Aloha!

Please join us on Nov. 5 & 6 at Honaunau Bay for a weekend of activities honoring Honaunau – learning about its past through the eyes of its kupuna, and imagining its future through the eyes of those who will come after us.

Honaunau: Ola Mau Loa with TE VAKA on Nov. 5, from 2-6 p.m., is the launch of a community visioning project with the intention of creating a community- and Hawaiian-values based resource and land management plan for our precious ‘aina and all of the cultural, historic, spiritual and life-giving treasures that it holds within its lands and waters. Come learn more about the project, enjoy an afternoon by Honaunau Bay, and dance to the awesome music of TE VAKA, the world-renowned Pacific Island music group.

Also part of the event will be a silent auction to benefit a member of our paddling community who is faced with a very serious medical condition – and no medical insurance.

This event is presented by Keoua Honaunau Canoe Club and sponsored by ‘Apono Hawai‘i and Pasifika Foundation Hawai‘i. For more info: acurrie@hawaii.rr.com

Kukakuka O Honaunau on Nov. 6 from 3-6 p.m., is a very special talk-story gathering that will bring together kupuna of Honaunau along with Danny Kaniela Akaka, Jr. for an afternoon of sharing stories about the old days in Honaunau.

This event is presented by Ka ‘Ohana O Honaunau/Kukulukumuhana O Honaunau and sponsored by Hui Kuapa (Friends of the Future), Ala Kahakai Trail Association and the National Park Foundation through the generous support of Lowes Charitable Education Foundation, the Anschutz Foundation and the Ahmanson Foundation. For more info: bnavas@hawaiiantel.net

Please see the flyer below for more information, and please distribute this invitation to all of your contacts who love Honaunau! Mahalo . . . and see you on November 5 & 6!

We want to thank everyone who participated and helped make this past weekend’s 30th Annual Mac-A-Thon a success. Here are the race results.

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Calling all Keoua paddlers and friends! It is time for spring cleanup at the halau. We are hosting all of the one-man paddlers on the island at Uncle Louis’ one-man canoe race on February 26th. The community is invited to join us at the halau on March 7th to begin the 2011 paddling season. We want the halau to look fabulous.

Please join us on Saturday, February 19th, 9 A.M. for a Keoua work party.

Here are some of the jobs to be accomplished:

1. Replant grass in canoe storage lot. Take 6-8″ stolens from the upper lot by hand pulling from planting areas, rock walls, and tree trunks. Plug into bare areas in Canoe Storage Area.
2. Hand clear all vegetation from Halau platform with the weeds going into the compost pile mauka of the lot. Care should be given not to disturb the round stones.
3. Moses in the Cradle plants should be removed from rock walls (carefully not disturbing rocks) and in the rest of the lot and composted in the concrete trough or removed to landfill.
4. Other weeds removed from rock walls go into compost pile in back of lot.
5. Air plant colony south of the Halau Platform, placed in plastic bags and removed to landfill.
6. Grass to be pulled away from walls and sprinklers. Stolens may be replanted in bare spots or composted in pile.
7. All coconut, milo, and other tree debris to go into compost pile.
8. Recycle containers to upper lot recycle.
9. Plastic, wood, metal rubbish into garbage cans.
10. Clump grass should be pulled and left upside down in-situ.
11. Loose rocks to be placed on ground in piles next to rock walls.
12. Dracena to be pruned. Prunings into compost pile.
13. Low hanging and dead branches of trees (Milo, Monkey Pod, Tamarind) removed and prunings into compost pile.
14. Tall weeds and vines in makai end of lot (trailer storage area) go into the compost pile.