HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY -  ‘OIA’I'O : Truth
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Truth is not changeable.”

October 23, 2006: The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Fund awards Maui Community College $371,792 for improving the career and technical education programs offered to students in the technical fields.

MCC, which serves nearly 3,000 students each semester, offers 23 AA degrees, of which six are technology based, including automotive technology and engineering. In conjunction with the University of Hawaii, the College also offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees, of which two are technology based: applied science and information technology. Visit MCC online …

 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY -  MELE : Music
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “It is the space inside that gives the drum its sound.”

October 22, 1945: In what would be his last appearance in his own production of “This is the Army,” Irving Berlin sings “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” to an audience on Maui. The Maui visit was the last in an around-the-world tour of the show, which lasted more than 18 months. When his ovation stopped, Berlin thanked everyone and expressed his hope that he would never again have to write another war song. He never did. He had written the song for World War I, just 27 years earlier. He expressed his dismay that that war had not stuck.

You can hear what Maui audiences heard in 1945 by clicking here …

Hawaii Superferry Public Informational Meeting 
Today - 3pm, Baldwin High School Auditorium, Kahului. 
View live streaming on AKAKU …

 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY -  `AHA : Meeting, council
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “No mudhen’s cry to disturb the councl meeting.”

Hawaii Superferry Public Informational Meeting

Monday October 22 - 3pm, Baldwin High School Auditorium, Kahului
State Senators are holding an informational meeting Monday on a draft of the Superferry bill the Governor and Attorney General are submitting to the legislature. This bill will be introduced into the speical session she will call, probably next week. Citizens are invited to review the draft and come to the meeting for comment. The bill is an attempt to allow the Superferry to operate while the court-mandated environemntal assessment is conducted. Read the draft bill here …

 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - HOU: Sweat, perspire
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Perspiration flows, the Adam’s apple moves.”
(Said of a person who desires the unobtainable.)

Before I was born, an elderly Italian fortune-teller told my mother that her child would excel in doing things that people would not value. I was reminded of this years later, when my older brother noticed that I could throw rocks with uncanny accuracy. I had a kind of psychometric ability, which allowed me to assess aerodynamic potential whenever I grasped a rock. I then threw true to a mark.

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 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - HANA: Labor, work
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “In working one learns.”

The strike lasted 79 days. The hang up wasn’t the demand for more wages, from 41 cents an hour to 65 cents an hour. Nor was it the 40-hour work week. Nor the joint union-company administration of perks. It was the demand that the company be a closed shop — no one could work for the company unless they joined the union. Bridges eventually got what he wanted.

 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - POKA PAHU: Bomb
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “The sea rises like a pointed hog’s tusk.”

October 18, 1943: The USS Pennsylvania arrives in Mauian waters and, on October 21, begins the most intensive bombing of Kaho’olawe Island ever. The battleship was originally commissioned during World War I, and was the largest of its class in the world at that time. Its practice shelling was in anticipation of the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, a group of 16 islands near the Solomon Islands, southwest of Hawaii. The rehearsal also had submarines firing torpedoes into the shoreline cliffs at Kanapou.

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 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - PACA LOLO: Marijuana
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “Where the wind blows, there the smoke falls.”

October 17, 2005:

The only state that produces more cash for this crop is California ($13.8 billion).  On a national scale, marijuana is the number one cash crop in the United States, at $35 billion, beating the next largest crop — corn — which comes in at $23 billion.

If you live on the northshore of Maui and like to walk your dog, ride a bike, or perambulate or jog for exercise, it can be a challenge to find a good safe place. The intrepid (and perhaps foolish) souls go right along busy Hana Highway (too many walking dangerously WITH traffic, instead of the safer AGAINST traffic).

Others find Holomua Road the perfect solution. Just around the corner and east about a quarter of a mile past Mama’s Fish House, Holomua is the first right turn heading mauka. Tucked between the cane fields off Hana Highway, you quickly leave the hustle and bustle and noises of traffic behind. Trees reach in and over from each side of the road forming a long green archway, providing a serene invitation to follow the gentle but steady incline.

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 HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - `OLAI : Earthquake
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY - “When the earth trembles, it is an earthquake.”
(We know what it is by what it does.)

October 16, 2006: State Senator J. Kalani English (East Maui-Lanai-Molokai), chair of the Senate’s Energy Committee, calls for an investigation as to why Hawaiian Electric and Maui Electric took so long to restore power to the islands after yesterday’s earthquake off the northwest coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. The quake, measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale, occurred at 7:07 a.m. and knocked out power on the Big Island, Maui and Oahu. Power was restored to Maui around 5 p.m., and on Oahu around 9 p.m. that day. No public investigation was ever held.

Most, if not all  tsunami warning sirens along Maui ’s beach communities failed during the earthquake, because they are powered from the Maui Electric Company (MECO) power grid. None of these  sirens have yet been upgraded to solar power.