Taken from the October 20, 2010 Waimea Community Association e-Newsletter.
This Saturday, October 23, marks the 20th anniversary of Make A Difference Day, the largest national day of community service, and there is a wonderful assortment of volunteer opportunities in North Kohala. Unfortunately, you can’t do them all as they all happen at the same time, but look at the range of choices you have:
Mala’ai Garden Workday
Community members, students, teachers, staff and families are invited to our work days, from 9AM to noon. A pot luck lunch will follow and chilled lemongrass tea will be provided made from herbs grown by students in the garden. If the weather is inclement, please call ahead to confirm that the work day is being held. Info: Garden Leader Amanda Rieux (640-3637). This Saturday’s workday will feature garden sprucing and weeding the we may even get to raise the roof on our first cooking station! As always, be prepared to get dirty and maybe even a little wet. Mahalo!
The Great Huki Puke!
A Human Chain to Move Books to North Kohala’s New Library. Pass the books to the new North Kohala Public Library (like the Hawai’ians passed rocks from Pololu to Pu’ukohola heiau). Please join in forming a human chain! Eat before you arrive by 8:30 a.m. and bring water, chairs, umbrellas, etc Bring your family, club, church, team! Sign up and keep informed by contacting HukiPuke2010@yahoo.com or call Bond Memorial Public Library at 889-6655
Pelekane Watershed Workday
For only the second time this year, we are returning to the upper Luahine Stream corridor to out-plant and continue eradicating Banana poka (Passiflora mollissima). This particular part of the stream has an amazing mix of ‘Ohi’a lehua colors: salmon, red, gold, light yellow and pale orange. To see the poka vines suffocating these ‘Ohi’a was a very sad sight, so we are going to continue our efforts on this part of Luahine Stream. We cannot lose these kupuna of the forest. Please come join us!! We will provide additional water, snacks, tools and protective gloves. Please bring a water bottle and lunch. It can be windy, misty and wet, though it is hard to tell what we will find these days. Waterproof pants and boots could come in handy. We meet at 8:30 am, at the back of Parker Square on Kawaihae Road. We will return to Waimea by 3:00 pm.
Waimea Nature Park
People will assemble in the Waimea Nature Park (directly behind Canada France Hawaii Telescope offices) at 9 am on Saturday October 23.
Come for an hour or stay for the three-hour event. WOC will furnish rubbish bags and gloves as we fan out through town to pick rubbish, prune and weed in anuenue playground, pull black wattle sprouts from the Trails and Greenway trail, help to expand the trail system in the Nature Park or clean Waikoloa Stream.
A sandwich, fruit and cookies lunch will be served to the volunteers back at the Nature Park at 12:00. For further information contact Park Chair Carol Hendricks at 885-4453.
