Erin Lee moving in new plants at the New Ke ‘Olu Garden
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 Ke’olu employees have completed CPR & AED training.
 Jahn giving mouth to mouth. The victim was unidentified, at least the bottom half was. The new AED unit has been installed and is located just outside of the Ke’olu lobby door (Makai side). Other AED locations on property can be referenced in the new resort maps… just look for the red heart symbols. Floiran Riedel Aloha, Our Ke’olu “Re-Imagined” celebration event is just around the corner and I would like to share some fun and exciting details happening on Monday, July 6th, so you know what to expect. Upon arriving at the Ke’olu entrance, please join us for a traditional blessing in the Ke’olu circular drive at approximately 4:45 pm. Upon entering Ke’olu you will receive a “punch card” which will guide you through the event and ensure you will see it all. At the end of the reception you can enter your punch card into a drawing to win some fun prizes, so make sure you get one. Here is how it works… There will be a series of stations setup around Ke’olu, for example, the Garden station. Here, you will be greeted by Erin Lee, Director of Landscaping and two chefs and a server, you can talk story, ask questions about the gardens and be able to taste the freshest Garden Crudite, Bloody Mary shooters and hand crafted Garden Greyhound cocktail. From there, visit one of the many other stations and learn about our new signature menu, our new golf programming, the four different dinner theme nights, sample signature dishes, taste botanical beverages and meet the culinary team! Don’t forget to have your punch card stamped while at each station so you can turn it in for a chance to win. Be sure to come hungry and thirsty, we have a lot of great stations and are excited for you to try them all! For those Members who are in-house or registered a visit now through July 6, you will be receiving a crafted personal invitation created by our Marketing team to be handed out by Club Concierge. Remember, even though this is a complimentary event, please RSVP with Club Concierge at your convenience so we can prepare and be ready for you. We hope you enjoyed the short video the team put together. If you have not seen it yet, here is the link to view: … Ke’olu Video Presentation We so look forward to seeing you, your family and guests this Summer… come and watch as we plant and grow! Mahalo, Florian Riedel  Mark Willman The week of Sunday June 28th we will begin implementing our new adult clinic policies. The main new policy is “one day on; one day off” adult clinics for all guests and members. Also there will be a full charge for no-shows and cancellations within a four-hour window. There will also be a beginner’s clinic every Monday from 8-9. Thus, the first day for that clinic will be June 29th. The charge is $35 and members will get a 20% discount. We are also adding a 4.0 clinic every Thursday from 3-4. The first day for this clinic is July 2nd. The price for this clinic will also be $35 with a member’s discount of 20%. The 4.0 level will vary depending on the attendees and how they assess their own game. We request that the attendees be at least a 3.5 player to participate. All junior clinics will be run daily beginning on June 28th. We may put up the “castle” during the summer for 4 – 5 days and we will keep you posted as to these days. Anyone who has any questions about these changes please feel free to call me at the Tennis Office. Thanks, Mark
In an effort to control traffic speed within Hualalai Resort, the Hualalai Traffic Committee is working with our security team to begin spot checking using a new radar gun. During these random spot checks, security personnel will monitor drivers using this radar gun. Drivers will clearly see their current speed on the radar speed display board and if excessively speeding, may then be stopped by security personnel for a brief friendly conversation about safety awareness. A big mahalo to our security department and to all traffic committee members in helping to keep our roads safe this summer for our families.
