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Issue No. 96
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Merrie Monarch Week
12 vie for
Miss Aloha
Hula title
Three Hawaii Island dancers were
among 12 wahine competing
in the 55th Annual Merrie
Monarch Festival Thursday night for
the title of Miss Aloha Hula. They are,
from left: Joelle Nohealani Kalima,
Hula Halau O Kou Lima Nani E, kumu
hula Iwalani Kalima; Asialynn Genoa
Kalihilihi‘ulaonalehua‘ohopoe Yap,
kumu hula Nani Lim Yap; and Alana
Maureen Ka‘ano‘anookalani Paiva,
Halau O Ka Ua Kani Lehua, kumu hula
Johnny Lum Ho.
The competition and the awarding
of hula’s most prestigious solo title
concluded later than the Tribune-
Herald’s print deadline.
For a full story, visit
www.hawaiitribune-herald.com.
The festival continues at 6 p.m.
today with the group hula kahiko
(ancient hula) competition at the Edith
Kanaka‘ole Multi-Purpose Stadium in
Hilo.
• For a schedule of today’s Merrie
Monarch events, see Page A9.
Photos: HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald
Complaints
about gun in
mural lead
to alteration
Broken outfall
not a setback
for Hu Honua
Hu Honua Bioenergy won’t need
to conduct an environmental review
for a damaged storm water outfall
along the coast near Pepeekeo
since it no longer plans to use it
for its biomass power plant.
A state court in January ordered
the Windward Planning Commission
to address public shoreline impacts
of repairing or replacing the outfall,
which collapsed as a contested
case hearing was being conducted
for the $250 million project, located
at the site of a former Hilo Coast
Processing Co. power plant.
HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald
A mural on the wall of Hilo’s Agasa Furniture on Ponahawai Street has drawn
controversy for its depiction — and subsequent redaction — of a firearm in
the midst of a tableau celebrating the Merrie Monarch Festival.
A mural on the wall of a Hilo
business has drawn controversy
for its depiction — and subsequent
redaction — of a firearm in
the midst of a tableau celebrating
the Merrie Monarch Festival.
The mural, painted on the
west-facing wall of Agasa Furniture
on Ponahawai Street, features two
hula dancers flanking the words
“Aloha Aina.” Although one of
the dancers’ arms is now partially
obscured by a large red bar, the
By TOM CALLIS
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
See MURAL Page A9 See HU HONUA Page A8
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