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VOL. 47, NO. 152
14 PAGES
Surf crashes along the Kona Coast on
Saturday afternoon. A high surf advisory
remains in effect for most Big Island
shores through 6 p.m. Monday. More
details inside.
CHELSEA JENSEN/
WEST HAWAII
TODAY
High surf on the way
Hail to the graduates
ABOVE: Kohala High
School seniors toss their
caps in the air following
commencement on
Saturday.
ANNA PACHECO/
SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY
LEFT: Makua Lani Christian
Academy graduate Aidan
Alcos presents a rose
to his mother at the
commencement ceremony
Saturday at the University
of the Nations.
LAURA
SHIMABUKU/
WEST HAWAII TODAY
MORE GRADUATION PHOTOS
APPEAR ON PAGE 6A.
What’s in Da Box? Healthy food, of course
The Hawaii Food Basket’s lat-
est initiative is only six months
old, but for executive director
En Young it feels like far longer.
Incorporating locally grown
produce into the organiza-
tion’s distribution system was
so in keeping with the Food
Basket’s overall goals that, as
Young described it Thursday, “it
certainly seems like we’ve been
doing it forever.”
The Food Basket has a
two-part mission statement,
director of public relations and
events Kristen Frost Albrecht
said. The first is to feed Hawaii’s
hungry, but the second part is
to go after the root causes of
hunger itself.
Keeping with that aim, the
Food Basket started Hoolaha
Ka Hua — also known as Da
Box — in September. Since
then, more than 1,000 people
have signed up for the program,
which gives participants a box
of locally grown fruits and veg-
etables every week for 10 weeks.
It’s a version of the communi-
ty supported agriculture (CSA)
model that’s become prevalent
in farming communities on the
mainland. Because payment
happens in advance, farmers
BY IVYASHE
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
SEE
FOOD BASKET
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Hurricane
season
begins
today
It’s official, the 2015 Central
North Pacific hurricane season
starts today.
Forecasters are expecting a
busier year than average thanks
in part to El
Nino, which
has developed
in the equa-
torial Pacific,
providing
warmer ocean
temperatures
and reduced vertical shear
that cause increased storm
activity. The weather phenom-
enon, which also favors west-
ward-tracking storms, will likely
strengthen during the hurricane
season.
Five to eight tropical cyclones
— a category that includes trop-
ical depressions, tropical storms
and hurricanes — are forecast
to pass through the basin this
year, according to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s
Central
Pacific Hurricane Center based
in Honolulu. On average, the
Central Pacific annually sees
four to five tropical cyclones in
its waters.
The center also said there
was a 70 percent chance of an
above-normal season, a 25 per-
cent chance of a normal season
and a 5 percent chance of a
below-normal season. The out-
look, released last week, pro-
vides a general guide to overall
seasonal hurricane activity and
does not predict whether, where,
when or how many systems will
BY CHELSEA JENSEN
WEST HAWAII TODAY
SEE
HURRICANE
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