Happy Camper for Sunday, May 8, 2022

Happy Mothers Day, Kaua‘i!

Rose Garabilla is hosting a one-day special for her new space (no, it’s the space next to Pau Hana Ts), where she plans to open the doors to her new business today at Kukui Grove Center in Lihu‘e, with discounts on the new offerings. Check it out and stay for lunch where there’s some nice jazz on tap.

Kudos to Kealoha Takahashi and the many hands of the county Agency on Elderly Affairs for hosting not-a-drive-thru gathering for 10 of the Kaua‘i’s Older Americans nominees, where Paul Togioka got to do his guitar magic, and the student substitute Reiko Matsuyama got to represent Mayor Derek Kawakami. Once a student substitute, always a student substitute.

Mahalo, too, Joseph Daisy and the Kaua‘i Community College, on hosting the very important people, where chef Mark Oyama (remember his magic in getting University of Hawai‘i football coach Timmy Chang to come visit Dick Ueoka on his birthday?) and Duane Miyasato got a chance to create that fancy menu of pupu, and Brian Yamamoto came out of medical leave to escort the visiting dignitaries. Now, we got KCC graduation coming up next Friday — not at Vidinha Stadium like pre-pandemic days, but on the Puhi campus.

And kudos, Holly Ka‘iakapu (they finished the educational mural at the Alakoko Fishpond site!) and the Alakoko store for completing the first week of block-printing workshops in the new space outside the Robert’s building. Krystl Apeles said they have a new “vendor” at the store who should be on hand when the Downtown Lihu‘e Night Market opens Saturday (how many made it to First Saturday in Kapa‘a last night?) on Kress Street. That Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women mural will definitely take on a new look in the Lexi Jones lighting.

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Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.