Happy Camper for Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024

Alice Parker said the Senior Craft Fair taking place at the Lihue Neighborhood Center from 9 a.m. to noon today will feature plants, crafts, sewing and a country store from several different senior centers … have to go early before everything (especially the homemade food) sells out.

ERSOY: Stem cell therapy is changing medicine, part 1

Everyone wants to live for a healthy life span and ideally never get old. You can stay healthier while aging, however we can not yet stop the aging process. So it’s up to us to understand what steps we need to take during this time. Of course, I am talking about specific actions that we can take, and not unexpected health issues or bad luck with our genetics.

39th Matsuri happens on Saturday

LIHUE — The doors to Kauai Matsuri Festival 2024 opened to the public starting at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall.

Happy Camper for Friday, Oct. 11, 2024

Rev. Kerry Holder Joffrion and volunteer Tiffany Watkins from Alabama were thrilled when the 54 bags of St. Paul’s Tomatoes were attacked on Monday during the Pau Hana Market (and the free pumpkins are when?) at Kukui Grove.

KCSW distributes feminine hygiene products

LIHU‘E — The Kauai Committee on the Status of Women, or KCSW, donated and distributed feminine hygiene products to three outreach agencies, including the YWCA of Kauai, Catholic Charities and Kauai Economic Opportunity on Wednesday.

Hooser: A voter’s conundrum

Recently I received an email asking a simple and straightforward question that quickly became entangled in complicated thoughts and counter-thoughts.

Harvest Festival in Kekaha on Saturday

LIHUE — The Kauai County Council, per an internal memo, was garbed in pink on Wednesday when the governing body presented a certificate to organizers and sponsors of the 11th annual Harvest Festival, which takes place at Kekaha Neighborhood Center on Saturday.

Specialist to talk about large whale entanglement responses

PORT ALLEN — During the 2023 to 2024 humpback whale season (when the whales are in Hawaiian waters from Nov. 1 through May 30), the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration reported seven different entangled humpback whales that elicited 11 on-water response efforts mounted over an extremely busy two-month period.

Obituaries for Wednesday, October 9, 2024

• Patrick ‘Naka’ Keawe Kahikuonamoku Nakaahiki • Loretta Rapada Agosto • Allan R. Domingo • Alvin ‘Al’ Tadani • Harumi Sakai Morita • Ernie Aluag Tomacder