Thank you to Barbara Kildow
Floiran Riedel Aloha Club Member, It’s getting close… a little more than three weeks to the re-opening of our Ke’olu Clubhouse. We took a short video to share with you the team’s excitement about the new programming and activities that will now be available at Ke’olu. Please join us on Monday, July 6, for a special grand re-opening celebration beginning at 5:00 pm (blessing at 4:45 pm). Click the link below to view this special video presentation. http://www.hualalairesort.com/KeoluReOpeningCelebration/We look forward to seeing you there to celebrate with us this exciting new chapter of Ke’olu. Warmest Aloha, Florian Florian Riedel Vice President of Operations  Band Leader, Jerry Freeman with BIG SWING AND THE BALLROOM BLASTERS Big Swing and The Ballroom Blasters will be performing at The 11th Annual Hualalai Ohana Foundation Auction and Dinner, The Red Carpet-A Hollywood Affair on August 1, 2015! For the second year in a row they will bring a blast from the past and the best party music of today directly to Hualalai. Assembled to recreate the excitement of the world-famous Cotton Club in New York where the rich and famous danced to the greats like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington, Big Swing and the Ballroom Blasters combine Swing, Jazz, Soul and Pop into a powerful and energetic , non-stop performance. These seasoned veterans have performed with Aretha Franklin, Earth Wind & Fire, Dizzy Gillespie, The O’Jays, OutKast, Lou Rawls and Lionel Ritchie. If you were not at the 2014 Auction Event, just ask anybody who was and they will tell you Big Swing will get you out of your seat and dancing….All Night Long! Don’t miss it-Plan to be on island Saturday, August 1, 2015 for the Hualalai Ohana Foundations 11th Annual Golf, Red Carpet Dinner and Auction Event. Tickets will be available in July.  Map 1 of the widening.  Map 2 of the widening. By Bret Yager West Hawaii Today byager@westhawaiitoday.com
Orange fencing strung along the makai side of Queen Kaahumanu Highway points to the start of work to widen the roadway — hard as that may be to believe for residents who have waited for years for signs of activity. The project’s general contractor Goodfellow Bros. Inc. was scheduled to begin installing fence in late May to protect historical and cultural properties during construction. Recovery of archaeological data in the area began last week, according to a website dedicated to the project. The site has updates, construction plans, a photo gallery and other information available to the public by clicking here. Goodfellow Bros. is asking for the public’s help to locate the families that have placed a half dozen roadside memorials along Queen Kaahumanu Highway. The memorials will have to be removed before construction can start, and anyone who knows the families is asked to contact Goodfellow Bros. at 887-6511, or have the families contact the contractor directly. Hawaii Department of Transportation officials expect to issue a notice to proceed in August or September for widening the 5.2-mile stretch between Kealakehe Parkway and Kona International Airport from two lanes to four. The work will include traffic signals at all intersections with left turns to or from the highway, drainage, lighting, bike lanes and pedestrian crossings. DOT intends to finish the $100 million job in two years. The plans for the work and its impacts to traffic will be detailed in a public informational meeting to be held at least a month before the work starts, according to the DOT. Major grading and utility work will lead off construction on the makai side of the highway north of Hina Lani to the airport during a four-month period. Trucks will be entering and leaving the roadway, but otherwise, traffic patterns and turning movements are not expected to be affected. That graded area will be paved and the grading and utility work will be extended south of Hina Lani in a second stage expected to take another five months. Temporary lanes shifts at side streets will occur during this stage. Pedestrians and bicycles will have continued access to the road during all phases of construction, according to the project’s mandates. The IRONMAN Triathlon will also not be affected by the work, with an “IRONMAN Corridor” to be put in place three weeks before the race and kept open for training and other cycling.  Click on the schedule to see a larger pdf version. Over the next couple of months the Hualalai Members’ Blog will post some information leading up to the Ohana Foundation’s Annual Event on August 1st. Cara Price, the Executive Director, of the Foundation will periodically have us post success stories of some of the recipients of the Foundation’s grants. Cara Price offered this: “Today features Medical Award recipient Faith Pai, who was our guest at the 2014 Dinner and Auction. We have had lots of inquiry from residents wondering about her, so she seemed the ideal choice for our first story.”  