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MOONLIGHT

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he 11th annual Moonlight and Music fundraiser benefiting National Tropical Botanical

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Garden rocks the south shore again on Saturday, July 21, from 6 to 10 p.m.

This year’s event

TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK SATURDAY

TUESDAY

FAMILIES BELONG TOGETHER RALLY 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. intersection near Lihue Airport, Kapule Highway and Ahukini Road Protesting treatment of immigrant families trying to enter the U.S., and other actions of President Donald Trump’s administration

HAWAIIAN SLACK-KEY GUITAR AND UKULELE CONCERT 6 to 8 p.m. Princeville Community Center.

Tickets $10 to $25

AQUATIC PLANT WORKSHOP 9:05 a.m., Kauai Nursery & Landscaping nursery conference room, Kaumualii Highway, Puhi Learn how to have an affordable and low-maintenance water feature in your garden. Containers, plants and more will be discussed. Info: 245-7747 or knl@kauainursery.com BEACH HOUSE CRAFT FAIR 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 5022 Lawai Road, Koloa SUNDAY

LEGENDS OF SLACK-KEY GUITAR AND UKULELE CONCERT 3 to 5 p.m. Hale Hanawai Hanalei Family Community Center Tickets $10 to $25. Info: www.McMasterSlackKey.com or 826-1469

National Tropical Botanical Garden rocks the South Shore with 11th annual fundraiser features dinner, drinks, and dancing in NTBG’s McBryde Garden to the lively tunes of Kauai dance band The Quake.

“Moonlight & Music is Kauai’s premier gala event and supports the critical plant conservation, research and education efforts of National Tropical Botanical Garden,” said Chipper Wichman, NTBG president, CEO and director. “Our donors, members,

FREEDOM FEST 5 p.m., U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands Free live music, fireworks, food and more

CONCERT IN THE SKY 3 p.m., Vidinha Stadium soccer fields Annual Kauai Hospice fireworks spectacular fundraiser, Vidinha Stadium north soccer fields KEKAHA FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION H.P Faye Park (Kekaha ball park) Food, live entertainment, fireworks and more

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The Moonlight and Music fundraiser benefiting National Tropical Botanical Garden is in McBryde Garden.

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HAWAIIAN SLACK KEY GUITAR AND UKULELE CONCERT 3 to 5 p.m. Hale Hanawai Hanalei Family Community Center Tickets $10 to $25

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in the world, Moonlight & Music will also feature a silent auction with items and activities you won’t find anywhere else including: a two-night ocean view stay at the St. Regis in Princeville, four-rounds of golf and lunch at Kukui‘ula, and Kate Spade & Lily Pulitzer tropical themed handbags.

Attendees can also bid on very special Ni‘ihau shell

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visitors, volunteers and supporters are the lifeblood of our organization and we’re delighted to have the opportunity year after year to come together, have fun and fundraise for plant conservation efforts that make a difference in Hawaii, Florida, and tropical regions around the world.”

In addition to enjoying dinner, cocktails and dancing in one of the most beautiful botanical gardens

Offer must be of equal or lesser value.

Limit of 1 kid, ages 17 & under, per paying adult.

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jewelry, hand-stitched Hawaiian quilts, and a private garden tour and brunch with Wichman, as well as many other items.

As in previous years guests will be transported into McBryde Garden via shuttle from the South Shore Visitors Center in Poipu on a historic sugar cane train route with spectacular views of the Lawai Bay and Allerton Garden.

Guests will arrive in the valley draped with tropical trees, native Hawaiian flora, palms, orchids and exotic plants.

Tickets are $175 per

Photos courtesy National Tropical Botanical Garden

ABOVE: Revelers dance at Moonlight and Music fundraiser benefiting National Tropical Botanical Garden. RIGHT: Place settings are ready at Moonlight and Music fundraiser benefiting National Tropical Botanical Garden.

