-laced bullet leaves Caster with weeks to live. Desperate to keep his mind alive, his loyal, sycophantic wife and fellow researcher Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) uploads Caster’s brain to a PC with PINN hardware. Helping her is their good friend and colleague Max (Paul Bettany, serving as narrator).

But as anyone with an iPhone knows, software updates can be tragic. The transfer is finished just as Caster dies. Soon enough, the screen flickers to life, first with a few typed words and then seemingly Caster’s full personality, in voice and pixel form. Alert to their plan, anti-tech activists (led by Kate Mara) are simultaneously descending. In the chaos, Max begins to realize they’ve created a highspeed Frankenstein — an epiphany lost on the mourning Evelyn, who flees after uploading Caster to the Internet. He immediately spreads across the Web (he calls Evelyn on her phone) and begins seeking more computing power. It takes a long time for “Transcendence” to build to this moment, when perhaps it should have begun here in the first place. But it feels like a suddenly intriguing crossroads. Where will this terrifyingly digital Depp go?

If you answered: to a desert town to build an underground data center for development of radical tissue regeneration techniques, guarded by a creepy army of network-connected, superhuman zombies — then your algorithms are more advanced than mine. Yet the urgency and intelligence of “Transcendence” isn’t artificial. It feels sincerely animated by the frightful questions it poses about computing power and interconnectedness. Pfister, making his directorial debut after years as a cinematographer often teamed with director Christopher Nolan (a “Transcendence” producer), doesn’t exhibit a sure hand with dialogue or a feel for the rhythm of his narrative. Neither does the film have the distinctive form of his prior photography work, most notably “The Dark Knight.” (In imagery, “Transcendence” pales in comparison

to the sumptuous sci-fi of the recent “Under the Skin.”) But, as in Nolan’s “Inception,” Pfister, working from a script by first-time screenwriter Jack Paglen, shows an instinct to drive the genre elements toward a more personal story. “Transcendence” ultimately hinges on the relationship of Caster and Evelyn. The excellent Hall, looking a bit confused by what she’s gotten herself into, does her best to emotionally ground Pfister’s increasingly unfocused and heavy-handed story. Just as in science, noble intentions can lead talented artistic minds astray, too. “Transcendence,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “sci-fi action and violence, some bloody images, brief strong language and sensuality.” Running time: 119 minutes. Two stars out of four.

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f you’re deciding whether to go to see the Women in Theatre’s presentation of “Lone Star,� and “Laundry and Bourbon,� the answer is as simple as one, two, three. What does that mean? Just this: Each is a one-act play. There are two of them. And there are three outstanding cast members in each. It adds up to a wonderful evening of laughs and some touching moments, too, at the intimate WIT’s End Theatre in the coconut MarketPlace. The storylines, billed as heartwarming comedies, are easy to follow. You’re not left trying to figure out what happened or what’s going on. The sets are basic too, with one on a Texas backporch, and one in the backyard of a Texas bar. Nothing elaborate. It puts the spotlight squarely on the cast — with the front row audience a mere few feet away — and they more than rise to the occasion. First up is “Laundry and Bourbon,� featuring Brooke Morgan, Erin Gaines and Corissa Berrett. It takes place on the back porch of Roy and Elizabeth’s home in Maynard, Texas, on a hot summer afternoon. Elizabeth (Morgan) and her friend Hattie (Gaines) are whiling away the time by folding laundry, watching TV, sipping bourbon and Coke, and gos-

siping about the many open secrets that are part of small-town life. They are joined by the self-righteous Amy Lee, who, among other tidbits, can’t resist blurting out that Roy has been seen around town with another woman. While the ensuing conversation is increasingly edged with bitter humor, from it emerges a sense of Elizabeth’s inner strength and her quiet understanding of the turmoil that has beset her husband since his return from Vietnam. Each cast member is talented. Morgan displays a quiet strength, sometimes wishing for her younger, carefree days as she senses the days ahead won’t be easy. Despite marital troubles, she’s committed to her husband. Berrett’s Amy Lee adds sparks to the stage, especially as she and Hattie verbally — and physically — spar. And her line about Baptists and damnation was brilliant. Gaines delivers a strong performance that displays range — humor, understanding, regret, youthful exuberance, defiance and acceptance of her life as a wife, game show authority and mother of very “spirited� children. Hattie is clearly the fighter of the three. Following an intermission that allows guests to visit vendors at the MarketPlace for a bite to eat, “Lone Star� is next.

FP]c c^ V^. Women in Theatre presents “Lone Star� directed by Bard Widmer and “Laundry and Bourbon� directed by Cass Foster. Both one-act plays were written by James McLure. Performances are scheduled Fridays and Saturdays, April 18, 19, 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. and Sundays, April 20 and 27 at 4 p.m. All performances are at WIT’s End in Kapaa’s Coconut Market Place. Tickets are available by phoning (808) 635-3727, or $20 at the door.

