Stephanie Perrault R(S) ABR

ADULT LEARN TO SWIM AT KIHEI AQUATIC CENTER OCTOBER 15^TH TO NOVEMBER 12^TH

Are you an adult? Do you want to learn to swim? Or do you get in the water but you don't like to put your face in the water? Valley Isle Masters Swimmers and Swim Coach Janet Renner are excited to offer an adult learn to swim program.

Adult learn to swim sessions are at Kihei Aquatic Center from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, between October 15^th and November 12^th.

One past student says, "I have always dreamed of learning to swim, but was always too afraid. I heard about Janet from my friends and joined her class. She is the best. She is fun, very patient, and clear in communicating the steps so they make sense and gave me inspiration to try. Under Janet's watchful eye and amazing instruction I felt a thousand times more comfortable within minutes in the water. Now I love to swim, and I even swim laps!"

The fee is $60 for 6 classes. Classes are small and space is limited.

Call Janet today to reserve your space at 280 2756.

The Hawaiian Archipelago includes the uninhabited islands that extend about 1000 miles northwest of Kaua`i. They are a Federal Wildlife Refuge administered by the US. Fish and Wildlife Service.

From:Kaoolawe.org:

You have always been interested in helping out on Kaho`olawe by not sure exactly what you could do. Well here is a list of activities and projects that are ongoing. The best way to help is to go to Kaho`olawe on an `Ohana access. These projects provide a great way to directly contribute to the restoration and rejuvenation of Kaho`olawe island.

Kahoʻolawe is the smallest of the 8 main hawaiian islands .

Total area is 44.6 square miles (115.5 km²). The highest point is at Lua Makika crater at the summit of Puʻu Moaulanui, which is 1,477 feet (450 m) above sea level.

There are no permanent residents living on the island

History of Kahoʻolawe since 1941by Wikipedia:

On December 8, 1941, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army declared martial law throughout Hawaiʻi and took control of Kahoʻolawe. Soon, Kahoʻolawe was being used as a place to train Americans headed to war across the Pacific. The use of Kahoʻolawe as a training range was believed to be critical to the lives of many young Americans.^{[citation needed]} The United States was executing a new type of war in the Pacific islands.^{[citation needed]} Success depended on accurate, heavy gunfire from ships suppressing enemy positions as Marines and soldiers struggled to get ashore.^{[citation needed]} Thousands of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen prepared on Kahoʻolawe for the brutal and costly assaults on islands such as the Gilberts, the Marianas and Iwo Jima.^{[citation needed]}

Training on Kahoʻolawe continued after World War II. During the Korean War, carrier-based aircraft played a critical role in attacking enemy airfields, convoys and troop staging areas. Mock-ups of airfields, vehicles and other camps were constructed on Kahoʻolawe, and while pilots were undergoing readiness inspection at nearby Barbers Point Naval Air Station, they practiced spotting and hitting the mock-ups at Kahoʻolawe. Similar training took place through the Cold War and during Vietnam, as mock-ups of aircraft, radar installations, gun mounts and surface-to-air missile sites were placed across the island for pilots and others to use for training.

In early 1965, the United States Navy conducted Operation Sailor Hat to determine the blast resistance of ships. Three tests off the coast of Kahoolawe subjected the Island and a target ship to massive explosions, with 500 tons of conventional TNT detonated on the Island near the target ship USS Atlanta (CL-104); The ship was damaged, but not sunk. The blasts created a crater on the island known as "Sailor Man's Cap", cracking the small fresh water well on the island rendering it incapable of holding fresh water and making the Island all but uninhabitable.^{[citation needed]}

In 1976, a group of individuals calling themselves the Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana (PKO) filed suit in federal court to stop the Navy's use of Kahoʻolawe for military training, to require compliance with a number of new environmental laws and to ensure protection of cultural resources on the island. In 1977, the Federal District Court for the District of Hawaii allowed the Navy's use of the island to continue, but the Court directed the Navy to prepare an environmental impact statement and complete an inventory of historic sites on the island. On March 9, 1977, two PKO leaders, George Helm and Kimo Mitchell, were lost at sea during an attempt to occupy Kahoʻolawe in symbolic protest. In 1980, the Navy and the Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana entered into a Consent Decree which allowed continued military training on the island, monthly access to the island for the PKO, surface clearance of part of the island, soil conservation, goat eradication and an archaeological survey.

On March 18, 1981, the entire island was added to the National Register of Historic Places. At that time, the Kahoʻolawe Archaeological District was noted to contain 544 recorded archaeological or historic sites and over 2,000 individual features. As part of the soil conservation efforts, workers laid lines of explosive charges, detonating them to break the hardpan so that seedling trees could be planted. Used tires were taken to Kahoʻolawe and placed in miles of deep gullies to slow the washing of red soil from the barren uplands to the surrounding shores. Ordnance and scrap metal was picked up by hand and transported by large trucks to a collection site.

