Maui Stink Out
October 26, 2007 1:29 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays |
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - HONI: Stink, smell
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY -
If you want to get into a fight, you give um da stink eye.”
October 26, 1979: While schoolchildren on the Mainland, snowbound states begin to dream of “snow days,”which offer students days off from school, children on Maui get 3 unscheduled days off not from being marooned by snow, but um … because of the stink. All Maui public schools joined the 228 public schools statewide in closing because state health officials deem the schools “unsanitary.” The cause? A United Public Workers strike. School custodians are on strike and no one is cleaning the restrooms. Eventually, the stink got out of hand, and all schools had to be shut down. They reopened October 29.
