Happy Camper for Monday, November 18, 2019

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

Wilcox Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Barbara Bloemke (did you know she was one of the founders of the Lights on Rice holiday parade?) watches a student use a squirter to try and fill a drinking cup from a distance during the school’s Ohana Fun Night Friday at the campus in Lihue.

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami never made it to the obstacle course as he checks out at the book sale that was part of the Ohana Fun Night at Wilcox Elementary School in Lihue Friday.

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

Kauai Police Department Chief Todd Raybuck is a step back of the Wilcox Elementary School student during the obstacle course at the Ohana Fun Night Friday at the school’s Lihue campus.

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

Kauai Fire Department Deputy Chief Chief Kilipaki Vaughan (he just got off the plane from a day-long, off-island trip), right, works to gain an advantage over the Wilcox Elementary School student in the obstacle course at the Ohana Fun Night Friday at the school’s Lihue campus.

Nope, Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami didn’t make it to the obstacle course, where everyone was anxious to see how he would do against the never-ending supply of Wilcox Elementary School students who competed against celebrities, including Kauai Fire Department Deputy Chief Kilipaki Vaughan (he was even distracted by tossing fuzz balls in the Not In My Backyard game!) and the KFD crews, Kauai Police Department Chief Todd Raybuck and the KPD crew (Paul Applegate said he lost count of how many kids beat him in that course). The students had their eye on KPD’s Capt. Rod Green after being warmed up by the KFD crews.

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