Happy Labor Day?
Not for Kaua‘i Coffee’s Faith Soto, who, Darla Domingo said “retired” on Thursday (Darla had her twin grandchildren running after “the very fast chicken” on Saturday, during The Kaua‘i Marathon Keiki Race). But Faith was helping at the Kaua‘i Coffee tent during the Wilcox Health Sports and Fitness Expo at the Grand Hyatt Resort & Spa in Po‘ipu on Friday and Saturday, and Darla said she came back to help during The Kaua‘i Marathon on Sunday.
Mayette Loseto said the holidays are here already because all the months with “…ber” are the holidays (January has no “ber”). At the Grove Farm Market in Puhi on Saturday, she said she always has lanzones during the holidays, and her trees (it takes 25 years to fruit from seed) are going off now.
Sean Magoun of Island School (he was helping Dennis Chun and John Kruse with the Namahoe first work day in more than two years because of the pandemic) said that’s like how they knew it was lobster season — all the months that have “r” in them. Is it the same as moi season?
John said the work crew included 14 students from the Japanese Maritime College, three campuses in Toba, Toyama, and Suo Oshima, members of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, some of whom came from off-island to work, and other community volunteers trying to finish the needed work by January when Mike Faye is scheduled to have the low boy and crane in the Lihu‘e area so he and the Kikiaola Construction Company crew can move the sailing canoe back into the water.
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Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 808-245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
