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Royal Hawaiian Band On Oahu 2013

2013-06-13T19:17:00.000-07:00

We have in our midst the Royal Hawaiian Band that plays usually every Friday's at the Iolani Palace on King Street right in the heart of town on Oahu in Hawaii. It's free to all who stop by or happen by on their way while working can hear them play every Friday so I thought. Then one day I read in the local newspaper the Honolulu Star Advertiser's insert called TGIF that the Royal Hawaiian Band is playing on Friday in Waikiki. Ahhhhh, it's not playing at the Iolani Palacea as usual and as I've written in my blogs! OH NO!!! Well, let's make the correction right now! The Royal Hawaiian Band began in 1836 when the Hawaiian royalty King Kamehameha the III and today is part of the City and County agency of Honolulu. Royal Hawaiian Band history : http://www.rhb-music.com/.

HERE IS THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN BAND CALENDAR FOR APRIL 2013 SITE URL:

http://www.rhb-music.com/?page_id=11

Bomb Threat Today April 25, 2013 In Honolulu

2013-06-13T19:16:00.000-07:00

What a thing to wake up to today a bomb threat in the heart of Honolulu at the junction of Halekuwila and Punchbowl at the Circuit Court building today! I was about to make breakfast and on the news my mother was watching came the alert that there is a bomb threat going on in Honolulu by Punchbowl and Halekuwila. What!
http://www.khon2.com/2013/04/25/investigation-underway-after-suspicious-package-found-at-circuit-court/.

This is the kind of time when you'd like to have a radio handy wherever you go on the island. I do have a radio and I keep it handy just in case. Television news had the latest when it happens and did I wake up suddenly when I heard the news today about the bomb scare. The news said that the officials got a bomb threat at 6AM that a bomb was set to go off at noon today at the Circuit Court building today. The news showed that the streets were being cleared and pedestrian ordered to clear the area by Halekuwila and Punchbowl. Busses go down Punchbowl St. towards Nimitz Hwy. too. Being a bus rider and on a bus that suddenly had to be rerouted when a sudden water main break happened one day I understand the route changes when emergencies crop up like today's bomb threat. By around 11 the all-clear was given and as entered the library above the incident area on Punchbowl St. and King St. everything was back to normal at 1PM.

Federal Cuts Affect Tourism and More

2013-06-13T19:15:00.000-07:00

Just on the news tourists visiting Pearl Harbor came across less hours of operation. The news said new hours for Pearl Harbor Memorial ends at 3PM. These days it's a good idea to make sure before you head out on your sight seeing anywhere.
This is Military Appreciation Month in Hawaii. We won't have any Blue Angles show in Hawaii this year the news said today and according to their schedule many other States won't have Blue Angles Shows too:
the http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/show/

Can You Help Find America's Missing

2013-05-13T18:36:00.001-07:00

Bringing to light what had happened to some of the missing with the news about the three women found in Ohio what about other people missing around America? I just wrote about the missing in Hawaii and listed just a few people that were missing. I found this site which lists the missing:

*http://www.missingpersonsofamerica.com/. This site has the up-dated information for each person. The site lists the missing of Ohio.

*http://americasmissingadults.com/ . This site lists adults that went missing and you can add your missing people to site. This site is by crimestoppers. You may. have seen CRIMESTOPPERS on television from time to time. They are law enforcement people.

*http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/forensics/americas_missing/index.html Crime Library "America's Missing" by David Krajicek lists yet many other missing in America.

*AMBER ALERT-http://www.fcc.gov/guides/amber-plan-americas-missing-broadcast-emergency-response site will help you in the effort to find missing children.

*http://www.missingkids.com/home & http://www.missingkids.com/Missing are pages to help you and your children if they are missing and exploited.

*America's Most Wanted has a missing persons page: http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/.

The missing in America need your help to help find them. Each site has a picture and where they were last seen. Help find the missing in America. Thank you. I have written two blogs about just a few that are listed missing. Just yesterday a person in Maui went missing.
*http://www.co.maui.hi.us/index.aspx?NID=425 . Missing People of Maui County site by Maui Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division at (808) 244-6425.

*http://www.hellooahu.com/crime.cfm . The missing on Oahu.

