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C TM C www.MokuleleAirlines.com A message from Ron Hansen, CEO of Mokulele Airlines What’s Inside? Women of E komo mai! 6 the Sea Thank you for choosing Mokulele! We work hard at The Na Wahine O being the best little airline Ke Kai Canoe Race in the world, and thanks to our loyal passengers, we’re Celebrates its 35th continuing to grow. We’re Anniversary especially proud to announce that on September 21, we will begin daily service from Waimea-Kohala Airport on the Big Island to Kahului Airport on Maui, with connections available to Honolulu. Read Me We’ve also added four new Cessna Caravans to our a Story! fleet in recent months. We’re happy to say that we now 10 have more than 50 pilots who operate over 115 flights Families Develop Closer per day to our eight destinations on five islands. Our goal is to design our flight schedules for the maximum Bonds Thanks to Read convenience of our passengers. Our Kapalua to Lana‘i Aloud America route, for example, makes it easy for golfers to make a day trip to get in a few extra rounds, and those who need to travel between Kahului and Lana‘i for business can easily make the round trip in the same day. In this issue of Island Hopper, you’ll learn about a group of women whose fierce determination paved the way The Wonders for 35 years of success in outrigger canoe racing. We of Waimea know you’ll be equally inspired by the story of a local 14 organization that has made the love of reading positively Cowboys, Constellations, contagious for our schoolchildren and their families. Plus, we’ll show you many of the great things there are Cuisine and More to do in our beautiful new destination, Waimea. Enjoy your flight! It is our pleasure to have you on board and we look forward to serving you often as you travel throughout our beautiful islands. Maui’s Sincerely, 18 Sibling Ron Hansen Surfing Sensations Ron Hansen, CEO Mokulele Airlines Ocean and Summer Macedo Stack Up the Wins TM CORPORATE President/CEO Mokulele Airlines RON HANSEN Publisher/ VP of Sales and Marketing DAVE BERRY Creative Director TOBY THOMPSON Editor-in-Chief KAREN BROST Assistant Editor THOmas GAUL AccoUNT MANAGERS Corporate Account Manager GAIL GLUSHENKO Maui JEROMY HANSEN Kona CERISE “Peaches” HuIHUI Oahu JOCELYN PALAFOX TECHNOLOGY Web Development COREY KISTLER Editorial Inquiries: [email protected] Advertising Inquiries: [email protected] Island Hopper Magazine Corporate Office 8241 E. Evans, Ste. 102 . Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 Toll Free: 800-439-6955 . 480-393-3013 . Fax: 480-393-3017 Office: Introducing our newest destination: Kamuela-Waimea! We’re very pleased to announce that effective September 21, 2013, Mokulele will become the only airline to offer daily service between Kamuela-Waimea and Kahului with connections to Honolulu. This means that residents of the northern part of Hawai’i Island will now find it easier to travel to the other islands. The new route will also offer a convenient option for visitors looking to explore a different side of the Big Island. Kamuela-Waimea is known as paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy) country and is home to beautiful rolling green pastures full of cattle, cowboys, and ranches. Its location is perfect for those seeking some off-road adventures by horseback or ATV. Kamuela-Waimea also provides nearby access to Mauna Kea’s observatories and the Kohala Mountain Road that leads to the quaint town of Hawi. Beginning on September 21, Mokulele will operate twelve weekly flights between Waimea-Kohala Airport and Kahului Airport. To take advantage of our introductory rate of just $59 one way, including taxes and fees, make your reservations online by October 31, 2013 at www.mokuleleairlines.com. 2 I MOKULELEAIRLINES.COM WOMEN OF THE SEA THE NA WAHINE O KE KAI CANOE RACE CELEBRATES ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY BY KAREN BROST IMAGES COUrtesy OF OCEAN PADDLER TV he Kaiwi Channel, which spans between Moloka‘i and O‘ahu, is legendary for being one of the most challenging T channels in the world to cross, due to its unpredictable com- bination of strong winds, strong currents and large swells. In 1952, a group of men successfully raced their outrigger canoes across these turbulent waters. Two years later, a group of women wanted to launch their own race, but officials wouldn’t allow it. “To this day, I still believe the women were strong enough to do it,” explains one of those pioneering women, Hannie Anderson. “The dream never left me since 1954, and the women who came after me had the same dream.” That dream finally came true in 