How sweet it is when keiki get involved in helping the community, and that’s just what happened when third-graders in the Kamehameha Schools’ Kali’imamo Program built and donated a wooden bench for the bus shelter at Kapa’a Neighborhood Center. The group of students included Lani Cabresa-Dotimas, Julianne Castro, Justyce Enrique, Kaipo Fulton, Calista Gealon, DeShawn [...]
I used to think that oatmeal or anything else healthy, for that matter didn’t belong in cookies. That was before I jumped onto the raw food bandwagon, a culinary category that includes some of the most to-die-for, easy-todigest chocolate in the world. That said, I’d like to give a nod to Rose Warken Ceballos, who [...]
Now that 2012 is under way and we’ve survived another end-of-the-world prediction, I’d like to begin with a Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi quote sent in recently by a MidWeek reader: “Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive, because your [...]
We can’t reveal the outcome, but folks in Honolulu are saying great things about the intelligence, work ethic and resiliency of the Kaua’i High School team that competed in the new TV quiz show It’s Academic Hawaii, which premieres on KFVE Jan. 9. It’s a tournament-style format involving 27 public, private and charter high schools [...]
Focusing on the same approach as MidWeek highlighting all that’s good I was heartened to learn of an upcoming benefit concert intended to spotlight the positive. It’s a fundraiser for Mary MacDermott, a local singer and actor battling Parkinson’s disease. The concert, titled “Accentuate the Positive,” will feature local musicians and Howard Arlen‘s songs, including [...]
A bit of dis and dots: Worst purchase I ever made (and that’s saying something): The UH football pay-per-view package this season. It was like paying someone to come to your house every weekend to smack you in the head … Not sure which direction the powers that be in Manoa want to go after [...]
It was heartening (and laugh-out-loud funny) to see the holiday spirit take on the form of inclusiveness at Holly Jolly Christmas Dec. 12 at the Mo’ikeha rotunda. The annual County Employment Council show, in which departments present skits and carols, was especially entertaining this year as it brought out council members Dickie Chang, JoAnn Yukimura, [...]
The Garden Isle has been drawing some big names as of late no, I’m not referring to Jennifer Lopez and her backup singer Casper Smart, but to the buzz that paparazzi were on the hunt for Demi Moore, though she was hidden away in Hana. Kaua’i was part of a different kind of buzz altogether: [...]
A few months ago, when a 6-year-old message in a bottle from Japan was found washed up during a beach cleanup at Pacific Missile Range Facility, I wondered what else we could expect on our shores following the March 11 tsunami and earthquake. For any MidWeek Kaua’i readers wondering the same thing, the Surfrider Foundation [...]
One of the most misused words in the English language is hero. That’s especially true in sports, and I say that as a sports fan. As thrilling, for example, as World Series MVP David Freese’s exploits were for his hometown St. Louis Cardinals last month, I would not use the term hero to describe him. [...]
