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SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016 | WEST HAWAII TODAY 8A Great parade From left, Frida Bishop, 84, as Queen Kaahumanu, Sadao Fujimoto, 74, as King Kamehameha, and Miyoko Hoshide, who is turning 96 years old today, smile in their decorated wheelchairs after cruising in the Kamehameha Day Parade on Friday at Hilo Adult Day Center. HOLLYN JOHNSON/HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD Monlux Kupuna celebrate Kamehameha Day at Hilo Adult Day Center kupuna a chance to decorate the center with crafts they’ve made (next month, there’ll be a Fourth of July celebration complete with appearances by Ben Franklin) and have a “focal point,” Thal said — something to look forward to. Art is a “vital part of what we do,” said HIAC community outreach director Lizby Logsdon. “It engages everything. … I just love to make them (the kupuna) think.” This year’s parade and its decorations were “one of our best,” Logsdon said. Sadao Fujimoto, 74, and Frida Bishop, 84, portrayed Kamehameha the Great and Queen Kaahumanu. Day center attendee Miyoko Hoshide celebrates her birthday on the holiday and turns 96 today. It took about a week to prepare a dozen wheelchair floats for the parade, along with homemade Hawaiian flags to wave and long strings of paper-flower lei. One chair 5 FINALISTS will win $100 CASH! was decorated to look like an underwater scene, with colorful fish attached to the wheels. Sarah Ching, who turns 100 in August, rolled along in her lavaand lehua chair. Staff, volunteers and more than a few kupuna sang “King Kamehameha (The Conqueror of the Islands)” as they marched along the short route, beneath paper flowers and mosaics strung from the ceiling. The artwork also helps make the day center environment more welcoming and cheerful for HIAC participants, Thal said. The art therapy program was a major component of helping the center earn its accreditation years ago. “Ninety-nine percent of people say, ‘Oh, I can’t do art,’” Logsdon said. “They have all these excuses, and then they start doing it. … We’re all artists.” Email Ivy Ashe at iashe@hawaiitribuneherald. com. THE FINALISTS will win A TRIP FOR 2 TO LAS VEGAS! IN BRIEF | BIG ISLAND & STATE Correction In Friday’s Big Island Entertainment tab, an article about the Hoolaulea following the King Kamehameha Day parade in Kailua-Kona incorrectly stated two musicians who would be performing. Komakakino and Lito Arkangel will not be playing at the event as the article stated. It is the policy of West Hawaii Today to correct immediately any incorrect or misleading information once it’s brought to the attention of the newspaper. Man charged for bomb threat A 29-year-old Hilo man has been charged with two offenses in connection with a bomb threat at a bank in Hilo. At 3:45 p.m. Russell Monlux was charged with two counts of second-degree terroristic threatening. His bail was set at $4,000. He remains at the Hilo police cellblock pending his initial court appearance scheduled for Monday. In response to a 12:04 p.m. call, South Hilo Patrol officers learned that a male customer had passed a handwritten bomb threat to a teller at a bank in a supermarket on the 300 block of Makaʻala Street in Hilo shortly before noon. The store was evacuated as a precaution. At 1:20 p.m., police arrested Monlux. He was charged with two counts of terroristic threatening because both the bank and the store were exposed to the threat. Travel lane shift on Napoopoo Road CAPTAIN COOK, June 9, 2016 – The County of Hawaii Department of Public Works announces a travel lane shift on Napoopoo Road from the intersection at Mamalahoa Highway extending approximately 320 feet in the makai direction on Monday. Motorists are advised to expect delays and to drive with caution as heavy vehicles and machinery will be in the work zone. Environmental assessment released for proposed Kauai dairy LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii Dairy Farms says its planned operation on Kauai will serve as a model for sustainable agriculture and won’t have a negative impact on the environment or surrounding community. HDF released its draft environmental impact statement for the dairy in Mahaulepu on Wednesday, The Garden Island reported (http://bit.ly/1UqjK8W). Kaui County had already approved the dairy’s $7 million building permit in 2014, but HDF spokeswoman Amy Hennessey said they decided to conduct an environmental evaluation to address residents’ concerns. “We promised the community of Kauai that we would prepare a DEIS for Hawaii Diary Farms, not because we have to, but because it is the right thing to do to help answer community questions,” Hennessey said. The report says cows will be allowed to roam freely across hundreds of acres of pasture and that measures have been established to prevent the release of large amounts of runoff, including growing thick thatches of pasture grass to serve as what Hennessey called “an organic net.” The 557-acre dairy is expected to produce roughly 1.5 million gallons of fresh milk annually and create 11 full-time jobs and 36 construction jobs. Bridget Hammerquist, with Friends of Mahaulepu, an organization against the dairy, said she still does not support the dairy and questioned whether the environmental assessment was conducted as an independent study. “The draft EIS was extensively prepared by Group 70 International, the very firm that is credited with developing HDF’s waste management plan,” Hammerquist said. “How could anybody conclude that an independent EIS has been conducted if prepared by the same company who prepared HDF’s dairy plan?” By West Hawaii staff and wire sources BY IVY ASHE HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD HILO — They started to line up at 9:15 a.m., draping lei on the decorated floats. The kahili bearers and warriors took their places. “Are we ready?” someone asked. Almost. One more guest, in a wheelchair decorated with yellow flowers, needed to join the lineup. The parade was short — through the hallways of the Hilo Adult Day Center and down the front entrance ramp — but like other Kamehameha Day parades, it’s an important tradition. “We started this right when I got here,” said Lori Thal, art therapist for Hawaii Island Adult Care. Thal has been with HIAC and the day center for 34 years. The center celebrates a different holiday every month, giving VEGAS! LAS to From Hawaii’s largest local auto site enter at hawaiicars.com 1 OF Winners to be announced exclusively on hawaiicars.com Weekly winners announced every Friday at 10 AM HST The grand prize winner will be announced on Friday, June 24 at 10 AM HST You Have 24 Hours To Claim Your Prize! Powered by Entries accepted May 15, 2016 (12:00 AM HST) to Thursday, June 16 11:59 PM). Weekly winners (5 total) will be posted on HawaiiCars.com on Friday, May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 17, 2016 at 10:00 AM HST. Winner will be responsible for claiming his/her prize within 24 hours (no exceptions). 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