*http://bigislandnow.com/tag/missing-persons/ . The site for the missing on the Big Island.

*http://www.kauai.gov/default.aspx?tabid=312 . Missing persons of Kauai by the Kauai Police Dept.

Facebook.com/missingpersonsofamerica page is filled with news about missing. It's by Jerrie Dean of examiner.com. You can connect there and see if they can help you with a news coverage too. National Missing Person's Directory: http://www.missingin.org/. Can you help find missing persons in America?

CAN YOU HELP FIND HAWAII'S MISSING PEOPLE

2013-05-08T19:14:00.001-07:00

In the news three women were found and rescued in Ohio. http://abcnews.go.com/US/amanda-berrys-rescuers-doubtful-dead/story?id=19125980. Amanda Berry and a child were rescued and two other women Gina DeJusus and Michelle Knight were also rescued from a home that no one suspected to hold three women and a child against their wills. All the women who went missing were brought to the hospital and reunited with their families and now are home. Can you help find the missing in Hawaii?
The most recent missing person in the news is Loida Wideman a single mother of three. Missing since May 2012 Loida Wideman has not been heard from since then. http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2012/05/17/6308727.htm. Any information about Loida?
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or *CRIME on your cellular phone.
CrimeStoppers is an organization that helps solve crime. http://www.crimestoppersusa.com/. CrimeStoppers are international: http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/. In Hawaii they are linked with the Hawaii Police Dept. http://www.hawaiipolice.com/contact-us/crime-stoppers.

Then there are the ones missing for over a decade like Diane Suzuki. She was last seen at Aiea at the Rosalie Woodson Institute of Dance on July 6, 1985 during broad daylight she was abducted and hasn’t been seen since. http://charleyproject.org/cases/s/suzuki_diane.html. Please contact Honolulu Police Dept. (808) 529-3394.

There are many people and children still missing from Hawaii and around the world. Please help if you can.
*FBI MISSING PEOPLE LIST: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/@@wanted-group-listing.
*National Missing and Unidentified Person System: http://www.namus.gov/.
*Interpool Database of missing persons and unidentified bodies. http://www.interpol.int/INTERPOL-expertise/Forensics/DVI-Pages/Database-of-missing-persons-and-unidentified-bodies.
*CRIMESTOPPERS missing persons list: http://honolulucrimestoppers.org/missing.aspx.

Please call CRIMESTOPPERS of Honolulu: (808) 955-8300.
Site: http://honolulucrimestoppers.org/localnews.aspx.

Crime Stoppers Honolulu, Inc.
Administrative Office
PO Box 22375
Honolulu, HI 96823-2375

Telephone: 808- 955-8300
Email: coordinator@honolulucrimestoppers.org.

CRIMESTOPPERS 800 number: SPEAKUP.
http://www.1800speakup.org/

CRIMESTOPPERS USA: http://www.crimestoppersusa.com/. 1.800.222.tips.

When you're at your facebook pages just look up CRIMESTOPPERS and you'll find them. They have a twitter page too.
Thank you kindly.

Search for missing woman intensifies

2013-05-08T18:49:00.001-07:00

Hawaii's Missing Kids: Maile's Story

2013-05-08T18:46:00.001-07:00

HLN: No sign of hiker missing in Hawaii

2013-05-08T18:44:00.001-07:00

Missing people from Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa

2013-05-08T18:42:00.001-07:00

Missing Kimberly Jacobs Missing from Hawaii August 21, 2008

2013-05-08T18:41:00.001-07:00

Charles Ramsey Interview on Helping Rescue Amanda Berry: Missing Clevela...

2013-05-08T17:17:00.001-07:00

Thanks and Goodbye To Some Ads

2013-04-17T19:27:00.000-07:00

This blog has lots of ads from a program called affiliate ads such as Oldtimecandies.com, Mrs. Fields, JosA Banks, coupons.com and GreekGear.com and cleanrest.com. From July 31, 2013 is the last day you can click on the ads. Management decisions have stopped our ad campaigns from July 31, 2013. Thank you to google.com and all involved to help us help our readers by inviting them to click on to these wonderful businesses that has not only stores to go to and shop, but offer online services too! JosA Banks, Mrs. Fields cookies and gifts, GreekGear.com and coupons.com will still be in business and you can find them online as usual or go to their stores, just our ad campaigns of introduction is over on July 31, 2013.

