Happy Camper for Saturday, October 5, 2024

Councilwoman Felicia Cowden was able to sip a congratulatory glass of champagne on Thursday after making Julie Souza and her dad’s 40-year dream of converting Hoona Road into a one-way, mauka to makai, road near what is known as Baby Beach.

Happy Camper for Friday, October 4, 2024

October started with a bang, as Kauai High School girls volleyball players (yes, even the Junior Varsity) showed up with pink hair ribbons (the security guard said October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month) since the players couldn’t join the Kauai Committee on the Status of Women at their sign waving campaign at Kauai Community College.

Happy Camper for Monday, September 30, 2024

Mahalo to Longs Drugs and its team that included more than a handful of not-Kauai techs for providing improved access to flu and other seasonal bugs on Saturday during the vaccine drive-thru event at Kukui Grove Center …

Happy Camper for Saturday, September 28, 2024

There are only two days remaining in September, and the Kauai Committee on the Status of Women invites everyone to join them and other community sponsors like the YWCA of Kauai and the Zonta Club of Kauai to welcome October with a sign waving event at the front of the Kauai Community College on Tuesday (that’s Oct. 1) afternoon from 4 p.m.

Happy Camper for Friday, September 27, 2024

Congratulations to Kauai Filipino Women’s Club President Barbara Green (her husband, Rod Green, was one of the Finest Barong winners with Cyrus Panoy), Charlmaine Bulosan, event chairperson, and all (there were more than 300 people attending) for creating the 58th Terno Ball, which is a major fundraiser for scholarships that are presented to graduating high school seniors in the public high schools.

Happy Camper for Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Congratulations, Pam Jardin and the Lihue Senior Center for hosting a “coffee hour” forum on Tuesday morning, when eight of the 14 candidates for the Kauai County Council showed up to meet in-person with the audience that included members of the Lihue, Waimea and Kekaha senior centers.

Happy Camper for Monday, September 23, 2024

Sam Brown and Charles Fulks of Cheesesteak Sammy’s were ready for the crowd on Saturday at Grove Farm Market after “learning” all kinds of lessons during last week’s debut, and Isaiah Dosono of Kauai Kim Chee had to park his pizza oven trailer out of the line of food vendors because there wasn’t enough space.

Happy Camper for Saturday, September 21, 2024

Happy birthday to artist Carol Wyban who celebrated her special day on the same day she presented her art collection to the Kikuchi Center, located in the Learning Resource Center (did you see the AI display?)

Happy Camper for Friday, September 20, 2024

Happy birthday to Kauai High School girls volleyball player Navaeh Smith (Game announcer Charles Woolfork spilled the beans during the team introductions), who celebrated Tuesday night when Kauai High School girls volleyball won in five sets over Island School.

Happy Camper for Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Congratulations to the representatives of the seven recipient organizations that received a portion of the proceeds from the recent 40th anniversary Kapena concert during the latest edition of Downtown Lihue Night Market, where several vendors were able to strike camp from the Line Dance fundraiser for the Kauai Veterans Center and set up on Kress Street. The groups shared about $9,000.

Happy Camper for Saturday, September 12, 2024

The free Ocean Clinic presented by Na Kama Kai on Saturday morning is not just for keiki, but for teachers — especially those in Grades 4 and 5 — to learn more about ocean-related activities including hookele, or wayfinding, kai palekana, or ocean safety, ku hoe, or stand-up paddling, and waa so the teachers can pass on these resources to their respective classes.

Happy Camper for Friday, September 13, 2024

Congratulations, Leona Sa McDermott, Lisa Aki, and all the supporters of Kauai Special Olympic athletes for getting past the $25,000 goal for the Badges and Buckets event that brought some excitement to the Walmart store, last week.

Happy Camper for Monday, September 9, 2024

Grove Farm’s Coach Beau Acoba (Coach Beau also did the stadium announcing during the first Kauai Interscholastic Federation football game on Saturday night, too) said he needed to make sure he had his wallet on Saturday before making the social media call to Isaiah Dosono and the pizza wagon at the Grove Farm Market

Happy Camper for Friday, Sept. 6, 2024

Aloha, and good luck to Georgia Degracia (she was doing her final AV tech job on Saturday at the Wilcox Health Keiki Run), who is embarking on a new chapter of her life on the mainland. The Showtime Characters dedicated the August Toddler Tuesday program to Georgia with appearances of Lilo and Stitch. Mickey (Brenda Biehler Turville said those were Georgia’s favorite characters) … and she never got to see the trio of mermaids that showed up for the Kukui Grove Movie Night.

Happy Camper for Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024

Congratulations to Kauai High School Athletic Trainer Keith Burgess on completing his first half marathon at 3 hours, 8 minutes and 5 seconds. Keith had company as he ran with Kapaa High School Athletic Trainer Chris Ang, who was on duty Saturday night during the preseason football game against Kapolei High School. Chris smoked the half marathon in 2:12:56.

Happy Camper for Monday, Sept. 2, 2024

Dr. Monty Downs hasn’t figured out whether he’s bringing the guitar or the harmonica (or both?), but said he’ll be entertaining at the Lihue United Church annual Labor Day Breakfast, whether they have sound or not.