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Announcement: St. Croix Group Midnite will perform live at the Palace Theater with the Lambsbread from Kauai. Opening up for them is Big Islands own RAS and Queen Sparrow! Sponsored by Maui Brews and Native FM
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GET THE SONG ON ITUNES!!! http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pee-… (Beat by Ola Shaw) Mahalo to the students of Waikoloa Intermediate School, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
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Soul Surfer is based on a true story, about a teenage girl, Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb), who has to gain the courage to surf again, after losing her arm in a shark attack.
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I’m not a big believer in having two people get in a fight… when you know one person is just gonna kill the other person. A few high school girls basketball games have been really ugly and I think we need to put more emphasis on balancing out the leagues then allowing certain teams to [...]
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This is hilarious!
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Media Release: For nearly two years now Fair Wind Big Island Ocean Guides have quietly been educating hundreds of people each week during free “Manta Talks” held at Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa’s manta viewing area. Sometimes as few as a dozen but more often as many as fifty people gather just after sunset [...]
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Just plugging the UH Magazine! IN THIS ISSUE Space Flight Laboratory Faculty and students in Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and College of Engineering are building, equipping and preparing to launch satellites from Kaua‘i. MORE Biologically produced, biodegradable plastics A European plant is testing a Mānoa researcher’s method for turning agricultural [...]
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Media Release: On Tuesday, January 25th 2011 NFL Football Players and NFL Cheerleaders will be holding Youth Clinics for Hawaii Island students at Kealakehe High School from 3:00–5:30 PM and Wednesday, January 26th 2011, at Keaau High School from 3:00–5:30 PM. Players and cheerleaders will also be visiting local schools for assemblies before the clinics. [...]
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I hope someone didn’t get hurt which is leading to this closure! Media Release: The Department of Parks and Recreation announces that the Volcano Skate park located next to Cooper Center on Wright Road in Volcano is closed until further notice due to maintenance and safety concerns.
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Gov. Nikki Haley has picked an agency director from Hawaii to lead South Carolina’s cash-strapped Department of Social Services. Haley announced Thursday that she wants Lillian Koller to lead the agency that oversees children’s welfare. The 55-year-old has been director of Hawaii’s Department of Human Services since 2003, which includes social services… More Here: Haley [...]
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Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono urges her colleagues to support a resolution condemning the attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona. Six people were fatally shot and 13 others wounded in the violent act.
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This morning I posted a blog stating that the McDonalds in Keaau had caught fire and published the following picture: ESPN 1420 sports announcer Josh Pacheco drove by again this afternoon and just posted the following picture to his facebook account: I could have sworn that it was Burger King that served the flame-broiled burgers [...]
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Media Release: “How Impact Fees Impact Me” With Hawaii County Councilmember Brittany Smart and Guest Speaker, Councilmember Pete Hoffmann January 26th 7:00pm Na’alehu Community Center Club House January 27th 7:00pm Pahala Community Center Club House February 9th 6:30pm Yano Hall, Kona February 10th 7:00pm Cooper Center , Volcano Come to a community meeting organized by [...]
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From the Mayor’s Office: Aloha, Chair Ige, Chair Oshiro and distinguished members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and the House Finance Committee. Thank you for this opportunity to appear before you to outline our priorities on issues important to the County of Hawai’i in 2011. We have all heard a great deal in [...]
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My favorite artist right now, Na Hoku Award Winner Anuhea Jenkins, just announced on Facebook that she was asked to sing the National Anthem at this years Pro Bowl! “Holy football!!! I’m singing the National Anthem at the Pro-Bowl!” This is a pretty big deal as she will now be featured all across America.
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I try to only post police releases every once in a while but this time a former student of mine has gone missing. When I was an Educational Assistant at Keaau Middle School… Micha was one of my students. If anyone knows where she is… please contact the police. The last time I saw her [...]
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Arlie & Company hasn’t been able to sell their Hilo property for quite some time and now it looks like it’s going to be auctioned off: Arlie & Co. has filed a plan for reorganizing its finances and getting out of bankruptcy that includes auctioning some land in Hawaii, selling other Lane County property, returning [...]
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Media Release: Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and University of Hawaii (UH) have discovered 16 close-knit pairs of supermassive black holes in merging galaxies. The discovery, based on observations done at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, is being presented in Seattle on [...]
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Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Sets Stage for Environmental War
The following was sent to me by Sydney Singer (Public Hearings Begin January 24. Go to hawaii.gov/dlnr/occl/hearings-workshops for dates and locations.) I think most of my readers know how I feel about this guy in general. :roll: WHOSE “INVASIVE” NOW? Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Sets Stage for Environmental War The Department of [...]
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