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Holiday mornings are nice for staying home — doubly true on Presidents Day, especially for those living near the Halawa-to-Downtown coastal corridor.
Due to the Great Aloha Run, always scheduled on this occasion, you probably can’t drive to many destinations there until midday sometime. Downtown streets are fully closed until mid-morning, choked with foot traffic as the runners converge on the starting line in the wee hours.
Of course, the runners themselves avoid most of the traffic, so joining the event is one escape plan. But then, there’s no sleeping in.
A once-sleepy holiday takes on new meaning
Today is Presidents Day. Boy, is it ever.
Since the Jan. 20 inauguration of President Donald Trump, it seems like every day is Presidents Day, with our new chief executive dominating the headlines and Twitter feeds like no one else — for better or worse.
We’ve come a long way from 1885, when the day was established to celebrate President George Washington’s birthday on Feb. 22.
Now the day celebrates all 45 of America’s presidents, a tribute to the office that represents the greatest aspirations of our country.
That’s worth contemplating, on this day in particular.