Thanks so much for the opportunity and fun I had being creative to bring our readers something that may help or to enjoy! Continued good luck and wonderful profits up to one and all. Shopping can be fun and enjoyable when we have opportunities to shop anywhere any time! Thanks once again to GreekGear.com, JosA Banks, Mrs. Fields cookies and gifts and to coupons.com for everything and thank you google.com too!

Royal Hawaiian Band 2013, 3 of 4

2013-04-06T16:04:00.001-07:00

Here is the Royal Hawaiian Band playing on the lawn of Iolani Palace
from a video just placed here 12 hours ago 4/6/2013.

Centanarian On Oahu

2013-03-05T16:19:00.001-08:00

What a nice day today is on Oahu! The air is frosty (just the way I love it!) the newspaper is here and my morning coffee is hot. What wonderful news Oahu has a centenarian. Irene Lai living on Oahu is a centenarian. She resides in Manoa. Irene Lai is a retired nurse and enjoying life in Manoa. Nancy Arcayna of the Honolulu Star Advertiser reports about Irene. Irene lives an active life and is very close to her family. Irene has an appetite bigger than her grandson David her daughter Sylvia Sugimoto says. Irene has an active lifestyle with visits to a senior center at least once a week for classes, plays mahjong, holds Scrabble matches at her home in Manoa too. Irene exercises a lot and would like to be mobile all her life. She regularly goes to church at Central Union Church. When asked her secret for her long life she replied “just be yourself. Faith plays a role.” When Irene was asked about challenges in life “when facing challenges you just take it as it comes, work hard, play hard.” Irene was widowed at age 59. She met her old beau Lawrence Lai whom she hadn’t seen for 50 years. They again hit it off and Irene married again 72. After 5 years of marriage with Lawrence Irene was again a widow. Irene has been living independently ever since. Irene admits she doesn’t watch her diet and has her won ton and other of her favorites foods when she’d like to. Irene has 2 grandchildren and raised 3 children. One of her proudest moment was watching her grandson David get his nursing degree. Irene’s story here:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=195200551&id=195200551.

Being able to be a centenarian is a wonderful design of life. To enjoy it being active and mobile is very important to Irene and many others. Just because you’re 100 years old or older doesn’t mean we live in a rocking chair! I’m 58 and not slowing down! “Extraordinary Centenarians: by Gwen Weiss-Numeroff :http://connywithay.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/extraordinary-centenarians-in-america/, explains in her book about Americans who have indeed reached 100 years of age and still living it up and never slowing down. Actual true life testimonies about people who are working, getting PHDs and more in her book shows that life just gets started it seems at 100!

What other factors for living to a centenarian are diet. A 2009 article attributes some nationality has many centenarians due to diet: http://noranagatani.com/?p=687 says Dr. Wilcox is the leading researcher for the study: “In Hawaii one of the primary researchers in geriatrics is Dr. Bradley Willcox of the Pacific Health Research Institute (PHRI. There is a rise in centenarians in the world states this article "The Rise of the Centenarians: Surprising Findings About Oldest Americans". by Sarah Stevenson on January 10, 2013 " : http://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/01-11-2013-centenarians-in-the-us/.

Why are people living to an older age? What People Who Live to 100 Have in Common
By Emily Brandon | U.S.News & World Report LP – Mon, Jan 7, 2013 has some revelations found here:http://news.yahoo.com/people-live-100-common-150559962.html.

100-Year-Old British Man Still Enjoys Work

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Martha Ann Miller, Centenarian and Author

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Interesting Things To Do In Hawaii Feb. 28 Tomorrow

2013-02-27T17:54:00.001-08:00

a href="http://www.konahistorical.org/images/gallery/lewis.jpg" imageanchor="1" >(Image from:http://www.alternative-hawaii.com/calendar/index.php?eID=1068.)
*****Big Island: Tomorrow the last day of Feb. will have exciting things to do. Kona Historical Society is having bread baking the old fashioned way the way our great grandmothers baked bread. The Portugese brought with them to Kona their baking expertise and their know-how to bake breads. We enjoy many delicious breads today all over Hawaii. From supermarkets to specialty shops has breads of all flavors and textures. These breads that will be baked will be from the authentic Portuguese stone ovens. Admission is free and the breads cost only $7.00! What a treat!!!
They are located:
Kona Historical Society
81-6551 Mamalahoa Highway
Kealakekua, HI96750
USA
Time: 10AM - 1PM tomorrow Feb. 28, 2013. Breads to be sold up until 3PM. On the site where the image is from is a secret recipe for one of local people favorites Portuguese Sweet Bread.

