Week of Friday, August 23, 2019 | Vol. 7, No. 34
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TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK FRIDAY
TEN-MINUTE LOCAL PLAY FESTIVAL 7 p.m. Women In Theatre’s WIT’s End Theatre at Kukui Grove Center Original plays. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Info: www.womenintheatre.org OHANA SLACK-KEY GUITAR AND UKULELE CONCERT 4 to 6 p.m. Hanalei Family Community Center Tickets $10 to $25. SATURDAY
SIERRA CLUB HIKE Nounou Mountain — Kuamoo Road trail head, Eastside Intermediate, 5-mile trek up and down Sleeping Giant. Leader: Julio Magalhães, 650-906-2594 WALK AROUND THE BLOCK WITH A DOC 7 a.m. Wilcox Medical Center lobby Dr. Rachel Ackerman, primary care physician at Kauai Medical Clinic, leads the walk before a free healthy breakfast and talk on age-appropriate cancer screenings. Call 245-1198 to register. TEN-MINUTE LOCAL PLAY FESTIVAL 7 p.m. Women In Theatre’s WIT’s End Theatre at Kukui Grove Center Original plays. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Info: www.womenintheatre.org FRIENDS OF KALALAU TRAIL MAINTENANCE 7:45 a.m. trailhead Working on the first two miles of the trail. Bring food, water, gloves, eye protection. Carpooling available from Lihue. Info: Mark, 639-4746
BEACH VOLLEYBALL CLINIC 10 a.m. Kalapaki Beach Free. For anyone interested in taking part, visit www.bgch.com. Family-friendly activities, music, food, beverages, meet-andgreet opportunities. Sponsored by Hawaii Tourism Authority, Association of Volleyball Professionals and AVPFirst.
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PILGRIMAGE OF COMPASSION 1 to 4:30 p.m. Lawai International Center Free. Activities for all ages, including food, demonstrations of bonsai, mochi-pounding, lei-making, fish and tapa printing, coconut weaving, more. Walk and see the 88 shrines. TEN-MINUTE LOCAL PLAY FESTIVAL 4 p.m. Women In Theatre’s WIT’s End Theatre at Kukui Grove Center Original plays. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Info: www.womenintheatre.org ARTISAN FAIR 1 to 6 p.m. Princeville Community Association clubhouse TUESDAY AARP SMART DRIVING CLASS 1 p.m. Kapaa Neighborhood Center $15 AARP members. $20 for all others. Learn the effects of aging on driving skills and how to save lives, property and money. Registration required. Call Jim Jung, 822-0448 COASTAL ISSUES DISCUSSION 5 to 7 p.m., Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall The state is seeking input on coastal issues not covered by laws and rules of Hawaii, part of an update process for the Hawaii Ocean Resources Management Plan. Info: planning.hawaii.gov/czm/ormp/
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Jeff Erdmann, from New Jersey, places a planter full of coffee seeds into the holder with the rest of those on the Kauai Coffee Farm Tour. ON THE COVER: Tour guide Lisa Johnston, right, explains some harvesting details to those on the tour earlier this month, just before harvest season begins.
Tour takes guests behind the scenes at Kauai farm JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY
Coffee Farm’s front desk right as the cafe is opening in the morning. Guests sample his tour lets you get your some of the 12 or so types of hands in the dirt, wander coffee out in a waiting area and among coffee trees and watch a short movie to get an look for green sea turtles along understanding of the place. Get there early enough and there’s the cliffs of the Pacific Ocean. time to grab a snack before you New to Kauai Coffee, the leave. farm tour has been ongoing The tour is light and fun, with since February, and is an hour and a half of everything coffee. plenty of guest interaction. Along the tour route are a few Lisa Johnston, the guide, leased acres of farmland that welcomes attendees at Kauai
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provide a glimpse of horses and donkeys. And say aloha to the farm staff working in the fields as you pass. Driver Bob Brun always stops for feral pigs that cross the tour at random. After getting settled in, the tour starts with the plantation-era history of the Alexander & Baldwin land that Kauai Coffee leases for their farm,
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CENTER PRESENTS 19TH ANNUAL ‘PILGRIMAGE OF COMPASSION’
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LEFT: Visitors to the Lawai International Center take the 2018 Pilgrimage of Compassion walk. BELOW: Eugene Punzal leads a coconut palm weaving demonstration.
