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• Volume 14, Number 4 'Apell/o (April) '97 Enrollment is limited. Any student entering Performing Arts Academy grades 6-12 may apply; preference is given to Hawaiians. Cost is $300. Explore the Arts! Explore and in crease Financial aid is also available to your appreciation of performing arts this Hawaiians hased on need. Airfare to and summer. from O'ahu will be paid for all neighbor Sign up for courses in band, chOir, island students accepted to the program. orchestra, dance, Hawaiian ensemble and No boarding is available. more during the Six-week, half-day sessions To apply, call 842-8295 or the beginning June 18. (12:30 pm-4:15 pm). Kamehameha Schools Neighbor Island Regional Resource Center on your island. KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS BERN ICE PAUA HI BI SHOP ESTATE KSBE's policy to give preference to Hawaiians as pel'millCd 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 Special pullout I OHA's EYES ON THE LEGISLATURE - ., Volume 14, Number 4 'Apelila (April) 1997 State auditor report: OHA invests beneficiary llloney wisely by Deborah l. Ward OHA Chairman Clayton Hee said, "We take seriously our commitment to strengthening this financial competence and soundness as these are just-comPleted state legislative auditor's critical prerequisites for achieving future goals report has concluded that the Office of and objectives." A Hawaiian Affairs has much to be proud Under Chapter 10, Hawai'i Revised Statutes, of in its handling of long-term investments and OHA is the principal public agency in the state has established a foundation of sound invest- responsible for the performance, development ment policy and investment and coordination of programs management." ........... ...... ........ and relating native The legislative audit states, Hawallans and Hawallans, "OHA's long-term investment "We take seriously except for programs adminis- policy has significantly . tered by the Department of improved, and its present invest- our commitment to Hawaiian Home Lands. OHA ment strategy (investing long- strengthening this was established under the state term assets in a diversified com- .. constitution as a corporate body bination.of equity and fixed financial and self-governing agency sepa- income securities and reinvest- competence and rate from the executive branch, ing the dividends and interest whose mission is to better the payments received from those soundness as these conditions of all persons of investments) is reasonable for are critical Hawaiian ancestry. the time being." OHA has more State law requires the audi- than $245 million in cash and prerequisites for tor to conduct an audit of OHA investments. achieving future at least once every four years. The 59-page audit just com- Previous audit reports were pleted was intended to describe goals and objec- issued in December 1993 and in and assess OHA's management tives. " February 1990. The auditor also noted that "OHA needs better controls over its programs, its - Clayton Hee cash and short-term invest- working relationships and clear- ments, and its long-term invest- er directions for its programs." .. The report said OHA's trustees • ments. The audit concludes that OHA should build on its investments, and plan and staff "need to rise above internal discontent strategically to link investments to programs and discord that could compromise OHA's mis- which better conditions for Hawaiia,ns. It called sion, and move ahead to meet challenges in pro- for OHA to develop a comprehensive strategic gram planning, monitoring, evaluation and bud- plan for the use of its long-term investments, geting." including specific strategies for assisting native The legislative audit contains detailed rec- Hawaiians, and decisions on which long-term ommendationsfor improving OHA's working programs will be supported. relationships and providing program direction. Monument to Tahitian healers respected. "JII"/ . by Barbra An PJeadwell ':JA Inside this Ka Wai Ola 0 OHA our large stones sit 30 feet away Waikiki Police OHA Tutorial Conference 2 PIn KuhlO Beach Park. TheIr signifi- cance is explained by a nondescript Apple snails & the taro industry 3 plaque. The stones are a monument to four Letters to the Editor 5 legendary healers from Moa'ulanuiakea Administrator's column 5 in Ra'iatea, Tahiti who came to Hawai'i long before the reign of Kakuhihewa, Fishing tales 7 Chief of O'ahu. Improvements proposed by Queen Emma Foundation and sup- Kahana: cultural park 8 ported by the City and County of Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation aim to restore respect for the Community and Hawaiian agencies and organiza- SPECIAL PULL OUT SECTION: monument. tions honored No Pohaku Ola Kapaemohu a OHA Eyes on the Legislature A 1 - A8 Formerly called the "Wizard Stones," Kapuni monument (formerly called the "Wizard they have been renamed Na Pohaku Ola Stones") last month