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Volunteers separate seeds and pulp from halved cacao pods during Fridayâs harvest at Maui Kuâia Estate Chocolateâs Lahaina farm. The workers are sitting next to next to piles of just-harvested pods, as well as a growing stack of empties. â The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
There is an old witticism in agriculture that starts with a question and ends with a pithy observation on how difficult it is to turn a profit.
How do you become a millionaire farmer? Start with $10 million and keep farming.
Maui Ku’ia Estate Chocolate founder and CEO Gunars Valkirs faced his $10 million question in 2016. Realizing his Lahaina cacao farm was looking at a decade of losses before it would even approach a yearly break-even, it was time to decide whether to pull the plug or go all in by building a factory to process the beans that would be produced. He and his wife, JoRene, not only elected to build the $10 million factory, they doubled down on their commit
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Maui Pops Orchestra Music Director James Durham (left) presents King Kekaulike High School senior Xaden Kiyoshi Nishimitsu with one of the four 2021 Auriol Flavell Student Scholarship Awards for Young Musicians. Nishimitsu plans to major in music in college and pursue a performance career. Photo courtesy Maui Pops Orchestra
The Maui Pops Orchestra recently selected four winners of the 2021 Auriol Flavell Student Scholarship Awards for Young Musicians.
Scholarships in varying amounts were awarded to four music students from Maui. They include King Kekaulike High School senior Xaden Kiyoshi Nishimitsu; Darius Soo Hoo, who is studying violin performance at Denver University; Kisa Uradomo, who is completing her master’s degree in violin performance at the University of Michigan; and Stacie Saito, who is minoring in music (violin) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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Now, the Hawai i Arts Alliance is honoring a UH professor who touched a lot of lives in that auditorium.
With his slight build and sandy hair, artist Duane Preble is a soft-spoken educator. But in his classes, Preble would get excited about ideas like reverence, honesty and truth discovered through working with materials like paint and clay.
We had a chance to talk in 2015 at his thoughtfully designed home/studio in Manoa solar-powered, sustainable materials, open to nature. For Preble, there are no walls between art and life. Esthetic engagement is working with the things of life in a way that is beneficial and constructive to yourself and everybody around you, he said.
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Sen. Mazie Hirono discusses Kavanaugh hearings, the January insurrection and how her immigrant family s experiences impacted her
Democratic U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono s newly released book,
Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter s Story, is part political memoir and part love letter to her family and the state she represents.
As Hawaii’s first female senator, and the only immigrant currently serving in the U.S. Senate, Hirono had a set of unique obstacles to overcome.
One of Hirono’s strongest influences is her mother, Laura Hirono, who died at 96 shortly before this episode was recorded. After escaping an unhappy marriage in Japan to an abusive man, Laura Hirono brought her two eldest children back to her birthplace of Hawaii when Hirono was 7 years old, with her parents and youngest son joining them later.