Saving Seeds

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October 13, 2011  by Joan Conrow  “I pretty much think saving seed is the most important thing we can do on the planet,” says Paul Massey, founder of Regenerations Botanical Garden in Kilauea. “We’re at a tipping point, where we still have an amazing amount of plant diversity, but it’s disappearing rapidly.” Massey will be one of the speakers at a two-day workshop aimed at teaching folks how to save seeds. The deadline to register, and apply for youth scholarships, is Thursday, Oct. 20.
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Hawaii Island’s Best Beach for Snorkeling

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September 23, 2011 By Kim Steutermann Rogers When I arrived at Hawaii Island’s number one snorkeling beach last week, the tide was low, revealing bright green seaweed growing on rocks. Exactly 77 beach-goers were out–reclining on beach towels, wading in the water, swimming and snorkeling. A dozen more sat at the picnic tables under the pavilion. Sean, a one-time public defender from California, manned the lifeguard tower, and two retired school teachers, Ken and Regan, set up shop for ReefTeach. On the back of Ken’s blue, volunteer-issue ReefTeach shirt, he’d handwritten in permanent marker: Please Kokua: No Touch Turtles!! No feed fish!! No touch coral!! *Mahalo*.
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Counting Crows

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September 22, 2011  By Kim Steutermann Rogers I’m standing on one side of a window in the library of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center. On the other side of the glass, two crows, a couple, go about their day. The male presents the back of his head to the female. She reaches over, opens her bill and plucks out a feather. He flinches but presents his head to her again, and she reaches, opens and plucks. It’s molting season, a prickly, itchy time for a bird. A little help snagging those feathers in hard to reach places is greatly appreciated.
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Kamehameha Schools names three finalists for top job

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September 19, 2011 Kamehameha Schools has narrowed down the search for a new head of school for the Kapalama campus to three finalists, officials announced in a news release today. They are: Lee Ann DeLima, currently the headmaster of Kamehameha Schools Maui campus. J. Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, a professor of political science at UH-Manoa. Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua has helped to build UH’s indigenous politics program. She received a doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Kamehameha Schools names headmaster finalists

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September 19, 2011 Kamehameha Schools on Monday named three finalists for headmaster of its Kapalama Campus. The Honolulu private school is searching for a successor for Michael Chun, who said in May that he would step down in July 2012. The finalists are: Lee Ann DeLima, headmaster of Kamehameha Schools’ Maui Campus; J. Noelani Goodyear-Kapua [sic], a political science professor at the University of Hawaii Manoa and Earl T. Kim, superintendent of the Montgomery School District in New Jersey.

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The Story of “Lefty” the Sea Turtle

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September 1, 2011 Share The Story of “Lefty” the Sea Turtle …By Margaret Kearns… Green sea turtles (honu in Hawaiian) are among Hawai‘i’s most popular, positively charming marine creatures. Revered by ancient Hawaiians, one legend tells the story of a mystical honu, Kauila, who resided in the waters off Hawai‘i Island. Kauila, as the legend goes, possessed special powers that allowed her to change into human form to watch over the village children playing near the shore.
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Rebuilding Waikuaaala after Kona tsunami

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August 15, 2011 KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii: The community gathered to lend a hand to the cherished Kahulu’u Beach Park on Saturday, part of the Kokua Kahulu’u effort organized by the Kohala Center, Hawaii County and supported by other local groups and businesses. The Wai’kua’a’ala pond, once the royal bath for Hawaiian alii, was restored by heavy lifting volunteers under the direction of Kelii Freitas, a county worker and stone mason versed in the old style. Organizers said the March 11th tsunami that battered the Kona coast presented an opportunity to refurbish the pond that had fallen under disrepair.

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From Punana Leo o Hilo to Oxford

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August 13, 2011 By Peter Sur For anybody who has questioned the value of a Hawaiian immersion education, consider the case of ‘Oiwi Parker Jones. As members of Protect Kaho‘olawe Ohana, his activist parents met in a courtroom following a protest. Raised by his mother in Hilo, he entered the first class of Punana Leo o Hilo in 1985, and stayed with the program until he was 15. Now 30, Parker Jones is a junior faculty member at England’s University of Oxford, where he earned his PhD., and he was recently granted a prestigious $50,000 Mellon-Hawaii postdoctoral fellowship in linguistics.
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UH Hilo’s Kimura awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i fellowship

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July 27, 2011 – KAMUELA, Hawai‘i — University of Hawai‘i at Hilo (UH Hilo) assistant professor Larry Kimura has been selected as a 2011–2012 Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow. Kimura is one of four scholars receiving the fellowships in recognition of their commitment to the advancement of scholarship on Hawaiian cultural and natural environments, Hawaiian language, history, politics, and society.

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School garden conference at Makaha Elementary

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July 11, 2011 MAKAHA—School garden and classroom teachers from around the state will converge this week at the oldest school garden in the state, Hoa ‘Aina O Makaha, for the 4th annual Summer School Garden Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is Planting Hope: Growing the Next Generation. The conference is hosted by The Kohala Center of the Big Island, an independent, not-for-profit center for research and education about and for the environment.

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