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Mercedes-Benz Championship Is in High Gear HaHa‘‘ilonoilono “Bringing the News” VOLUME 3 ISSUE 25 DECEMBER 5, 2008 Mercedes-Benz Championship is in High Gear DECEMBER 5-14 A CHRISTMAS STORY Maui OnStage presents a family Christmas drama at ‘Iao Theater. Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sat. at 2 p.m. and Sun. at 5 p.m. 242-6969 DECEMBER 6 Above: Vijay Singh tees off to a smooth start during Opening LEI OF ALOHA 2 Drive on hole 1 of The Plantation Course at the 2008 Open house at Old Wailuku Inn, Mercedes-Benz Championship. Right: Tournament Chairman 2199 Kaho‘okele St. features hula by Gary Planos smiles with 2008 Champion Daniel Chopra Halau Pa‘u O Hi‘iaka (Kumu who won the event after nine playoff holes in the final round. Hokulani Holt), readings of Don Blanding poems and traditional crafts. Call 244-5897. he Plantation Course is getting spruced up January 4). Tickets for the two-day practice by the Golf and Facilities Maintenance rounds, Pro-Am, as well as professional T DECEMBER 6-7 team; nearly 700 volunteers from Maui and rounds one and two are being sold for $15 around the world are ready to go to work and each ($20 after January 4). Tickets for the HOLIDAY LIGHTING OF Kapalua Resort’s Events Management team is third and final professional rounds are on THE BANYAN TREE in high gear preparing for the 2009 sale for $20 now and $30 after January 4. Kids Lahaina's historic Banyan Tree lights Mercedes-Benz Championship. The PGA aged 16 and under will be admitted free up for the holidays with thousands of TOUR’s season opening, winners-only event when accompanied by a ticket-holding adult, lights and ceremony on Sat. at 6:30 will take place at The Plantation Course from and are ticketed at the gate only. p.m. Hawaiian bands and community choirs entertain. Kids can play in real January 5 -11, 2009. Be sure to stop by the Silent Auction tent in snow from 3 to 6 p.m. Holiday crafts Nancy Cross, tournament director and vice Spectator Village where auction proceeds fair continues on Sun. between 9 president of Events Management, tells us, will benefit Kapalua Maui Charities’ a.m. and 5 p.m. Call 667-9193. “We’re excited to have Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, designated beneficiaries. One of the Adam Scott, Anthony Kim, Boo Weekley, Zach highlight items received for this auction is an DECEMBER 13 Johnson and Camilo Villegas in the field.” autographed Bon Jovi guitar signed by all the WILLIE KALIKIMAKA Singh is ranked no. 1 and Villegas no. 2 by the band members. Since 1999, Kapalua Maui Willie K and the Kahaiali‘i ‘ohana PGA TOUR. Charities, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and host present their own special brand of The final qualified field also includes last organization of the Mercedes-Benz holiday magic at 7:30p.m. in Castle year’s champion, Daniel Chopra, K.J. Choi and Championship, has bestowed nearly $3 Theater at the MACC. For tickets, Davis Love, III who will return to Kapalua million to its designated Maui nonprofit call 242-7469. Resort’s famed greens. But Sergio Garcia, agencies. Those beneficiaries include: Boy Padraig Harrington, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Scouts of America - Maui County Council; DECEMBER 8-20 Woods will not be attending in January. Friends of the Children’s Justice Center; Hale BILLABONG PRO MAUI The tournament schedule will feature Makua; J. Walter Cameron Center; Ka Lima O This final women's championship practice rounds for the pros on Monday, Maui; Lahainaluna High School Foundation event of Vans Triple Crown of Surfing January 5 and Tuesday, January 6 (these are and Maui Memorial Medical Center Series is held at Honolua Bay when the best waves roll in for two days. great days for an opportunity to get up close Foundation. The event features the top-ranked to the players as the spectator crowds are This year, The Plantation Course has professional women surfers in the smaller). received several accolades for its beauty and world vying for world and Triple World-renowned celebrities are in no playability, such as the #1 Golf Resort Course Crown champion titles. shortage at this event. Many of them play in in Hawai‘i by Travel + Leisure Golf, #19 of the the 18-hole Pro-Am tournament, which will Top 100 Courses You Can Play by Golf take place the morning of Wednesday, Magazine, and one of the Top 100 Modern Hawaiian Word January 7. Keep a lookout for actors Luke Courses by Golfweek Magazine. of the Day Wilson, Greg Kinnear and Samuel L. Jackson, In an interview after his final winning singers Josh Kelly and Michael Bolton and round, Daniel Chopra raved about The football great John Elway, to name a few. Plantation Course when he said, “There’s not HONUA The professional rounds