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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s always heartening to hear the personal stories behind the island’s modern traditions, especially from those who are passionate and excited about the end result. That’s the kind of energy that radiates when speaking with Festival of Lights coordinator and art directorElizabeth Freeman, this week’s cover story subject. Freeman, who donated the majority of the [...]
Not that she’ll need an introduction for many MidWeek Kaua’i readers, but we are introducing Kristen Joy Collins in a new role as our new on-island advertising account executive. Most recently, the Kapa’a resident was assistant director of the Kaua’i Independent Food Bank, where she managed and directed all operations related to the warehouse, food [...]
