There you are driving your car up to Ke ‘Olu. You golf bag is in the trunk. You drive into the circle. Stop the car and go over to the golf bag rack and lo and behold there is now a button there for you to push. Push it. Voila in minutes an attendant arrives in a golf cart takes out your clubs, follows you to the parking lot and drives you down to the starter station. Just like uptown!!!!!
The Button
Jahn demos how the clever little button works.
Florian poses with the button. It’s wonderful being the paparazzi on campus!
Becky and Bob Holman are intereseted in purchasing a used 4 seater golf cart. If you have one you would like to sell contact them at beckyandbob310@aol.com.
“They caught this jack fish or Ulua using a spear gun. I think the fish must weigh close to 50 lbs! Never know what you will come across at Hualalai.” Kathy Ferguson sent this photo in.
In the near future I will be sharing some interesting information about the Ka’upulehu Marine Life Advisory Committee (KMLAC). Here is a quote from their brochure and purpose:
This is a community-‐based plan to restore marine resources and ensure that traditional, subsistence, and cultural fishing practices are sustained within the ahupua‘a of Kaʻūpūlehu for our future generations. We are asking everyone to join us as we let the reef recover by resting part of it for ten years, while we develop a subsistence fishing plan based on Hawaiian tradition, values, and modern science.
The Autobianchi Bianchina is a minicar produced by the Italianautomaker Autobianchi, based on the Fiat 500. It was available in various configurations: Berlina (saloon), Cabriolet (roadster),Trasformabile (convertible), Panoramica (station wagon), andFurgoncino (van). The car was presented to the public on 16 September 1957 at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.
Initially, the car was equipped with the smallest Fiat engine, air-cooled 479 cc producing 15 hp (11 kW). In 1959, the engine power was increased to 17 hp (13 kW) and in 1960, the cabriolet version was launched.
In the same year, the Trasformabile, whose engine cylinder capacity was increased to 499 cc (18 hp), was made available in a Special version with bicolour paint and an engine enhanced to 21 hp (16 kW). Transformabile featured fixed B-pillar and partial roof, as the rest of the opening was covered with foldable fabric hood. Cabriolet version had no B-pillar. Also this was the only version to feature suicide doors. In 1962,the Trasformabile was replaced by a 4-seat saloon. The engine and chassis were the same as in the Trasformabile.
In 1965, a minor facelift was made. In France, the models were sold under different names: the Berlina became the Lutèce, the Familiare the Texane, and the Trasformabile was marketed as the Eden Roc.[1
Please note, Monday’s Residents’ Reception has been relocated from the Residents’ Beach House to the Ke’olu Bar Lawn, April 6. Dinner service is available following the reception. No reservations needed. See you there!
This is the perfect setting to hear what’s coming up in the following departments:
Tennis (Mark)
Golf (Brendan)
Alaka’i Nalu (Ocean Sports–Trent Fischer)
The Members Advisory Board and Hualalai Club Management have created a series of luncheons where Members can get to know and communicate with the various department heads and managers at Hualalai Resort.
This is a good opportunity to share concerns, suggestions and ideas not only with the various department heads but with your fellow Members as well. The lunch is not hosted, but desserts and soft drinks are on the house!
Last Monday New Members were officially welcomed to the Hualalai Community by the Hualalai Club and the Members Advisory Committee. The Monday Mooch was held at Ke ‘Olu from 5 – 6:30 PM. Introductions to various committees as well as the Ohana Foundation were made and welcoming gift was given to the new members.
New Members of Hualalai Resort
Karen Witesman
Tom Reeve
Chantal Prunier
Jim and Linda Phillips
Leigh Mathes
Yasemin Kliman
Bob and Judy Huret
Andy and Karen Fisher
Chris Carley
Some Fun Shots from The Evening
Kathy Styer, Mike Sack and Susan F.rampton represented the Members Advisory Board
Donna Chips introduced the Ohana Foundation
Ray Lager talked about the Design and Review Board
Peggy Kent talked about the Hualalai Community Association
John Freitas and Florian Riedel welcomed everybody
All of our managers gathered together to mingle with the members. Just kidding. Our luncheon will be a lot more fun…and colorful.
The Members Advisory Board and Hualalai Club Management have created a series of luncheons where Members can get to know and communicate with the various department heads and managers at Hualalai Resort.
This is a good opportunity to share concerns, suggestions and ideas not only with the various department heads but with your fellow Members as well. The lunch is not hosted, but desserts and soft drinks are on the house!
The Hualalai Members’ Advisory Board along with Management have planned a special Reception for a welcoming of new Members and to introduce them to fellow Hualalai Resort Members. Please note, this location has been moved from the fire pit area to the bar lawn at Ke ‘olu. Don’t forget the restaurant and bar will be open for Dinner and drinks after the Reception. Don’t forget to make a reservation.
John Ryan and Anne Ryan-Barish led the campaign by donating $500,000 for the new Humane Society Campus challenging the other attendees to match their donation.
Marlene Mastenbrook celebrates her birthday by dining with friends at the Canoe Club. Three enjoyed the special of Hot Dog with chile and two kinds of cheese. Of course there was fries. One friend hid her lunch because it wasn’t up to par with the others. Mah Jong followed.
Kym Londahl, Marlene Mastenbrook, Linda Borgman and Nancy Trull
Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel
62-100 Kauna’Oa Drive
Waimea, HI 96743
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The first three tenors performance in Hawaii! An unforgettable performance of opera – Broadway – pop – crossover favorites in the beautiful breezeway overlooking the ocean at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel. Reserve now by calling
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Presented in association with the Hoku Concert Series.
PAHOA, Hawaii — If a disaster movie played out in slow motion, it might look a bit like the Puna District on the Big Island of Hawaii.