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earts will unite on the sacred grounds of the Lawai International Center at its annual Pilgrimage of Compassion from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. This free cultural event is designed to help spread the concept and true meaning of “aloha.”
healing sanctuary by both Throughout the center’s extraordinary grounds, there Native Hawaiians and Asian immigrants. From the days of will be activities for all ages, including culinary specialities, Kauai’s earliest inhabitants, it has been a peaceful retreat. demonstrations of bonsai, mochi pounding, lei making, Hawaiians journeyed there by foot from all over the island. fish and tapa printing, coconut weaving, an ikebana In 1904, farm workers from Japan built the 88 miniature demonstration, as well as a silent auction. Donations will shrines visible today to honor a 1,000-mile pilgrimage on be accepted with gratitude. The Lawai Valley has long been recognized as a SEE PILGRIMAGE, PAGE 5
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the biggest coffee farm in America. Guests get to check out some ulu, or breadfruit, from afar, as well as mango and other fruit trees left over from that history. Then it’s a drive through eightfoot trees, and an explanation of many of the things that go into growing coffee. Johnston explains the ins and outs of irrigation and soil enrichment, signs of harvest time and what happens during the
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Caroline Shaw-Gelman, from California, was chosen to be the first to pick a coffee cherry on the Kauai Coffee Farm Tour, and shows it to the rest of the group; Shaw-Gelman shows the group what coffee seeds look like, fresh out of the cherry; tour guide Lisa Johnston explains some harvesting details, just prior to the start of the annual harvest; Karen Shaw, Victoria Shaw and Caroline Shaw-Gelman, from California, beam while in the open-air tour vehicle.
September harvest. “When the trees bloom, it’s the sweetest around here,” Johnston said during a recent tour. “They only bloom for 24 to 48 hours.” After learning about the details of a working coffee farm, guests stop and exit the open-air tour bus. It’s a chance for photos with the plants and of the sprawling Pacific in the distance, as well as to taste a coffee cherry straight from the tree. The seeds pop right out of the cherry and are turned into coffee. They taste sweet. Then it’s off for a bit more history,
facts and a few more jokes as the tour makes its way past the mill, where coffee is sorted, dried and roasted. On days when they’re roasting, guests can smell it as the tour drives through. Planting coffee seeds is one of the most interactive moments of the tour, and even though it’s hot in the covered area where Kauai Coffee shows the sun-drying process, it’s worth spending the time to do the planting. Those seeds go into the ground and become part of Kauai Coffee Farm’s crop. General Manager Fred
Cowell says they’re working on geotagging the trees and figuring out a process through which guests can monitor the growth of at least the plot where their tree is planted, and can know when their crop is being harvested. It’s part of a desire to create a family atmosphere at Kauai Coffee Farm for employees and guests. “We want to welcome people into the Kauai Coffee family,” Cowell said. “So we’re taking people out, showing them around, giving them that experience.” The Farm Tour takes guests down
roads used by harvesters and farm workers only. It’s through private land and allows unique views of the ocean. The tours are Monday through Thursday from 9 to 11 a.m., with some expansion to those hours in the works. Cost is $60 for adults, $40 for children ages 8 to 18. Children under 8 years old are not permitted. Book online at kauaicoffee.com. ••• Jessica Else, environment reporter, can be reached at 2450452 or jelse@thegardenisland. com.
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the island of Shikoku, Japan. As new people make Kauai their home, they too are drawn to the center, seeking respite and rejuvenation, said Lawai Center Director Lynn Muramoto. The Lawai International Center is a nonprofit, nondenominational community project driven by its volunteers, whose earnest efforts are bringing the valley back to prominence as an international center of compassion, education and cultural understanding. It fosters educational and public awareness
programs focusing on cultural traditions embodied in ancient Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese and other cultures. These include music, art, literature, drama, dance and cultural and humanitarian teachings. The Pilgrimage of Compassion is made possible with support from the Hawaii Tourism Authority and private donations. Car pool, if possible, and wear comfortable clothing. For more information, visit www. lawaicenter.org, call 639-5952 or email paradisekauai@yahoo. com.
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‘SOUL SURFER:’ A STORY WITH HEART BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY
◗ Editor’s note: This is another in a continuing series of reviews on movies either shot on Kauai or connected to Kauai. oul Surfer” is a terrific film. Compelling story, wonderful scenes, outstanding cast. It wasn’t a huge box-office smash when it came out in 2011, but it should have been. From the opening scenes of the Hamilton family and a young Bethany Hamilton to the closing scenes where we see a collage of scenes of Hamilton surfing, this film tells a story that some might find too good to be true, but it is. To recap, “Soul Surfer” is a film about Hamilton’s life before and after
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a shark attack ••• that claimed MOVIE REVIEW her left arm while she was surfing at Tunnels Beach. The film features AnnaSophia Robb as Hamilton, Helen Hunt as her mom, Cheri, Dennis Quaid as her father, Tom, and Lorraine Nicholson as Alana Blanchard, Bethany’s best friend and also an outstanding surfer. It also stars Kevin Sorbo, Sonya Balmores, Branscombe Richmond and Craig T. Nelson. Older brothers Noah and Timmy are played by Ross Thomas and Chris Brochu. The closeness of the family comes across. They’ve grown up on Kauai surfing Some of the scenes were shot on and facing life together. Kauai, which are recognizable on the Balmores, by way, was born and raised on Kauai, and plays Hamilton’s North Shore. The shark attack scene is well surfing rival, just as determined to done. The actual attack is brief, just beat her as ever.
