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I < ro C ms: .(J1 z c s: ij) m II Explore and increase your appreciation of performing arts this summer. Kamehameha Schools PEFlFOFlMING AFlTS 'ACADEMY Sign up for courses in band, choir, orchestra, dance, Hawai- Enrollment is limited. Any student entering grades 6- 12 may apply; preference is given to Hawaiians. Cost is $300. Financial aid is also available ian ensemble and more during to Hawaiians based on need. Airfare to and from O'ahu wiU be paid for aU neighbor island students accepted to the program. No boarding is available. the six-week, half-day sessions To apply, caU 842-8295 or the Kamehameha Schools Neighbor Island Region- beginning June 17. (12:30 al Resource Center on your island. p.m. - 4:15 p.m.) KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP ESTATE KSBE's policy to give preference to individuals of Hawaiian descent as permitted by law has been ruled non-discriminatory by the IRS. Ka Wai Ola 0 OHA, Office of Hawaiian Affairs 711 Kapi'olani Blvd., Suite 500 Honolulu, Hawai'i 96813-5249 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 4, 'APELILA (APRIL) 1998 Trustees get more time before gov's final call lahaina ITH HOURS left interim trustee to fill the written testimony) during Annelle C. Amaral LaShunda L. Silva until the midnight vacancy created by the public board meetings. John L. Sabey ** Larry L. Kimura March 25 dead- death of Billie Beamer. From this list of 11 , William K. Lau Moanike'ala Akaka 24-hr vigil line for the Office However, the governor's Kimura and Heen were Fred Cachola Jr. ** Edwina A.L.Wong Brian K. Martin 24-hour vigil was of Hawaiian offer is for the trustees to then selected by the Isabel N. Vincent PIO staff report Affairs Board of Trustees, continue discussion and trustees. ..' hel..d in Lahaina on Charles A.K. Stewart Kubio Day, oppos- two names - Larry forward to his office a Richard J. Taber Kimura and Walter Heen "recommendation" for ing the 4,800-plus- ** Stanley H.L. Lum Maria K. Davilla .. unit Housing - were at the center of a him to select as interim ** James G. Lee Dennis K. Keohokalole FinanceA Development 4-4 vote to select an inter- trustee. At press time, the July Simeona ** Kina'u B. Kamali'i Carp. housing project on im trustee. With each trustees were scheduled to Virginia H. Kalua Benny C. Nary II passing day, history is meet April 2 at Mabel Darrow L.K. Aiona Keolani L. Noa 544 acres of ceded land. being made at OHA as the Smyth Auditorium to Bernardette M. Trask Thomas K. Stone III IniJ994, the DLNR con- responsibility to select an determine a process to ** Walter M. Heen Danielle U. Beirne veyed the Lei ali 'i property interim trustee is in the select someone to be Arthur K. Trask Sr. Daniel K. Naho'opi'i to the HFDC. OHA and hands of Governor Ben OHA's recommendation ** B.A. Kaleo Patterson Joseph K. Kamalu others filed suits to block Cayetano, who has 30 to the governor. The fol- Michael K. Lee . Peter Kama Walter Heen the transfer. day to make his decision. lowing are the 58 names ** Mahealani Kamau 'u Bernadette M. Watson The vigil was led by Nit Marilynn M. Akau Shortly after the OHA initially submitted to Paul K.P. Akana Kiipuna 0 Maui who are Charvis P'J.F.K. Bush ** Myron B. Thompson board adjourned March OHA for possible selec- urging the governor to Michael D. Goodrich Palani Vaughan Jr. 25, Cayetano said that he tion as interim trustee. instead consider a cultural Richard A. Kaho'onei John DeRego is offering the trustees center and housing for The names with a double- Charles K. Maxwell Sr. Solomon DK Nalua'i Hawaiian seniors, as more time to come up asterisk are the 11 recom- Ernelle K.B. Downs ** Albert P. Nahale-a III with one candidate for the mended by the trustees Lela M. (Hubbard) Dowd Daniel K. Rosario ceded are Hawaiian position. According to after the candidates com- Kioni K. Crabbe Roy L. Benham lands. • state law, OHA trustees no pleted their five-minute Sheron L.B. Cabanas Arthur K. DeFries Sr. ............... ',.... longer have the authority presentations to the Ernest K. Mika Todd K. Apo - PIO staff report . to officially "select" an trustees (or submitted ** Louis Hao La'akea D. Kamauoha Larry Kimura November if the legislature passes a bill placing the Office of Elections had said in writing, that blank ballots Appeals court refuses issue on the ballot. