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PCC World Fireknife Championships underway

The Polynesian Cultural Center's 17th annual World Fireknife Championships got underway on May 14 in the Hale Aloha when 16 senior men competed in the preliminary round. They came from as close as Laie, and as far as Hong Kong, Guam, Samoa, Maui, Kona, San Diego, Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida…all hoping for a shot [...]

Nearly 1,000 attend latest Iosepa launch

 
Approximately 1,000 people — including all the students from Laie Elementary School — gathered at Hukilau Beach on May 5 to participate in a community-wide ceremony honoring the latest launch of the Iosepa, BYU–Hawaii's 57-foot traditional twin-hulled Hawaiian sailing canoe, and to bid a temporary farewell to its captains and student crewmembers.
 
The large crowd, including [...]

Hundreds participate in ‘Envision Laie’ process

Laie entities seek planned sustainable growth
By Mike Foley
Hundreds of Koolauloa residents living from Kaaawa to Kahuku participated in a series of Envision Laie project orientation meetings over the past month, leading up to participatory community workshops on April 26-27 in BYU–Hawaii's Cannon Activities Center. Many of the participants returned for an "open house" meeting on [...]

Schlag runs Boston Marathon in under three hours

By Mike Foley
He's back. A little over a year ago Kevin Schlag of Laie [shown at left with his Boston medal, mugging for the camera] won the daunting "Run to the Sun" ultra-marathon on Maui — from near sea level at Kahului to the 10,000-foot level near the top of Haleakala — by a 40-minute [...]

PCC previews portion of new night show

The Polynesian Cultural Center presented a conceptual preview of its new Samoan, Tahitian and Fijian night show sections for the board of directors and community members who filled the Pacific Theater after the regular show on February 25 . . . and if the audience's reaction were a good indicator, "Ha, the Breath of Life," [...]

Laie-based computer business ramps up

Micah Uyehara [pictured at right] of Laie thinks this is a great time for his new computer information technology and services business to ramp up by expanding into a new location:
Teva Solutions 55-044B Lanihuli St. • Laie Ph. 426-4540 • http://www.tevasolutions.com Monday-Friday, 9-6; Saturday, 9-12
The company…

repairs and tunes up PCs;
removes viruses and spyware;
performs backup and [...]

‘Weatherman’ reports at Laie Temple Visitors Center

A popular figure familiar to millions of people in the Intermountain West for decades as the on-air weatherman for KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah, is now director of the Laie Hawaii Temple Visitors Center for the next two years.
Elder [...]