In 1990, President George H. W. Bush ordered an end to live-fire training on the island. The Department of Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1991 established the Kahoʻolawe Island Conveyance Commission to recommend terms and conditions for the conveyance of Kahoʻolawe by the United States government to the State of Hawaiʻi.

[edit] Transfer of title and UXO cleanup

In 1993, Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaiʻi sponsored Title X of the Fiscal Year 1994 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, directing that the United States convey Kahoʻolawe and its surrounding waters to the State of Hawaiʻi. Title X also established the objective of a "clearance or removal of unexploded ordnance (UXO)" and environmental restoration of the island, to provide "meaningful safe use of the island for appropriate cultural, historical, archaeological, and educational purposes, as determined by the State of Hawaii." In turn, the State created the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission to exercise policy and management oversight of the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve. As directed by Title X and in accordance with a required Navy/State of Hawaiʻi Memorandum of Understanding, the Navy transferred title of Kahoʻolawe to the State of Hawaiʻi on May 9, 1994.

As required by Title X, the Navy retained access control to the island until clearance and environmental restoration activities were completed, or November 11, 2003, whichever came first. The State agreed to prepare a Use Plan for Kahoʻolawe and the Navy agreed to develop a Cleanup Plan based on that use plan and to implement that plan to the extent Congress provided funds for that purpose.

In July 1997, the Navy awarded a contract to the Parsons/UXB Joint Venture to clear ordnance from the island to the extent funds were provided by Congress. After the State and public review of the Navy cleanup plan, Parsons/UXB began their work on the island in November 1998.

The Navy attempted a cleanup of the unexploded ordnance from the island, although much still remains buried or resting on the land surface. Other items have washed down gullies and still others lie beneath the waters offshore. The turnover was officially made on November 11, 2003, but the cleanup was not completed. Although the U.S. Navy was given $400 million and 10 years to complete the task, work progressed much more slowly than anticipated. As of the time of turnover, access to Kahoʻolawe requires escort and careful attention within areas known to contain unexploded ordnance.

Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve

In 1993, the Hawaiʻi State Legislature established the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve, consisting of "the entire island and its surrounding ocean waters in a two mile (3 km) radius from the shore". By State Law, Kahoʻolawe and its waters can only be used for Native Hawaiian cultural, spiritual and subsistence purposes; fishing; environmental restoration; historic preservation; and education. Commercial uses are prohibited.

The Legislature also created the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission (KIRC) to manage the Reserve while it is held in trust for a future Native Hawaiian Sovereignty entity. The restoration of Kahoʻolawe will require a strategy to control erosion, re-establish vegetation, recharge the water table, and gradually replace alien plants with native species. Plans will include methods for damming gullies and reducing rainwater runoff. In some areas, non-native plants will temporarily stabilize soils before planting of permanent native species.

Aerial view of Kahoolawe, Molokin and makena big beach on the south side of Maui. 9/24/08

La Pérouse Bay is situated on Maui's western shore south of Wailea and Makena

The bay's Hawaiian name is Keoneoio. It was later named for the French explorer Captain Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de la Perouse. In 1786.

The bay is the site of Maui's most recent volcanic activity.The rounded peninsula that dominates the northern half of the bay and extends up the coast a short distance was formed about 900,000 years ago by an eruption. A small string of cinder cones extending inland to the northeast marks the axis of the rift zone.

La Perouse Bay, or Keoneoio, lies directly south of the Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve. Fishing is prohibited within the reserve, which is home to numerous endemic fish, marine mammals, turltes and coastal plants. The area contains many archaeological sites, including fishing shrines, salt pans, and religious platforms.

We have a new Recycling & Redemption Center in Kihei, it is located on an acre along Welakahao Road near Piilani Highway, across the street from Hope Chapel.

The center will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for residential recycling products and will accept HI-5 cash redeemable cans and bottles from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, said Maui County spokeswoman Lois Bisquera. It will be closed from 1 to 2 p.m. daily for lunch.

Recycling & Redemption Center has drainage, solar panel-powered lighting, a locking gate, overnight security monitoring and large drop-off bins.

The Kihei Community Association was one of the groups that the county consulted in developing the center. The site will also be the future site of new tennis courts. The Solid Waste Division graded a slope for courts at the center, which is on Department of Parks and Recreation land.


The county department is looking at building a similar combined recycling and redemption center in Lahaina, which has separate facilities now.

Hilton Waikoloa Village is located at the base of Mauna Kea, on the southern Kohala Coast on Hawaii's Big Island. Just 18 miles from the Kona International Airport

Arriving guests can cruise on mahogany boats along tranquil waterways or travel by an air-conditioned Swiss-made tram to lavish accommodations. Whatever you choose to get around our 62 acres of resort paradise, you will enjoy fragrant garden scents and the music of waterfalls drifting softly in the breeze.

I really enjoyued my time at this place and I am ready to go back at anytime.

i especially liked the boat thattransport your form your hotel room to different palces within the hotel.

Full of charm and very realxing.