person and tables of 10 are offered at various levels: ◗ Kauwila Tables are $10,000 per table of 10, with preferred seating. Kauwila tables also receive five VIP parking passes; champagne reception from 5:00-6:00 p.m. for you and your table guests; special wines; twenty individual guided tour passes; host’s name on the table; listing in the evening’s program, and one Supporting level Garden membership ($500) for you or your selected guest. ◗ Koa Tables are $5,000 per table of 10, with preferred seating. Koa tables also receive five VIP parking passes; champagne reception from 5:00-6:00 p.m. for you and your table

guests; beverage service for your table; 10 individual guided tour passes; host’s name on the table; listing in the evening’s program and one Sustaining level Garden membership ($250) for you or your selected guest. ◗ Ohia Tables are $2,500 per table of 10, with preferred seating. Ohia Tables also receive three VIP parking passes; host’s name on the table; listing in the evening’s program, and one Sustaining level Garden membership ($250) for you or your selected guest. A special bonus for early purchasers! Tables purchased on or before June 30, 2018, are invited to the champagne reception from 5:00-6:00 p.m. for you and

also receive one VIP parking pass; host’s name on the table; and listing in the evening’s program.

your table guests. ◗ Milo Tables are $1,750 per table of 10, with reserved seating. Milo Tables

Purchases can be made online at ntbg.org/moonlightmusic or by calling 332-7324 ext. 212.

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BREADFRUIT BOOST New NTBG book guides gardeners on how to work with ulu JESSICA ELSE TGIFR!DAY

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nyone with questions on how to grow breadfruit has a new guidebook to reference, thanks to the Breadfruit Institute of the National Tropical Botanical Garden and Agroforestry Net. “Breadfruit Agroforestry Guide: Planning and Implementation of Regenerative Organic Methods” blends tips from modern horticultural techniques with traditional growing methods similar to those used by Pacific Islanders.

“Breadfruit has been grown sustainably since humans began cultivating it thousands of years ago,” said Diane Ragone, director of the Breadfruit Institute, who authored the new

book with Craig Elevitch, director of Agroforestry Net. She continued: “It’s vital that we revive centuries of indigenous knowledge and traditional methods into a modern context. Doing so will help breadfruit thrive and support communities for many generations.”

Ragone and Elevitch have teamed up before to write The Breadfruit Production Guide with Ian Coal, which is a ground-level guide to breadfruit cultivation.

On Kauai, The Breadfruit Institute formed in 2003 and promotes using breadfruit for a sustainable food crop and reforestation under Ragone’s direction.

After years of collection, the institute has about 150 varieties of breadfruit — the largest collection of breadfruit varieties in existence and works to micropropo-

gate the plants.

Working with Global Hunger Initiative, The Breadfruit Institute has distributed more than 73,000 trees to 37 countries to promote food security and environmental conservation.

“Ulu” in Hawaiian, breadfruit is a starchy canoe plant that once grew in larger numbers on Kauai.

It’s gotten popular in the gluten-free markets as it can be made into flour, it’s similar to a potato or a yam and can be used for main dishes, deserts, baked goods and beverages.

Ulu has a high nutritional value, moderate glycemic index and high levels of potassium.

The new breadfruit guide includes tips to sustain productivity over long periods of time, while regenerating land degraded by erosion, compaction, overgrazing and loss of organic matter, according

Photo courtesy National Tropical Botanical Garden

Breadfruit hangs from a tree at the National Tropical Botanical Garden.

to NTBG. It covers subjects like recognizing breadfruit varieties, agroforest planning, planting, maintenance, sustainable accompanying crops, value-added products and economic evaluation.

The guide targets a range of growing scenarios from backyard gardens to large farms.

“This is a crucial time for the future of breadfruit and island agriculture in

general,” said Elevitch.

He said the agroforestry guide will help growers capitalize on breadfruit agroforestry’s high production potential while also regenerating land that has been degraded by previous agriculture activities.

“Given that the single-crop plantation model with high chemical inputs leads to declining soil fertility and plant health, growers are now developing models fro breadfruit

production rooted in traditional methods,” he said.

A free pdf version of the 64-page, fully illustrated book can be downloaded from www.breadfruit.org and www.breadfruit.info.

Hard copies are for sale from online retailers such as Amazon.com.

••• Jessica Else, environment reporter, can be reached at 245-0452 or jelse@thegardenisland. com.

NBA GREATS GO GERIATRIC IN FORMULAIC ‘UNCLE DREW’ JOCELYN NOVECK ASSOCIATED PRESS

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or a few shining minutes, “Uncle Drew” is the movie it surely intended to be: funny and clever, quick and snappy, and most of all, fun — all infused with love for the great sport of basketball.