Faith Pai receiving her recent school award for “Being a Quality Producer” Who doesn’t remember adorable Faith Pai from the 2014 Hualalai Ohana Foundation Auction event? She was the darling 6 year old who stole the show, dancing around the stage while Donna Chipps and her parents Rafer Pai and Neav McAllister spoke about her story. Rafer Pai worked at Hualalai Resort and when his daughter Faith was just five, she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She endured over a year of Chemotherapy and specialized treatments. Fortunately, during that time the Hualalai Ohana Foundation was able to assist the Pai Ohana and provide them with the much needed financial support that allowed Faith’s family to be with her during her treatments in Oahu. The news now is great; Faith has been in remission for a year! Faithy, as she is called by family is a happy Kindergartner at Hookena elementary and made it on the May Day court, representing the island of Niihau. She is an active young girl and just learned to ride bike without training wheels. She takes weekly music class and Hula. Faith’s mom Neav said “Every day is a blessing. To start, we are thankful that the folks at Hualalai foundation and the homeowners that have kept Faith in their thoughts. We reflect often on how the outpouring of support and well wishes we received helped us tremendously through Faith’s treatment and recovery”. To celebrate her good health and with the help of the Make-a-Wish Foundation Faith is now looking forward to her Granted Wish, a week-long Disney Caribbean Cruise in June! These are 3 spectacular photos of owls of Mauna Kea that Bill McDowell took the other day. He was up at 4 A.M. and drove up to the old Saddle Road and got lucky just after sunrise.
Thanks to Bill McDowell.
 Robert Whitfield About a week ago the Members’ Advisory Committee received a copy of an internal email that went to the employees of the Four Seasons and Hualalai Resort from Patrick Fitzgerald concerning changes in the management of Hualalai. Pat and I tried to connect so a message could be sent to the membership about this change, but we couldn’t coordinate schedules and now Pat is in Europe, which makes connecting with him even harder. Sunday Robert Whitfield and I chatted on the phone in order to update members via the blog. As of June 1, 2015, Monday…today, Patrick will no longer be the CEO of Hualalai Resort. After ten years he is transitioning to the position of President of Hualalai Development Company. He will spend 50% of his time in this new role at Hualalai and the other 50% of his time pursuing his own new ventures investing in and developing other real estate. Patrick will remain the head of Hualalai Development, Real Estate and the two utilities (Ka’upulehu Water and Waste Water companies.) The other components of Patrick’s CEO job will be under the purview of Robert Whitfield, who has been the general manager of the hotel for the past eight years. Robert will be taking charge of Club Services, resort and member and homeowner operations. As you know for the past year Hualalai Resort components have merged under the Four Seasons umbrella. The Resort’s six hundred-odd employees have become Four Seasons Employees and now the full resort management has been placed under Four Seasons’ General Manager Robert Whitfield. Robert reports to Chris Hart, President of Hotel Operations, of Four Seasons Hotels. He does not officially report to MSD Capital and Kohala Partners, the investors in Hualalai. This is typical of all Four Seasons agreements in all of their hotels and resorts worldwide. As he has since arriving at Hualalai, Robert will however continue to work very closely with MSD and Kohala Partners. Florian Riedel will report directly to Robert as of June 1st. Robert has been actively involved in the merger and has been on the Resort executive committee that oversees not only issues regarding the merger, but many other on-going issues as well. His objective includes supporting Florian Riedel in his new position, and overseeing the full integration of the Hotel and Resort staff into a smooth running whole. He fully recognizes that the hotel and the residential/member components must be a community that is fully united. Robert feels Four Seasons will seek to earn the privilege to continue running all of Hualalai; that it is not an entitlement. Right now, Robert’s (and his staff’s) priority is to continue to focus on the results of the member survey that was sent out about a year ago. Using that as a blueprint he wants to continue to focus on improving members’ experience all around. When I asked him who would represent the members/residents in the event of a divergence between the Four Seasons’ and the members interests, he said he didn’t have an answer for that yet, but he would report back to share that information. He indicated that he would attend the Members’ Advisory Committee meetings when needed and that he will be available to the membership and is excited to spend more time with us, though Florian and John Freitas will be directly handling Club and member issues. He did not think that there would be any changes in representatives on the Hualalai Community Association board, but representation to the HCA will fall under his supervision, he believes, as will landscaping, security and the front gate. I asked him whether our residential component will be branded as “Four Seasons” and he said no. Our conversation was short because I wanted to get this information out ASAP. I hope to follow up with Patrick when he returns from Europe and I will follow up in a month or so with Robert, too, as he begins taking over the reins from Patrick. Mike Sack
Beginning Sunday, June 28 We are happy to announce the addition of two new adult tennis clinics beginning Sunday, June 28. These two clinics, the Adult Beginner clinic and the Adult 4.0 clinic will have a nominal fee of $35 (discounted to $28 for Members) and sign-ups will be limited to one day-off and one day-on to provide everyone an opportunity to participate. Please note, these clinics have a 4 hour cancellation policy (24 hours during Festive).
