Happy Camper for Saturday, May 18, 2024
Congratulations to TJ Shigemoto of Hawai‘i Gas on getting his master’s degree in business after two years of work at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. His mom, April Shigemoto, who is retired from the Department of Education, said the degree also earned TJ a promotion in Hawai‘i Gas.
Happy Camper for Friday, March 17, 2024
Mahalo, Pauline and EZ Street, and their two daughters who help keep the tradition alive! The Street ‘ohana have helped hundreds of Kaua‘i students through their generous contributions to all four of Kaua‘i’s high schools and the Kaua‘i Community College Nursing Department, where Maureen Tabura, the Nursing Department head, said a lot of the students would not be there without the help of the Street ‘ohana.
Happy Camper for Wednesday, May 15, 2024
What other 4-year old can say they were backed by a full orchestra, said Sarah Tochiki as a stage full of keiki violin players, many in preschool, joined the Kaua‘i Community College Symphony Orchestra on Sunday at the KCC Performing Arts Center.
Happy Camper for Monday, May 13, 2024
How did coach Dean Nonaka (coach Kell is on O‘ahu with the Island School boys volleyball team at the state competition!) know that he needed the Teru Teru Bozo at the Grove Farm Market on Saturday?
Happy Camper for Saturday, May 11, 2024
Melissa McFerrin Warrack said her son Finnegan had an aha moment while talking about what is going to happen in the future.
Happy Camper for Friday, May 10, 2024
For those who can break away from town, the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Mana is hosting the Fourth annual PMRF Auto Skills Center Car Show at Shenanigans from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with no cover charge. The event will feature cars, bikes, trucks, SUVs, entertainment, food and product vendors.
Happy Camper for Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Steel guitar player Alan Akana described high school students as “Next Gen,” and those who are after high school as “Post Gen” players during the Kaua‘i Steel Guitar Festival that played out at Kukui Grove Center on Sunday.
Happy Camper for Monday, May 6, 2024
Jed Somit, Kaua‘i senior softballer — where are the East Kaua‘i Legends in the standings? — and author of “Men are Pigs,” will be spending Mother’s Day at the Anaina Hou Community Park mini golf from noon on Sunday because “Men are Pigs” have several Mother’s Day-themed passages.
Happy Camper for Saturday, May 4, 2024
Aaron Yamasato (Kaua‘i Comic Con is coming in June!) said today, May 4, is Star Wars Day because when people say “May the 4th Be With You,” it sounds so close to “May the Force Be With You.”
Happy Camper for Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Citizen volunteer (love that title!) Greg Askew (preferred the Ono Pops moniker better) said Japanese Grandma Keiko will be hosting a free Kid’s Day Festival on Friday (yikes, it’s the same date as the Saint Catherine Carnival in Kapa‘a) from 4 p.m. for keiki 10 years and under at the Japanese Grandma restaurant.
Happy Camper for Monday, April 29, 2024
Keeping track of four Central Pacific Bank Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation championship over a matter of three days can be taxing … how many people are taking advantage of Sunday to sleep in after the marathon three days, or prepare for this week’s big events?
Happy Camper for Saturday, April 27, 2024
You’ll never know what kind of surprises lie at the weekly farmers market. Stacie Chiba-Miguel of A&B Hawai‘i said the May 1 version of the weekly Kaua‘i Culinary Market at The Shops at Kuku‘iula (it opens at 3:30 p.m.) will feature Kumu Hula Leina‘ala Pavao Jardin (remember the award-winning performances from the Merrie Monarch festival?) and members of Halau Ka Lei Mokihana O Leina‘ala, who will have a lei stand available as a fundraiser to help the halau take its younger performers to participate in the Queen Lili‘uokalani Keiki Hula festival on O‘ahu.
Happy Camper for Friday, April 26, 2024
Talk about late breaking news, Leona Sa, a coach with the Kaua‘i Special Olympics said the First Hawaiian Bank Troy Barboza Law Enforcement Run is taking place on Saturday starting at 7:15 a.m. with “2024 Leg Leader” Kaua‘i Police Department officer Johnathan Anderson, KPD, other law enforcement officers and Special Olympic athletes, friends and supporters.
Happy Camper for Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Kudos to the Girl Scouts of Hawai‘i on getting all those people out to Kukui Grove Center on Saturday for the all-troop fire safety exercise before the monthly Movie Night.
Happy Camper for Monday, April 22, 2024
Teya Silva was just one of the more than 60 vendors taking part in The Beach House Craft Fair on Sunday near Prince Kuhio Park where the high water mark from last week’s flooding clearly marked the height of flood waters.
Island History for Saturday, April 20, 2024
Amara Coon could not attend the Special Olympics’ Rockin’ Range fundraiser on Friday because she was busy helping Rowena Contrades Pagan and her mom, Pat Coon, with the weekly relief day at Ho‘omana Thrift Store, which was flooded during last week’s rains that dumped more than 12 inches at the island’s highest rainfall reading.
Happy Camper for Friday, April 19, 2024
What? Did you miss it? The Kaua‘i Beer Company hosted a Ramen Pop-Up with Aaron Matson on Sunday.
Happy Camper for Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Na Hoku Hanohano award-winning entertainer Kekai Chock said the “old” ‘ukulele was better than the one Kehau Schimmelfennig won from the silent auction at the first Kaua‘i ‘Ukulele Festival held at the Kukui Grove Center.
Happy Camper for Monday, April 15, 2024
Mahalo, Garden Island Orchid Society on getting the long-awaited Spring Orchid Show and Sale off the ground following overnight rainfall that messed up traffic (Ron Wiley said it was “very slow going” in the area around Wailua Bridge) on the eastside!
Happy Camper for Saturday, April 13, 2024
About the only thing that did not get canceled or postponed because of the Thursday night storm was the Friday Night Art in Hanapepe whose organizers came on the radio especially to let people know the event was on.