Unfortunately, those minutes

come during the closing credits, a sequence entertaining enough to be its own viral video.

But wait — that’s what “Uncle Drew” originally was, anyway: a series of web videos from a Pepsi ad campaign starring NBA great Kyrie Irving as a white-haired senior citizen who shows up on a playground court and blows all

the “youngblood” hotshots away.

Combining Irving’s talent with the satisfying element of age trumping youthful hubris, they couldn’t lose.

It’s perhaps not surprising that someone sought to make it into a full-length movie — and why not?

Alas, the resulting film, made in association with Pepsi and directed by Charles Stone III, falls into

a disappointingly formulaic lull for large stretches, squeezing all spontaneity from the proceedings.

Don’t fault the talented cast, which includes a squad of hard-working NBA luminaries in heavy aging makeup, and comedy stars including the delightful Tiffany Haddish and Lil Rel Howery, so memorable in “Get Out.” Fault the unimagina-

tive script they’ve been given.

The premise: Dax (Howery), is a downtrodden Foot Locker employee trying to make a buck. As a teen, he was a talented player, but quit altogether when he missed a crucial game-winning shot, and lost his nerve. He’s also an orphan, SEE NBA, PAGE 5

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Uncle Drew, third from right, and his posse enter the court in a scene from “Uncle Drew.”

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who never had a sense of family. (Can you start writing the ending of the script right now? Of course.)

Dax is also an amateur coach hustling to get a team ready for a tournament at Harlem’s storied Rucker Park (where many NBA greats have played), and win a hefty cash prize. But his nemesis, Mookie, has different ideas.

Mookie — a nasty-funny Nick Kroll, more nasty than funny here — steals Dax’s team from under him, including his young star Casper (Aaron Gordon of the Orlando Magic.) It hardly comes as a surprise when Mookie steals Jess, Dax’s girlfriend, too. Jess (an underused Haddish) boots Dax from their apartment, and when he hits the street with a suitcase, she calls him back: she needs the suitcase.

He re-emerges with a garbage bag. Ouch.

Locals at the barber shop suggest Dax, now teamless,

go find Uncle Drew. And the old man agrees to play — on condition that he choose his own teammates.

Road trip! The two set out to gather up a team of Drew’s old cohorts — emphasis on old. Dax is initially uncertain, but as Drew likes to say: “You don’t stop playing because you get old. You get old because you stop playing.”

First stop: the Preacher, aka Chris Webber, hamming it up quite impressively as an actual preacher who sounds something like James Brown. Preacher says yes, but his wife, Betty Lou (WNBA great Lisa Leslie) is not happy; as her guy makes a getaway in Drew’s van, she follows with a baseball bat. (The women in the film, unfortunately, are often either angry, batty, or mere eye candy. At least Leslie will eventually get to show her stuff.)

The group then recruits Lights (Reggie Miller); the joke is that he’s legally blind, but believes in his ability to hit any shot. At an old-age home, they bring in Boots (Nate Robinson), who’s been

sitting silently in a wheelchair for years. But he only needs one thing to cure all that. Do we need to tell you what it is?

Finally, we get to towering Shaquille O’Neal, game as always. Shaq’s Big Fella, now a Kung Fu instructor, has an axe to grind against Drew, who will have to address this and other emotional issues if this underdog team will ever coalesce enough to win.

Teamwork. Friendship.

Family. Playing for the game’s sake, not money. All these themes come together in a warm-hearted but highly predictable way.

It’s undeniably fun to watch these guys do their thing under gallons of makeup, and the promising Lowery does what he can with the corny script — including one funny “Get Out” reference which we won’t spoil for you.

As for Haddish, she’s a treasure, but has little to do here, and she’s funniest and loosest when we’re not even guaranteed to be watching: during those closing credits.

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SOME HEALTHY FOODS CAN CAUSE WEIGHT GAIN CYNTHIA LYNN & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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loha book lovers, and anyone interested in better health and aging defiance or even diet books for health!

Last week we did a book

on plants, but this book is a far cry from gardening!

We were actually introduced to this book through one of customers (we always like recommendations)!

The author of “The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain”, Dr. Steven R Gundry M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.C.C., is a cum laude graduate of Yale University with special honors in Human Biological and Social Evolution.

His background in the

modern medical field is astounding and one of the founders in many leading currently used surgery techniques including surgical robotics.

