Hari and Ramya Srinivasan of Texas try some coconut milk from Emilio Espinoza at the seventh annual Hawaii Avocado Festival Saturday at the Sheraton Kona Resort & Spa. (Brad Ballesteros/Special to West Hawaii Today) Miss Kona Coffee 2013 Guinevere Davenport talks avocado with Vika Hanson at the seventh annual Hawaii Avocado Festival Saturday at the [...]
Wellness in Waimea
April 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Maleah Adams does the limbo at a booth sponsored by Waimea Country School at the 14th Annual Waimea Healthy Keikifest on Saturday. (Anna Pacheco/Special to West Hawaii Today) Eight-year-old Sana Yamakawa plays with a hula hoop at the Waimea Healthy Keikifest on Saturday. (Anna Pacheco/Special to West Hawaii Today) Jonah Chiquita, 17, tries to walk [...]
Hundreds gather for Easter sunrise
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Worshipers revel to the music Sunday morning during the 32nd annual Community Sunrise Easter Service as the sun rises over Hualalai. (Brad Ballesteros/Special to West Hawaii Today) Bryan Moorehead, left, and his 14-year-old son, Tyler, who is visiting from Charlotte, N.C., attended the 32nd annual Community Sonrise Easter Service Sunday morning at Old Kona Airport [...]
Merrie Monarch Festival | 2013 schedule
April 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
March 31 – April 6, 2013. Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Hale Naua III Native Hawaiian Art Exhibit, Merrie Monarch Festival Office Hoolaulea — Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium 9 a.m., Haakumalae Protocols Program, Hawaii Community College and Hawaii Island Public Charter Schools, Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, Dr. Taupouri Tangaro & Manaiakalani Kalua 10 a.m., Hula Halau Ke Olu Makani [...]
Life on Recent Lava Flows
March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Botanist presenting seminar on ‘Life on Recent Lava Flows’ Saturday at Hawaii Volcanoes park. Botanist Tim Tunison will lead a field seminar, “Life on Recent Lava Flows,” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Participants will learn the characteristics of the small suite of plant and animal species found on [...]
Pro Bowl returning to Hawaii
March 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Associated Press PHOENIX — The Pro Bowl will return to Honolulu next January and again will be played the week before the Super Bowl. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday at the owners meetings that the all-star game he once considered scrapping has been scheduled for Aloha Stadium on Jan. 26. He added that [...]
On a roll: Local Fusion Sushi challenges…
February 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
classic rules with daring and tasty cuisine. Owner Dawn Cabral makes a Chirashi Plate Lunch at the new Sweet Thunder Local Fusion Sushi at 811 Laukapu St. The Chirashi Plate Lunch includes chorizo with tossed salad and rice. Owner Dawn Cabral, right, and her good friend, Patty Bray, run Sweet Thunder Local Fusion Sushi at [...]
Ocean Day to be held Feb. 23, 2013
February 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The sixth annual University of Hawaii at Hilo Ocean Day Hawaii Malama Kanaloa Festival will be held from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, at Hilo Bayfront. Information booths will feature UH-Hilo Marine Science and Hawaii IMUA III EPSCoR researchers, Kalakaua Marine Education Center, NOAA‚’s Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, the Honolulu Zoo, Hilo Marine [...]
Kawa Bay security comes with a price
February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
HILO — It will cost at least $552 nightly for a private security service to patrol the Kawa Bay property purchased by the county, according to bids opened Tuesday afternoon. The county Department of Parks and Recreation is hiring a security company for three months beginning Friday, with an option to extend the security until [...]
Waimea Homestead Market
February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Ma’ata Tukuafu – Special to North Hawaii News At 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning, the line for the Nakamoto’s breakfast is at least 20 people deep. It’s a beautiful clear morning at Waimea’s Hawaiian Homestead Farmer’s Market. “This is nothing,” said Bobby Nakamoto, whose whole family helps out under the big tent. “Sometimes, [...]
