Happy Camper for Monday, March 14, 2022
Kudos to Waimea Canyon Middle School students Jordyn Esaki and Adrian Smith (he likes to do 3D printing!) of the school’s Genius Hour afterschool club (it’s all right, Mayor Derek Kawakami, we can wait until you get your face mask) for inspiring Tisha Remigio, Stephanie Iona, Laurie Yoshida and all those hands to host the Waimea Canyon Middle School food distribution so the homeless people can have food during the spring break.
Happy Camper for Sunday, March 13, 2022
Boy, talk about the celebrities that show up at the “super seniors” games (Ale Lomosod scored the go-ahead run on a Jim Bennett RBI in Na Koa Kupuna’s 16-15 win, and likes that term better than “Baniaga division”).
Happy Camper for Friday, March 11, 2022
Play ball! Here we go, again…Tiffany Dick (she was at the Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation baseball game) of Aloha Dance Studio said the studio’s latest generation of hip-hop dancers make their appearance on Saturday at 1 p.m. during the Kukui Grove Center’s Spring Break Family Fun Day.
Happy Camper for Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Happy belated International Women’s Day (March 8!) to the Alakoko Store’s Abie Coma (when was sister Bethany Coma scheduled to come in?), who spent her plant swap day preparing displays of women-owned businesses for display on social media.
Happy Camper for Monday, March 7, 2022
“She’s trying to stay awake,” said Samira Siale, mom of Ariyana Siale, who made her public debut Saturday during the joint-effort food distribution coordinated by Kelvin Moniz and the Kaua‘i Independent Food Bank, where Kawai Gampon even got his parents, Chris and Ray Gampon, to come out and help distribute more than 300 food packages in a drive-thru format in the Aloha Sweet Delites parking lot.
Happy Camper for Sunday, March 6, 2022
Kudos to Rowena Contrades Pagan, Kamealoha Smith and all (!!!) the Ho‘omana Thrift Store ‘ohana on launching the Mahalo Market Wednesday on the grounds of Wailua thrift shop.
Happy Camper for Friday, March 4, 2022
Happy birthday, Bev Pang! She got birthday flowers while helping farmer Pedro Bisarra at the Pau Hana Market…Paula Schultz was thrilled with her anniversary prize!
Happy Camper for Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Happy birthdays to Taylor, Tyron, Candice, and T-Jay Shigemoto, who were celebrating their birthdays on Feb. 28 in Las Vegas. Taylor needs to be home by Read Across America this Saturday, when HawaiiUSA Federal Credit Union is helping sponsor the literary event at Kukui Grove Center in Lihu‘e.
Happy Camper for Monday, February 28, 2022
Ayba Gonsalves (she was the rock in the midst of shoppers coming and going at the Times Super Market in Kukui Grove Center in Lihu‘e) of Girl Scout Troop 008 was tucked away in the back of the bank of shopping carts waiting to be sanitized (yes, the pandemic is still here!) Friday evening (Skippa Caycayon — he said his grandson Mikey Manera’s team got bus’ up — was playing bass on-stage).
Happy Camper for Sunday, February 27, 2022
Kudos to Mark Perriello, Liane Pestrella (Robbie Melton, coming off pulling off the Zonta Club of Kaua‘i Red Carpet Gala Wednesday night, got help from Jaye Gayagas Youn and Barbara Gusman of the Sheraton Kaua‘i Coconut Beach in helping Liane) on hosting all those people to the Eighth annual talk story with Hawaiian Airlines CEO Peter Ingram at the Kaua‘i Beach Resort near Hanama‘ulu.
Happy Camper for Friday, February 25, 2022
Kudos, Elysse Litvack and the volunteer ‘ohana of Kumu’s Cupboard on the fifth anniversary of helping teachers (kudos Natsumi Miyasato and the Wilcox STEM class on the re-establishing of the cricket farm. Retired Kaua‘i Community College Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Earl Nishiguchi was asking about the project while shopping at the Pau Hana Market) with resources they would otherwise have to pay for.
Happy Camper for Wednesday, February 23, 2022
No, Stephen Fujii wasn’t looking for ripe papayas. Mrs. Sylvia sent him out for radish (not daikon) at the Pau Hana Market at Kukui Grove Center in Lihu‘e Monday.
Happy Camper for Monday, February 21, 2022
Basilio “Coach Bunga” Fuertes cut the seedlings distribution short because Carmila Udarbe (she was imagining seeing her brother playing basketball) had a basketball game (that was how she started her seedling distributions with Coach Bunga!) with the Eastside Basketball League Saturday afternoon.
Happy Camper for Sunday, February 20, 2022
“If Lion John Ochoco had not met Joanne, we would not be here tonight,” said East Kaua‘i Lions Club President Harvey Kinoshita Thursday night when the EK Lions Club packed clothes contributed by the club’s membership and cleaned and packed used eyeglasses to be shipped with the clothes to the Baguio City Lions Club in the Philippines. “There must be between 500 and 600 glasses.”
Happy Camper for Friday, February 18, 2022
Congratulations to all those Valentine’s Day special premiums (mahalo, Melissa McFerrin-Warrack, David Sosner and the Kukui Grove Center!) recipients that were available during Monday’s Pau Hana Market (Amy Chun got the last bag of tomatoes, and Stephen Fujii was looking for the Westside corn…).
Happy Camper for Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Kaua‘i Quilt Show volunteers Adela Chavez and Merle Koplan said if you piece together the quilt square that’s available at the show at the Kaua‘i Society of Artists exhibit space at Kukui Grove Center in Lihu‘e and get the completed square back to the show people, that square will be quilted and become one of the donation quilts for next year’s show.
Happy Camper for Monday, February 14, 2022
What? Branch didn’t fit in the car with Poppy?
Happy Camper for Sunday, February 13, 2022
Kudos to all those Waimea Alumni and Friends Foundation on coordinating that amazing corn sale. Alvin Kyono said Hartung Brothers grew all (25,000-plus ears!) the corn, and even threw in a promotional banner the WAFF could use at Hofgaard Park in beautiful downtown Waimea.
Happy Camper for Friday, February 11, 2022
Aloha, Jeff Haigh (Daryl Dobashi saw him last week, but the closest thing l got was the aging Lunar New Year piece made with tools borrowed from Dickie Chang)…hopefully, we get to see Jeff on the next go-round…and, we don’t need to know where the sand is because the inconsiderate hands and feet don’t need company.
Happy Camper for Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022
How did that happen? Honest, the car “ate” the SD card. Somewhere in there there’s the card that contains coverage of the Kapa‘a Lions Club presenting Steve Kline and the Samuel Mahelona Memorial Hospital all those dolls.