His mission today is to prevent and reverse the chronic diseases of “aging” with diet and nutriceutical interventions, using surgical intervention for heart and vascular disease as a last resort.

“Plant Paradox” focuses on a nutritional program for disease reversal and prevention! Who doesn’t

want that?!

The results that people receive from following his suggested lifestyle and diet changes are incredibly exciting and encouraging, especially for people who have been suffering for years and have truly found nothing that has really helped or even for the average person that just desires better health.

Do you suffer from migraines; irritable bowel syndrome; obesity; know somebody suffering from “gluten allergy”?

He lists foods that don’t help many health conditions. Thank goodness his lists of foods that are good

for you are is more extensive and yummy!

Even if you have been working toward a diet for health, this book adds to our knowledge and helps optimize what we want to achieve!

So far, this book has helped thousands of people to experience freedom from ill health for the first time!

Worth trying, right?

••• Cynthia Lynn and Ed Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.

THE WILD FEATHERS ROCK OUT WITH MUSIC FOR THE ROAD SCOTT STROUD ASSOCIATED PRESS

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he Nashville-based Wild Feathers say they are falling back on their country roots on their latest album, and with tight harmonies and “take these city blues away” lyrics, there’s some truth to that.

But they also have turned the volume back up, reverting to

the muscular sound that made their self-titled debut album so promising.

This is road music. It might make you step on the gas a little harder.

Much of “Greetings from the Neon Frontier” lands somewhere on the Tom Petty-Eagles spectrum, evoking rock ‘n’ roll influences that have always been obvious with this talented band.

A track called “Wildfire,” for example, has a “Peaceful Easy Feeling”

ring to it, and “Hold Onto Love” features the kind of adventurous melody and power chord jangle that set Petty apart.

But this is a better album than the band’s sophomore set, “Lonely Is a Lifetime,” which didn’t quite capture the spirit of a group that burst on the scene five years ago with a fresh take on a sound others had pioneered.

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focus back where it belongs: on harmony and the kind of acoustic-electric rock that gets your adrenalin going. Songs like “Golden Days” and “Big Sky” celebrate simple things like wide open spaces and the way things used to be.

No, they’re not the first band to take on those ideas. But they can still make the hours on the highway fly by.

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June Fujimoto, David Iwai, Rosie Rapozo, Ryan Saunders

Paula Rudinoff, Jan Rudinoff

Valeria Delamora, Ben Paulson, Ben Sullivan, Luke Sullivan, Grady Paulsen, Keya Labanon, Traci Sullivan

Norma Estrada, Kaenon Teves, Kael Teves

Kathy Leonard, Cindy Rosellini, Maria Monteveroe, Bev Brody, Tom Rosellini

Lexi Jones, Mary Ching, Kathy Leonard, Dr. Randy Blake, Tommy Noyes

en years of the Kauai Mayor-a-thon is a milestone, and a reason to bring out a bunch of new things for the more than 1,200 participants who rolled out to the Kapaa Beach Park, fronting Ke Ala Hele Makalae.

The free shuttle service from the North Shore and the Westside came with the electric buses that are now rolling on Kauai’s highways as a test. There was also an electric scooter (not for children, the representative said) to lessen the carbon footprint, and to keep everyone happy, samples of Happy Coffee to go along with the Kauai Coffee, which has been with the event since its start.

There was a new Project Blue Line talking about climate change and, using photographs, charting the projected areas that will be under water with sea level rise.

Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. helped break the “Electric Slide” record with 278 people participating in the gliding dance number, and Wilcox Health had its Blender Bike running. Carolyn Inouye was joined by Sarah Tadiarca, Lilly Olivas, Noreen Steinmetz and Hilda Javinar in the winner’s circle.

Kanoe Arinaga, Chantal Rego and Sarah Dooley were winners of the Kaiser Permanente prize giveaways.

••• Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.

Kailani Kinney, Robin Lotu, Lisa Knutson, Faith Campbell, Karen Silver, Dr. Carl Yu

Darla Domingo, Faith Soto, Fred Cowell, Mike Shimatsu, Jorge Deleon, Daniel Collins

Nena Tumpap, Damien Tumpap, Maria Quijano, Stephanie Kaiwi, Xaiden Tumpap, Bruce Kaiwi

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