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The Girl Scouts from the Kaneohe Service Unit staffed the donation booth located in the center stage area at Windward Mall and invited other Girl Scouts and any one else to join them in sewing lei.
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The King Kamehameha Celebration Commission is asking the public to donate plumerias for Wednesday’s lei-draping ceremony after its chief supplier was hit hard by recent rainfall.
Organizers say they are in dire need of flowers after an order of more than 20,000 could not be filled. The flowers either didn’t bloom or were knocked off the branches.
Kainoa Daines, a celebration commissioner, said the organization usually orders more than 20,000 plumerias every year to create 30 to 40 lei, each about 30 feet long, to drape over the Kamehameha Statute downtown. Wednesday is Kamehameha Day.
In some years past, the order came up short, Daines said. This year they received no flowers at all.
State arts program specialist Lehua Kalima said they typically order yellow plumerias because of their thick petals. Organizers are now accepting loose plumerias of any color.
Daines said families and organizations are also invited to make their own 30- to 40-foot long plumeria lei to bring to the ceremony.
Daines said lei will be draped on the Kamehameha Statue fronting Ali‘iolani Hale by the Honolulu Fire Department at 3:30 p.m.
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YOU CAN HELP
Flowers can be dropped off in front of the Kekuanaoa Building, 465 S. King St., from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday. Members of Ahahui Ka‘ahumanu will be on hand to accept the flowers.
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