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Earth Day celebrated in Hawaii with honu and special mud balls

  • MINDY PENNYBACKER / MPENNYBACKER@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                Sea Life Park employees Freddie Velasquez, left, and Rachel Pierce held young honu Thursday morning at Kaiona Beach Park for a Hawaiian blessing before they were set free.

    MINDY PENNYBACKER / MPENNYBACKER@STARADVERTISER.COM

    Sea Life Park employees Freddie Velasquez, left, and Rachel Pierce held young honu Thursday morning at Kaiona Beach Park for a Hawaiian blessing before they were set free.

  • CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                In an effort to clean up the Ala Wai, Ala Wai Elementary School students tossed their handmade “genki balls” into the canal Thursday. Aliamanu Middle School students also made and joined in tossing the probiotic bacteria-laden mud balls.

    CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

    In an effort to clean up the Ala Wai, Ala Wai Elementary School students tossed their handmade “genki balls” into the canal Thursday. Aliamanu Middle School students also made and joined in tossing the probiotic bacteria-laden mud balls.

On Thursday, Earth Day morning, two planet-healing, aquatic events took place in very different areas of Oahu: the clear blue sea at Waima­nalo Beach and the muddy brown waters of the Ala Wai Canal. Read more

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