Happy Camper for Monday, July 22, 2024

Kudos to Hawai‘i Community Little League Carole T. Ota, Bobby Bater and Kawaihau Community Little League President Shan Higashi on hosting the State 9 through 11 tournament (Aiea just beat Kaneohe in a 14-13 extra inning affair to advance in the not-winning bracket to meet host Kawaihau — they lost 11-0 to undefeated Hilo in their Saturday opener to face Aiea on Sunday) … Championship game scheduled for Tuesday when first pitch goes off at 9 a.m. at the Main Diamond located inside Bryan J. Baptiste SportsComplex.

Happy Camper for Friday, July 19, 2024

Kudos to the many, many hands from Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke (acting governor) to the ‘ohana at Da Booze Shop walking the traffic stoppage with snacks and beverage involved in keeping everyone safe during the brush fire that broke out Monday and burned through just before midnight before being brought under control!

Happy Camper for Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Congratulations to Kawena Rivera for being selected the winner of the Back to School Bash Grand Prize drawing … looks like her family has a place to staycation during the upcoming school year.

Happy Camper for Monday, July 15, 2024

Celeste Mochi (Ed and Michiko Justus of Talk Story Bookstore — “the western-most book store” — were seen at the Back to School Bash on Saturday instead of the traditional Friday Night Art in Hanapepe!) would’ve been the answer to “too much people, too many things to do” where John Feagans returned to Kaua‘i and found a Salt Pond alternative to play his accordion.

Happy Camper for Friday, July 12, 2024

First week, second week? This is all confusing … where was Toddler Tuesday? Dr. Michael Oride said he’s fully retired, now, and had time to look for lunch at Kukui Grove Center while waiting on the toddler show …

Happy Camper for Thursday, July 10, 2024

What? There might still be time to sign up for Aldrine Guerrero’s (he was at the Ha Coffee Friday Night Art with Pono Market’s Coach Rob Kubota!) Summer ‘Ukulele Kids Course that starts on July 9 and runs from Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m. through Aug. 1.

Happy Camper for Monday, July 8, 2024

Kumu’s Cupboard will be hosting a School Supply Drive for educators this Saturday (isn’t that when the Koloa Plantation Days people, and the County of Kaua‘i are cleaning Maluhia Road?) during the weekly Grove Farm Market at the Puhi park open field (the regular Puhi Park is where the Kaua‘i Senior Softball League plays).

Happy Camper for Monday, July 1, 2024

Congratulations to the 14 graduates of the summer graduation for the Kaua‘i Community College Nursing Program. Maureen Tabura, one of the program’s instructors, said the graduates will now prepare to take the LPN tests and prepare for the next two semesters.

Happy Camper for Friday, June 28, 2024

Burmese grapes are only available at The Culinary Market at The Shops on Kukui‘ula on Wednesday afternoons … get yours while the tree (Flora Worth said Khwan Seechachet’s father got his tree from Kaua‘i Nursery and Landscaping) is going off. Khwan said O.K. King Farms only appears at the Kuku‘iula market. So, where is Brooklyn, Flora’s granddaughter, to learn how to eat these morsels (Khwan said the brown ones are sweeter!), local style?

Happy Camper for Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Kudos to Miss Kaua‘i Filipina Chair Mario Trinidad on pulling together the 64th annual Miss Kaua‘i Scholarship Pageant where it literally took a village to make the three contestants — Aaliyah Nero, Jaslen Valdez and Aleah Yano — enter the stage as true winners.

Happy Camper for Friday, June 21, 2024

Congratulations, and Mahalo to Dr. Janet Berreman, Lauren Guest, (Col.) Toni Torres, Capt. Ian McEwen and all (more than 230!) military professionals (even U.S. Coast Guard Kaua‘i Officer in Charge Michael McHugh had his crew out there along with the Kaua‘i Community College Nursing Department’s 14 students) on concluding the Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training mission (we call it Tropic Care Kaua‘i) where the three different sites had more than 5,500 treatments (and nearly 30,000 hours of DOD IRT training) administered for no-cost health care!