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FAMILY CAREGIVER TRAINING 2 to 3:30 p.m., Lihue Civic Center Pi‘ikoi Building near the county Agency on Elderly Affairs The Alzheimer’s Association’s Family Caregiver Training is designed for non-professional family caregivers. Info: bonniemickey@hawaiiantel.net or 245-2764 ARTISANS’ FAIR 1 to 6 p.m., Princeville Community Association clubhouse LANE CLOSURES ON HARDY, UMI STREETS 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Lihue The Hardy-Umi streets roundabout will be closed for construction, with only local traffic and those visiting businesses along Hardy and Umi streets allowed to pass through the roundabout. Info: 241-4847

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KAUAI VOICES CONCERT 6 p.m. Anaina Hou Porter Pavilion, Kilauea Songs of the ‘70s. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door and $30 for VIP early seating. Info: www.KauaiVoices.org or 1-800-838-3006 MAYOR-A-THON 6:30 to 10 a.m. Kapaa Beach Park Free T-shirts for first 500 registered. Walk, run or bike from one to eight miles. Free breakfast. Prizes. Info: GetFitKauai.com

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HEARTSAVER FIRST AID CLASS 9 to 11 a.m. Koloa Neighborhood Center Heartsaver CPR and AED, adult, child and infant. Register: 652-1284 HEALING AND ANOINTING MASS 9 a.m., St. Catherine Church, Kapaa 8:30 a.m. praise and worship music, 9 a.m.

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KAUAI VOICES CONCERT 3 p.m. Historic Waimea Theatre Songs of the ‘70s. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door and $30 for VIP early seating. Info: www.KauaiVoices.org or call 1-800-838-3006.

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PRIDE PARADE AND FESTIVAL 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Historic County Building SPAY/NEUTER CAT SURGERY DAY lawn, Lihue.

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The Kauai County Council and Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami, middle center, presents a certificate last month in the Historic County Building to the Pride Parade Committee for the inaugural Pride Parade and Festival. In front from left are Stefani Iwami, Renae Hamilton-Cambeilh and Matthew Houck. Middle row from left are Steven Dick, Chelsea Crasper, Kawakami and Councilmember Kipukai Kuali’i. At top from left are Councilmember Luke Evslin, committee member Rhonda Moore, Council Chair Arryl Kaneshiro and Councilmember Mason Chock. ON THE COVER: A gay pride celebration held at an earlier date.

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floats and groups marching down Rice Street in Lihue.

It will culminate on the lawn of the Historic County Building with a day of activities, including speakers, entertainment, information booths and food vendors.

County Councilmember Kipukai Kuali‘i said the event will not only raise public awareness but will promote and celebrate peace, acceptance and unity on the island.

“There have been Kauai pride events in the past, but never to the capacity of closing down Rice street and hosting the event in city center,” Kauai Pride Parade Committee organizer Matthew Houck said.

“So we’re really excited to invite the entire community and make this event for everybody.”

Houck said the committee of organizers is pleased to have Kuali‘i as a grand marshal.

“I’m so looking forward to having the honor of serving as Kauai Pride Parade 2019’s first-ever grand marshal,” Kuali‘i said in a social media post.

Kuali‘i became the first “out and proud” councilmember of any county council in the state of Hawaii when he was inaugurated in April 2011.

The Kauai Pride Parade Committee on their public gofundme account has raised $2,315 toward their goal of $8,000 since starting the account in November 2018.

There are also parade sponsors including YWCA of Kauai, Macy’s, Kauai Juice Co., La Spezia restau-

We’re passionate about it and pulling it off.”

He said the committee has already learned a lot from the inaugural organization of the event, something that will serve them well in the future.

“It’s been a learning

for the very first time on Kauai,” he said.

About 25 parade entrants are expected.

“We’re passionate about it and pulling it off,” Houck said.

curve for sure, but it’s really exciting,” he said.

