HANAPEPE — You can come to have lunch, if you don’t like football, said Mark Ozaki, a Kaua‘i Police Activities League coordinator, at the flag football games that opened Saturday at the Hanapepe Stadium complex. “Starting this weekend, we’ll have
HANAPEPE — You can come to have lunch, if you don’t like football, said Mark Ozaki, a Kaua‘i Police Activities League coordinator, at the flag football games that opened Saturday at the Hanapepe Stadium complex.
“Starting this weekend, we’ll have a food booth as a fundraiser for our K-PAL boxing program, and you can come enjoy some kalua pork while helping the boxers and watching some fun football,” Ozaki said, noting there is no admission charge to watch flag football.
Five or six K-PAL boxers are scheduled to leave later this month to participate in an off-island smoker.
Ozaki said the K-PAL flag football will play its games at the Vidinha Stadium complex for the next five weeks, the season ending July 25. Games are played on Saturday starting at 9 a.m.
This year’s program features about 600 children spread through four age levels including the Cubs, Troopers, Bobcats and Wildcats. Players range in age from kindergarten through eighth grade, to start ninth grade when school starts.
“We lost about 150 students this year because we don’t have a cheer program,” Ozaki said.
“One more thing that’s missing this year is the older kids who used to open the games. But hopefully, we’ll get the kids turning out so we can resume those programs again next year.”
According to game format, players in the Cubs division are able to pass or run the ball. Players in the other divisions are restricted to pass-only plays.
Ozaki said this Wednesday, K-PAL is hosting a meeting to launch a Sea Scouts program on Kaua‘i in collaboration with the Nawiliwili Yacht Club, the United States Coast Guard and the Boy Scouts of America.
“We’re surrounded by water, so this is only natural,” Ozaki said. “We’re getting support from a lot of different agencies in trying to make this program available for Kaua‘i’s young people.”
The meeting will take place at the NYC Clubhouse in the Nawiliwili Small Boat Harbor from 6-8 p.m.
“We can’t just sit around and do nothing,” Ozaki said. “We gotta keep moving forward.”
