Culture — Tuesday, October 6, 2009 2:00

Hawaii Culture: Portuguese Horseshoe

Oneula Beach Park

Thursday, October 1, 2009 20:10

For the Keiki and Ohana
One’ula beach is a wide open spacious park hidden on the south-west shores of Oahu. More commonly known to the locals as Haubush due to the brush plant growing over surrounding, over grown kiawe trees — it’s one of the very few public access parks that offer visitors a variety of [...]

Ewa Beach Elementary Celebrates 50 Years

Thursday, October 1, 2009 10:27

Ewa Beach Elementary on the South-West side of Oahu, like the State of Hawaii celebrated it’s 50th birthday. The faculty and administrators of the Home of the Bee’s and Kiawe Trees have been providing the children of Ewa Beach the life lessons skills set to carry them far in their lives.
The 5-building campus opened their [...]

Hawaii Eats: Loco Moco

Saturday, September 26, 2009 17:45

HawaiiEats
Hawaii — the islands, it’s flavors, and culture have the ability to awaken and heighten all of your senses. The touch of the sunlight on your cheek, the display of majestic mountain ranges, and the serenity of the ocean are the not-so-secret delicacies the isles offer. But, it’s the other delicacies, the type that lure [...]

Waipahu Sugar Mill

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 7:24

As the skies turn a reddish gray and black ash falls from the space above. The smell of burning sugarcane fills your car and you turn on your headlights to drive through the thick smoke up ahead. As you pass through the smoke you turn to see the fields on fire and plantation workers controlling [...]

Japanese Culture, Now Hawaii Traditions

Friday, August 14, 2009 0:11

After losing their crops in their hometowns, the first Japanese immigrants came to Hawaii in the mid 1800’s looking for a better way of life. Plantation work was very harsh with most of the immigrants returning to Japan at the end of their contracts. But, those that remained brought their culture that continues to be [...]

Surfing in Hawaii

Sunday, August 2, 2009 14:02

Surfing
Surfing in Hawaii can be traced back to the early 1500’s where petroglyph carvings described native Hawaiians riding long narrow boards carved from wood and rounded at the ends. But, the very first description of it was not written till 1779 by Captain James King. He’e nalu or wave riding was a past time the [...]