with ho'okupu at a blessing by Kapaemahu a Kapuni by Papa Henry Papa Henry Auwae. Pictured above is a special Auwae, respected traditional healer and ahu for the ceremony. Nutrition column 9 herbal medicine practitioner. The monument is part of a Waikiki Historic Waikiki District. Board of Trustee columns 9 - 11 Trail that a public-private partnership is build- The stones are being placed on a platform 25 Hawaiian language column 14 ing to restore a native Hawaiian presence to inches high, a fence is enclosing the monument, Waikiki. Eventually, the trail will mark 21 sites native plants are being added, and additional Calendar & reunions 15 of Hawaiian historical significance in the No Pohaku continued on page 6 b 'Ao '00 'Eluo Ka Wai 010 0 OHA 'Ape/llo (AprtD '97 Educators share benefits of student tutorial programs funded by OHA by Kelli Meskin BOARD OF TRUSl'EES ClaytonHee Chairman & Trustee, O'ahu ilo High School has 60 students who are native Abraham Aiona Hawaiian. Through OHA's Tutorial Program, and Vice-Chair & Trustee, ¥gui funds from Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center- Rowena Akana H -Lili'uokalani Trust, those students have raised their grade Trustee-At-Large average, tome to 5:0 andbigher. when they are not. Billie Beamer Trustee-At-Large Last month, OHA's Lucy Meyer, a genealogy researcher who spoke at the A. Frenchy DeSoto Education Division held a confer- conference, explained some of the approaches needed to Trustee-At-Large ence to recognize schools receiv- trace ancestral documentation. She says it's difficult to find Haunani Apoliona ing tutorial program support ancestors sometimes because the name on the record may Trustee-At-Large fromOHA. be different. They may have changed their name or they Moses K. Keale, Sr. Thirteen schools from across may have been called by one name and recorded under Trustee, Kaua'i & NJ'lhau the state met to show what they another. Hannah Kihalani Springer had accomplished with support "As an educator if you don't know who you are or Colette Pi'i'pi'i Machado from OHA. They showed videos where you come from it's difficult to teach this to chil- Trustees Elect of their reading programs and displays all, reflecting posi- dren," Meyer said. -'''' tive results in students' grades and confidence levels. It is important to know history, math and English ADMINISTRATION The OHA tutorial program awards money to schools when doing ancestry research in order to read and under- and community projects to conduct educational programs stand the time your ancestors lived in, she said. Knowing Linda Colburn and tutoring for Hawaiian youths. the history of different places helped her in finding docu- Administrator The program is only for Hawaiian students. The tutor- ments she needed to find other family members. Sesnita A. Moepono Deputy Administrator ial program is now asking that three generations of docu- The education division also works with OHA's Martha Ross mentation be submitted by each student to prove they are Operation 'Ohana Ancestry Registry program. There is no Deputy Administrator Hawaiian. cost or age limit to register and Operation 'Ohana has Rona Rodenhurst, OHA's education officer, explained helped families gather background for genealogy research. Published by the OffIce of HawaIIan that this is necessary because people today are marking For more information call OHA's Planning Division at AffaIrs Public information OffIce- down on birth certificates that their children are Hawaiian 594-1960. Barbara Hastings Public Information Officer Deborah Lee Ward Ho'ornalu 'Elua rna Kualoa - April 18 & 19 Publications Specialist Kelli Meskin Gathering for peacemaking continues Barbta Plead well Public Editors O'omalu rna Kualoa, a second gathering of • who plan to camp during the weekend should register Hawaiians to reach unity on Hawaiian sovereign- with Kamali'i, preferably in advance, to allow assignment Ka Waf 0Ia 0 OHA "The Living Water of OHA" H ty, is planned April1S-20 at Kualoa Regional Park. of camping sites. A registration fee of $2 is requested of all Published monthly by the Office of Hawaiians Coordinator lGna'u Boyd Kamali'i said all Hawaiians are participants, regardless of whether they plan to camp or Affairs, 71 1 Kapl'olanl Boulevard, 5th floor, invited to the weekend unity gathering to continue a dia- not. Meals are the responsibility of individual partici- Honolulu, Hawal'l 96813. Telephone: 594-1 888 or 1-800-468-4644 ext. 41888. Fax: 594·1 865. E- logue to forge understanding and agreement, healing, pants, their family group or organization. mail: [email protected]. World Wide Web trust and commitment to shared principles. "We hope For information about Ho'omalu Elua rna Kualoa, or address Is http://planet-hawall.com/oha. everyone will come," Kamali'i said. "We will listen to all to register or make donations, contact lGna'u Boyd Circulatlon Is 67 ,CXX) copies, 6O,CXX) of which are distributed by mail.