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Ahupua`a o Kahana
Saturday, May 27, 2000
8:00 am to 3:30 pm

• the "disappearing waterfalls"
• community struggles to maintain rural lifestyles
• impact of alien species on our environment
• Kahana as the "source" of the water in the Waiahole Contested Case
• how to help the Kahana community restore the streams and lo`i in their ahupua`a

For more information or to reserve a seat in the bus call 738-0084 or email palolo@hawaii.edu. We will board the Gomes school bus fronting Sinclair Circle, UH Manoa, above the Dole St. - University Ave. intersection. Please bring your own lunch, water and a change of clothes and towel. We will work in the lo`i and swim in the reservoir before reboarding the bus. There is no fee. Children are welcome. Wear reefwalkers or other footgear. Wear clothing that can be stained with mud.

Hui `Aina o Kahana: Work Day

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Aloha kakou,

This month our regular ahupua`a tour and work day in Kahana will occur on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22. In celebration of this day we will be working in the mauka lo`i in the morning and then move makai in the afternoon to join Kai Makana at the beach to welcome solo paddler, Donna Kahakui. For those of you who read the MidWeek, there is an article in this week's issue on Donna Kahakui ("Paddling Solo to Save the Sea"), founder of Kai Makana, a non-profit organization composed of, among others, a number of paddlers and kayakers. Donna is paddling solo in a one-man canoe around O`ahu to call attention to the plight of the ocean.

Many of the paddlers, all islands no doubt, are majorly concerned about sea animals trapped in fishing lines and nets, turtles with tumors, and the tremendous floating masses of plastic bags, beer bottles, cigarette butts and other paraphernalia. We think if we clean the beaches we have the situation under control. But reality is that most of the junk is floating out where we can't see it. But paddlers can.