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Well it looks like the University of Hawaii Swim Team has taken a page out of the University of Hawaii’s Football playbook and has learned the “Haka” and performed it recently: University of Hawai’i Warrior Swim Team performing the Haka at the 2011 Conference USA swimming and Diving Championships in Huston Texas on Thursday Night [...]
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Media Release: Take five bluegrass musicians from across America, add one Grammy Award-winning Hawaiian slack key artist and you’ve got Bluegrass Meets Pili Grass. The Olowalu Outfit brings a mix of original and traditional bluegrass songs to the Big Island, where they’ll join Keoki Kahumoku in a week-long event featuring concerts and music workshops with [...]
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This just cracks me up and I’m sorry for the family involved but it’s just too funny not to blog about. In yesterday’s Hawaii Tribune Herald, February 27, 2011, on the inside of the front page ran the following obituary: Here is what is circled in red: Now you go to the back page and [...]
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Commentary by Debbie Hecht: I think it is important to know, prior to receiving the Mayor’s budget, and to remember that we have the commitment of 6 council members, who support reinstating the 2% amount of our property taxes to the Land Fund. (see attached 5 pledges and an email from Angel Pilago) There are [...]
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This weekend a group of lawmakers have been touring the Big Island and this afternoon they came out to Puna on the East Side of the Big Island to visit the Puna Geothermal plant known as Puna Geothermal Venture. They arrived in several car loads shortly after 4:00. I’m not sure exactly how the group [...]
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BJ Penn calls Kat & Keala (From KWXX FM) a few hours before the weigh in for UFC 127 from Australia to talk story about the fight! Video Courtesy of KWXXFM
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From Aviation Online: Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group expected to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February, after the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in late January approved its reorganization plan. Mesa listed as its main restructuring accomplishments the extension of its code-share agreement with US Airways through September 2015, the [...]
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There will be a community meeting with Mayor Billy Kenoi at the Pahoa Community Center on Wednesday, March 2nd at 6:30 pm. Mayor Kenoi and his cabinet are scheduled to be there for a talk story session.
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Congresswoman Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) states her opposition to a House Republican amendment to the 2011 federal spending bill that would prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds. As a result, Planned Parenthood would be disqualified from receiving Title X family-planning grants and other health related program funds, which poses a threat to women’s health.
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Congresswoman Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) states her opposition to an amendment in the House Republican spending bill that would strip away wage protections provided in the Davis-Bacon Act. Enacted in 1931, the Davis-Bacon Act ensures that workers on federal construction contracts receive at least the prevailing wage for construction jobs.
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Media Release: Big Island police are looking for witnesses who were riding a Hele-On bus shortly before one of the riders was robbed after exiting. A 35-year-old Kailua-Kona man reported that he boarded a southbound bus on Ali’i Drive in Kailua-Kona at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. He got off on Hawaii Belt Road just north of Haukapila [...]
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Media Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released more detailed 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics to the governor and leadership of the state legislature in Hawaii. These data provide the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from the 2010 Census. [...]
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Well as many of the readers of this blog know I was let down recently when KapohoKine ended there partnership with Umauma Ziplines… I’m stoked to hear that KapohoKine will again be offering Zipline tours soon at a new location near Honoli’i. The following was posted today: So, it’s official! Our new zip line partner [...]
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2010 Hawaii State Census Numbers: State of Hawaii City and County of Honolulu Hawaii County Maui County Kauai County First Congressional District Second Congressional District (UPDATE… Please Note… the above data was pulled from Civilbeat.com however I actually got it through an RSS feed that Hawaii Free Press put out and I picked it up [...]
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Well I was cleaning out my refrigerator and I came across this and I have no idea what it is… or what it was! Needless to say… it’s become a “science project”!
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Hot licks, cool music and great ‘ukulele giveaways Media Release: Waikoloa Beach Resort will present the 11thth Annual Great Waikoloa ‘Ukulele Festival, Saturday March 5, 1:00-7:00 p.m. at Queens’ MarketPlace. With Hawaii’s “Ambassador of Aloha” Danny Kaleikini as Master of Ceremonies, the Festival spotlights ten different performances on two stages, a free workshop with Roy [...]
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Hawaii Students from 55 Public, Private and Charter Schools Deliver an Historic Launch Season of Programming from the Nation’s First Statewide Media Release: They’re on the verge of making history. Several hundred students from Kauai, Niihau, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii Island are working feverishly on their first newscasts – their opportunity to tell [...]
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Former Big Island Resident on Surviving the Trials and Tribulations of Caregiving Through Poetry
Reprinted with permission from Author Guy Aoki. Originally posted in the Rafu Shimpo One of the fondest traditions of my life was going to my grandma’s house in Pahoa for the major occasions: Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s. It was where our Hilo uncles, aunties, and cousins — and eventually, their [...]
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