will be played from a golf course out there that suits me more. I Thursday, January 8 through Sunday, January just loved it from the moment I saw it ... I love English: earth 11 and they will be televised nationally on The it, and of course I managed to take Ilokano: daga Golf Channel. advantage of it.” Spanish: tierra Advance Season Passes for the full week We wish him and all the players well in are on sale now for $55 each ($80 after 2009. Po‘okela to excel; to exhibit superior workmanship Face-to-Face with . Gustavo Díaz joined Maui Land & Pineapple Company as a consultant to Kapalua Farms in January 2008. He currently works with both Kapalua Farms and Maui Pineapple Company. Prior to moving to Maui, Gustavo spent four years in Washington, Virginia assisting David Cole at Sunnyside Farms, a successful certified organic farm. Please tell us about your work with our market reach. In 2008, we have worked on other uses (full transition by 2011). This creates Kapalua Farms. finding the right combination of diversified tremendous opportunity to promote community My role with Kapalua Farms is that of a products, building our team and improving and sustainability-based initiatives. Kapalua facilitator. Currently, our most important goal is production processes and protocols in Farms will play an integral role in finding uses to transition from research into commercial anticipation of our leap in production and for some of those lands. This will happen in production. Therefore, my focus with the team sales. We are now as ready as we can be - close partnership with our corporate team. since farming is always unpredictable - and we is to work in achieving the higher levels of are very excited to see the results of our efforts. performance that will help us get there. I also What do you like to do with your free time? We’ll continue to do targeted research that provide administrative leadership and support. I like traveling and have done as much as I’ve focuses on improving crop performance and on I collaborate closely with Tova Callender, had time for; I also enjoy nature a lot and look reducing the ecological footprint of our Mauricio Avila and Wes Nohara in leading activities; after all, farming always has an for opportunities to appreciate it. I read quite a Kapalua Farms to become the premier and environmental impact. bit. My favorite topics are business, sustainable largest organic farm in Hawai‘i as well as an farming, political science, and science. I’m example to others who want to farm following As the company’s West Maui ag lands come really not a beach guy so you will never find me the principles of sustainability. We are out of pineapple, will they be used by baking in the sun! I have great interest in implementing practices that we believe will Kapalua Farms? business, which is why I also dedicate time to a take us a step ahead from certified organic. Yes, where possible we will become a catalyst couple of ventures I have going on: an to find new uses for the land that comes out of export/import company that sells to retailers What will Kapalua Farms’ focus be in pineapple. Once we finish the transition and such as Whole Foods Market on the mainland 2009? centralization of MPC operations to Häli‘imaile, and I recently started a coconut water For 2009 we have an aggressive plan to there will be about 2,500 - 3,000 acres of West distribution business in Costa Rica that has radically increase our levels of production and Maui lands that will be open and available for gotten off to a great start! Malama‘aina to care for, protect and preserve the land Clean it out and Give it away to Benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters he mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of BBBS of Maui for every pound of TMaui is to help children reach their clothing and accessories received. potential through professionally Drop-off bins will be located at three supported, one-to-one relationships with Maui Land & Pineapple Co. work sites: mentors that have a measurable impact on next to the Human Resources building youth. Maui’s Big Brothers Big Sisters at the Corporate Complex in Kahului, (BBBS) organization provides a variety of in the parking lot of the Wakea Ave. programs to encourage mentorships and fit offices in Kahului, and in the parking different lifestyles and schedules. lot behind Honolua Store in Kapalua Did you know that your used clothing Resort. and small household items can be turned Donating what you don’t use into cash for BBBS to help fund its anymore, instead of discarding it, is programs? Maui Land & Pineapple another good way to support the keiki Company is sponsoring a clothing drive the and ‘opio of our community and keep a week of December 8 - 12.
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