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VOL. 47, NO. 179
54 PAGES
LIVING WITH
STYLE IN
WEST HAWAII
INSIDE
Hawaiian Cultural Festival
P
uuhonua o Honaunau National
Historical Park celebrates 54
years as part of the National
Park System with a Hawaiian
Cultural Festival. Stations set up around
the historical park included Tapa
making, Poi Pounding, Hula, Throw Net
Fishing, Haku Lei making, Weaving,
Games and other cultural activities.
The Festival continues Sunday from 9
am to 3 pm with Traditional Hawaiian
Food Sampling from 10 am to noon and
a Hukilau at 2:00 pm in the lagoon.
A lesson in stewardship
A crisp forest breeze whisked through
the path of the Kilauea Iki trail in
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on
Thursday morning, where a group of
keiki stood at a “T” in the path, listening
to 9-year-old Fiona Broward read from
a sign.
Caution. Stay on trail. Beware of
steam vents, earth cracks, cliffs.
High above in the trees, birds called
back and forth. For a nanosecond, the
calls were all that could be heard, but it
is hard for 19 Junior Rangers to be still
for long.
The group was midway through their
second day of Keiki o Hawaii Nei, a free
summer program for kids 8-12. They
were on their way into the Kilauea Iki
Crater itself.
“Embrace the landscape,” park ranger
Dean Gallagher told the group. “Make
it part of you.”
He produced a photo of a brilliant red
bird — an ‘apapane — and asked if any-
one knew its name. A robin, someone
guessed. An i’iwi, ventured another.
“I don’t know Hawaiian birds,” one
Junior Ranger said.
“That’s OK,” Gallagher said. “That’s
why we’re here.”
About four miles long, the Kilauea
Iki trail is fairly short as far as hikes go,
but it crosses over an impressive vari-
ety of terrain. Kids squished through
muddy paths on the rainforest trails,
then crunched over piles of lava rock
in the crater, 400 feet below the trees.
They knelt to pull shoots of invasive gin-
ger from the paths, and to study shining
strands of Pele’s hair.
“By coming to the park, they’re
BY IVYASHE
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
Motorists driving the Queen
Kaahumanu Highway near Waikoloa
on Sunday morning saw hundred of
runners streaming along the makai
shoulder of the roadway and along
Waikoloa Beach Drive. But for the
first time in years, West Hawaii driv-
ers weren’t having to adjust their
course and travel times for the Kona
Marathon.
Up until today, the increasingly
popular event, now in its 22nd year,
closed lanes on the busy Alii Drive.
The race was still expected to cause
short delays as runners entered and
exited the resort at intersections with
Queen Kaahumanu, and drivers were
being urged to be cautious and aware
between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m. However,
the impacts to traffic were expected to
be far less than in years past — part of
the draw of the Waikoloa venue that
prompted race organizers to move the
event north.
The 5K course is contained entirely
in the Waikoloa Beach Drive and
resort area. The quarter, half and full
marathons use portions of the Queen
Kaahumanu Highway road shoulder
as well.
The new venue gives the race room
to expand, race director and owner
Sharron Faff told West Hawaii Today.
The 26.2-mile full marathon course
loops through Waikoloa Beach Drive
and along the southbound shoulder of
Queen Kaahumanu Highway to just
south of the Kiholo scenic overlook,
where runners turn around and use
the same shoulder, cordoned off with
cones, to return to the finish line.
This year’s race has more partici-
pants than ever, although it was not
clear Saturday how many of them
would finish. The race’s 20th aniver-
sary had 1,800 finishers two years
ago.
Last year, the race closed the south-
bound lanes of Alii Drive and Makala
Boulevard during morning hours.
The marathon used the makai shoul-
der of Queen Kaahumanu Highway
to a turnaround south of Kaiminani
Drive, finishing at the Sheraton Kona
Resort & Spa at Keauhou Bay.
No complaints about themarathon’s
use of Alli Drive ever came before
the Kona Traffic Safety Committee
that committee member Joel Gimpel
could remember.
“As far as traffic, there were enough
alternate routes going north and
south,” Gimpel said, speaking for him-
self rather than the safety committee.
The Hawaii Tourism Authority esti-
mates the race brings $10 million to
West Hawaii. Gary Michell, who owns
Exclusive Designs, Inc. in the Queens’
MarketPlace, with his wife Carman,
said he welcomed the boost to the
Waikoloa economy after a slow April
and May.
“Events like the marathon are
great; they raise awareness,” Michell
said. “But we need more direct flights
to bring people here.”
Marathon:
Major lane
closures a thing
of the past
BY BRET YAGER
WEST HAWAII TODAY
SEE
RANGER
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Liam Orr, 10, pulls invasive ginger
from the edges of the Kilauea Iki trail
at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
IVY ASHE/
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
JUNIOR RANGERS HIT THE TRAIL IN HAWAII
VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK
SUNDAY,
JUNE 28, 2015
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Hoku Suviono demonstrates spear throwing
at the Puuhonua o Honaunau National Park
Cultural Festival on Saturday.
Members of Halau Kalehua Ki’e Ki’a I Ka’iu Ma Kilauea dance a
hula in tribute to Pele at the Puuhonua o Honaunau National Park
Cultural Festival on Saturday.
Aliee Meyers 6 left and her sister Bryn 10 of the Chicago
area try their hand at pounding tapa cloth at the Puuhonua o
Honaunau National Park Cultural Festival on Saturday.
PHOTOS BY
LAURA SHIMABUKU/
WEST HAWAII TODAY