Tennis Clinic Schedule Effective Sunday, June 28:New Adult Beginner Clinic Monday’s 8:00 am – 9:00 am New Adult 4.0 Clinic Thursday’s 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Adult Clinic (complimentary) Daily 9:00 am – 10:00 am Magic Tennis World Junior Clinics Daily 9:00 am – 9:30 am (ages 4-7) Daily 9:30 am – 10:00 am (ages 8-12) Future Champions Clinic Daily 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (ages 10-17) Tennis Pavilion (808) 325-8460 A big Mahalo to Mark Willman, Crystal Poe-Cabatbat and members of the Hualalai Members’ Advisory Board for their support in making these tennis enhancements happen!  Sunrise on Memorial Day 2015  A few nights ago at the 8500 foot level. Looking South toward the active volcano and encompassing the milky way.  A dramatic sunset on the Kona Coast.  Another dramatic shot at sunset on the Kona Coast.  Blow Hole just south of the Kona Airport. Again many thanks to Bill for sharing his photos. It’s Almost Summer… Cleaning Time!
The Hualalai Ohana Foundation will be holding the Ohana Hana Hou Sale on Friday, May 29, 2015 from 7:00 am – 3:00 pm. If you have any items for donation; clothing, household items, games, sporting goods, toys, decor, etc., you are welcome to drop them off. Donations will be received next week, Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm at the Hualalai Ohana Foundation office in the Mauka Construction trailer. If you need assistance, you may call the Foundation on Monday, May 25, to schedule a pick up time. Foundation Office (808) 325-4701. Your support of the Hualalai Ohana Foundation is always appreciated! Mahalo! Well we don’t know yet, but it’s just beginning. If you are in the main parking lot at Ke ‘Olu and look at what used to be grass abutting it on the north side you will see this:
It’s the installation of a new vegetable/herb garden to be used by the Ke ‘Olu kitchen and bar. You’ll be hearing more about it soon from management. But the work has begun. Thanks to Bill McDowell for always sharing his photos Hello Fellow Hualalai Homeowners! I would like to introduce a recurring blog entry called “Trash Talk.” Trash talk will be a brief practical source of information on the recycling efforts happening in Hualalai and the island for homeowners and from a homeowner’s perspective. I would like to gather an email list of a “Green Team” of Hualalai members. So far I will include Joy Dreimann, myself, my husband Ed, and Susan Mendelson who coined the name (Thanks Susan!). If any one else wants to join this list for special “Green” info and possible get togethers with no obligation besides being on an email list please send me a message of interest to cathyron@me.com so that I will have your email. My advisor and trash knowledge cohort (so we know what we’re trash talking about) is Sarah Riznyk from Hana Hou Recycling. www.hanahourecycling.com Here is what is recyclable on the island for us either by signing up for recycling service with Hana Hou or place in the Self Service recycling bin in K-4 parking lot.
Trash Talker, Cathy O’Neill & Sarah Riznyk Hana Hou Recycling PO Box 565, Holualoa HI 96725 808-322-7505 |
