PRINCEVILLE — It was a fantastic night for a Movie in the Park in Princeville Saturday night as the Princeville Community Association screened Wes Anderson’s “The Fantastic Mr. Fox.” Families and couples alike began setting up their blankets and chairs
PRINCEVILLE — It was a fantastic night for a Movie in the Park in Princeville Saturday night as the Princeville Community Association screened Wes Anderson’s “The Fantastic Mr. Fox.”
Families and couples alike began setting up their blankets and chairs on the lawn just as the sky turned to dusk at around 6 p.m., an hour before the movie began. A good number of young families, some on vacation, brought their keiki out to enjoy the evening.
Kids romped through the playground and parents and children played a game of Frisbee while waiting for the movie to start. As expected, a few, light rains passed through the park, but were in no way enough of a downpour to deter North Shore residents who casually broke out their umbrellas, while kids happily continued playing.
Girl Scout Troop 824 held a bake sale at the event to raise funds for the troop’s activities, including camping in Koke‘e, beach clean-ups and scholarships for members who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford dues. Ambitious in their sales, the Girl Scouts carried trays of brownies and cookies amongst the picnickers selling the opportunity for dessert before the movie.
General Manager of the Princeville Community Association, Rory Enright, who was happily set up near the melaleuca trees in his lawn chair with his wife, Bea, said the movie and picnic is just one of “the activities we do to build a sense of community, not only for Princeville, but for all of the North Shore.”
The activity not only brought out North Shore residents but also Eastsiders hailing from Kapa‘a.
The PCA has been hosting Movies in the Park for the past four years, usually showing three films during the summer months. With summer coming to end the next event the next event the association will be putting on is an art show in November.