1979 when Hannie banded with other female paddlers to organize the first women’s canoe race across the Kaiwi Channel. That 42-mile race, which they named Na Wahine O Ke Kai (Women of the Sea), will celebrate 6 I MOKULELEAIRLINES.COM Issue 5 I 7 “Not too many people realize that outrigger canoeing is the state sport.” - Hannie Anderson, Race Director its 35th anniversary on September 22. “I never thought I’d still be Would you rather be HERE? here 35 years later, still being race director,” she muses. “This race is very important to all of us because it is the grand champion of canoe racing,” Hannie says. “Everybody wants to get into the race because they have to challenge the unpredictable Kaiwi Channel. The channel is never the same. Every year is different.” The race, which begins at 8:00 a.m. at Hale O Lono Harbor on Moloka‘i and ends at Duke Kahanamoku Beach in Waikiki, draws paddlers from all over the world. For this year’s event, Hannie and her committee (Haunani Olds, Carleen Ornellas, Rose OR HERE? Lum, Shelley Gilman and Carol Young) are expecting between 85 and 90 crews (900 to 1,000 paddlers). The fastest teams can reach O‘ahu in about five and a half hours, and others may take up to eight hours. For many, it’s an all-out competition for first place. For others, it’s the thrill of accomplishment. As Hannie explains, “They’ll say, ‘We did it! We conquered the channel!’ That’s why people keep coming back to do it. They know it’s a hard race.” Hannie encourages everyone to come out on September 22 to cheer on the arriving teams. “Not too many people realize that outrigger canoeing is the state sport,” she says. She explained that Escape from it all and come to Molokai. With its spectators usually start gathering in front of the Hilton Hawaiian quaint beaches, lush tropical rainforest, and 28 Village at around 1:00 p.m. and that many people also watch the race from Diamond Head. miles of barrier reef, not to mention no crowds, This year, as she has done every year, Hannie will bring all of no traffic or stop lights, Molokai is truly the the paddlers together at the beginning of the race for the pule, the vacation you are looking for. Hawaiian chants and blessings. “The women are all holding hands and hugging each other,” she describes. “This brings out a lot of aloha between them. The team next to you could be from Guam, Japan, Hong Kong. You never know. I get up there and there has never a time during the chant that I ever, ever did not cry. The tears just roll down my face. I love every single one of these women. I cannot express how much aloha I have for this race.” TOLL FREE: 800-367-2984 Ph: 808-553-8334 | www.MolokaiVIP.com 8 I MOKULELEAIRLINES.COM READ ME A StorY! FAMILIES DEVELOP CLOSER BONDS THANKS to READ ALOUD AMERICA BY KAREN BROST IMAGES COURTESY OF CHRIS RhoaDES OF RhoaDES PRODUCTIONS hen former California school administrators Joanne and Larry Laird retired to Maui about ten years ago, they envisioned a carefree life on the beach. But luckily for Wmany Hawai‘i families, they eventually decided they needed an “encore career.” Today, the Lairds serve as co-program directors of Read Aloud America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting literacy and helping families bond through the fun of reading and being read to. “Family bonding really has changed,” Joanne says. “We need to sit together and be together and read to our kids and let them talk to us. That goes away so often in this world with all the screen devices and technology.” Read Aloud America, which was founded in 1995 by Jed Gaines, addresses those concerns by bringing parents and kids together for a series of fun-filled reading events at their public or Frisbees and mini-footballs and getting the kids excited.” After that, private schools. To date, the organization has served more than 300,000 she says, the kids are divided into groups by age level and escorted to adults and children at over 80 public schools in Hawai‘i and is proud to classrooms where volunteers will read to them. announce that it will be bringing the program to Hana for the first time The parents stay in the cafeteria for a discussion about why family in September. bonding time is so important. “We tell them, ‘Your kids will be gone Each evening of the six-session program begins with some before you know it. Don’t lose this time. It’s only 10-15-20 minutes a unstructured family time. “Then, the fun begins,” Joanne explains. night and it’s so special.’ Then we read aloud to the parents (usually “For 20 minutes, the presenter is doing trivia questions, throwing out books by Hawaiian authors), and believe me, you can hear a pin drop.