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Week of Friday, August 24, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 34

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TRASH TO TREASURES Beach debris becomes art

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DOING SOMETHING GOOD WITH TRASH Abigail Boroughs, friends’ show opens Aug. 24 DENNIS FUJIMOTO TGIFR!DAY

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rash washes up on Kauai’s beaches daily, said Kilauea artist

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“I’m doing something good with this trash,” Bor-

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oughs said. “Some of these pieces I’ve had for years, like this buffalo in the “Flood” piece. I’ve had that for a while, and when the floods happened, it just fit in.”

Boroughs will be joined by nine other artists in presenting the Beach Trash Art exhibit that opens on

Aug. 29 and runs through Sept. 4 at the Kauai Society of Artists gallery in Kukui Grove Center.

An artists’ reception will be held Aug. 31.

“The materials are humble, the subject matter important, and the message is simple,” Boroughs said.

“We’re simply trying to find some good in the trash. I’ve invited other people who bring different perspectives to cleaning the beaches and doing something different.”

Joining Boroughs will be

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she said. “I had a friend give Dennis Fujimoto, staff almost like it was a present. debris), and it’s done.” writer and photograme a set of buoys which Examples of beach trash I added the color, twisted it pher, can be reached at is going to be my army of art surround the artist this way and that way, and 245-0453 or dfujimoto@ minions.” the result is a wall hanging.” throughout the studio. thegardenisland.com.“I’m running out of room,” ••• Boroughs, who holds a master’s degree in book arts, said her greatest source of material is the weigh and sort center at the Surfrider Foundation debris storage area, where she finds items on every visit.

“I’ve got a stockpile of buoys,” she said. “And I love doing this. It might not Photos by Dennis Fujimoto / TG!F have anything to do with ABOVE: A carded set of earrings created by Kat Crabill from books, but I have to do this.

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DO YOU KNOW CANNABIS? JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY

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“We’ll have testimonials ongoing through the day, so you’ll be able to hear what ith the doors opening on Kauai’s CBD has done for people, for example,” Rosenfeld said. first medical can“We’ll also have speakers nabis dispensary in Kapaa, from the Mainland, other Kauai local Dale Rosenfeld islands, and local speakers.” said she noticed an avaProsecuting Attorney lanche of questions and Justin Kollar is the keynote misconceptions about the speaker, and he will be delivplant and its uses. ering his message via taped So, she joined with a group of volunteers to form interview because he’ll be off-island for a conference.

KauaiCannCare LLC, which “He’s talking about how is debuting its educational the world has changed and cannabis conference and expo on Kauai in September. that there’s bigger fish out there than marijuana crimes,” “This is an educational Rosenfeld said. “The opiods conference and expo for people who think that they are the bigger problem. He’s not prosecuting marijuana know about cannabis, for crimes, but he is prosecutpeople who do not know, and for people who want to ing opiods and that’s the know more,” Rosenfeld said. biggest thing.”

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plained at the conference, which will have educational booths and literature, vendors and music along with the speakers and time for personal testimony.

It’ll be a display of everything you need to know when it comes to the benefits and uses of medical cannabis and industrial hemp, and is set up to be an open discussion.

“We believe it’s time for patients and non-patients to come out of the dark,” Rosenfeld said.

In concert with the KauaiCann Cannabis Conference and Expo, set for Sept.

22 at the Hilton Garden Inn, KauaiCannCare has launched a video series with five episodes called “Out of the Dark,” airing on Hoike Community TV. “Out of the Dark means I have come out of the dark,” Rosenfeld said. “I am open about the fact that I’m a

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On the show, Rosenfeld and her team talk about ways to consume medical marijuana and the benefits for those who have no idea about the plant, or for those who would like to know more.

The other goal is to encourage those who have been keeping their medical use of marijuana a secret to join the conversation.

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CALIFORNIA POT TAXES STILL FAR OFF TARGET MICHAEL R. BLOOD ASSOCIATED PRESS

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hen it comes to the taxman, California’s legal pot market is off to a sluggish start.

Marijuana cultivation and excise tax collections hit $48 million between April and June, state officials announced Wednesday. That’s

a jump from the prior three months but well below the windfall envisioned by the state.

Finance officials had estimated California would bank $185 million from excise and cultivation taxes in the first six months of broad legal sales, which kicked off Jan. 1.

But collections by midyear hit only $82 million.

“After six months of legal

cannabis sales there is a staggering ... gap between today’s tax revenue numbers and what voters were promised,” said state Assemblyman Evan Low, a Democrat from Campbell who heads the Business and Professions Committee. “Regulators must adapt before California’s lawful cannabis

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businesses are obliterated by the black market.”

The slower than expected flow of cash underscores the bumpy roll-out of the nation’s largest legal market.

Illicit sales continue to flourish, luring consumers away from legal shops.

Meanwhile, many areas have banned commercial pot activity, limiting the number of places adults can buy legal cannabis.

Businesses say hefty tax rates that can approach 50 percent in some areas are also driving business underground.

“The situation is pretty severe,” said Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers Association, an advocacy group for farmers and businesses.

Californians are buying plenty of cannabis, Allen

says, they are just not buying it from licensed shops.

