12 West Hawaii Real Estate | July 20 2018
SOLD! June 25 through July 15, 2018 continued from pg. 11
LISTED AT SOLD FOR LOCATION BED/BATH DAYS ON MARKET
South Kohala Homes
$888,000 $828,000 65-1353 Konokohau Rd. 3 bed / 4 bath 1
$650,000 $647,500 67-1216 Nohoaina Pl. 3 bed / 2.5 bath 76
$444,900 $440,000 68-3596 Kupunahine St. 3 bed / 2 bath 91
$450,000 $445,000 68-1959 Lina Poepoe St. 2 bed / 2 bath 57
$485,000 $475,000 68-1726 Akaula St. 3 bed / 2 bath 13
$519,000 $514,000 68-1879 Pakanu St. 4 bed / 3.5 bath 201
$599,000 $610,000 68-3778 Lua Kula St. 4 bed / 2 bath 4
$725,000 $720,000 68-3553 Hala St. 3 bed / 2 bath 120
$902,129 $902,129 Ainamalu at Waikoloa Beach Resort 3 bed / 3 bath 6
$3,950,000 $3,600,000 69-1778 Puako Beach Dr. 4 bed / 4 bath 218
Ka‘u Homes
$30,000 $22,000 92-9005 Reef Cir. Makai 1 bed / 1 bath 118
$149,000 $147,000 92-8548 Tiki Ln. 2 bed / 1 bath 79
$395,000 $390,000 92-8663 Orchid Pkwy. 5 bed / 3 bath 196
$79,950 $68,000 94-6320 Pua St. 0 bed / .5 bath 126
$265,000 $255,000 94-6721 Kamaoa Rd. 3 bed / 2 bath 51
$369,900 $370,000 Alala #B 3 bed / 2 bath 166
$189,000 $178,000 96-1146 Kamani St. 3 bed / 1.5 bath 0
O‘OKALA ON THE
HAMAKUA COAST
31.65 acres includes remnants of the
old Kaiwiki Sugar Mill.
Turn back the clock to the plantation days when this
was the hub of O‘okala Town. The post offi ce and
some offi ce buildings are still in use.
MLS# 615508 $799,000
Robert L. Bates, RB, GRi, ePRO
2"s
KAMANI TREES 3/2
Central Kailua-Kona location. Great spot at the top of
the subdivision backs up to the Kuakini Wall affording
extra privacy. Ocean view from master bedroom.
MLS#614469 $475,000
KALOKO - ACREAGE
10.5 ac. of untouched forest on the slopes of Hualalai.
Find your favorite spot on this glorious land to build
your mountain-top home.
MLS#613064 $374,000
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Customers are boldly
jumping into the vortex
of virtual reality and taking
Prince Kuhio Plaza along.
Inquisitive shoppers can fly
a virtual plane, enter a virtual
boxing match (and get quite a
workout) or take a roller coaster
ride that’s so real riders think
the car might leave the tracks
as it Welcome heads down to Aloha
steep slopes.
9D-VR (www.facebook.
com/aloha9dvr/), which
opened two weeks ago near
Master Cuts at the mall.
“It’s gotten a lot of positive
response on social
media,” said plaza general
manager Daniel Kea.
It causes shoppers to pause,
peek in and, often, step inside
for a glimpse of what’s happening.
Once a customer or
in waves until most machines
are full and screams, yelps,
gasps and uproarious laughter
Oahu wahine halau
wins Merrie La eha‘‘Onohi winner e was Mai
the
Monarch
at the
Annual Merrie
Festival
competition
night at
Kanaka‘ole
Purpose
Hilo.
halau,
under the direction
of kumu hula Tracie
and Keawe Lopes,
scored 1,168 points to
win both the overall
and wahine overall
titles. Taking the
first runner-up spot
with 1,163 points
was another Oahu
wahine troupe, Halau
Hi‘iakainamakalehua,
under the direction
of kumu hula Robert
Ka‘upu IV and Lono
Padilla. The second
runner-up overall was
the kane overall winner,
Kawaili‘ula, under
Lowen Green Evans
Hawaii by addressing a variety
Kumu
Tracie and
Keawe Lopes
of Ka La
‘Onohi Mai
O Ha’eha’e
celebrate
winning first
place overall
in the 54th
Annual
Merrie
Monarch
Festival hula
competition.
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JOHNSON/
Tribune-Herald
Arbitration
in
Honua
HELCO entered into agreement
with 2013
Hawaii Electric Light Co. and its parent
companies, Hawaiian Electric Co. and
against them by Hu Honua Bioenergy and
compel arbitration
of all claims.
The motion,
filed Feb. 16
in U.S. District
Court in
Honolulu, asks
in the alternative
that the court suspend
proceedings
in the lawsuit until arbitration is completed. A
hearing on the motion is set for 10 a.m. May
22 before Chief Judge J. Michael Seabright.
A settlement conference also is scheduled
for May 18 and 19, according to court records.
Hu Honua’s suit claims HELCO declined
an offer of 14 cents per kilowatt-hour to
restore the agreement. That offer would have
increased the annual payment to $2 million,
but would have saved ratepayers $90 million
through 20 years, according to Hu Honua.