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is would be disregarded. But in a suit by the state AFL- urging Hawaiians and other members of the general CIO, the Hawai'i Supreme Court ruled last year that the to order new can can public to vote against a con con. wording of the Hawai'i Constitution required approval As for the ruling March 20 by the 9th u.S. Circuit of a convention by a majority of all ballots cast; includ- Court of Appeals, it was determined that the tabulation ing blank ballots. With the blank ballots added to the election in Hawai'i of blank votes as "no" votes did not violate voters' opposing votes, the proposal was defeated. FEDERAL APPEALS court refused March 20 to rights. "It is beyond belief to suggest that thousands of Hawai 'i 's constitution requires the legislature to con- order a new election in Hawaii on a state constitu- voters who left the convention question blank were sider a vote on a constitutional convention at least once tional convention, a proposal defeated in 1996 secretly relying on the hope that their votes would not every decade. The last constitutional convention was in when blank ballots were counted as "no" votes. be counted," said Judge A. Wallace Tashima in the 3-0 1978, when it was mandated that the Office of Hawaiian decision. Affairs be established. • AHowever , the question of a whether or not to have a The 1996 vote was 163,869 in favor, 160,153 against, constitutional convention could be up for vote again in and 45,245 blank ballots. Before the election, the state PIO staff & Associated Press ... .. ... .... ......... , ..., ......... ... ..... ... ... ... .... .. ... .. .. .. .. .......... .. ..... .. .. ...... ... .... ... .. .. .. .... .. ... .... ... .. .. .... ........ ... .. ......... .... ... ... ... .. ..... .. ... .... .......... ... .... .. ... .. ................................................... ...... .. ... ..... .. .. .................................... .. .... ........ .......... ... ................... A p R I L , , ; :; '"' » .,...", f • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ukanipo Heiau is the focus of coopera- • Slack key master Raymond Kane's mellow • The Hokulea's summer sail spans the Pacific tion among the state the Army and • notes light up his latest CD. See page 8. • to Rapa NuL See calendar on page 12. Leeward Hawaiians. See page 5. • • • - 2· 'Ao'so 'Elus 'Apelils (April) '98 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ka Leo Kaiaulu FIRST PRIEST rate. Thank you for trying. Thank you and hurt to hear that some Hawaiians BOARD OF TRUSTEES Monsignor Kekumano was not the very much. are not aware of how strongly I first priest of Hawaiian descent. He Ann Malo opposed House Bill 2340, introduced A. Frenchy DeSoto was ordained in 1949, whereas Father Honolulu by Rep. Ed Case, which proposed to establish a Native Hawaiian trust cor- CHAIRPERSON & TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE Ralph Silva (deceased) was ordained poration. Haunani Apoliona in 1944, or five years earlier. I knew HHLWATER From the outset I said this bill was these fine men very well. In fact, VICE-CHAIR & TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE The arrest of Hawaiian home lands far too much, too soon. Only Hawai- Charles Kekumano was in grammar Abraham Aiona lessees in Pana'ewa and Keaukaha is ians should be determining our future. school at St. Louis when I graduated in TRUSTEE, MAUl appalling and absurd. They were with- Government entities and outside inter- 1933. One of my classmates was the Rowena Akana in their constitutional and civil rights in ests don't always serve us best. HB first local Japanese ordained and TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE their assertion that the county Depart- 2340 was bad, as I stated when I another was the first local priest of ment of Water Supply and Water Com- walked out of the hearings in protest Clayton Hee Puerto Rican ancestry. TRUSTEE. 0'AHU mission have no jurisdiction over mat- Jan. 31. It flies in the face of all the I feel fortunate having grown up in ters that concern Hawaiian Home Hawaiian community has gained. Moses K. Keale Sr. the environment that produced these TRUSTEE, KAUA'I & NI'IHAU Lands. The Department of Hawaiian Hawaiians don't need another corpora- great people. Home Lands governs its lands. It has tion - another Bishop Estate. Colette Y. Pi'ipi'i Machado Leon Thevenin TRUST££, MOLOKA'I & LiNA'1 the authority to derive revenue from What we need is the ability to per- Kamuela Hannah Kihalani Springer the sale of water. The Admission Act petuate our culture here in our home- TRUSTEE, HAWAI'I ISLAND of 1959 allows no state law to encum- land. We need the opportunity to use ber Hawaiian home lands unless Con- our resources to support ourselves and gress amends the HHCA. There have Please refrain from using the word our families. ADMINISTRATION been no post-statehood amendments. "leper." It embarrasses, insults and As a member of the House Hawai- The county has maliciously stepped Randall Ogata shames us. It may be the most repug- ian Affairs Committee, it was painful ADMINISTRATOR outside the scope of its authority by nant image in language. It hurts. for me to sit through testimony. I Published by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs imposing an encumbrance in the fonn Actually, just like there is no such refused to sign this bill. It has created Public Infomw.tion Office of a water assessment. thing as a "measler," there is no such mistrust, anger and fear.

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