Hawaii Tribune-Herald Sunday, March 27, 2016 15 Come shop our Kamaaina crafters, offering sewn items, photography, baby items and much more! In the mall and outside on the covered sidewalk. No admission fee! FREE entry! KILAUEA at KEKUANAOA • HILO PERSONAL SERVICES Balancing Monkey Yoga Center Diet Center Jin Ju Salon LV Nails Trams Day Spa Genesis Chiropractic Hilo RESTAURANTS Kamana India Kitchen Restaurant Miwa Sunlight Café Hawaiian Brain Freeze Happy Valley Seafood Restaurant FINANCIAL Hawaii First Community Resource Center Hawai First Federal Credit Union Liberty Tax Edward Jones SERVICES Native Nations Education Foundation Aloha Care Bayada Home Health Care Bay Clinic Dental Clinic Optical Dispensers Institute of Acupuncture CSV Pharmacy Keiki Dental Clinic National Fire Protection RETAIL Island Naturals Sole Comfort The Orient Connection Divas Boutique Lankys Bakery All the products and services you need in one place in central Hilo! KILAUEA AVE. at KEKUANAOA ST. HILO 2016 MERRIE MONARCH FESTIVAL ‘THIS IS A JOURNEY’ Kumu hula Nani Lim Yap returns to Merrie Monarch with new Halau Manaola Welcome Merrie Monarch Visitors! • Kona Coffee • Mac Nuts • Honey • Chocolate & • Hundreds of Locally-made Gift Items! www.islandnaturals.com HILO 935-5533 Hilo Shopping Center KONA 362-1122 Old Industrial Area PAHOA 965-8322 Downtown Voted Best Natural Food Store 14 Years in a Row Award-Winning Organic Hot Bar & Salad Bar Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Grab & Go Meals, Sushi & Snacks Freshly-Baked Breads & Pastries BEST NATURAL FOOD STORE BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD By JOHN BURNETT Hawaii Tribune-Herald Afamiliar name and face is back this year at the Merrie Monarch Festival — but with a different halau. Kumu hula Nani Lim Yap, of Kohala’s venerated Lim family, will bring her Halau Manaola to the world’s premier hula competition. That’s a major change from her familiar appearances as co-kumu, with sister Leialoha Lim Amina, of Halau Na Lei O Kaholoku. Lim Amina and Lim Yap dominated the wahine group competition in the mid-2000s, winning the wahine overall titles in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and the wahine hula kahiko (ancient hula) titles in 2004 and 2005. The Merrie Monarch invited Halau Na Lei O Holoku, who appeared in last year’s Prince Lot Hula Festival on Oahu, to compete in this year’s Merrie Monarch, but that wasn’t to be. “It was very difficult for me because we’d already been invited by Aunty Luana (Kawelu, the festival’s president) to participate in the Merrie Monarch. I was very excited to share that with her, but she’d already made plans to move in another direction.” Lim Yap said when the sisters went their separate ways, Lim Amina took the Na Lei O Holoku name “because it was given to See JOURNEY Page 20 LIM YAP
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