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Maile Shimabukuro 87-162 Liopolo Street, Waianae, HI 96792 Mervina Cash-Ka`Eo, Campaign Chair Nānākuli Mā‘ili Wai‘anae Mākaha Issue # 1 | September 2014 Strengthen. Challenge. Support. It Does Take a Village! The Family-School-Community Connection PROTECT THE W, FROM WHAT? WAI`ANAE HIGH SCHOOL’S EFFORTS TO IMPROVE STUDENT ATHLETES COLLEGE READINESS AND SOME THOUGHTS FROM ATHLETIC DIRECTOR GLEN TOKUNAGA. PAGE 07 THE MAGAZINE OF THE WAI‘ANAE COAST. FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE. www.napuaowaianae.org Re-Elect! Maile SENATESHIMABUKURO DISTRICT 21 Kalaeloa • Honokai Hale • Ko `Olina • Nānākuli • Mā`ili • Wai`anae • Mākaha Endorsed by: General Contractors Assn. of HI HI Center for Food Safety HI Fire Fighters Assn. HI Government Employees Assn. HI State AFL-CIO HI Teamsters & Allied Workers Honolulu Star-Advertiser International Longshore & Warehouse Union Patsy T. Mink PAC Planned Parenthood of HI Action Network Plumbers & Fitters UA Local Union 675 Pro- gressive PAC Sierra Club HI United Public Workers University of HI Professional Assembly For more information visit: www.facebook.com/maileshimabukuro21 and electmaile.com Paid for by: Friends of Maile Shimabukuro 87-162 Liopolo Street, Waianae, HI 96792 Mervina Cash-Ka`eo, Campaign Chair 2 Na Pua `O Wai`anae | September 2014 Editorial Momi Robins-Makaila Publisher & Writer LETTER FROM THE EDITOR AlohA KāuA e WAi’AnAe! ith a humble and joyful heart I bring to you the Our cover story, found on page 26 attempts to first edition of Na Pua o Wai’anae, a magazine for shed light on an issue our coast schools face each and Wand about the beautiful people of Wai’anae from every year—the need for improved communication and Nānākuli to Mākaha. Nestled in the western most part of collaboration among our schools, community and families. O’ahu, our community exudes beauty, and radiates a Do you know that Wai’anae’s schools are among the distinctiveness impossible to find anywhere else in the poorest performing schools in the state? With unity in world. Our mission for Na Pua O Wai’anae is to strengthen, our community, our keiki will receive the kind of educa- challenge and support our unique community; spiritually, tion they deserve—the best kind! We have everything physically, emotionally, and socially by inspiring readers to we need right here to make it a reality. My 20 years honor God, deepen faith, improve health, strengthen experience as a parent and 12 years experience as a relationships, engage in dialogue, recognize contributors, teacher tells me so. celebrate the uniqueness of our Wai’anae home, and share Keep the magazine on your kitchen table as a it with others. resource or share it with your neighbors. But, whatever I hope you thoroughly enjoy our first edition, and you do, please do not keep us a secret. By the way, if you every edition. Peruse the magazine for what we hope you have a story you think would kokua our community, will find is meaningful content about topics concerning our please don’t be shy. Let us know. Give us a ring at keiki, our teens, our families, our men and women. We 808-888-9434 or 808-306-3054 or send us an email to hope you will be honored by stories of how our people are [email protected]. demonstrating their love for God, deepening their faith, Currently, our goal is to turn Na Pua O Wai’anae daring to dream big, achieving goals, taking care of into a monthly publication. Please be on the look out for responsibilities, showing compassion for one another, each issue. We will also be updating our progress on my addressing big issues, making lasting changes, giving back website at www.momirobins-makaila.org on the Na Pua O to our community, and showing love for our culture. You’ll Wai’anae page. read about real people and real issues. The staff at Na Pua O Wai’anae will work hard to The cover of this first issue is representative of become a voice of strength for our unique Wai’anae what we hope to achieve with Na Pua O Wai’anae— unity home. As my husband says to me on many occasions, “Be within our community. Our senator, our council -member, blessed and go bless someone!” our district representatives, our community members and our keiki excitedly agreed to take part in making this cover Aloha No, exactly what it is—beautiful. They also agreed to share a little about themselves and their vision for our coast. Over the course of the next few months we will have the privi- Momi Robins-Makaila lege of introducing you to each one of them. Publisher and Writer photo by Nika-Asuega Sausi Na Pua `O Wai`anae | September 2014 3 Highlights from This Issue photo courtesy of Healani Ortiz 07 08 Nānākuli Mā‘ili Wai‘anae Mākaha Issue # 1 | August 2014 Protect the W People