(Image from: http://www.alternative-hawaii.com/calendar/index.php?eID=5197.)

*****Grove Farm Museum is a sugar plantation museum located on Maui in Lihue. TOUR HOURS are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. They are unhurried and informative with a local flavor. There will be a tour tomorrow.

Grove Farm Museum
4050 Nawiliwili Road
Lihue, HI96766
USA
Reservations are required:
RESERVATIONS AND ADMISSION

To make reservations or for more information, please telephone (808) 245-3202 or email tours@grovefarm.org. Important things to know are:
"There is a requested donation of $20 for adults and $10 for children 5 to 12 years. Tours are not given on most holidays and may be cancelled on rainy days. Because of the popularity of these tours, once a reservation has been made, cancellation must occur at least 24 hours in advance or your credit card will be charged the full amount." Information from:http://www.alternative-hawaii.com/calendar/index.php?eID=5197.
CONTACT for Grove Farm Museum:

Telephone: (808) 245-3202
Fax: (808) 245-7988
Email: grovefarm@hawaiiantel.net
Mailing Address: Post Office Box 1631, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii 96766

(Image from:http://www.alternative-hawaii.com/calendar/index.php?eID=4069.)

*****Ala Moana Center Stage on Oahu, Hawaii @ 1-120PM right here at Ala Moana Shopping Center by Ala Moana Beach.
Location:
Ala Moana Center
438 Kamakee Street
Honolulu, HI96814
Hula shows are showed 7 days a week. More information here: http://alamoanacenter.com/Events/Ala-Moana-Hula-Show.

Mrs. Fields Cookies is located at Ala Moana shopping center. For your convinience online too:

Kamehameha High School Is Having A Hoolaulea

2013-02-21T19:23:00.000-08:00

What's hoolaulea? It's a Hawaiian celebration or festival. Kamehameha Schools is a private charitable trust for Hawaiian people to be educated from Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Princess Bernice Pauahi was born December 19,1831 and her parents are Laura Kanaholo Konia and Abner Ka’ehu Paki. Princess Bernice Pauahi is the great granddaughter of King Kamehameha I. The Princess married Charles Reed Bishop. It was her will that endowed for the Hawaiian people 375,000 acres of land to be constructed for educational purposes for her beloved Hawaiian people and founded the Kamehamea Schools. You can read a testimony from a student here about Princess Bernice Pauahi Biship:http://www.myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=Bernice_Pauahi_Bishop_Kamehameha. On Feb. 23, 2013 there will be on the campus of Kamehameha Schools their 83RD Annual Hoolaulea. http://calendar.honolulufamily.com/events/kamehameha-schools-83rd-annual-hoolaulea. Many activities blending Hawaiian history to current Hawaii at the hoolaulea on Kamehameha Schools campus. 8:30AM-4:00PM. Free and open to the public. Hawaii has a rich history of the Polynesian people who settled here in Hawaii follow Arcturus or in Hawaiian Hokulea. Hawaiiana is practiced today to honor the memory of Hawaii's past by the people living in Hawaii today. This is the only time that Kamehameha School campus is open to the public that I know of and I grew up in Hawaii. There will be shuttle services for parking is limited from Honolulu Community College and Damien High School. This year's theme of the hoolaulea is Pūpūkahi i Holomua-Unite To Move Forward: http://www.parents.ksbe.edu/Parents/Hoolaulea/Hoolaulea.php. If you've any questions please contact: mekitash@ksbe.edu (808) 842-8444. Image is from the ksbe.edu site. http://honoluluweekly.com/hotpicks/2013/02/come-together/ has an article about Kamehameha School's hoolaulea event.