a blur of a figure suddenly from the deep. What follows, the frantic rush to get out of the water, get Bethany to the truck, the drive, meeting the ambulance, is heart-pounding stuff. Bethany’s determination to return to the water is what makes this film work. Her moments of anger about what happened, regret, don’t last. She shakes them off, thanks to her Christian faith. She doesn’t seem to ever doubt, even without an arm, she can still pursue her dream to be a professional surfer. Robb takes on the character well, and Hamilton gave Robb surfing lessons while on set. Quaid and Hunt come across as the strong parents, a bit divided over Bethany’s future. Dad, always protective, wants her to keep pushing to be a surfer. Mom, just as protective
as dad, wants to be sure her daughter knows there are other things she can do. In the end, they’re both right. Bethany goes on to be a top surfer, and many doors are opened for her to become an inspiration to millions. Really, my only beef with this film is it portrays the media as pretty much insensitive fools, just out to get a story at whatever costs, even if it means camping outside Bethany’s home. Overall, “Soul Surfer” is a film with soul. Not everyone is going to like it because Bethany’s faith is mentioned more than once and it’s a happy ending. But that’s how it was. Really. ••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 245-0457 or bbuley@ thegardenisland.com.
‘ANGEL HAS FALLEN,’ AND SO HAS THE FRANCHISE LINDSEY BAHR ASSOCIATED PRESS
Banning a fugitive. He’s on the run after being falsely accused of orchestrating an assassination attempt on U.S. President here is a certain mindTrumbull (Morgan Freeman) less pleasure in the “Fallthat kills 18 Secret Service en” movies. Watching Agents and leaves the comGerard Butler muscle his way mander in chief in a coma. through increasingly preposThere is a dizzying amount terous obstacles as a Secret of plot thrown at “Angel Has Service agent can be amusing Fallen.” Banning has a toddler and oddly transfixing at the daughter with wife Leah (Piper same time. It’s mass entertainPerabo, subbing in for Radha ment that makes a courtesy Jack English / Lionsgate via AP Mitchell in the thankless stop in theaters before Gerard Butler, left and Morgan Freeman discuss security in a “worried wife” role) and he’s ascending to its true calling: scene from “Angel Has Fallen,” directed by Ric Roman Waugh. considering scaling back from Endless cable reruns. dangerous field work for the “Angel Has Fallen” (one star out But whatever this franchise silly sequel “London Has Fallen,” sake of his family and his own of four), the third, and hopeit’ s clear that the well has run got away with in “Olympus dry on this idea and character. fully last, visit with agent Mike health after too many conHas Fallen” and then, miracuBanning. This time, the powers cussions on the job. The Oval Butler and the filmmakers lously, in the totally unnecesthat be have decided to make Office is having issues with sleepwalk their way through sary and very unintentionally
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some••• MOVIE REVIEW one leaking false information to the press, not to mention the looming threat of Russia who we’re told meddled in a recent election in the “Fallen” world. And then there’s the private contractors, like Banning’s old military friend Wade Jennings (Danny Huston), who are longing for the good old days of lucrative wars and government contracts. Oh and Nick Nolte, playing Banning’s estranged father Clay, is living off the grid in the woods and having some regrets about leaving his wife and young child some years ago.
These threads are all thrown together in this kitchen sink of a movie that is unforgivably dull for having so much going on at all times — and I haven’t even had the opportunity or reason to mention that this film also has Tim Blake Nelson playing the vice president and Jada Pinkett Smith as the FBI agent who is leading the hunt for Banning. It’s too much and too little at the same time and neither absurd nor exciting enough to maintain an audience’s interest for two hours. Nolte is the only real saving grace as the wild-eyed and paranoid Vietnam veteran living in his little bunker in the West Virginia woods.
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ore than 200 walkers took aim at the $60,000 goal set to fight Alzheimer’s disease at the annual Alzheimer’s Walk that left on Ke Ala Hele Makalae from Kapaa Beach Park. Walkers included those living with Azheimer’s, caregivers, and survivors of people who succumbed to the disease, all invited to carry flowers of differing colors for the promise garden. These represent commitments to remember, honor and care for people, and to fight Alzheimer’s. Following the walk that was doused with a helping of morning rains, walkers were treated to a pancake breakfast prepared under the supervision of volunteer Arnold Leong and his corps of helpers. The Kauai Alzheimer’s Walk is one of more than 600 walks with more than 65,000 teams that raise funds and awareness about Alzheimer’s disease nationwide.
