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Week of Friday, September 6, 2019 | Vol. 7, No. 36

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Kauai EV drivers cruise through the round-about at Anaina Hou in Kilauea. These are some of the vehicles you’ll see at Kauai EV’s first EV Fest at Anaina Hou Sept. 21.

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ILAUEA — Electric vehicles will be on parade at Anaina Hou in September for Kauai EV’s first EV Festival, alongside the Saturday farmers’ market in Kilauea.

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organization is restructuring once again, and is developing a board of directors to unify the club.

Since 2015, Kauai EV has restarted multiple times, according to Sonja Kass, founding member of the club. Each iteration of the club has brought them closer to their vision, and now Kauai EV is getting some advice from the Hawaii Electric Auto Association on how to formulate a formal club.

“We were a very loose organization and nobody had a clear role and in a way that was good but also it led to a lot of drama,” Kass said. “This will make us much more effective.”

Currently, Kauai EV has about 50 members and they’re hoping to fill positions for five or six board members that will consolidate the input of the other members and provide a unified and clear message to the community about club activities.

Kass says they’ve informally decided on three of those positions already, as well as identifying a person to fill the roll of Event Organizer,

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Kauai EV is hosting their first EV Fest at Anaina Hou Sept. 21.

but nothing’s yet set in stone.

“We’re all new at this, but we’re getting a lot of help from the Electric Auto Association Hawaii Chapter at the moment. They’re structured, organized and they’re helping us get in shape,” Kass said.

Anyone can be a board member for Kauai EV, it’s not a requirement to be an owner or driver of an electric

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Discord between those groups and Kauai EV was a result of Kauai EV’s loose structure and the mixed messages sent by members and EV drivers on the island who have been frustrated about the lack of charging stations on Kauai.

That’s because even though EVs can be charged at home, not everyone has the ability to do that — most home renters, for instance, don’t have a consistent place to charge.

“For five years, we had the Ride and Drive events, talked people into buying EV’s and then said ‘oops, we don’t know where you’re going to charge’,” Kass said. “People grew frustrated.”

As they consolidate their message and bring people

vehicle. All that’s necessary is having a passion for electric vehicles and a desire to work together with other passionate people to promote sustainable transportation on Kauai.

As the board is developed and the club becomes more organized, Kass said the goal is to for the club to start reconnecting with entities like the County of Kauai and with charging station

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back to the table to talk about EVs and their potential, the goal of Kauai EV is still to promote sustainable travel and to create opportunity for EV drivers on Kauai.

That’s the main goal for the September 21 EV Festival, to learn why members are “convinced EVs are the personal transportation of the future”, Kass says.

In addition to the Kauai EV Anaina Hou event, head on over to Kauai Community College from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. to attend the Going Bananas over Electric Cars information event during the farmer’s market. Ruta Jordans will also be at Waimea at the West Kauai Technology and Visitor Center Sept 22 from 1 to 3 p.m. to provide information on owning and driving and electric vehicle.

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have ice, breakfast and burgers have been a staple at Kalapaki Beach Hut and you’ve got just a few more days to visit them before the doors close on this seaside restaurant.

Owned by the same family, Kalapaki Beach Hut and the connected Kalapaki Shave Ice are serving their regular menu up until their last day — September 15.

And that menu is stacked with some local favorites and traditional Kauai fare like breakfasts of loco moco and Portuguese sweet bread French toast alongside omelets and pancakes, stacked burgers and fresh fish.

Located just across the street from Harbor Mall and next-door to Nawiliwili Tavern, patrons order from a walk-up window on the ground floor of the yellow building that houses the Kalapaki Beach Hut. Their Kauai Burger is a simple staple on the menu — charbroiled and served traditionally with mayo, lettuce and onions. It’s fresh and juicy and is served in a red basket with a toasted bun for about $8.

Add French fries for another dollar.

Burgers garner more ingredients as you move down the menu, with several types of cheeseburgers and toppings like jalapenos, pineapple and bacon. The menu also offers fish and chips for just under $10, a garden salad and a keiki menu.

For the vegans in the crowd, Kalapaki Beach Hut has a Kauai Taro Burger that is grilled and served with lettuce, tomato and a special, spicy sauce. They also have taro fries on the menu alongside the

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LEFT TOP: Kalapaki Beach Hut and Kalapaki Shave Ice will be closing after 30 years serving the Kauai community. Their last day is Sept.

15. LEFT BOTTOM: The Kauai Burger is a straightforward and traditional burger that’s stacked with lettuce, tomato and onion and comes with a side of french fries for an extra dollar. RIGHT: The public has until September 15 to get a shave ice from Kalapaki Shave Ice before it closes, along with Kalapaki Beach Hut in Nawiliwili.

regular fries and onion rings.

