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Island Images
For Friday, June 10, 2011
By Star-Advertiser Photographers
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 07, 2011
LAST UPDATED: 12:09 a.m. HST, Jun 10, 2011
Aloha Air Cargo celebrated the addition of a turboprop Saab 340 plane to its fleet Monday with a traditional Hawaiian blessing. Kahu Kordell Kekoa, left, Aloha Air Cargo Chief Operating Officer Pat Rosa and Aloha Air Cargo President Lee Steele were at the Honolulu Airport ceremony.
REACH FOR THE SKY | Hawaii Youth Challenge Graduating Cadets Luis Perez, left, and Lucas Taitano hang out of the side door of an SH-60 Seahawk helicopter at the Naval Air Museum Barbers Point in Kalaeloa.
Jeanne Vana, above, who grows North Shore Farms’ Big Wave tomatoes, arranged some of the farm’s award-winning produce Sunday during the Haleiwa Farmers Market’s 2011 Tomato Fest.
Mililani resident Jo-ann Mew perused a selection of Vana’s tomatoes.
NOT EXACTLY CUPID: Pig hunter Jake Marote concentrated during target practice with his bow and arrow Saturday at Kapiolani Park. He said strategy and planning are key when using a bow and arrows to hunt.
Dennis Oda / doda@staradvertiser.com
Kayla Kepoo, left, and Kristine Krieg showed off the lei they were working on Thursday at Jefferson Elementary School for the Maui pa'u riders' horses in the King Kamehameha Day Floral Parade. The parade, which runs from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, begins at King and Richards streets and ends at Kapiolani Park. The parade's theme, "Wahine Holo Lio," honors the tradition of pa'u riding.
blaze destroys mililani home
Jamm Aquino / jaquino@staradvertiser.com
@Caption1:Investigators returned Wednesday to the scene of a fire that caused
an estimated $350,000 in damage to a Mililani home the night before.
Channing Chandler and her sister-in-law were sleeping in the home and escaped without serious injury after they were awakened by the smell of smoke at their house at 94-326 Apele St., fire officials said. About 20 firefighters brought the fire under control at about 11:30 p.m. and extinguished the blaze at 1:40 a.m.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE | The ocean was equally giving Monday to both Zen- and thrill-seekers alike.Kanekoa Crabbe cut back on a South Shore wave at Kewalo’s surf spot.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE | Russell Chun paddled his 17-foot stand-up paddleboard along the shoreline of Sand Island in Keehi Lagoon.
ROADSIDE LAUNDRY DAY | A man hung his clothes on a fence Monday along Sand Island Access Road.
A day of fun amid the breakers
PHOTOS BY BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM
Family Programs Hawaii gathered about 20 foster siblings Sunday to give them a chance to learn how to surf with Dane Kealoha and his Surf 2 Serve program. The siblings, who live in different foster homes, met Kealoha on the beach near the Ala Moana Bowls surf spot. At left, Kealoha shows Daniel Entendcia how to stand on a surfboard from a prone position.
Kealoha shows Daniel Entendcia how to stand on a surfboard from a prone position.
lion dance at liliha library
FL Morris / FMORRIS@staradvertiser.com
@Caption1:Gee Yung International Martial Arts and Dragon and Lion Dance Association gave a demonstration of lion dancing and technique Saturday at the
Liliha Public Library. From their chairs, Brian Hurov and his son, Kawika Hurov, watched the action of the lion dancers.
Jackie Yoshimura, left, and friend Kaytee Ching, both 14, collected trash and debris Saturday during a cleanup day at Kewalo Basin Park in Kakaako hosted by the Friends of Kewalos.
CAPTAIN TAKES COMMAND OF JOINT BASE | Navy and Air Force personnel, above, attended the change-of-command ceremony at Pearl Harbor Friday, during which Navy Capt. Jeffrey James, right, relieved Capt. Richard Kitchens as commander of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Kitchens, who commanded Naval Station Pearl Harbor from June 2008, became the first commander of the joint Navy-Air Force base on Oct. 1, when Naval Station Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Force Base merged.
CAPTAIN TAKES COMMAND OF JOINT BASE | Navy and Air Force personnel, above, attended the change-of-command ceremony at Pearl Harbor Friday, during which Navy Capt. Jeffrey James, right, relieved Capt. Richard Kitchens as commander of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Kitchens, who commanded Naval Station Pearl Harbor from June 2008, became the first commander of the joint Navy-Air Force base on Oct. 1, when Naval Station Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Force Base merged.
INTO THE DEEP BLUE YONDER | Boogie-boarders joined the action yesterday at Sandy Beach.
bridge of aloha
courtesy state department of transportation
@Caption1:State and Kauai County officials dedicated a new two-lane bridge on Kuhio Highway over Wailua River on Tuesday, replacing a single-lane, northbound bridge. The $29 million project includes a pedestrian and bicycle path separated from traffic lanes. Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho and
Annette Baptiste, widow of former Mayor Bryan Baptiste, are pictured.
MAKING THE CUT | About 35 children were invited Tuesday to Masaharu Morimoto’s Morimoto Restaurant in Waikiki for a session with the Iron Chef on plating and presentation. Morimoto was a guest judge in last year’s Parents and Children Together’s annual Iron Chef competition, in which keiki from several housing projects competed for months leading up to a final contest in the tradition of Food Networks’ “Iron Chef.” Morimoto is getting a head start in this year’s event with a demonstration showing the kids how sashimi is prepared.
GOLDEN GAMES FOR GOLDEN YEARS | Karl Hall, 55, from Honolulu competed in the shot put under cloudy skies Tuesday at the University of Hawaii-Manoa track on the final day of competition for the National Veterans Golden Age Games. Hall’s best was 45 feet,
912 inches. The Golden Age Games is the world’s largest sports and recreational competition for veterans age 55 and older who receive health care at any VA medical facility. This year’s event drew more than 900 participants.
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