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Na Mele O Maui Song Competition
Waihee Elementary School 4th- and 5th-graders, including 4th-grader Deja Nakamura (foreground), perform “Haleakala Hula” on Thursday.
November 20, 2009
WAILUKU — Paia School grades 4 and 5 were named the overall winner of the 37th annual Na Mele O Maui Song Competition on Thursday.
Paia singers won for their renditions of a competition song, “Haleakala Hula,” and their choice song, “Ka Uahi O Kula.” Twenty-two classes from kindergarden to grade 12 competed in the Hawaiian song contest held at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
In the event’s student art competition, Kamehameha Schools Maui 10th-grader Bridgette Ige won best-of-show honors for her ceramic “opih.
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Work force housing bill compromise considered
November 20, 2009
WAILUKU — Maui County’s Public Services Committee is considering a compromise to the controversial two-year-old residential work force housing policy.
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Probation, jail for intoxicated truck driver in collision
November 20, 2009
WAILUKU — For driving while intoxicated and causing a five-vehicle collision on Honoapiilani Highway that injured five others, a Kahului man was taken into custody Wednesday to serve a one-year jail term.
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Honoring of Damien goes to Washington
November 20, 2009
A maile lei was wrapped around the base of a statue of the Roman Catholic priest from Belgium who ministered to leprosy patients on Molokai in the 19th century. The statue is identical to the one outside the State Capitol in Honolulu.
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Pink Passion for the Cure
Wed, October 28, 2009 @ 10:49PM
Apparently, pink is the new black. With October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the country has been awash in a sea of pink lately. From ribbons and wristbands to golf balls and M&Ms, things have been looking a bit more rosy. A small group of Maui residents have recently jumped on the pink bandwagon to promote breast cancer awareness and raise money for the cause. Their efforts culminated in the Pink Passion for the Cure fundraiser held last Saturday in Makawao town. This inaugural event rallied area businesses to get involved, including Rodeo General Store providing the food and Makawao School of Therapeutic Massage giving massages for donations. There was live music by Erin Smith, Mojomana and Mike Carroll’s Community Service Band, along with a silent auction, prize drawings and a bake sale.
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Sinking ships
Wed, November 18, 2009 @ 10:19PM
It took a leap of faith to go see “2012” on Friday the 13th. Watching the apocalypse is bad enough ... having an accident on the way home would be the icing on the cake. But I went anyway, a bit reluctant about watching director Roland Emmerich end the world ... again. What is it with this guy? He was probably the kind of kid who liked to break his toy trucks in the sandbox when he was growing up in West Germany before heading to Hollywood to make super hits like “Independence Day,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “Godzilla” and “10,000 B.C.” Although Emmerich is a high-profile supporter of causes, from the rights of women, gays and lesbians, to global warming, about every five years he gets this irresistible urge to destroy the world. His weapons of choice are tidal waves and natural disasters, but he usually finds room for a mushroom cloud or two.
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State football: Tales of two MIL teams
Fri, November 20, 2009 @ 10:14AM
Baldwin will be at home, Lahainaluna on the road. The Bears will be on TV (OC-16), the Lunas will be at Aiea. It will be passing fancy when Baldwin takes on Andrew Manley and the Mules (gotta love that mascot) of Leilehua for the third straight season in the First Hawaiian Bank Division I state tournament. It will be Lahainaluna’s grit, determination, speed and misdirection running game against Aiea’s balanced attack that starts with the pass and relies on size. Both teams will be facing situations that go against their seeds. The No. 3-seeded Bears are playing the OIA runners-up while their seed dictates that should be the third-place team from the OIA, Farrington. That situation came up because of the HHSAA’s rule that states a league runner-up and champion must be on opposite sides of the bracket and unbeaten Kahuku is the No. 1 seed at state on the other side of the lineup.
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Firestorm in the warming hut
Fri, November 20, 2009 @ 7:33PM
Sometime within the last 24 hours, hackers (possibly based in Russia) posted thousands of documents stolen (or liberated) from the East Anglia University climate center, which is the keeper of the world temperature records, such as they are. The real interest will be, I think, what the raw temperature series turn out to be, compared with the adjusted (read: faked) ones that are fed to the public and used to support IPCC alarmism. However, the amateurs who keep up with these things (and who have the statistical underpinnings to interpret them) haven't had time to go through them. Initial inspection has focused on e-mails sent by all the big names in climate alarmism who have Ph.D.s. A few things are already proven from the Great Escape: 1. When the big noises say they "ignore" the coterie of scientifically sophisticated but amateur (that is, who do not hold paid positions in climate science) critics of Gorism, and that we outsiders should, too, they are lying.
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What I "overheard" today
Tue, November 17, 2009 @ 8:51PM
To steal a bit from one of our entertaining local publications, I overheard this in conversation among a group of young men in the parking lot of Long's in Kihei this morning: "You gonna party with us tonight?" "Oh yeah! I'm celebratin.
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The music cure
Sun, November 8, 2009 @ 2:16AM
My deadline was looming and I was having a hard time staying in my zone as I plugged away last week at a three-part package on property taxes. So I broke out the big guns -- my iPod, set to play "In a Safe Place" by The Album Leaf. It's my latest go-to writing music: meditative, instrumental, pretty and a little sad. Perfect for writing about property taxes -- or anything, actually. I thought it would be interesting to find out what was on other writers' playlists, so I asked some friends. To my surprise, most of them told me they never listen to music. "The rhythm of the tune throws off the rhythm of my sentences," said writer and editor Rita Goldman. "And I certainly can't listen to anything with words." My good friend Shannon Wianecki said that for her, working with music was "all-or-nothing.
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