We'd like to, but we don't. We don't because, under fed non-profit regulations, we'd lose our 501c3 status.
Thanks to these two (and their respective crews), KHCC was able to serve 50 bento-boxed meals to Kailua's houseless on Tuesday, Aug. 25. The menu featured aina momona stew and uala (harvested from Tammy & Danny's mala at Lunalilo), brown rice, haupia, etc. – all cooked up by Kaniela and Nanyne at Hale Kealoha. Judy Mick, who handled pick-up and distribution at Daybreak Church, wants us to know "what a BIG hit Kealoha's food was for our guests today. Eyes just lit up when I told them what the meal was. Thank you for organizing it all - the notes [each meal included a note from our club] were appreciated as well...Please tell the membership how much today meant to many." Mahalo to Kaʻolu Luning for donation and note co-ordinating and to all $10 contributors who made the whole thing possible.
Hookahi puana kuu puuwai,
O na poe i aloha i ka aina. HAIMOEIPO. My heart has but one refrain: It is for the people who love their land (LILI'U while imprisoned at ʻIolani Palace.) Aloha e na hoa makamaka,
Kihei and I are worried about contributing to the possible community spread of covid19, especially since we and so many of our regularly attending club members are kupuna. We are in the process of making a number of "abundance of caution" decisions in our lives and have come to the conclusion that we can't, in good conscience, conduct our calendar of KHCC meetings and activities until we are more certain of everyone's safety. So: We won't meet this month. We have nothing scheduled for next month. May (and beyond?) will be wait-and-see. We will definitely make every effort to stay in touch by email and newsletter.. And we ask that you take care of yourselves and each other. Me ka haʻahaʻa, Mapuana and Kihei Keʻolani Kahale-Lua: James Trask and SLouis Mahoe Scholarship ($1000). Keʻo is a sophomore at Chapman University majoring in Health Sciences. "As a KHCC scholar in 2018-19, I was so humbled to have received such gracious aid in my educational journey. As the first college student in my ʻohana, this gift of education is so dear to me. This scholarship is specifically important to me because of the ʻāina and the values that this organization represents. As a Native Hawaiian, and having lived in Koʻolaupoko all my life, I strive to establish myself as a strong and contributing member of this lahui."
Sierra Wong: Charles and Clara Burrows Scholarship ($1000). Sierra is a junior at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Campus majoring in Aerospace Engineering. "The scholarship is very important to me because I am a first generation college student who lives in two households and am struggling to pay for college financially...this scholarship will help me follow my dream of becoming a Hawaiian that other Hawaiians can be proud of." Kaha Barbieto: Charles Rose Family Scholarship and our first youth scholarship awardee ($1000). Kaha is a sophomore at Kamakau and also taking college credit classes at Windward Community College. He hopes to graduate in two years with both his high school diploma and his associates degree from WCC. "Mahalo nui no keia pomaikaʻi. He kokua nui keia no koʻu mau makua a ʻaʻole wau e hoʻohoka ana ia lāua. He haumana wau no ke kula ʻo Kamakau a ʻae kaʻu kula e hele au i WCC no ke komo ʻana mai I na papa kula nui. Ke puka wau mai ke kula kiʻekiʻe a hoʻaʻo ana wau e loaʻa kaʻu kekele A. A. kekahi. He kokua keia iʻau no ka mea e kokua ana i koʻu mau makua no ka mea ʻaʻole laua pono e hopohopo no ke kala." Actually, we are caucusing over dinner and libations at Penne Pasta in Lahaina after the first round of keynote addresses and committee breakouts. (Yet to join us: Kaʻolu Luning and Lani Lapilio.) We'll have a lot to report at our Nov. 24 general membership meeting at Hinawaikoliʻi. Donʻt forget that the main event of that meeting will be our BOD elections for the upcoming year.
Aue! Kawainui has lost one of its champions with the passing of our friend, ally, and inspiration, Dr. Verlieann Malina-Wright.
This was delivered on the Mauna on Sunday afternoon, August 11, by the Board of Directors of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, about 18 strong. It is almost, but not quite, a rejection of TMT construction there; still, it's a big step for our association and bodes well, we hope, for the awakening that many are calling for – including, as you well know – our own KHCC board of directors.
Mahalo nui to our almost one-hundred attendees – HMI support peeps, Hiʻilani and Hiʻikua haumana, Piʻilani-Koʻolaupoko-Makaha HCC cohorts, dancing dishwashers, and crazy bidders – for an awesome evening and over-the-top fundraising. Mahalo as well to our live and silent auction donors – Charlani Kalama, Kahailimanu, Herman Marciel, Kaleo & Maya's Pili Mai cohort, Sue Pignataro, Kauka de Silva, and Lynn Cook. An equally big mahalo to the Waimanalo Sunset Band who played for almost two hours, gratis. And the biggest mahalo of all to Tammy and Danny Smith whose Hale Kealoha is still at the heart of our Kailua Hawaiian community.
“On Monday, 4 August, 1958, late afternoon, in the garage of “Papa” Louis Mahoe’s beachside home, ten determined men and women gathered to discuss the formation of a Hawaiian civic club in the Kailua district; [these founders] included Clay Bishaw, Eleanor Hutchinson, “Papa” Louis Mahoe, Solomon Mahoe, Kenneth Olds, Pilahi Paki, Eleanor Hussey Santos, and others...It was Papa Mahoe’s vision to have a Hawaiian civic club in Kailua with the objective to support the growing popularity of canoeing, to perpetuate all things Hawaiian in the district, and to provide educational scholarships to worthy students of Hawaiian ancestry. In the months that followed, people who joined the club at the time of its formation were dubbed Charter members. Mahoe, who did not want to be the president, scouted for a candidate and was excited when James K. Trask Sr. accepted the call and, thus, the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club was duly organized on 17 November, 1960.” —Dot Uchima, KHCC Historian, compiled in 2006-7.
Pictured below: Sol and father Louis “Papa” Mahoe at the club’s first AHCC convention, ca. April 1961. James K. Trask, Sr., the club's first president. |