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Matthew Houck Kauai Pride Parade Committee organizer, on planning and executing the island’s first LGBTQ parade and festival

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“The projected budget for parade and event logistics is $15,000, with costs ranging from public safety measures including police and security assistance, permitting and equipment (stage, tents, etc.), as well as PR efforts such as PSAs and media placements,” the committee said on their website.

“We are a committee of nonprofit partners, including the YWCA of Kauai, LAMBDA Aloha, Malama Pono Health Services, PFLAG Kauai and community members.”

Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami was at last Wednesday’s Kauai County Council meeting to give a proclamation announcing the annual parade and festival.

“In 2013 I was a member of the Hawaii state House of Representatives and we were called into special session to deliberate and take action on what was known as SB1,” Kawakami said.

“We were called into special session by the then Governor (Neil) Abercrombie. We went in on October 28, they had indicated that it would be a five-day special session, enough to go through the public hearing,

the committee, first second and final reading.”

Kawakami said the session ended up lasting until Nov. 12, 2013, and that 5,184 people testified on the bill.

“The House made a commitment to make sure that we gave everybody an equal opportunity to testify on what is now known as the Marriage Equality Act,” Kawakami said “It’s something that I’m very proud to have been a part of in Hawaii’s history.”

Kawakami said the special session was one of the most divisive he has ever seen during his time in politics, and at one point the sergeant at-arms had to split up opposing factions and forced to erect a barricade between the two groups, something he never imagined he would see in modern Hawaii history.

“It had broken my heart to see Hawaii split in a way that I had never imagined the melting pot of Hawaii, a place that is supposed to exemplify diversity, be so split,” Kawakami said, adding that the state House of Representatives was able to pass the bill after much debate on both sides.

“It brings me great pleasure as mayor to see that we are going to be recognizing pride month

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night dedicated to an artist as prolific as Denzel Washington is bound to be an emotion-

al one. The Oscar-winning actor, director, and producer is the face of some of the best-known films of the last few decades, including “Fences,” ‘’Training Day,”‘’Malcolm X,” and “Philadelphia.” Naturally, he’s touched a few

lives along the way.

Some of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars packed the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood earlier this month to sing his praises and honor him for receiving the American

Film Institute’s 2019 Life Achievement Award. He joined the ranks of Morgan Freeman, George Clooney and Meryl Streep. As stars like Chadwick Boseman and Julia Roberts spoke about his impact, they carved out a

deserved space for him among those other Hollywood greats and brought the audience on an emotional journey.

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The AFI tribute to Washington aired Thursday at 10 p.m. on TNT. Admiration from a former teacher Roberts, the night’s first presenter, set the tone for the evening by recalling lessons she learned from Washington throughout her career.

The actors first met on the set of “The Pelican Brief” over 25 years ago and have remained friends. Roberts sat at Washington’s table during the show, whispering with Washington’s wife, Pauletta.

For the most heartfelt part of her speech, Roberts turned to the words of someone who knew her friend at the outset of his career: Robert Stone, Washington’s acting coach at Fordham University.

“If there is such thing as a genius, I assure you Mr. Washington is one,” Roberts said, reading from an early letter of recommendation that Washington still carries in his wallet. Roberts relayed Stone’s message that Washington was the best actor he’d ever worked with.

Roberts smiled warmly, and echoed Stone’s words,

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Actor Denzel Washington addresses the audience during the 47th American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award ceremony honoring him in Los Angeles earlier this month.

calling Washington “the greatest of any time.”

From ‘Glory’ to killmonger Long before Michael B. Jordan brought the lethal Erik Killmonger to life in Marvel’s “Black Panther,” he was taking notes from one of Washington’s early performances.

“We wish for his wizard-like power to channel the intricacy of the human emotion,” Jordan said, specifically mentioning “Glory” as a source of

inspiration for him.

In the 1989 Civil War drama, Washington’s character, Private Trip, bears scars on his back from life as a slave.

Jordan said Washington’s commitment to his character inspired his approach to the role of a Marvel villain.