The cast of Benjamin “Benny� Barrett, Bailey Hutton, and Jaemin Yi. It features Benjamin “Benny� Barrett as Roy Caulder, Bailey Hutton as Ray Caulder and Jaemin Yi as Cletis Fullnoy in the cluttered backyard of a small-town Texas bar. Roy, once a local high-school hero, is back in town after a hitch in Vietnam and trying to re-establish his position in the community. Joined by his younger brother, Ray (who worships him), Roy sets about consuming a case of beer while regaling Ray with tales of his military and amorous exploits. With

the arrival of Cletis, the fatuous, newlywed son of the local hardware store owner, the underpinnings of Roy’s world begin to collapse as things past and present come to light. But, despite all, the good humor of the play never lapses. There is a brotherhood between Barrett’s and Hutton’s characters. Their connection and bond comes through, especially when Roy learns a few things that might have devastated some, but such is his love he stands by his younger brother.

Their rendition of “Your Cheating Heart,� is something no countrywestern fan should miss. Short, sweet and delightful. Yi has the difficult role of Cletis, not liked by Roy Caulder, accepted by Ray Caulder. His time on stage is short, but effective in that it’s then the anger of Roy Caulder nearly surfaces. As someone in the crowd said, it’s not like these cast members are actors. Their performances are such, they become their characters. When you go, it can be a bit warm in the theater, so don’t overdress. And because the chairs are in rows on a level floor, you may need to crane your neck at times to see the cast. If you’re sensitive to profanity, you’ll hear some in Lone Star, but it’s not excessive. Take time for this Texas twosome.

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he talents and achievements of more than 340 Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts were showcased Saturday during the annual Boy Scout Makahiki at the Kapaa Beach Park. The Scouts, representing 33 units located throughout the island, came together for a day of fellowship and competition, highlighted by the district finals of the Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby. Drawing from the definition of harvest celebration, the Makahiki is a harvest of everything the scouting units have worked to

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achieve all year, said Paul Curtis, Boy Scouts of America, Aloha Council Kauai District executive. The 104-year-old tradition is scouting’s oldest, continuously running event. Members of the Kapaa High School Interact Club, drawing its roots from adviser Joan Kealalio, assisted in the activities along with Bill Arakaki, the Kauai Area Complex superintendent, who was a former scout leader. The Boy Scouts of America, Aloha Council, Kauai District is an original member of the Kauai United Way.

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here are hordes of teenage girls waiting outside the Longacre Theatre each night hoping to squeal over uber-muffin James Franco. But true theater fans should be waiting for his co-star to emerge. Chris O’Dowd, known more for films like “Bridesmaids” and “Friends With Kids,” turns in a very impressive performance as the mentally challenged Lennie in a fine revival of “Of Mice and Men.” Franco? He’s pretty good in his Broadway debut as George, but O’Dowd, in a tricky role, steals the show. John Steinbeck’s play about friendship and humanity in rural California is smartly directed

by Anna D. Shapiro, with evocative sets by Todd Rosenthal and rich lighting from Japhy Weideman. It’s a tragedy — death and loss are in every scene — but Shapiro has teased out as much humor as is possible. Though the characters are often symbolic, the language is spare and plain, a reflection on the men Steinbeck is writing about. There’s a certain stiffness on stage as men warily gauge each other’s intent. Franco and O’Dowd play two tragic migrant workers trying to make a life amid the Depression. Because O’Dowd’s Lennie is mentally disabled, Franco’s George acts as Lennie’s guardian. Two men traveling together are clearly rare in this broken part of the world where men seem to drift from job to job. Lennie is a mountain of a man but has a hard time remembering things and doesn’t know his own strength. He has accidentally killed a mouse just because he liked petting it when we first meet him. More pretty things will die before we’re done.

O’Dowd, his hair shaved and sporting a bushy beard, beautifully conveys Lennie’s innocence, his tics and his toddler-like frustrations. Franco is more standoffish, creating a George who apparently longs to be alone, tries to be decent and squints a lot. The two men have a heartbreaking routine: They each share the dream of owning and running a ranch — “live off the fat of the land!” — with pigs, vegetables, a cow and rabbits, which makes Lennie squeals with delight. It will be his job to care for the plush rabbits. The fantasy is infectious. Two other characters ask if they can join: Jim Norton, as the heartbreaking Candy, an old, lame ranch-hand who must surrender his beloved dog to be killed, and Ron Cephas Jones, as the seen-it-all but excluded Crooks. Both are great, two beaten-down men who have seen the worst of humanity but can still dream like little boys again.

Leighton Meester, of “Gossip Girl” fame, has a less good time of it, making an inauspicious Broadway debut as Curley’s wife. Her line reading is flat, her comfort in the character nonexistent. She is never convincing, as the book makes clear, that she as a woman is another member of the disenfranchised. Meester may be as pretty as Franco, but she’s way out of her depth here. The dusty, weather-beaten sets, which range from river bank to rusty bunkhouse to stable room and barn, the last of which is beautifully realized with just hay bales and some scary-looking steel farm implements hanging high overhead, the mechanisms of fate. Everything is lit as if the sun was perpetually setting. The final scene is one of the most famous in literature and Franco and O’Dowd do it justice. It’s set where the play begins and it is clear everything led inevitably to this moment. Even so, the crack of gunfire will still startle.