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‘STRANGER THINGS’ FANS BRING CAMERAS, WALLETS TO GEORGIA ANDREA SMITH ASSOCIATED PRESS
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oon after Netflix released “Stranger Things,” fans of all ages came into Bradley’s Big Buy grocery store in Palmetto, Georgia, dressed like characters from the show, and wandered toward the Eggo waffles aisle, cameras in hand. They sought out the exact spot where “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown filmed a scene as the character Eleven, and they’re still coming three years later, even after the store changed its name and became part of the Piggly Wiggly franchise. Palmetto is a town of barely 5,000 people about 25 miles southwest of Atlanta where the grocery store cashiers greet customers by name. But after “Stranger Things” premiered in 2016, it became routine for employees to also welcome fans from around the globe. Fans have visited daily since the store reappeared in the third season on July 4, said Piggly Wiggly manager David Johnston. About 50 fans showed up on one particularly busy Saturday in mid-July, he said. “You can spot them in the crowd when they come in here,” Johnston
much of the third season takes place. The mall remains open to shoppers but has disappointed fans who visit for a “Stranger Things” experience: A guard posted outside the wing used in filming shoos away anyone who attempts to enter or take a photo. Fans can take photos of the exterior, which looks similar to the building that appears in the show. Johnston said he’s happy to give quick tours of Piggly Wiggly and explain where fictional events took place. He’ll point out the path Eleven took through the store when she stole a few boxes of Eggo waffles and recall how she strutted away from the refrigerator aisle, ignoring the employee chasing Andrea Smith / Associated Press file after her. A box of Eggo Homestyle Waffles used as a prop in Netflix’s “Stranger Things” sits atop a refrigerator in Piggly Fans like to re-create this scene Wiggly grocery store in Palmetto, Ga., last month. onsite, and some ask Johnston to film industry, according to a 2018 40.7 million accounts had started play the baffled employee and said. “The girl the other day was Georgia Department of Economic watching it and 18.2 million had chase them out of the store, he dressed like Eleven, all the way to Development report. said. He usually obliges. the blood running down her nose.” already finished it entirely, Netflix A building on Emory University’s announced on Twitter. “We’ve had a ball with it overall,” Eleven is a main character of Briarcliff Campus in Atlanta served Johnston said. “Everybody here Creators Matt and Ross Duffer the series known for her mysterias the show’s Hawkins Laboratory, goes out of their way to accommoset the series in fictional Hawkins, ous mind powers and the subtle where all sorts of suspicious activity date them.” nosebleed she gets after activating Indiana, but filmed in Georgia, occur. In Duluth, crew transformed which offers tax breaks and other Employees started encouraging those powers. a vacant wing and food court in incentives to moviemakers and The nostalgic ‘80s sci-fi series fans to write about their experience Gwinnett Place Mall into Starcourt in a notebook they keep at the whose economy in return reaps broke Netflix records with its third Mall, a bustling hangout where season. Within four days of release, $9.5 billion annually from the store.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY, SEAN SPICER MAKE ‘DANCING WITH THE STARS’ ASSOCIATED PRESS
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hristie Brinkley, Hannah Brown of “The Bachelorette” and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer are among the contestants on the next season of “Dancing with the Stars” — but not everyone is happy with the list. ABC announced the ce-
lebrity lineup Wednesday for season 28 on “Good Morning America.” The season kicks off Sept. 16. Spicer quit as press secretary just six months into President Donald Trump’s presidency. He had a contentious relationship with the press and is remembered for his ridiculed statement that the president’s inauguration was the most
widely seen in history. Spicer’s addition apparently didn’t go down well with co-host Tom Bergeron, who tweeted that he earlier told producers he hoped the new season would be a “joyful respite from our exhausting political climate” and urged them not have any “divisive bookings.” Producers apparently disagreed. “We can agree to
disagree, as we do now, but ultimately it’s their call,” Bergeron wrote. The show’s Brown lineup also includes Lauren Alaina, Ally Brooke, and Mary Wilson and athletes Lamar Odom and
Ray Lewis. Kate Flannery, Karamo Brown, Kel Mitchell and James Van Der Beek round out the list of celebrity dancers. In a change from previous seasons, viewers won’t lean the celebrity-pro pairings until the season premiere. Professional dancer Peta Murgatroyd returns to the ballroom this year.