Thursday, August 16, 2018
Making the
most of Kahuku
PRIMARY ELECTION
By TOM CALLIS
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Despite displacement
of residents because of the
Kilauea eruption, and longer
wait times on election day,
voter turnout in lower Puna
saw little change during
Saturday’s primary election.
Combined voter turnout
for precincts covering
Kalapana through Kapoho
was 33 percent, up from
31.7 percent in 2016.
That reflected an
increase in turnout in precinct
04-03 — Kalapana,
Opihikao, west Pahoa and
Ainaloa — where 33.6 percent
of registered voters
cast a ballot, up from 29.8
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percent two years before.
However, voter turnout
in precinct 04-04 —
Leilani Estates, Nanawale
Estates and Kapoho — was
32.6 percent, down from
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HOLLYN JOHNSON/Tribune-Herald file photo
Hikers walk out of an excavated cinder cone during a guided hike called People and Land of Kahuku in the
Kahuku Unit of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in Ka‘u.
Closure of main
part of national park
gives rangers more
time to improve
former ranchlands
The closure of the main unit
of Hawaii Volcanoes National
Park because of the Kilauea
eruption has
directed more visitors
to the previously
less-visited
Kahuku Unit, and
with them a host
of improvements.
Kahuku area
manager Keola Awong said visitors
to the Kahuku Unit have
increased more than tenfold
since the closure of the main
unit. In April, 352 people visited
the unit. In June, the first
full month of the main unit’s
closure, 4,458 people visited.
“It’s actually nice
because people are coming
in not expecting to see
lava,” Awong said. “They’re
just coming because they
want to see the park.”
To accommodate the sustained
influx of visitors to
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY Kahuku, the park increased
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
By ELIZABETH PITTS
West Hawaii Today
KAILUA-KONA — The
Kona coast is a dramatic
landscape of mountains and
the Pacific Ocean — the
perfect backdrop for a TV
show set in paradise.
And this past summer, 22
strangers brought a different
kind of drama to the area.
The MTV reality dating
show “Are You the One?”
brings a group of 20-somethings
together to live and
date in a tropical location.
For the show’s seventh season,
a private residence in
Kona hosted the competition.
The season premiered
Wednesday on MTV and will
run for 10 episodes. Kona
CROWLEY
KRAGH
also was used as the location
for the show’s third season.
As with
many reality
shows, “Are
You the One?”
brings plenty
of love, fights
and other alcohol
infused
situations to
the viewers
at home. But
for the contestants,
getting
a chance at an
extended vacation
in Hawaii
is one of the biggest perks.
“We actually had a beautiful
view of the ocean,”
said Moe Elkhalil, one of
Tribune-Herald file photo
Tom Mackay, whose Luana Street home in Leilani Estates was
lost in the recent lava outbreak, was the first in line to vote
Saturday at Pahoa Community Center.
Dating show contestants
find Big Isle is ‘the One’
ELKHALIL
WOODLEY
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Eruption
has little
effect on
turnout
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World War II POWs buried
as unknowns get memorial
marker in national cemetery
By AUDREY McAVOY
Associated Press
HONOLULU — Nancy Kragh grew
up without her father, who was among
400 prisoners of war killed during World
War II when a ship taking them from
the Philippines to Japan was bombed.
On Wednesday, she and other family members
of prisoners on that ship dedicated a
memorial stone to their loved
ones. The marker lies within a
national cemetery in Honolulu,
where the men are buried in 20
separate graves as “unknowns.”
Kragh only learned her
father, Army Maj. Clarence
White, was buried in Hawaii
about 15 years ago thanks to
research conducted by the son
of another prisoner of war. The
ceremony, she said, brought to
close a long journey of finding
her father’s final resting place.
“I can think of him as
here, rather than in a mass
grave or in the ocean somewhere,” she
said after the ceremony at The National
Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
The men were aboard the Japanese freighter
Enoura Maru in what is now Kaohsiung,
Taiwan, when planes from the USS Hornet
aircraft carrier bombed it Jan. 9, 1945. The
Enoura Maru, which was en route from the
Philippines to Japan, hadn’t been marked as
having POWs on board, so the pilots didn’t
know they were attacking some of their own.
The 400 were initially buried in a
mass grave near the harbor. The U.S.
military retrieved the remains in 1946
and sent them to Hawaii for burial.
The group includes not just Americans
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