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Internat’l Pickle Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pea: Fair PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Baim bas: Catch a bus HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “If one dreams of bananas, it is useless to go fishing.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The best of all teachers – experience.” - Pliny the Younger
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October 4, 1976: The statistics roll in for this year and Maui reaches a dubious mark: it becomes the first neighbor island to surpass the one million visitor mark. Depending on who you ask, Maui surpassed the 2 million visitor mark either two or three years ago. Every effort in the past ten years to restrict the number of visitors here, or the number of rental cars, or the number of condominium and hotels, or the number of vacation rentals, has failed. But finally, Bush’s disastrous economy, along with the current mayor’s shutting down Vacation Rentals, finally has tourism down by at least 20 % this year.
October 4, 1976: The statistics roll in for this year and Maui reaches a dubious mark: it becomes the first neighbor island to surpass the one million visitor mark. Depending on who you ask, Maui surpassed the 2 million visitor mark either two or three years ago. Every effort in the past ten years to restrict the number of visitors here, or the number of rental cars, or the number of condominium and hotels, or the number of vacation rentals, has failed. But finally, Bush’s disastrous economy, along with the current mayor’s shutting down Vacation Rentals, finally has tourism down by at least 20 % this year.