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ISLAND CALENDAR

at the door. 635-3727 Slack Key Guitar Concert 3 to 5 p.m. Hanalei Family Community Center Multi-award winning traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele concert. Tickets $20 ($15 keiki and seniors). Proceeds support Hale Halawai Ohana o Hanalei. Call 826-1469.

MONDAY Farmer Markets There is a Koloa Sunshine Market at noon at Koloa Knudsen Ball Park side parking lot off Maluhia Road and a Monday Market at 3 p.m. in the parking lot behind Kmart.

HAPPY EASTER! All weekend long there will be events for you and your family to help celebrate Easter. Check the calendar.

FRIDAY Good Friday Services 7 p.m. Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall & Kapaa Missionary Church Earth Day Rising Waipa Fourth annual Earth Day Rising, Features live music, food, beach, vendors, workshops, panels, art, DJ’s, Waipa volunteer day, egg hunt, three-day ohana camping and more. Slack Key Guitar Concert 4 to 6 p.m. Hanalei Family Community Center Multi-award winning traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele concert. Tickets $20 ($15 keiki and seniors). Proceeds support Hale Halawai Ohana o Hanalei. Call 826-1469 for

reservations. ‘Laundry & Bourbon’ and ‘Lone Star’ 7 p.m. WIT’s End, Coconut MarketPlace Women In Theatre two plays, two sexes, two viewpoints. Tickets cost $18 in advance, $20 at the door. 635-3727

SATURDAY Easter Celebration 7 p.m. St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church There will be a candlelight Easter jazz vigil with Laine Griffith on saxophone and flute, Hank Curtis on piano, and vocalists Peggy Lake and Karen Dickinson. 245-3796 EASTER EGG HUNT 9 to 11 a.m. Prince Clubhouse

Easter Egg Hunt for keiki, then following the egg hunt there will be a chance for families to get pictures taken with the Easter Bunny and refreshments at The Tavern. Two age groups 1-5 and 6-10. Kupuna Technology Workshop 9 to 11:30 p.m. Hanalei Community Center Long Distance Canoe Race 7 a.m. Salt Pond Beach Park This is the fourth annual long distance 6-person outrigger canoe race sponsored by the West Kauai Canoe Club. This is a GICRA-sanctioned event. 651-4248 Love Springs Eternal 7 to 9 p.m. Church of the Pacific Provocative and comical love stories by Speak Kauai. Tickets

$20 in advance, $25 at the door.

SUNDAY Honopu Trail Join the Sierra Club on a hike in Kokee. Strenuous 4 miles round trip. This un-maintained trail through native forest. 826-6105 Easter Celebration 8 a.m. St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church Easter Day celebration service include a brass quartet, vocalist Karen Dickinson, and the St. Michael’s Choir directed by Randy Leonard. Brunch will follow the service. 245-3796 ‘Laundry & Bourbon’ and ‘Lone Star’ 4 p.m. WIT’s End, Coconut MarketPlace Women In Theatre two plays, two sexes, two viewpoints. Tickets cost $18 in advance, $20

Tahitian Dance Keiki 3 to 4 p.m. Joy of Movement Dance Studio in the Dragon Building To register call (540) 798-9516. Community Yoga 6 to 7:30 p.m. Nawiliwili Yacht Club Hosted by the Kauai Sailing Association, weekly on Monday. Bring your own yoga mat or towel. 346-7671 VA Rural Health Outreach 10 a.m. Kilauea Parish Hall Veterans who are not currently using VA services are encouraged to stop by and check-out what the Kauai VA Clinic can provide. Veterans are asked to bring a legible copy of their military discharge paper unless already enrolled with VA.

TUESDAY Weight Watchers 5 p.m. St. Johns Episcopal Church

Weekly Weight Watchers Meetings. Hula Class 4 p.m. Koloa Neighborhood Center Halau Hula O Leilani is having hula classes for ages 4 to 12. 651-0682

WEDNESDAY Road CleanUp Join the Sierra Club during an afternoon cleanup of Waimea Canyon Road. 346-0476 Kindergarten Orientation 8:15 to 11 a.m. Kapaa Elementary School, cafeteria “Kindergartners Are Most Precious” is a school transition program for new kindergartners and their parents. Children who will be age 5 by July 31 are eligible to attend. 821-6972 ext. 167

THURSDAY KUGA Dance Class 5 p.m. Island School Learn hip-hop, drop-in fee is $10. kuga808.com Yoga For Every Body 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. St. Michael’s Church Parish Hall Beginners and advanced alike with movements and postures that promote health and vitality for your body taught by Cathy Winter and Monica Chung and is offered every Thursday. 647-4346 Basket Weaving 3 p.m. Kauai Museum 90-minute basket weaving classes with Uncle Onio weekly on Thursdays. Class fee is $25

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