First Photo: Home Maid Bakery General Supervisor Orlando Quemedo (foreground) removes cooked malassadas from a fryer Tuesday morning while Cake Department Manager Dixie Samson prepares to add another three dozen balls of dough into the 330 degree oil. Serving a busy Fat Tuesday crowd intent on living it up before today’s start of Lent, the bakery on Wailuku’s Lower Main Street was hopping from the moment it opened at 5 a.m. Quemedo said that by 8 a.m. they had already sold 300 dozen and were on track to reach their goal of selling 1,000 dozen on the day.
Second Photo: Wailuku’s Colette Dang shows off her box of warm malassadas Tuesday morning at Home Maid Bakery. Born and raised in Wailuku, she said she has been enjoying malassadas on Fat Tuesday for 70 years. “It’s tradition because I have Portuguese blood,” she said. “Every year we come here to pick up malassadas before fasting for Lent.” She said she was giving up desserts for Lent this year.
Carlos Santana and his band will be performing May 2 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
Erika Yoshino, a student at Tokyo’s Keio University, performs an Aikido technique during a demonstration at Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center on Feb. 19.
* JOHN HARA photo
Willy Domingo
Seabury Hall’s Anaulei Tuivai shoots a third-quarter jump shot as Molokai’s Camille Ledesma and Sydney Rawlins defend.
Lahainaluna’s Breanna Estabillo attempts a third-quarter three point shot in the third quarter against Kamehameha Maui..
The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
The Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. Puunene Mill is silent, having shut down in December along with sugar operations. Alexander & Baldwin said that the shutdown cost less than expected and that the plantation actually made an operational profit in 2016. Still, the $78 million in cessation costs put a drag on A&B’s 2016 financial performance, the company said Tuesday.
* The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
A recent University of Hawaii study finds that cooperation among landowners and prioritizing repair of eroding agriculture roads, such as the one pictured, is the most cost-effective solution to reducing sediment runoff to West Maui reefs.
* Photo courtesy University of Hawaii