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www.eastoahusun.com Your Community Newspaper January 5, 2011 • Vol. 26, No. 01 Ka Iwi Sunrise Hike Honors the Aina on New Year’s Day nemu*nemu New Comic for January! PAGE 7 Photo Credit: GREG KNUDSEN Credit: Photo Nearly 500 people gathered on the summit of Makapuu ridge to welcome the new year. PAGE 2 Inside Honolulu Zoo Elephants Mari and Vaigai Get a New Home COMMUNITY Changes Planned for 5 Lunalilo Home Road LOCAL BUSINESS Waimanalo’s Own Coffee 6 House, or Starbucks? OUTDOORS Shoreline Opens To One- 7 Year Fishing COMMUNITY CALENDAR Upcoming Events for the BIGGINS HAWKINS Credit: Photo 8 Month of January Zookeeper Jennifer Hansen provides an impromptu information session to visitors while feeding Mari and Vaigai. PAGE 4 Help raise funds to keep Makapu’u lighthouse trail open to pets. Doggy bag receptacle needs to be replaced! Donate $50 and get a book and DVD. Go to: hawaiikaihui.org Book DVD and click on Ka Iwi established in 1987 locally owned and distributed throughout east honolulu East Oahu Sun • JANUARY 5, 2012 • Page 2 Ka Iwi Sunrise Hike Honors the Aina on New Year’s Day Photo Credit: HAWKINS BIGGINS HAWKINS Credit: Photo BY HAWKINS BIGGINS Ka Iwi. The weather conditions only State Parks that allows dogs.” trails and it is all good, when East Oahu Sun were perfect; you could see Mo- Reilly discussed the current people are responsible for their loakai, Maui and Lanai.” plan of action to remedy the dog pets. If people were responsible Included in the event was an waste issue. The Ka Iwi Coalition and carried bags and picked up Nationwide, for the first time, Oli (Hawaiian Chant or Blessing) has begun a fundraising program after their dogs, it would not be a the National Association of State by Samuel M. ‘Ohukani’ohi’a Gon through selling a Ka Iwi picto- problem. The community fund- Parks promoted a New Year’s III, a senior scientist and cultural rial coffee table book along with raising effort for a new dispenser Day hike for all 50 State Park sys- advisor for the Nature Conser- a DVD about the fight to save the will provide people with the in- tems. In Hawaii, the Department vancy Hawaii. “Everyone had coast. The fifty-dollar purchase centive to clean up after their of Land and Natural Resources chicken skin watching the sun will help fund purchasing a new pets,” Cottrell reasoned. Cottrell (DLNR) sponsored a First Day rise and listening to the chants. doggie bag receptacle (after the is already looking forward to hike at Ka Iwi State Park, with After Sam’s chant finished, rath- last receptacle was stolen) as well planning next year’s New Year’s a sunrise walk to the Makapuu er spontaneously, other chants as posting kokua signage. The Day hike. Lighthouse. The goal was to in- erupted. There was even a Bud- non-profit group needs to raise For more information about Ka spire people to reconnect with dhist ceremony that happened. an estimated $3,000 for supplies Iwi Coalition’s fundraising proj- the outdoors. The turnout ex- It was all very sacred!” Cottrell and labor. ect, visit www.hawaiikaihui.org ceeded expectations. exclaimed. “People love taking dogs on and click on KaIwi. The DLNR put out a press re- People who attended the event lease for the event several days were respectful, cleaning up their prior; thinking around fifty garbage and animal refuse. Dog people would attend. When the waste is an issue on the Makapuu gates were opened at 5:15AM on lighthouse trail. Several years ago www.facebook.com/dabeachcafe New Ownership January 1, 2012, there were over the Hawaii Kai Neighborhood twenty cars waiting, and within Board enlisted the help of the ten minutes the parking lot was Hawaii Humane Society for the full. Curt Cottrell, Assistant Ad- DLNR to allow dogs to continue AI ANALO ministrator for Hawaii State Di- on the trail after the problem of vision of State Parks helped plan pet waste become excessive. At- BEACH CAFE the event. “We think there were tending the sunrise event was & Gallery around 500 people. It was a great Elizabeth Reilly, Member of the Special Music Night, Jan 14 ! [email protected] event. As the sun rose, people Hawaii Kai Neighborhood Board. $2 off any food item over $4 in January 2012 (with coupon) were scattered across the top of She noted, “Ka Iwi is one of the Copyright 2012. All rights reserved. Opinions expressed in articles, letters, and advertisements are those of the individual reporters and advertisers, and may not reflect the view of this publication. Contributing writers and advertisers agree to hold publisher harmless from claims, damages, or expenses incurred from publication of their submissions. Next Issue: Thursday, February 2, 2012 Advertising Deadline: Friday, January 27, 2012 Publisher and Editor .........................................................................................................Matt Badger Editorial Deadline: Sunday, January 30, 2012 Feature Writers ......................................................................................................... Hawkins Biggins Circulation: 15,000 Proofreading and Editing ........................................................................................... Letty Tomlinson Published by: East Oahu Sun, Distribution ........................................................................................................................... Jim Erhart P.O. Box 25130, Honolulu, Hawaii 96825 ............................................................................................................................................... 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Mon-Fri: 8:30am to 4:30pm Sat: 8:30am to 12:00pm East Oahu Sun • JANUARY 5, 2012 • Page 4 Honolulu Zoo Elephants Mari and Vaigai Get a New and Improved Home electric fences. Behind the enclosures, construction, as the best test of the struc- a large holding area was built for the el- ture has been the habitants themselves. ephants to spend the night in separate The elephants recently moved a very large “bedrooms.” It also features a scale for and heavy boulder placed near one of the weighing the elephants and an elephant pools into the pool, damaging the struc- restraint device (ERD), which is required ture and creating the additional problem by AZA for all zoos holding elephants. of how to get the boulder back out of the An elephant’s main focus is food. When pool. asked what an average day in the life of an The next step after completing the new elephant consists of, Higashino replied, elephant enclosure is to breed Vaigai.