“Most of the state doesn’t have access to it,” Allen added. “The California marketplace needs significant change if it’s going to function ... primarily at the local level.”

On Tuesday, state regulators meeting in Los Angeles heard a long list of complaints and concerns about California’s pot economy, once estimated to grow to $7 billion.

They included a shaky supply chain, a shortage of

licenses, testing problems and a contested proposal to allow home marijuana deliveries in cities that have banned pot sales.

The state’s top marijuana regulator, Lori Ajax, said after the hearing that the state remains in a challenging transition period as it attempts to transform what was once a largely illegal market into a multibillion-dollar, regulated economy.

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LAIRD HAMILTON ENCOURAGES ALL TO BE A ‘FORCE OF NATURE’ BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

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f there is a book title that’s appropriate considering the author, it’s this one: “Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul, and, of course, Surfing.”

And the author? Laird Hamilton.

This book was a gift from a friend shortly after I moved to Kauai nearly six years ago. As expected from someone like Laird Hamilton, it’s a no-nonsense approach. You get

some advice, some inspiration, some encouragement, some motivation, and a plan. And then, you are urged to take action. Don’t just read this book. Let it change who you are and what you do, for the better.

Hamilton is a worldfamous surfer and waterman, and he didn’t get there by being cautious, timid or fearful. He got there by being adventurous, outgoing and courageous. He pushes himself to the limits and in this book he is calling on us

to do the same thing. Test ourselves. Reach. Push.

Strive. In mind, body and soul.

In his 242-page book he writes of his experiences, his training, people who have helped him and his family. He is careful about his diet, which he outlines.

But he isn’t all work and no play. In fact, he loves to play. He loves to have fun.

He loves to explore. And rest is essential.

Not everyone is as physically strong as Hamilton.

And not everyone is as

disciplined. And not everyone is as successful in both his professional and family life. But we can, as he says, certainly try. We can always see what else we’re capable of — if we can just toss aside the fear and doubt.

But why can’t we just be satisfied and happy with where we are? Well, we can be. But Hamilton puts it best when explaining why we might want to, some day, take a chance, remember what lightens our steps, and follow our hearts:

“Our days are meant to be fun. Once you lose that thread, I think you’ve just lost the essence of the whole deal. If you build up a wealth of experiences, letting yourself be amazed by everything and everyone around you, then fun and its close relative, joy, will be the inevitable by-products. The last thing you want to do is to look back at the end and think coulda, woulda, shoulda.”

“The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long, fruitful life and have family

and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit?”

Yes, let it rip. That sounds good. And it’s even better if you really do it.

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

‘PAPILLON’ REMAKE IS A HANDSOME BUT SLOW PRISON DRAMA LINDSEY BAHR ASSOCIATED PRESS

his chest. He’s an expert safecracker in Paris who is framed for murder in 1931 by his underworld boss and anish director Michael Noer’s sent off to a prison camp in French Guiana where he makes an alliance “Papillon “ remake, adapted with a fellow inmate while plotting from both Henri Charriere’s his exit. The inmate, Louis Dega (Rami autobiography and the 1973 Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman film, is Malek), is a wealthy artist and forger a sumptuous-looking-but-slow-mov- who has a roll of cash hidden in a delicate place and who is too small ing prison drama that at times will have you dreaming about an escape and weak to keep it safe on his own.

So “Papi” becomes his protector, with of your own. the understanding that Dega will Charlie Hunnam stars as Papillon, nicknamed for the butterfly tattoo on underwrite his escape.

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And goodness does Dega need protection. Malek plays him as an elitist intellectual who is convinced that he’ll be out in no time. His arrogance and inability to do anything but throw money at a situation make him an easy target. During one of his first nights in the horrifyingly crowded ship transporting them to the camp, a prisoner cuts open the stomach of the man sleeping next to him, hoping to find hidden cash. Having Papi there ready to throw a punch — or 10 — at any time (even naked in

a shower) comes in handy for Dega, certainly. At almost every turn, this strategic codependence seems to actually make more problems for Papi, but he’s a man of his word and over the years develops a soft spot for Dega, who gets slightly less annoying.

It’s an incredible true story.

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attempting to escape is two years in solitary confinement, and then five years on the next attempt, you can understand how these escape attempts are few and far between.

The most we get to know about him as a character comes in the first few minutes, when he’s drunkenly stumbling through Paris, open champagne bottle and dancer girlfriend (Eve Hewson) in hand, rejecting her plea to leave city life and move to the country and plotting out how he’s going to be wealthy in six months.

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hef Jason Sessions of the Nanea Restaurant at the Westin Princeville topped the 9th annual Kauai Coffee Celebrity Chef Cookoff for Charity, earning $2,000 for the Westin Princeville Foundation.

The feat opened the Kauai County Farm Bureau Fair for its four-day run on the grounds of Vidinha Stadium that was transformed into carnival grounds by the appearance of the EK Fernandez midway and rides.

A full slate of entertainment and carnival contests filled the air made sweet by the food booth offerings from many schools and community organizations.

The fair was dedicated to the Orsatelli ohana, long-time supporters of the 4-H program that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

The Kauai County Farm Bureau, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, presented the community event with the help of numerous community organizations and the County of Kauai.

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