Grab your grub and head upstairs to eat if you’d like a view of Kalapaki Bay, where you’ll most likely see a variety of watersports at play on the waves. People surf with

regular surfboards and foilboards, as well as outrigger canoes.

The bay is popular for swimming, beach volleyball and other beach gatherings as well, and Kalapaki Beach Hut is a good spot

grown since then, and was one of the restaurants to premier Hanalei-raised buffalo on the menu.

The restaurant moved to Nawiliwili in 1990 and changed the name. Since then, the menu has grown and changed — especially with the addition of that breakfast menu.

There’s still a chance to get one last burger at Kalapaki Beach Hut, at least for the next few days, and to splurge on some sweet shave ice after lunch at the Kalapaki Shave Ice stand just outside the to get some food midway through back entrance of the restaurant.

It’s a good spot to take the family the day. Sandy toes are always welcome at the Hut. and satisfy pretty much everyone’s Originally an east side restaurant, taste for a price that’s reasonKalapaki Beach Hut first opened in able and service that’s quick and 1973 in Anahola. It’s moved and friendly.

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ATWOOD WRITES SEQUEL TO ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ HILLEL ITALIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

me for?” — when asked if she has read “The Hunger Games.” She apologizes for being “too erudite,” although rom a park bench on she can no more avoid being the Victoria College erudite than she can avoid campus, Margaret speaking at all. Whatever the Atwood — class of 1961 subject — Victorian litera— can trace her life of the ture, resistance movements, mind.

“Game of Thrones” — she is “It was here that I decided not only knowledgeable, but to become a Victorian interesting — interesting (literature student) at a time and funny, interesting and when it wasn’t at all fashionable. They were considered Arthur Mola/Invision/AP incisive. Her voice, like her writing, is level and pointed, gauche, kitsch, sentimental, Author Margaret Atwood posing for a portrait in Toronto, Canada. with the slightest inflection absurd,” she says, rememturning the mood toward were so guarded over the bering the times she would Atwood is among the irony, scandal or foreboding. dash back and forth across world’s most celebrated au- summer that early review “There is a great wit along copies were sent under a the park to take English thors and most famous Cadifferent title for fear of their with the breaking of rules classes on one side and his- nadians, but on this humid taking place” in her books, afternoon she is undisturbed being stolen. tory and philosophy on the In December, Atwood will says fellow author and by passersby, beyond a few other. “But the foundations Canadian Michael Ondaatje. of women’s equality — John who momentarily turn their be honored in New York by heads to look at the woman the Center for Fiction, which “And as an individual she Stuart Mill, those kinds of has been a remarkably brave in the dark sun hat and blue has given its first ever On thinkers — were Victorians spirit, supporting many causScreen Award to her and buttoned shirt. and the position of women es to do with writers and to Hulu executives for the Just months shy of her was a real hotbed topic, politics.”

Emmy-winning adaptation 80th birthday, the longextending all the way from Atwood has written more of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” time Toronto resident has proper undergarments to than 40 books — novels, otherwise never been more Hulu and MGM are now higher education. story collections, essays and planning a series based on noticed. She has written “One of my cherished poems — and her awards “The Testaments. ” the year’s most anticipated facts is that women weren’t Atwood is a literary writer include the Booker Prize novel, “The Testaments,” the allowed into classical art who tries not to act like one, for “The Blind Assassin” and schools because they might sequel to her classic “The see naked women,” she adds Handmaid’s Tale” and a Book- taking mock umbrage — “Of Canada’s Giller Prize for “Alias Grace.” course. What do you take with a laugh. “What a shock!” er Prize finalist. Its contents

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Morrow) In her debut novel, “After the Flood,” Kassandra Montag explores the social impact of climate change in a dystopian future where the Earth’s surface is covered in water. Readers can expect adventure, suspense and harrowing tales on the high seas through this watery journey.

With invaluable instruction from her grandfather, Myra and her family were able to somewhat prepare for the flood. After enduring the devastating, life-changing event, Myra is gutted when her husband cracks under the pressure of the new world.

He takes their daughter, Row, to escape to higher ground, leaving Myra pregnant with their second child.

Myra uses the fishing and boating skills her

grandfather taught her to survive. With one daughter by her side, Myra and young Pearl sail over regions of what used to be the United States, hoping for a hearty catch that can be traded for basic needs.

Although “After the Flood” is a dystopian survival story, Montag masters the art of investigating the intricacies of everyday life.

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‘IT CHAPTER 2’ IS A BIG-SCREEN FUNHOUSE

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t can be a cheesy thing when a novel is split up and spread out over a handful of films, but Stephen King’s “It” is not one of those books.

