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Kona Historical Society

Hawaiian to English: Hualalai’s Street Names

Ever wonder what the translation of the street names in Hualalai would be? Becky Holman did so she asked Uncle Earl. Here’s the result of their collaboration:

ʻAhinahina The Hawaiian name for the Silversword plant.

Ānea Gentle, as a breeze

Hāliʻipua Covered with flowers

Hainoa Summit of […]

Helpful Guide for HanaHou Recycling: It’s Easy!

Open Letter from HanaHou Recycling

Aloha Hualalai Members and Homeowners,

Thank you for helping keep Kona green! Over the last year, Hualalai continued to be a one of our top recycling communities, with high participation and recyclable volume rates. Hualalai has 128 residences participating in curbside recycling, resulting in an average of 14 cubic yards of material recycled weekly. […]

Taste of Parker

 

A fun event, hosted at Kuki-o, right next door!

 

Putting’ the howl in Halloween

Humane Society Holds Annual Howl’ween Dog Walk!

For the entire article go to: http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2018/10/28/hawaii-news/puttin-the-howl-in-halloween-humane-society-holds-annual-howlween-dog-walk/

Kona Community Event: Memorial Service

 

Interfaith Memorial for Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting victims

Thursday November 1, 5:30PM

Hawaiian Queen Coffee Garden

75-1048 Henry Street, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 […]

Hurricane Lane Update

Many of us have been watching the news and trying to figure out how Hualalai has faired during this current Hurricane watch and warning. Since most of the news is about Hilo (which has suffered enough) we don’t know what’s happening in Kona and the West Coastline.

Yesterday the following graphics give us some hopeful […]

Queen Kaahumanu Highway dedicated

KAILUA-KONA — As local officials celebrated the dedication of the newly widened stretch of Queen Kaahumanu Highway, the sound of horns from passing cars punctuated the speeches and remarks, notes of thanks — or at least, relief — for the completion of a project years in the making.

Three years after breaking ground and […]

Erin Lee’s (Head of Landscaping) has a 10th Anniversary Concert

Click this announcement to go to the Kahilu Theatre Website

June, 2018 issue of Living at Hualalai debuts tomorrow

Almost all of us have seen the Hualalai Realty’s “Living at Hualalai” magazine around the campus. We just wanted to give you a little background on who puts these together. There is a realty team consisting of Vivian Tobias and Bryanna Pasco and a magazine consultant/writer Margaret Kearns (That’s right, the same Margaret who used […]

The future of Kilauea

By TOM CALLIS Hawaii Tribune-Herald | Friday, June 29, 2018, 12:05 a.m.

HILO — With no visitors to gaze in awe at its splendor, Kilauea caldera is often shrouded in a peaceful, though deceptive, silence.

Wisps of gas and dust rise out of the ever-growing Halema‘uma‘u crater, now double in size from only […]

Roy’s Restaurant in Waikaloa Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Eruption: Here’s What Travelers Should Know

UPDATE 5/11/2018: A week after the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island began sending smoke and gas into the air and opening fissures in the ground along the volcano’s slopes, officials worry the worst is yet to come with a major eruption possible. The lava level in Kilauea’s main crater Halemaʻumaʻu continues to recede […]

8 facts about Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano

Kilauea continued to erupt wildly on Hawaii’s Big Island this week, shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air and burning homes to the ground.

As of Sunday night, 10 fissure vents were open in the area and at least 26 homes had been destroyed, according to the county civil-defense agency. The U.S. Geological Survey […]

Volcanic activity slows, but it’s ‘likely only a pause’

Lava and gas continued to erupt from Kilauea volcano across a remote, rural neighborhood on Hawaii Island, and by Monday had destroyed 35 structures, including at least 26 homes, authorities said.

By Monday, the emission of lava from multiple fissures had become minimal, the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said, but “this […]

Member, Chantal Prunier spent the day exploring the Wild Cave

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Inside the cave

The hike to the lava tube included a two mile walk on this trail, but none of us had been allowed to go on it before. It was guided by employees of Friends of the Volcano and it’s called Wild Cave Exploration.

Wild thimble berry

Coming out of the cave/lava tube.

Earthquake upgraded to magnitude-6.9

KAILUA-KONA — No tsunami was triggered by a magnitude-6.9 earthquake that struck at 12:33 p.m. Friday.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the temblor occurred on south flank of Kilauea Volcano. It initially reported the earthquake as a magnitude-6.0, but later upgraded it to magnitude-6.4.

“No tsunami is expected. Repeat. No tsunami is expected. However, […]

Leilani Estates eruption spreads to 4 fissures, more expected

Steaming cracks at 5:57 a.m. Friday in Leilani Estates subdivision, moments before a fissure opened up on Kaupili Street. (HVO/Special to West Hawaii Today)

Volcanic eruptions continue in Leilani Estates, with at least four fissures having formed by Friday afternoon, according to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

The fissures involve mostly vigorous spattering and lava […]

Kilauea Erupts!

Who let the dogs out? Community celebrates opening of pooch park in Keauhou Mauka

KEAUHOU MAUKA — Tails were wagging Saturday for the opening of Hawaii Island Humane Society’s Central Bark Dog Parks.

Several dozen dogs and their people came out for the celebration of the first phase of the humane society’s Animal Community Center on 12 acres off Mamalahoa Highway, north of Haawina Street off Kuakini Highway. From […]