Congratulations, Stephanie Iona, Laurie Yoshida, Aloun Farms and the many hands involved in growing and producing nearly 5,000, if not more, pumpkins for Kauai, Molokai and the Big Island to celebrate Halloween with carved jack-o-lanterns … Laurie said on Maui they bought pumpkins from Maui growers for distribution to keiki similar to the Harvest Festival in Kekaha. What a great demonstration of agriculture sustainability!
Congratulations, Stephanie Iona, Laurie Yoshida, Aloun Farms and the many hands involved in growing and producing nearly 5,000, if not more, pumpkins for Kauai, Molokai and the Big Island to celebrate Halloween with carved jack-o-lanterns … Laurie said on Maui they bought pumpkins from Maui growers for distribution to keiki similar to the Harvest Festival in Kekaha. What a great demonstration of agriculture sustainability!
Laurie is a former Kauai Police Commissioner, who was present at the blessing of the Kauai Police Activities League facility located inside the Kauai Philippine Cultural Center where K-PAL fashioned the left side into a wrestling facility with custom-made padding. On the right side of the KPCC where KPAL has its own entrance, Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami was having fun with the boxing punching bags (he said the punching bags don’t talk back) in the boxing and weight room facility.
Welcome to retired police chief George Freitas who Mark Ozaki said brought K-PAL to Kauai, and in response, Chief Freitas said it was Ozaki who brought K-PAL to life. Kudos and congratulations, KPD Chief Todd Raybuck, and all those coaches and leaders. Congratulations, too, to Eddy and Sonia Topenio and all the KPCC bodies for making sure everything went smoothly.
OK, time to check out some of all those crazy Halloween antics taking place around the island, including the Kapaa High School halftime homecoming … and Halloween isn’t until Thursday where the Healing Horses offer a photo shoot from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at its stables at the end of the Kapaa bypass road.
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Dennis Fujimoto can be reached at 245-0453 or at dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