Andy Muschietti’s first crack at King’s 1,100-page doorstop, 2017’s “It,” dealt with the first half: the Losers Club, a band of “Stranger Things”-like adolescent outcasts, battling the shape-shifting demon clown Pennywise (a wonderfully gangly Bill Skarsgard) in the Maine town of Derry. “It Chapter Two” takes up the book’s second half when those kids, now grown, are called back 27 years later to Derry after Pennywise returns.

That timespan gives Muscietti’s “Chapter Two” some deeper meanings to play with: how many of our darkest fears don’t change so much from childhood, how the brutalities of life bring new horrors, how fun it is to imagine Finn Wolfhard growing up to be Bill Hader.

Made with the same visual flair as the first movie by Muschietti, “It Chapter Two” is likewise a big-screen funhouse full of vivid setpiece thrills animated by each character’s fears. Some are better than others but they are consistently imaginative.

In one, a giant Paul Bunyan statue turns menacing and careens through the town square.

It’s stuff like this, I think, that made “It” such a sensation and “Chapter Two” such a satisfying, if overstuffed,

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drawn out for suspense. It’s an easy route to getting an audience’s adrenaline up, and a dubious method of moviemaking. Hitchcock did it once and later called it “a grave error.” There is less evidence of contemplation behind the violence in Muscietti’s film.

But the “It” movies— a kind of pop-horror with ghastly scenes you can eat popcorn to — have a way of dealing both seriously and blithely with such terrors. Our fears are both terrifying and ridiculous in “It.” They’re rendered impotent only by our own insistence of their powerlessness.

The group dynamics of the (very good) cast propel the film as each Losers Club Warner Bros. Pictures via AP member faces down his TOP: Bill Hader, Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, James Ransone, Isaiah Mustafa and Jay Ryan in New Line Cinema’s horror or her personal demons. thriller “It: Chapter 2.” BOTTOM: Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise.

(Chastain especially gives only a faint idea of why Hanscom (Jay Ryan; Jeremy the material a lift.) Taking they’re back.

Ray Taylor as a boy), overeach storyline at a time, all Just as the first “It” was a weight as a youngster, has accompanied by flashbacks, coming-of-age tale, “Chapter gives each character some somehow hit the jackpot.

Two” is a homecoming. It’s He’s thin, handsome and an depth, even as the crowded a reunion movie, just with architect. film — at nearly three-hours some dead kids here and Once Pennywise is long — verges on turning there. Part of the appeal of again on the loose and red into a clown car. both films is in how they balloons start ominously That sheer much-ness is floating through Derry, each balance dark and light. in the spirit of King’s massive “Chapter Two,” especially, is receives a phone call from book. “Chapter Two” is, for now a stand-up comic. Bill sequel. It has less to do with Denbrough (James McAvoy; Mike Hanlon (Isaiah Mustafa; funny thanks in large part to better or worse, a horror the scary clown and more Hader (who slides in a Jabba carnival.

Chosen Jacobs as a kid), the Jaeden Martell as a boy) is to do with its maximalist the Hutt impression) and “It: Chapter Two,” a Warner nightmares. Hallucinatory but novelist whose book is being lone Losers Club member Ransone, the likably frenetic to remain in their Maine adapted into a movie. Bevfamiliar visions come alive.

Bros. release, is rated R by the actor who played Iggy in the Motion Picture Association hometown. They return to erly Harsh (Jessica Chastain; One ill-advised peek into second season of “The Wire.” of America for disturbing vioPennywise’s sewer, in a scene Sophia Lillis as a girl), having fulfill a blood oath sworn as “It” also tips the other way, lent content and bloody imbeen abused as a child by her kids to come back to defeat worthy of Dali, culminates and as clever as some of the ages throughout, pervasive in a swarming hive of hands father, has fallen into an abu- Pennywise again, if he ever sive marriage. Eddie Kaspbrak reappears. But traveling away movie’s nightmare scenarios language, and some crude clawing at the interloper. are, a handful derive cheap from Derry has somehow (James Ransone; Jack Dylan Time has done some sexual material. Running Grazer as a kid) is a successful made their memories foggy, scares out of terrible fates funny things to the Losers time: 169 minutes. Two and a befalling children in scenes and they come back with New York businessman. Ben Club. Richie Tozier (Hader) is half stars out of four.

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he roar of unleashed engines and the aroma of nitrous in the air welcomed the Labor Day Weekend as the Garden Isle Racing Associated hosted a two-day event at the Kauai Raceway Park located about a mile past the Kekaha outskirts.

“Even I’m driving, today,” said Tony Ricci, the GIRA president. “This one’s for Gary Saiki. I gotta drive because we represent.”

In addition to the Gary Saiki shoot out, race drivers took advantage of two days of racing on the Kauai Raceway Park, described as the western-most National Hot Rod Association track in the United States.

The Labor Day Races, the second of two 2-day race events, also mark the end of night races because with just two more events remaining in the year’s calendar, both races will be daytime events.

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