The Art World Comes To Hawaii

2013-02-13T15:38:00.001-08:00

PowWowHawaii.com is having a wonderful international art festival in the friendly town of Kakaako in Honolulu this week. Participants are from far away places like Canada, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Europe and they've come to paint in Kakaako with the participation of their audience feedback too, thus a pow wow between artist and audience that's a week long. Inspiration to the young who want to become an artist that paints where the canvas is provided @ Kakaako, Honolulu in Hawaii. From start to finish you'll experience what an artist goes through and find beauty in the end product their art work. It took more than just their finished piece it too much more and all can learn and experience first hand @ PowWowHawaii in Kakaako in Honolulu on Oahu this week. You can buy art directly from the artist and etc. There will be a Block Party and after party events to wind down from the most artful event directly with artists at Lana Lane from 6-12AM. After block party for 2 hours till 2AM will be held @ the Safehouse at the Republik.
Feb. 21, 2013 is Madigras time in Oahu, Hawaii going on now!!! http://dguides.com/oahu/events/upcoming-events/12th-annual-mardi-gras-carnaval-street-festival-honolulu-february-21-2012/. Come and party with us @ China Town from 10PM-2AM! Just one $10 cover charge is all it takes to Carnival all night long. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day!!!!! However you're going to spend your Valentine's Day it's a special day that St. Valentine gave the world. He was jailed just for helping couples get married! Love needs all the help it can get and we can enjoy Valentine's Day with many gifts not only material, but of spiritual. Whether it's prayers, flowers on a departed loved one's grave, a heart shaped pillow making it comfortable for your family, a "nice job!", I miss you is still important in everyday life as well as on Valentine's Day. We all love th material gifts, but the spiritual ones are just as great! A kind word r gesture goes a long ways in life. Sometimes we forget the little things in life that make the day wonderful the whole year through. Have you called your mother or father that longs to hear from you? Did you e-mail your brother or sister that you haven't seen in a month. Did you call your friend to ask how they are? Many things are priceless when it comes from the heart. It's always remembered with a little smile of how nice the person is. When was the last time you've said I love you to your family or pet? It matters for you are important to them all! Happy Valentine's Day! Have a heart. Pick any one from the page it's yours. Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful year!

POW WOW HAWAII 2012: Part I

2013-02-12T15:27:00.001-08:00

What is powwowhawaii? From their 2012 event.

POW WOW HAWAII 2012: Part III

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2012 powwowhawaii.com event-you can see what it was like in 2012.

Cash4Books.net

2013-02-06T15:40:00.001-08:00

Cash4Books.net: Cash4Books.net is a great place to sell your used books!

The Little Places On Oahu

2013-02-01T15:50:00.002-08:00

Hidden yet not hiding are the little shops I see when I ride the bus. One such place is Paul Poppers. http://www.tasteofaloha.com/restaurants/pauls+poppers I see it six days a week riding the bus and it seems inviting yet unknown. I was raised in a little family run shop way out in Pearl City. It’s no longer there now newly renovated to be shops for today’s crowds. We were living in Pearl City with a little family run store called Take’s Market. It was there serving Pearl City for over thirty years with meats, vegetables and snacks. Then the shopping crowd was introduced to supermarkets and little stores went out of fashion. Unless you owned your land you had big overhead and it sometimes crushed you. Little space for warehouse and no specials to draw the crowd everyone began to bargain shop. We faded into history and only a generation like mine or my grandfather’s time remember Take’s Market. After thirty years of business we are now only part of history for some people living on Oahu. So I have in my heart a soft spot for small business and all her people. Right now we're having our annual Chinese New Years celebrations everywhere Statewide! We'ver having lots of ethnic things from Vietnamese to Chinese cultural parades and foods don't forget the foods! Fun, parades, food and lots of things to do with Super Bowl too this weekend-troops returned home from Afghanistan-what a great weekend it truly is. We've got a very big smorgasbord to choose from! Or maybe you'll be like me and stay home and enjoy everything from a far? Well tis the weekend to enjoy especially since the troops are back home! http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/Hawaii-based-soldiers-return-home-from-Afghanistan/-/8905354/18110334/-/hrhj02z/-/index.html.

Paul's Poppers on Crazy Deals TV

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Hawaii-based soldiers return home from Afghanistan

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