There will be no broadcast of Saturday’s annual King Kamehameha Day floral parade this year, but you might catch the tail end of it thanks to Kamehameha Schools and Oiwi TV.

The parade ends at Iolani Palace, where at 10 a.m., Kamehameha Schools and Oiwi TV will live-stream the post-parade Kamehameha Day Hoolaulea until 1 p.m. online.

"This is an opportunity for us to experiment with ways to help bring events like this to the greater community," said Ann Botticelli, Kamehameha Schools vice president of community relations and communications.

"Our team will actually be mixing live streamed video and interviews on site for folks who are not on Oahu to enjoy, or even folks on Oahu who can’t make it to the palace."

The interviews will discuss King Kamehameha, the pageantry involved in the parade, "a lot of the manao around the events … and educate people about Hawaiian culture and continue the vibrancy of the culture, which is what Kamehameha Schools is committed to doing," she said.

Kamehameha Schools is also converting the Flash technology of the live stream to QuickTime format so iPhone and iPad users will be able to watch it as well, because Apple’s mobile devices don’t support Flash.

It is the first online broadcast of the Kamehameha Day celebration, said John Garcia, digital designer for Kamehameha Schools, who is overseeing the conversion for iPhone and iPad users.

Social media interactivity will also be part of the effort, via Twitter and Facebook, where users are encouraged to use the hash-tag #KDay. "People are also going to be able to interact on the live stream page at oiwi.tv," he said.

Oiwi TV, which focuses on Hawaiian culture and issues, is online and also carried on Oceanic Time Warner Cable digital Channel 326. While the three-hour event will not be aired live, a highlights show will likely be on the air before the end of the month, said Naalehu Anthony, chief executive officer.

Garcia believes live streaming of events will become more widespread in time.

While fairly new, as technology advances and as new devices are released to the marketplace, "it’s just a matter of time before people are more aware of these types of events," and organizations that stage them are going to want to reach the massive numbers of mobile device users by incorporating streaming technology those devices support.

Watch the live stream: Oiwi TV

Mickey D’s reopens in Kaneohe

There was a time, probably decades ago, that McDonald’s commercial jingles would musically say, "You deserve a break today."

For many Kaneohe residents, that day came yesterday when the Windward City Shopping Center McDonald’s opened after ground-up reconstruction.

For a few long months, folks had to drive all the way to Temple Valley to get their two-all-beef-patties-special-sauce-lettuce-cheese-pickles-onions-on-a-sesame-seed-bun.

The new restaurant has a double-lane drive-through that might relieve the left-turn death trap that ensnares area drivers (including your columnist) hoping to turn from Aumoku Street into the center parking lot at the McDonald’s corner, or on to Kaneohe Bay Drive, a few feet away.

The unique "Hawaiian Folkways" mural by artist Martin Charlot, a fixture in Kaneohe McDonald’s since 1985, was preserved and was reinstalled in the restaurant.

Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Advertiser. Reach her by e-mail at erika@staradvertiser.com.