As a mass of smoldering black lava has inched since June toward the town of Pahoa, the commercial center of this isolated stretch of Puna, there has been no need for residents to run screaming from a flaming river rumbling down the mountain.
Instead, there has been a pervasive, static anxiety over where the fickle, hot blob might ooze next — not quite the scenario in “When Time Ran Out.”
“We’ve kind of been living day by day,” said Jeff Hunt, 55, a surfboard shaper with a shop along the main drag. “You just really don’t know how to act.” The Kilauea volcano is 35 miles away, and its magma has emerged routinely since 1983. Most of the time, when the lava exits the earth with enough force to creep far downhill, it heads south toward the ocean, following a course that is largely no longer inhabited. Starting last June 27, however, new fissures pushed the molten rock northeast, straight for this town of about 950.
Residents of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii have lived since last June with a mass of lava slowly moving toward their town. Credit Marco Garcia/Reuters
Residents began obsessively checking lava updates on a government website and attending official briefings. What if the lava blocked the highway and no one could get to work? Could it be stopped? Would they lose their homes? Could people die?
“I’m from Florida, where there’s hurricanes, and that’s over in a day or two, maybe,” said Lindsey Wuest, 23, a teacher at Pahoa High and Intermediate School. “But this is, like, stress just building and building and building.”
Trying to relieve some of her students’ anxiety, Ms. Wuest turned to the statistics and surveys compiled by Mark Kimura, a researcher affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Hilo, which were posted on a popular Facebook page. She invited him to speak to her students, and he reassured them that the lava was sufficiently slow.
“The good news is that you have plenty of time to evacuate, so you’re not going to die,” he said. The bad news? No one can predict when or if the lava will hit the town, he said. “The worst is, even geologists don’t know the answer.”
A house in Pahoa, Hawaii, in the path of a lava flow caught fire in November. CreditBruce Omori/Paradise Helicopters, via European Pressphoto Agency
For a glimpse of their potential future, Pahoa residents can drive up the narrow road lined with palm and mango trees that winds out to the coast. There, a landscape of shiny black ripples hides the remains of much of Kalapana and Kaimu, towns where houses and a popular black sand beach were destroyed by lava in 1986 and 1990.
Back in September, things began to look dire here, too. The lava got close to a subdivision southwest of Pahoa, and smoke billowed overhead. Over the next few months — as the lava sped up, slowed down or changed course — schools and businesses closed, some residents evacuated, the National Guard moved in, and President Obama declared the region a disaster area.
“I started to get more afraid that it was going to take our school or our livelihood, you know?” said Anjali Sabaratnam, 13, whose parents raise horses. “It’s been kind of scary.”
Amid nightmarish visions of liquid rock slowly smothering the town, the holdouts of Pahoa prepared for the worst. A contractor put up an enormous berm around his house, hoping to divert the flow. At the district’s mall, the main grocery store, hardware store and pharmacy all closed.
As the flow approached roadways, utility poles were insulated with rocks. Credit Kent Nishimura for The New York Times
The electric company wrapped power poles in insulation and surrounded them with rocks caged in chicken wire to keep the poles from burning. Residents went to eat at their favorite restaurants one last time, and hugged salesclerks as they made what they thought would be their final purchases.
As tourists set up lawn chairs to get a glimpse of the coming devastation, the residents waited. Many businesses remained open, awaiting the onslaught; outside the chiropractor’s office, a small, red, heart-shaped sign still proclaims: “We are staying.”
But the blob stalled.
The lava eventually burned a house and subsumed part of the cemetery, a road and the garbage dump, but it stopped before reaching the center of town or any major thoroughfares. It came within feet of the mall and the contractor’s house, with its berm, but spared both. The National Guard left in February, and an approximation of normal life under the volcano is returning, even as some students and residents remain displaced. Last Wednesday, the grocery store, the Malama Market, reopened, to the joy of Pahoans.
Some businesses remain closed, but a supermarket reopened last week. Credit Kent Nishimura for The New York Times
Still missing are hundreds of pets lost or abandoned as the lava crept close. Some of them wound up at the Rainbow Friends Animal Sanctuary, where cats and chickens now roam a seven-and-a-half-acre property in Keaau, about 15 miles away. The shelter got about 300 calls in September asking it to take in the animals, said Mary Rose Krijgsman, the founder.
As lava along the edges of the flow continues to inch forward, some here say that its movement is guided by the anger of the fire goddess Pele, whose spirit is said to reside in the volcano. Her temper is still palpable in the walls of twisted black rock that rise near the roadway and garbage dump, as well as in the plumes of smoke that occasionally rise from the flow.
“It hurts your breathing,” said Tyler Eoromeo, 15, who feels it most during wrestling practice.
The biggest worry remains whether the lava will reach Route 130, the highway to Hilo, 18 miles away, which has about 43,000 residents and is where many in Puna go to work or shop. Officials are working on alternate routes, but it is unclear how successful they will be. The lava can eventually be cleared or bridged, but workers must first wait for it to stop and cool sufficiently; that process, the timetable and cost are still unknown.
“It’s all about the road,” said Heather Toboika, 37, a spiritual counselor. The planned alternatives, which are not as direct or well paved as the current route, could stretch commutes from minutes to hours. “It would change your way of life,” she said.
For many, it already has. Some, like Raquel Wertz, 48, have taken the eruption as a call to self-reliance.
“I’m welcoming a more rural lifestyle for myself and my family,” she said, standing behind the counter at the Jungle Love clothing store, where she occasionally works. She has solar electricity and a backup generator so she can go off the grid, and now grows much of her own food.
“We can’t control it,” Ms. Wertz said of the volcano, a printout of the daily lava update on the counter. “So for us, I think it’s very mantra: Go with the flow, really and truly.”