The parties entered into a 20-year agreement
in 2013 that called for HELCO to
pay $1 million a year plus electrical costs
of 21.5 cents per kilowatt for the first 10
Housing First program, which
megawatts, with a declining price scale for
energy purchased above that amount.
According to HELCO’s motion, the power
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of power
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bioenergy company in Hawaiian Electric Industries, are asking a
judge to dismiss a federal antitrust lawsuit
NAPEAHI
HELCO declined an
offer of 14 cents
per kilowatt-hour to
restore the agreement.
MONDAY, 75¢
Green said. “All of those rapid
rehousing monies will (be
The by police Saturday identified him
wife of a man fatally shot
as 59-year-old Gene Bernhardt of
Papaaloa.
Kyra Pauli told the Hawaii
Tribune-Herald Sunday by phone
from off island that her husband,
whom she described as a veteran
who formerly worked in law
enforcement, was “hyper vigilant”
and “in fear for his life.”
“There was some damage to his
tractor, and a vehicle he was texting
me about … a gray vehicle, an SUV
with three men and a woman, and
one of them had a gun. And there’s
something that was said to him,”
Pauli explained.
In a written release Saturday
night, police said that at about
3:35 p.m. they responded to a disturbance
at a residence — identified
in a police log as Bernhardt’s
Papaaloa Road property — when
they encountered a man wielding
a crossbow.
An officer fired several shots,
killing Bernhardt.
Pauli said she called police, and
her husband had the crossbow
because of feral pigs on the rural
14-acre spread.
“Sometimes, you get people who
intrude on your property and he
didn’t have any way to protect himself.
… He was really alarmed,” she
said. She added her husband had
“hunkered down” next to his damaged
tractor and she had urged him
to go inside.
“His last words to me were, ‘I’m
going to go keep the animals now,’”Pauli said. “… I called the because Gene asked I also called happened KAILUA-KONA — Big
line items like the $90 million
Saddle Road extension
headline the two-year, $28.4
billion budget expected to
be approved
by the state
Legislature in
coming days,
but a number
of smaller
appropriations
will impact
pockets of West
of nuanced needs.
Perhaps chief among those
needs is the growing number
of homeless lining the
streets up and down the coast,
particularly in
Kona.
An additional
$3 million in
general funds
was added to
the budget for
fiscal year 2018
to bolster the
focuses on direct housing for
homeless individuals suffering
from drug addiction and/or
mental illness.
Sen. Josh Green, who
represents
Kona and
Ka’u, said
$500,000 is
earmarked for
Hawaii Island.
“That makes
a big difference
for us,”
split) in a proportional way
for all the regions … but we
BY MAX DIBLE
WEST HAWAII TODAY
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Community restores hale for learning at Honaunau
HONAUNAU —Walter
Wong stood in front of the
calm waters at Honaunau early
Saturday morning, with a small
gathering of people encircled
behind him, to offer a prayer.
As alakai or leader of a hale
construction at Honaunau Bay,
Wong said, the prayer is given,
“so our mana is pono to make
our hale.”
Keoua Honaunau Canoe Club
has hosted hale building workshops
for the past few months
as the group works to restore a
structure across from the boat
launch originally built as the
school, Hale o Hooponopono,
in the early 1970s.
Saturday was the final day in
the workshop series. Volunteers
thatched lolu leaves to ohia logs
by ground as well as perched in
the scaffolding.
Built with donated ohia, the
hale is 20 by 40 feet. The original
building was 20 by 36 feet.
With the assistance of
Wong, member of Halau Hale
Kuhikuhi, canoe club and
BY TIFFANY DEMASTERS
WEST HAWAII TODAY
tdemasters@westhawaitoday.com
Man shot
by police
identified
BY JOHN BURNETT
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
MAY 1, 2017 WESTHAWAIITODAY.COM
Editor’s note: This is the second
part showing disease
examining of a in two-Hawaii.
rat lungworm day series
increasing Is rat you That lungworm Mindi want depends rapidly?
disease
who to believe.
upon orchid owns Clark whom
nursery Kalapana of Kurtistown,be developed medical with Tropicals
her
spouse, John, said a standardized
doesn’t.
Affected individuals and
what works and what
their loved ones typically
try naturopathic remedies
because it seems uncertain
what treatments, medicinal or
otherwise, actually work — or
work best.
Clark said her blood counts,
though high, were lower the Hawaii Department Health cutoff lungworm
Okubo lab-testing procedures and
said Hawaii follows
disease-investigation methods
approved by the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention.
group timeliness “As a state government organization,
the reliability,
has been able to develop
a serologic test for this parasitic
infection that specific Number of rat lungworm cases unclear
BY JEFF HANSEL
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
APPROPRIATIONS
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INVASIVE SPECIES
Uncle Walter Wong, right, shows Randall Kahele the correct way to attach palm fronds
to the structure Saturday at the Honaunau Canoe Hale Restoration Project. LAURA
RUMINSKI/WEST HAWAII TODAY
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