2013 Hanapi Ohana Reunion Shirt

Well, it looks like the deadline for the Hanapi Ohana Reunion Shirts crept up on us so quickly. Today, is the deadline to order your shirts. Send your orders to Chester Hughes or call Diane Hughes at the phone number below. Here is what was sent out if  you didn't get the word yet.

Please give a big mahalo to Herbert Estes designing the back of the shirt and Keala Kai who is Diane Hughes' significant other. Kudos to both of them for their artistic talents and their love shown for the Hanapi Ohana.

Men's - small thru XL $15.00 / 2X - $16.00
Women - small thru XL $15.00 / 2X $16.00
Youth - small thru XL $15.00
The brand is Gildan.  If you have any questions please let me know.
Mahalo
Diane 808-651-7830

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3rd Hanapi Reunion Committee Meeting Highlights

 

Dee Slater, Darrel/Dory Farias, Eli Kikuchi, Diane Hughes

We had our meeting at cousin Eli's home in Lihue about 4:30 pm this past Sunday on 6/23/13. This is where the registration will take place Friday, July 19, 2013. We're seeking ways to modify our plans to keep our costs low so that as many of the Ohana can come to the Hanapi reunion.

Diane Hughes, Wini Smith, Lani/Clifford Wong

We also would like as many on Kauai island to come and take part in the festivities so that they can also meet those coming from the other islands as well as the mainland.

Lani/Cliffor Wong, Kalani/Dee Slater

Clifford Wong, Kalani/Dee Slater

We plan on providing information about Kauai, the locations where the activities will be and how you can get there. You'll also be able to visit areas where our Kupuna are buried and where they lived.

 Many of us still live in Anahola where they settled after moving from Molokai. Aunty Mary Ahana's story of how Rev. Robert Puuki Hanapi and Rev. George Puuloa Hanapi came to Kauai after graduating from the Chief's School at Lahainaluna on Maui.

2013 Hanapi Reunion Committee has finalized the final Agenda.

HANAPI ‘OHANA REUNION

JULY 19, 20, 21, 2013

UPDATED REUNION ITINERARY (June 24, 2013)

July 19 (Friday):           5:00-8:00 pm               Registration / Tee Shirt Distribution / Light Snack      

                                                                        Location:  Cousin Eli Kikuchi’s home

                                                                                          4259 Puaole St., Lihue

                                                                        Contact for directions/info     Flynn:   808-652-6126

                                                                                                                        Eli:       808-652-3362

July 20 (Saturday):       5:45 am                       Sunrise Celebration / Heiau Visitation

                                                                        Location:  Lydgate Park, Wailua

                                                                        Contact for directions/info     Flynn:   808-652-6126

                                                                                                                        Eli:       808-652-3362

                                                                        *For the events below, call Flynn or Eli

                                    7:30 am                       Continental Breakfast

                                                                        Location:  Wailua Marina, Wailua

                                    9:30 am                       Wailua River Boat Ride to Fern Grotto

                                                                        Location:  Wailua Marina, Wailua

                                    11:00 am                     Anahola Town (Tour departs from the Wailua

                                                                        Marina after the Boat Ride)

July 21 (Sunday):         11:30 am                     Luau

                                                                        Location:  Diane Hughes’ home

                                                                                           4925 Pelehu Road,  Kapaa

                                                                        Contact for directions/info     Diane:  808-651-7830

                                                                                                                        Flynn:   808-652-6126

***If you are planning to attend only one or selected events, and need information and directions to the event(s), contact:           Flynn:  fhwood@gmail.com

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I'll be showing where on Kauai the different events will be so that you can find your way around.

3nd 2013 Reunion Committee Meeting

Well, we're a little less than a month away from the 2013 Hanapi Reunion on Kauai. Right now, it looks like we have about 40 registered and paid and Eli Kikuchi is hoping to see the last minute signups.

Tomorrow, we'll be meeting at Eli's place in Lihue about 4:30pm for a Potluck to see how the committee is doing with their various assignments.

My assignment was to come up with a program showing the various events, locations and times. I'm also assisting Wini who is taking care of the registration. We already know who's coming from where and whether they paid or not.

Our first meeting was at BJ's Broiler at Nawiliwili harbor. Maggie lost her camera so the pictures from that meeting are gone. Hopefully, Wini Smith has some on her phone of that meeting. That was more of a get together to visit with one another.

Our second meeting was held at Eli's place as a Potluck. My wife and I met Eli's two kids, Keri Kobayashi and Ken Kikuchi for the first time. Eli Kikuchi, Keri and Ken represent Mary Ewaliko Ahana, Naomi Tabonair represented the Carrillos, Wini Smith represented the Abbeys, Clifford and Lani Wong represented the Wongs and Wayne and Dee Slater along with myself and my wife, Flynn and Maggie Wood represented Elizabeth Ewaliko Wood Slater.

At the second meeting, Eli handed out a spreadsheet of who was doing what as we discussed the details of the programs and events. For tomorrows meeting, we should start to finalize the details as the date of the reunion is getting closer.

While I was processing the ohana registration, I noticed a name Nalani Gouveia Gomes. I gave her a call to find out if she was Aunty Ruth Hughes Gouveia's daughter from Redondo Beach, CA. I used to visit them back in the early 1960's where Maggie and I met and got married in 1962 in L.A.

She told me she was hoping her older sister, Willene Wailani Bell, might come to the reunion and she wouldn't feel like a stranger at the  reunion. I called Willene and spoke with her for the first time and she said she was at the 2007 reunion. So I checked the DVD for that reunion and there she was dancing the hula. Hopefully, we'll see them at this reunion.

I was debating what instrument to use to distribute the information of this reunion so it looks like this is the best way to inform the Ohana. As we get closer to the date of the reunion I will inform you of our final program so you will know what's going to take place, when it's scheduled to happen, and how to get there.

For the next blog, I will give you the highlights of the 3rd Hanapi Reunion Committee meeting and highlight the island of Kauai for the visiting Ohana.

A Hui Hou,

Maggie and Flynn Wood