Ulupo Heiau Hoike – June 21st Mark Your Calendar

Mark Your Calendar – Sat. June 21 – Ulupo Heiau Hoike

Volunteers are needed to help put on the Ulupo Heiau Hoike. Please contact Malia Helela at hemanumalia@hotmail.com or call 225-1108.

The Ulupo Heiau Hoike will feature Hawaiian cultural demonstrations, mele and hula from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sat. June 21st. Free – public invited. Come and see the progress being made at this wahi pana. The event is free and the public is invited.

Service project at Kawainui Park Hawaiian Garden on May 24th

You are invited to work with Ahahui Malama i ka Lokahi this Saturday May 24th from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm to maintain the Hawaiian Xeriscape Garden at the Kawainui Neighborhood Park (Kaha Park). The garden was commissioned by the Kailua Bay Advisory Council to demonstrate the growing of Hawaiian native plants in a xeriscape garden and how stream banks can be stabilized with native plants. Hui Ku Maoli Ola, the Hawaiian plant nursery, prepared the site, and planted the native plants. Ahahui Malama i ka Lokahi was selected to work with the Women’s Community Correctional Center and community volunteers to maintain the Hawaiian Xeriscape Garden.We would like to encourage the residents who live in the neighborhood of the park and Coconut Grove to join with us every 4th Saturday of the month to malama this native garden. Bring a weeder, gloves, water, snack or lunch and wear comfortable work clothing for the day. Call Ahahui at 593-0112 if you would like to kokua on this project.

Service Project at Na Pohaku o Hauwahine

Malama Na Pohaku o Hauwahine on May 17th. We will meet Saturday, May 17th from 8:30am-12:30pm at Na Pohaku o Hauwahine located along Kapa’a Quarry Rd. (about a mile in from Pali Hwy.) to work on several different projects, weeding in the native plant areas, clearing alien plants, hauling in mulch, planting native plants. Dress in work clothes with covered shoes, bring gloves, a cutting or digging tool, your canteen of water and snack. Contact Kaimi Scudder at 593-0112 or Malia Bird Helela to register for the service project. Email <email@ahahui.net>

Service Project at Ulupo Heiau, Kailua on May 10th

You’re invited to kokua (help) and malama (care for) Ulupo Heiau on Saturday, May 10th. starting at 8:30 a.m. and going to 12:30 p.m. Ulupo Heiau (Night of Inspiration) one of the first sacred temples to have built as a “mapele” (agriculture) heiau by the first people or menehune and dedicated to Kaneulupo. The Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club and ‘Ahahui Malama i ka Lokahi are the co-curators at this State Historic site complex and conduct service projects every second Saturday of the month to restore the Hawaiian ethno-botanical and culutral features. We meet at the parking area by the Heiau and behind the Windward YMCA. Bring: Lunch, water, rain gear, sunscreen, work gloves. If you can, also bring tools such as sickles, handsaws, machete, hand cultivators or chain saws. For more info and to signup: call Kaimi Scudder at 593-0112 or email at “email@ahahui.net” If you have not been to Ulupo Heiau in a while, come see what community volunteers can do to malama ‘aina!