From left, Ho‘ola Lahui Hawai‘i’s Rebecca Smith, Susan Oshiro, Nicole Cowan and June Munoz join Tess Belardo of the state Department of Education Friday during Rowena Contrades-Pangan’s Hale Ho‘omalu help day in Wailua, where Rowena’s plumber rigged a temporary shower to take the place of the Project Vision Hi‘ehi‘e mobile shower that is waiting on parts.
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From right, Morgan of Oregon joins Doug Moises, Ann Lemke of the National Federation of the Blind, the Kaua‘i Lions Club (there’s Morgan Moises Lopez), the East Kaua‘i Lions Club (there’s Janice Bond) in celebrating White Cane Day with a sign-waving campaign fronting Kuhio Medical Center on Kuhio Highway in Lihu‘e Friday after the pandemic shut down (Doug’s Dugout in the Lihu‘e Civic Center Pi‘ikoi Building is still closed) any kind of walking.
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People from Kaua‘i Shrimp, Kaua‘i Pop Warner Football League and even the Hawai‘i Health Systems Corporation Kaua‘i Region are among the volunteers helping distribute pumpkins and other treats on Saturday at the Kekaha Neighborhood Center.
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County Council Chair Arryl Kaneshiro and Councilmember Billy DeCosta are among the volunteers passing out pumpkins and other goodies Saturday at the Kekaha Neighborhood Center.
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Johnny Gordines, past president of the Kaua‘i County Farm Bureau, couldn’t make the farmers’ market Saturday because he was among the helpers distributing pumpkins for keiki at the Kekaha Neighborhood Center.
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Autumn (that’s the name she allowed the newspaper to print), who just got here from Oregon, came out to complete the National Federation of the Blind sign-waving for White Cane Day Friday in front of Kuhio Medical Center on Kuhio Highway in Lihu‘e.
Autumn (that’s the name she allowed the newspaper to print), who just got here from Oregon, came out to complete the National Federation of the Blind sign-waving for White Cane Day Friday in front of Kuhio Medical Center on Kuhio Highway in Lihu‘e.
The Kaua‘i Lions Club (they cleaned up the Wailua Houselots pavilion of staples, tacks and other embedded fasteners Sunday!) and the East Kaua‘i Lions Club also paricipated in the campaign, as the traditional walk could not be held due to COVID-19 precautions (mahalo for letting the Alzheimer’s Garden grow during the Kaua‘i Alzheimer’s Walk!).
More kudos for helping Rowena Contrades-Pangan and the Hale Ho‘omalu crew, Mischa of Aloha ‘Aina (those Aloha Friday Mo‘olelo Murals artists Holly Ka‘iakapu, Bethany Coma and Brie Blake had Aloha ‘Aina break snacks courtesy of Lexi Jones!) who came up with the Friday meal during the help day event where Project Vision Hawai‘i team members were held to just vision screening and other tasks while waiting on parts for the Hi‘ehi‘e mobile shower. And kudos to Rowena for getting the Hale Ho‘omalu plumber to jury-rig a temporary shower unit.
A huge mahalo to Laurie Yoshida, Stephanie Iona and the many hands for getting the 4,000 (yes, they were all grown in Kekaha by Corteva Agriscience and Hartung Brothers) pumpkins out for keiki from Hanalei to Kekaha (yes, Stephanie didn’t forget to get pumpkins to the Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation football game at Hanapepe Stadium or the vaccine clinic at the Kanuikapono Charter School in Anahola!).
More pumpkins go out today at the Pau Hana Market starting at 3 p.m. at Kukui Grove Center. Go early for best selection!
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Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
