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Kahuku Sugar Mill, 1890-1971 By the KVA Board of Directors Aloha, the Directors of the Kahuku Village Association would like to update you about the history and the current projects, relating to the old plantation homes in Kahuku. It all began over 30 years ago, when the past plantation workers formed a non-profit association. They called it the Kahuku Village Association otherwise known as the KVA. In a joint partnership, the City and County of Honolulu began working with KVA to provide affordable housing for the residents. The first three phases of the City development were completed mauka behind the Hospital. The fourth phase was stalled because it could not meet the Department of Planning and Permitting requirements for sub-division within a flood hazard district. This fourth phase, located adjacent to the Sugar Mill, consists of 177 lots of which over half have been committed to through a lottery held in 1980. These families are still patiently waiting and the KVA has been continually pursuing ways to alleviate the flood issues and provide affordable housing for the residents. As part of their annual Laie Days celebration, Laie community members participated on July 24, 2010, in a traditional Hawaiian hukilau — where else? — on Hukilau Beach "down in old Laie Bay," as the famous Hukilau Song goes.
Laie Community Association member Kela Miller started off the event in the same location where kupuna [elders or ancestors] used the ancient style of net fishing, more recently from the late 1940s to early 1970s as a means of raising funds. That long-ago Hukilau program with its accompany luau and Polynesian entertainment is credited as a precursor of the Polynesian Cultural Center.
Robert Kahawaii explained to the crowd that this hukilau would use about 600 feet of net and approximately 500 feet of rope, to which lauhala or pandanus leaves had been tied. After the net has been laid — ideally to surround a school of fish, with divers clearing any obstructions along the ocean floor, community members on the beach pull (huki) the ropes while the swishing lau scare the fish into the net. Perhaps surprising to some, just one rowboat powered by Harlan Kahawaii laid all the net (and later he would clean all the seaweed from it).
Watching the action from the sidelines in the shade, Gladys Ahuna and several other Laie community kupuna told of past hukilau that pulled in thousands of pounds of fish; but the fun and camaraderie far outweighed the few fish that showed up in the nets for the the 2010 Laie Days event.
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in the PCC's 10th annual Tahitian dance competition Mykle Keni and LJ Mariteragi of Laie, who are both members of Nonosina Hawaii, won their respective boys and young men's overall titles in the Polynesian Cultural Center's tenth annual Te Mahana Hiro'a o Tahiti dance competition on July 17, 201. The corresponding female titles going to Cassandra Kanoho and Heather José — both of Ewa Beach and both members of Te Vai Ura Nui. Approximately 100 dancers from across Oahu participated in the competition.
"We are pleased that we included the adult division this year. It's always amazing to see all the different skill levels ranging from tamarii [children] to taurearea [young adults]," said Raymond Mariteragi, Cultural Islands Manager at the PCC. "This weekend also marks the annual Heiva in Tahiti, or celebration of Tahitian culture, held in Papeete, so we are proud to host our own celebration here in Hawaii to coincide with their festivities and pay tribute to our culture.”
The PCC's annual festival is sponsored in part by Tahitian Noni International, the City and County of Honolulu and Hawaii Tourism Authority.
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Biking and walking along the Koolauloa coast to go to school, work, or visit family and friends will soon become easier and safer. A 7,400-foot path linking Laie and Kahuku is planned for the mauka (inland) side of Kamehameha Highway in Malaekahana. The land is owned by Hawaii Reserves, Inc. (HRI) of Laie. Pending permit approvals, the groundbreaking will be by summer’s end. Miss Tahiti 2010 (second from right), Luçie Poehere By Scott Nagata Luçie Poehere Hutihuti Wilson of Laie, Hawaii, became Miss Tahiti 2010 on June 25 in Papeete. It was the 50th anniversary of the pageant and has gone through many changes since its inception, the latest being last year when the pageant was purchased by investor Narii Faugerat. Kaleo: Koolauloa News is going on vacation for the rest of June and most of July. If you do not see a video window immediately above,
go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC2wvH-PODs Kahuku High Athletic Director Joe Whitford recently gave Kaleo his final reports on 2010 spring sports as well as an assessment of the Red Raiders’ performance over the past school year.
It all felt very friendly and familial: For example, to those who didn’t know, Mayor Hannemann has relatives on both his maternal and paternal sides who live in the Koolauloa area, such as the Soliai and Cravens families, Susan Kunz and Eric Beaver, and of course, his uncles Edwin Soliai and T. David Hannemann as well as others. The American Cancer Society held its annual Koolauloa Relay For Life 2010 event on May 28 from 6 p.m. until the following morning at 6 a.m. at Hauula Community Park: If you can't see a video window immediately below, go to:
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Jonathan C.K. "Jonno" Tovey — who was partially raised in New Zealand and Tahiti, graduated from Kahuku in 1994, served a Latter-day Saint mission in Korea, worked in the Tahitian and Marquesan villages at the Polynesian Cultural Center, graduated from BYU-Hawaii in 2001, and in 2009 from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina — received a travel grant to present his findings at the 2010 Association for Research Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting earlier in May in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The award goes to those "who demonstrate potential for future significant research accomplishments and whose research findings…are considered to be of high interest to the vision and ophthalmology community." Continue reading ‘Jonno’ gets research award, advises new grads Congratulations to the 233 members of the Kahuku High Class of 2010 who matriculated on May 20, 2010, in the Brigham Young University–Hawaii Cannon Activities Center
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Several hundred people gathered in the Laie Elementary School cafeteria on the evening of Saturday, May 29, to enjoy a potluck dinner and hear Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann follow up on his announcement a few days earlier that he is officially running for the office of Hawaii State governor in the upcoming September 2010 primary election.
A Kahuku High alum from Laie, who graduated from medical school last year, recently received a prestigious international award to assist his research in nanomedicine.