“I heard stories that when you were huddled around the campfire in that film, you weren’t supposed to be shirtless, but you still had the scars put on your back so you

could feel it. So you could know that’s what your character’s been through,” Jordan told Washington. Jordan said he took inspiration from the story and employed the same technique when shooting “Black Panther.”

A song for ‘Mr. Washington’ Jennifer Hudson is known for her soulful, raw performances. Her rendition of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” did not disappoint.

Washington was one of the first to his feet as Hudson belted out the last few notes, the theater plunging into silence before erupting in applause.

Hudson didn’t let herself leave the stage without extending a few words of her own toward the actor.

“We love you so much, Mr. Washington,” she said as she bowed.

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influenced ‘Black Panther’ Michael B. Jordan isn’t the only “Black Panther” actor influenced by Washington’s achievements. Boseman told the audience that a scholarship sponsored by Washington paid for his tuition to attend a summer dramatic acting academy at Oxford, and now he could publicly thank him for it.

The young actor said he wrote a letter to Washington, hoping that it would find him and believing it was the only expression of gratitude he’d ever be able to make. “What mattered even more than the amount that you gave is that it was you doing the giving,” Boseman said.

Boseman ended his heartfelt speech by driving home the impact that Washington made in his early acting career, saying: “There is no

Black Panther without Denzel Washington.”

Washington pays tribute to ‘real love’ After nearly two hours of Hollywood’s biggest stars dutifully praising and thanking Washington for his contributions to the entertainment industry and to their lives, Washington took the stage to accept his AFI award and turned the spotlight on to someone else: his wife. He sang Pauletta Washington’s praises as a musician, mother and wife and asked the audience to give her a standing ovation, which they happily did.

“Forty years of sacrifice.

Forty years of forgiveness.

She taught me about faith, spirituality, love — real love, unwavering love in spite of myself,” Washington said. “I would not be alive without Pauletta Washington.”

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WILBUR, FERN AND A VERY SMART SPIDER STAR IN ‘CHARLOTTE’S WEB’ BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

decades since ••• I read what I BOOK REVIEW considered one of the greatest stories ever written.

It’s really quite a beautiful use of erusing through the books words — nothing too fancy. Nothat the thrift store and came ing overblown. Just good, straight across a classic: “Charlotte’s storytelling wonderfully written, as Web,” by E.B. White, published in 1952. It was a 60th anniversary edi- you would expect from tale about tion, very nice, so I paid a few dol- a good-hearted pig named Wilbur, lars with the thought I would send a clever and caring spider named it to my 5-year-old granddaughter, Charlotte, and a delightful, innocent Hadley, who unlike her grandfather girl named Fern. Life in a barn is good. is extremely bright and smart.

The story unfolds as Charlotte I was pretty happy with myself when I called her mom about this, does something extraordinary to only to be told, unfortunately, that save the life of Wilbur, who was Hadley already had Charlotte’s Web doomed to go the way all pigs go before Charlotte wrote the words and had read it.

“Some Pig” in her web above Wilbur.

Which turned out to be a good This set off a series of events that thing.

Because I then decided I should led to something magical and a happy ending. A pig discovered joy read this book, again. It had been

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and kindness.

This book is one of my all-time favorites. It’s an easy read as it takes you along on a trip back to childhood when life was free and fun and kids discovered so much

adventure inside a barn.

I can’t claim to have grown up on a farm. We visited one often when we went to Montana, where my mother grew up. The barn was where we battled at basketball for hours. We didn’t speak to the pigs or spiders or horses. But we did see them. Perhaps they spoke to us and we just didn’t understand.

This is one of my favorite passages, near the end, from “Charlotte’s Web:” “Mr. Zuckerman took fine care of Wilbur all the rest of his days, and the pig was often visited by friends and admirers, for nobody ever forgot the year of his triumph and miracle of the web. Life in the barn was very good — night and day, winter and summer, spring and fall, dull days and bright days. It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur,

this warm, delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.”

