Happy Camper for Sunday, June 21, 2020
Girl Scout cookies — just in time for Father’s Day — mahalo, Josie Cortez of the Rotary Club of Kapa‘a, and Angela Hoover of the Girl Scouts, for making the special treats possible in the Kaua‘i Marriott Resort & Beach Club associates’ food packages.
Happy Camper of Friday, June 19, 2020
Alicia Hayakawa might not have lab work for her culinary arts study because of the COVID-19 closures. But that did not stop her from doing community service as she volunteers with her dad, Glenn Hayakawa to prepare and cook meals on Tuesdays (for June, at least) at the Salvation Army, Lihu‘e Corps.
Happy Camper for Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Kukui Grove Center was pretty busy over the weekend, said Collette Jimenez (she’s got three pieces in the Kaua‘i Society of Artists’ Washed Up Marine Debris Art Show), who was gallery-sitting at the KSA gallery in Kukui Grove Center.
Happy Camper for Monday, June 15, 2020
Happy Nature Photography Day.
Happy Camper for Sunday, June 14, 2020
Anne Skabo of Kaipuwai and Halau Palaihiwa O Kaipuwai said kumu hula Kehaulani Kekua was going to to a live stream on the life of King Kamehameha and teach a new chant during the virtual Papa Oli webinar that completed the E Hanai ‘Ai fundraiser for the reopening of Studio HA‘A in Kapa‘a.
Happy Camper for Friday, June 12, 2020
Wow! Throw a holiday (King Kamehameha Day observed, Thursday!), and things take off from the COVID-19 pandemic (is this Back-to-Normal?)…
Happy Camper for Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Happy birthday, Monika Mira (she brought another yellow slipper fish to replace the one that sold Saturday at the Kaua‘i Society of Artists Washed Up Marine Debris Art Show at Kukui Grove Center), who got a lei from Barbara Weidner of the Surfrider Foundation of Kaua‘i on World Oceans Day.
Happy Camper for Monday, June 8, 2020
The Valenciano ‘ohana said Kelvin Moniz of the Kaua‘i Independent Food Bank had to come to the food distribution Saturday because he’s a Kaumakani boy, and Pua Kaohelauli‘i did not have her state Department of Health sidekicks helping her when she volunteered “to take care of her community — Kaumakani and Pakala.”
Happy Camper for Sunday, June 7, 2020
What was the confusion about National Donut Day?
Happy Camper for Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Larry Rivera said it best — “Aloha Begins With Me” — as he opened his medley of song tributes to Russell Haluapo during the Sunday food and fund drive by motorcycle riders and other friends of Haluapo, where Michelle Panoke said Russell must be looking at all that was going on and smiling his Russell smile.
Happy Camper for Monday, June 1, 2020
Rhonda Cabelo said the one nice thing about Police, Pastors & Platters at the Puakea Golf Course is how the event brings all the people together — living together, working together and getting through this COVID thing.
Happy Camper for Sunday, May 31, 2020
Beth Haddock said the curbside microphone installed by John “The Big Guy” Belliveau of A/V Kaua‘i last year is coming in real handy since Pietro’s at the Po‘ipu Shopping Village reopened after being shut by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Happy Camper for Friday, May 29, 2020
Face masks and social distancing can’t stop the Aloha in the face of COVID-19 as we see Cyndi Ayonon and her Zonta Club of Kaua‘i sisters (Edie Ignacio Neumiller is safely working remotely!) more now than if COVID never happened…
Happy Camper for Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Yes, it was hot as heck Monday (Kahului, Maui hit 90 degrees), Mayor Derek Kawakami, but people endured the discomfort of wearing fabric face masks (Johnette Chun had a bunch more to offer, too) during the Memorial Day weekend — good job, everyone — Marly Madayag wants to keep the COVID-19 numbers at zero.
Happy Camper for Monday, May 25, 2020
Memorial Day brought out a lot of people to the Puhi Park Produce (Kaua‘i Police Department Sgt. Darla Nonaka said the farmers’ market was busy when she stopped to visit Hanalima Bakery for bread en route to the Police, Pastors & Platters breakfast at the Puakea Golf Course).
Happy Camper for Sunday, May 24, 2020
Congratulations to the nearly 600 high school graduates who persevered and persisted through 12 years of education through school. Kudos to soccer coach Ramon Semblante on the graduation of son Nicholas from Waimea High School (kudos, Menehune Project Grad, for spearheading a great alternative graduation. Kaua‘i Raceway Park never looked better, Tony Ricci. Tori Kawaga got to drive coach Zenda Octavio (she had a son graduating too) down the quarter-mile that was carpeted with flowers from a flower drop by Air 1 to open the morning.
Happy Camper for Friday, May 22, 2020
Kudos to Darryl Low and the Coconut Marketplace on the re-opening of the twice-weekly farmers’ market Tuesday that featured a new concept in food trucks — the Y. Hata & Co. truck that brought some of its Value Plus Kaua‘i Store “restaurant packages and bundles” to the public, led by Paula Jepas, the Y. Hata Kaua‘i manager.
Happy Camper for Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Lenny Rapozo is the luna for Da Ditch Gang (yep, even Kelson got his chance to clean ditch, too) that is still around and helped the Kaua‘i Pop Warner Football League cut Spam and hot dogs (Teddy Arroyo said even Kaua‘i High School football coach Jason Apilado and his crew came to help) for the big bento distribution (kudos to all the KPWFL ‘ohana on a great, ono event) over the weekend, where the flavor of the preparation got to have seeped into the bentos.
Happy Camper for Monday, May 18, 2020
Mahalo for the prayer, Anna Munos, Mariana Munos and Ellane Kato (small is definitely powerful), who were among the greeters doing mobile prayer Saturday during Police (Facebook Live works, KPD Chief Todd Raybuck), Pastors & Platters, where Sgt. Darla Nonaka “volunteered” a group of men in blue to dispatch platters to the houseless encampment at Lydgate Park.
Happy Camper for Sunday, May 17, 2020
Samira Siale of Enterprise Rent-A-Car was able to break out of the COVID-19 isolation Friday to join the ranks of volunteers serving up more than 2,000 chili macaroni meals at the Sheraton Kaua‘i Resort in Po‘ipu (they started doing meal distributions for their associates’ families during the Easter weekend), where Morgan Lopez of the Hawai‘i Lodging & Tourism Association Kaua‘i Branch (she was wearing the Lions Club cap Thursday during the Kaua‘i Marriott Resort & Beach Club food distribution) took sponsorship of the event to result in 2,000 meals being distributed.