Of Plants and Progeny
Kalo, or taro, has been integral to the Hawaiian diet. Alongside mai‘a (banana), niu (coconut), and ‘ulu (breadfruit), kalo was one of the canoe plants, the original plants brought to the Hawaiian Islands by the first Polynesian settlers.
12 Feb 2021Dancing Queen
As Miss Aloha Hula, she serves as an ambassador for Merrie Monarch for the year, a challenge for such a private person. “I realized that everyone was watching and I am constantly under a microscope,” she says. “I hope to inspire not just with my dancing but in life as a person.”
12 Feb 2021A Community Connects
Taking care of resources is a shared theme among all programs of Mālama Learning Center, which was founded in 2004. The center’s primary goal is to bring middle and high school students to nearby destinations to learn about science, conservation.
11 Feb 2021Served with Love
In 2012, she debuted Coquito’s, bringing flavors of the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora—from Columbian and Cuban to Mexican and Argentinian—to O‘ahu’s West Side. The Puerto Rican dishes remain its star attractions.
11 Feb 2021Nature’s Stage
The dip is Kolekole Pass, a natural cleft in the nearly 4-million-year-old range, which links Wai‘anae to O‘ahu’s central plains. The area is rich with cultural and historical significance: The pass provided a path to the Kūkaniloko birthing stones
10 Feb 2021Back to ‘Āina
Enos believes that Kaʻala Farm can act as a model for systemic change for other organizations (its success inspired Ka Papa Loʻi ʻo Kānewai at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) and the Waiʻanae community itself.
10 Feb 2021Remembering Rell
In 1975, Rell Sunn helped start the Women’s International Surfing Association and competed with a handful of women. A couple years later, she was named Hawai‘i’s first female lifeguard, proving that wāhine were just as capable as kāne of handling rough currents and sizable waves.
09 Feb 2021Fred “Pops” Pereira: The Boxing Coach
Fred “Pops” Pereira is the Waiʻanae Boxing Club founder and 2019 Golden Gloves of America Coach Hall of Fame inductee. Growing up in Māʻili there was 11 of us cousins and we all learned to box from my mother’s brother, my Uncle Nick.
05 Feb 2021All Booked Up
All signage at Nānākuli Public Library show both the English and ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i versions of each word. It is the first library in the state to do so and a way for the Nānākuli and Mā‘ili community, which are predominately Native Hawaiian
05 Feb 2021Jordan Maka’alanalani Iaea Patterson: The Tandem Surfer
For people who have never seen tandem surfing, I describe it as an art form like ice dancing or ballet, except we are in the water. You have two people on one board: a graceful, flexible woman, and a man who does the surfing.