Strengthen. Challenge. Support. Wai`anae High School’s efforts to It Does Take a Senator Maile Shimabukuro shares Village! improve student athletes college her `ohana, and her heart, with us. readiness and some thoughts from Athletic Director Glen Tokunaga The Family-School-Community Connection protect the W, from what? AN 10 INTERVIEW WITH THE AD OF WAI`ANAE HIGH SCHOOL GLEN TOKUNAGA: PREDICTIONS ON OUR UPCOMING SEASON. PAGE 07 THE MAGAZINE OF THE WAI‘ANAE COAST. FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE. www.napuaowaianae.org W.W.O.W. Wonderful Woman of Wai’anae COVER: Featuring community residents photo She IS the change she wishes to see in the world: Community Do-Gooder taken by Rich Tanuvasa. Deborah Carrero’s contribution to our keiki. Ma`ili Beach background photo courtesy of Healani Ortiz Cover design by: Masina N. Sausi 16 22 Man On a Mission Culture & Tradition PUBLISHER & WRITER: Byran Manansala reaches out to his Ka Mō` ī: A Legacy Fulfilled, Rona Momi Robins-Makaila 808-888-9434 hometown to expose our keiki to the Ka`aekuahiwi and his 39+ year [email protected] wonderful game of golf. legacy, stronger than ever. ADVERTISING MANAGER: Sharon Fountain 808-306-3054 [email protected] Showcasing the beauty of our Wai`anae home: ACCOUNT MANAGER: 24 Tehani Robins 28 Keawa`ula 808-218-1753 [email protected] Faith & Spirituality ADVERTISING DESIGN: Who Could God Be For You? An Masina N. Sausi approach to religion that has 808-620-0127 [email protected] nothing to do with religion. If you visit any of our businesses or sponsors, or make contact with anyone 30 we’ve shared with you, please tell them Na Pua `O Healthy Cooking Wai`anae sent you. Crazy for Coconut: A new use for the versatile fruit 4 Na Pua `O Wai`anae | September 2014 wai`anae history NUMBERS & HISTORY WAI`ANAE BY THE NUMBERS This data was collected from www.census.gov and was included in Na Pua o Wai`anae to empower one another with information in terms of where we stand in some pertinent areas: high school and college graduation rates and percentage of our `ohana below poverty as compared to the State of Hawaii as a whole. Nānākuli through Wai‘anae State of Hawaii Population 43,609 1,404,054 Land (Square Miles) 12.5 6,422.63 Persons per Square Mile 4237.5 211 Percent of Hawaiians 29.5% (up 34% from 2000) 10% (Does not include people reporting 2 or more races) Median Household Income $57,351 $67,492 (Ma‘ili`s median household in- come exceeds the State at $70,025) High School Graduate Rate 85.93% 90.3% College Graduate Rate 9.9% 29.6% (Bachelor’s degree or higher) Home Ownership Rate 58.9% 58.2% Persons Below Poverty 21.9% 10.8% Photo by Josie Kikila Na Pua `O Wai`anae | September 2014 5 A Tid-Bit of Wai‘anae For more interesting facts on & Nānākuli History Wai‘anae, visit the following pages on the web: In January 1793 Captain George Vancouver reported a grove of coconut trees in a “fertile, cultivated http://waianaebaptist.org/ valley” (Waianaebaptist.org). Another of Vancouver’s Waianae%20History%20Items/ accounts called it “a grove of coconuts on low ground through the midst of which runs a beautiful stream of In%20the%20Beginning.htm clear water from the mountains.” Today, we know it as Poka‘i Bay. http://www.hawaiian-roots.com/a- In 1811, at Poka‘i Bay, ships began offering goods lost-tradition-of-nanakuli-the-childrens- for trade in exchange for the Sandalwood that lined the quavery-chant.htm coast. Hawai‘i’s Royalty at the time ordered the trade. King Kamehameha appointed Governor Boki as Wai‘anae’s http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/ first district chief. Boki administered the trade. Soon the states/15/1574450.html sandalwood supply dwindled and the foreigners went (Wai‘anae) elsewhere. As a result of the focus on Sandalwood, local crop cultivation dwindled. The people of Wai‘anae were with less food and also “ravaged” by a “series of epidem- http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/ ics” including Small Pox. states/15/1553900.html (Nānāku- In 1835 Wai‘anae’s population (including Nānāku- li) li, Mā‘ili, and Mākaha) was 1,654 residents. By 1855 J.W. Makalena, the Wai‘anae Tax Collector listed the estimates http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/ of Wai‘anae’s population as less than 800. (Waianaebap- states/15/1547300.html (Mā`ili) tist.org) http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/ states/15/1547450.html (Mākaha) 6 Na Pua `O Wai`anae | September 2014 SEARIDERS Protect the W! rotect the W? What does that mean? For a moment, I sat staring at the new t-shirt I was given at the new teacher Pworkshop, and wondered, “from what, and how?” My husband had the same question for me when I wore the shirt the very next day.
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