The glory of everything. The glory of everything. Who sees the glory of everything? We could. It’s there. If only we all had friends like Charlotte who showed us what the world could be like if we looked at it from a spider’s perspective. Or even, a pig’s.

Simpler days indeed.

If anyone wants this book, I’ll gladly let you have it. This is a story that must be shared.

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

‘TOY STORY’ LIVES ON, BUT MAYBE IT SHOULDN’T HAVE JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ike “Casablanca,”‘’Toy Story 3” concluded with the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

It’s an ending that has very possibly produced an ocean’s worth of tears, not to mention countless awkward moments for children mildly embarrassed by their parents suddenly turning into waterfalls. “Um, dad, it’s a movie about a toy cowboy.”

But the sentimental crescendo of the “Toy Story” trilogy was real. The films’ young boy, the one whose name was emblazoned on the bottom of Woody’s foot, had grown up. Andy was going to

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Characters Bo Peep, from left, Woody, Forky, Jessie and Buzz Lightytear pose at the world premiere of “Toy Story 4” on Tuesday at the El Capitan in Los Angeles.

college. The fate most feared by the toys — boxed up in the attic — was miraculously avoided when Andy gifted his beloved playthings to a

young girl named Bonnie.

As he drove off, after one last imaginative romp in the yard, Woody watched Andy go like a wistful father. After

their trilogy. three brilliant and ••• “From the inside, heartfelt parent- MOVIE REVIEW ‘Toy Story 3’ was ing parables that definitely the end of it,” said ruminated on aging, loss Tim Allen, the voice of Buzz and impermanence alongLightyear. “That one scene side the pitfalls of arcade was it.” claw machines and toddler But, of course, that wasn’t it. daycare centers, this was the “Toy Story” has returned, nine final goodbye. Goodbye to years later, with “Toy Story 4.”

Andy, yes, but goodbye to childhood. “So long, partner,” In today’s movie business, nothing is safe from ongoing said Woody. sequelizing, not even a story Big gulp.

The finale was immediately about the very necessity of letting go and making peace received as a classic Hollywood ending. “The chances of with the passage of time.

That movie franchises have topping this one are infinibeen extended well beyond tesimal,” New York magazine their natural cycle is nothing wrote at the time. “Toy Story new. But “Toy Story 4” may 3” won the Oscar for best mark when Hollywood offianimated film. Everyone, cially gave up saying goodbye. including the film’s makers It’s probably a fool’s errand and cast, believed they had to wish for prudence from a neatly, perfectly wrapped up

corporate-made, multi-billion dollar property that was, from the outset, designed to sell as many toys as it jerked tears.

“Toy Story 4,” which opens in many theaters today, is widely expected to make around $150 million over the weekend and gross close to $1 billion over its worldwide run, just like “Toy Story 3” did.

And, for some, Woody is again coming to rescue. The Walt Disney Co. release will break a spell of underperforming sequels. The box office has recently slumped about 7% below last year, partly due to a string of disappointing returns for badly reviewed (or just plain bad) sequels: “Dark Phoenix,”‘’The Secret Life of Pets 2,”‘’Men in Black: International.”

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ore than 800 people watched as Isabel Gampon worked through the different phases to emerge as the 2019 Miss Kauai Filipina at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall Saturday night.

Presented by the Kauai Filipino Community Council and its president Mario Trinidad, the scholarship pageant also awarded $1,000 scholarships to six graduating students from the island’s three public high schools: Juliana Tampus, Kahiau Gonsalves, Jenny Villanueva, Krysten Padasdao, Kimberly Ramos and Azea Minia.

Tiffany Sagucio is first runner-up, followed by Gwyneth Abella being named second runner-up at the pageant chaired by Virgie Cruzada.

Gampon, as the 2019 Miss Kauai Filipina, earns eligibility to participate in the state Miss Hawaii Filipina pageant that this year will be held Saturday, July 27, at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall.

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