Week of Friday, September 7, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 36
Check da Scene
Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend
PAULO NEEDS YOUR HELP
Sugar Plantation Bash on Saturday to raise funds for repairs www.kauaicountyfarmbureau.org • www.facebook.com/KauaiCountyFarmBureau
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EDGAR CAYCE STUDY GROUP 4 p.m. Kapaa Neighborhood Center Studying cooperation, meditation, reincarnation and the EC philosophy. Come for details. George, 214-7623045
KAUAI “LIVE POETS’ SOCIETY” MEETING 6:30 p.m. Conference room of the Lihue Public Library Hosted by noted Kauai poet and author, Dawn Kawahara, in partnership with Lihue Public Library (241-3222), the meeting is free of charge.
SATURDAY
LEARN AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION CPR 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Koloa Neighbor Center 9-11 Heartsaver First Aid; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Heartsaver CPR and AED - adult, child, and infant. Register: hearts4kauai@gmail.com, 652-1284 WALK TO PREVENT SUICIDE 3 to 5 p.m. Kauai Community College Short walk around campus to offer support, healing, hope. State officials will share initiatives. Free T-shirts, food, music. To register: www.preventsuicidekauai.org. HIKE NOUNOU MOUNTAIN More popularly called “Sleeping Giant,” this Sierra Club trek offers spectacular panoramic views of the Eastside. This is an easy-to-intermediate, 5-mile hike to about 1,500 feet of elevation gain. Info: bit.ly/2wugAza CALL TO ARTISTS: ART KAUAI 2018 Entry Day, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. KSA Gallery at Kukui Grove Center Info: kauaisocietyofartists.org
TUESDAY
BIKES ON RICE 4:45 p.m. Lihue Civic Center Safe, slow-paced ride through the surrounding neighborhoods designed for all ages and abilities. DISASTER PREPAREDNESS WORKSHOP 2 to 4:30 p.m., Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall Learn what to do in the vent of a hurricane tsunami, ballistic missile, flood, fire, storm. Moderated by Fire Chief Robert Westerman. Guest panel. $10 Kauai Chamber of Commerce members, $15 nonmembers. WEDNESDAY
FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT 6 pm. Koloa Library In celebration of the PBS’ Great American Read Koloa Library presents The Little Prince, the animated version of the beloved classic tale of innocence and discovery by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Rated PG for mild thematic elements.
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“AH-BOA-A-R-D!” Paulo, an 1887 steam powered locomotive, sits in the yard of the Grove Farm Museum Wednesday.
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Sugar Plantation Bash on Saturday raising money to get Paulo running
aulo, the oldest operating steam locomotive in Hawaii, has been hauling school kids for longer than she’s been hauling sugar, said Scott Johnson, the Grove Farm Homestead Museum engineer. On Sept. 23, 2017, the main crank pin on the engine’s right side failed, falling to the ground
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cause no major repairs have been done to the locomotive since it was restored in 1981.” Estimates for the necessary and rendering the locomotive work comes in at $30,000. helpless. “The time has come to repair A great portion of the proceeds not only the pin, but all four of the from the Grove Farm Museum’s worn cranks which are 131 years first Sugar Plantation Bash on old,” Johnson said. “Additionally, other repairs are necessary beSEE PAULO, PAGE 3
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Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. will be allocated toward getting Paulo up and running again. Entrance is a $20 donation for adults, and $15 for keiki between 6 through 12 years old and admits guests to a world inside the Grove Farm Museum where Paulo will also be on display and fired up (but not running). “Look at her,” said Paul Horner, Grove Farm Museum director. “Mabel Wilcox would have not been happy not to have the railroad tracks closer to the main house.” In addition to Paulo’s appearance, a full day of entertainment will start, heralded by the Joyful Noise taiko ensemble. A lunchtime presentation of cultural dances will enhance the available food offerings by several community groups, including the Aunty Ono shave ice. Also on the agenda is hula presentations as well as performances from Albert Genovia, Daryl Gonzales, D.J. Yaris, and more. “Paulo will have its ‘pi-yu’ whistle,” Johnson said. “That way, people can still have the sounds without taking away from the enterainment. The main whistle will be on-board. Perhaps we can charge people for an opportunity to sound the big whistle — between the entertainment, that is.” Youngsters will have access to a huge waterslide and the Amazon Zipline, and the famed Grove Farm Cookies prepared from one of Wilcox’s recipes, and using the firewood oven will also be available.
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Scott Johnson climbs into the cab of Paulo during setting up for the Sugar Plantation Bash at the Grove Farm Museum.
Tours of the main house at the Grove Farm museum will be available from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. along with a number of cultural demonstrations and a silent auction. Paulo, named after Paul Isenberg who owned Koloa and Lihue Plantation, was built in 1887 in Dusseldorf, Germany, and shipped “around the Horn” for assem-
bly on Kauai in 1888. Paulo was one of two wood-fired steam locomotives used to build Waita Reservoir, Hawaii’s largest surrface area man-made reservoir. ••• Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 245-0453 or dfujimoto@ thegardenisland.com.-
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IHUE — Those seeking a boost of nostalgia need only visit Rice Street’s newest addition to get a taste of days past. Sweetalicious, the candied brain-child of local, Donovan Pegeder, features a range of treats dating back to 1924. Upon entering the bubblegum-pink coated shop, proprietor Donovan Pegeder explains how to eat Nik-LNip candy to a few young customers. In his youth, the
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LEFT: Some of the candy for sale at Sweetalicious. RIGHT: Donovan Pegeder works the counter.
on Kauai, conceptualized Sweetalicious in 2015 hoping to create something fun and unexpected in his community. On May 7, the restaurant industry veteran and former cashier at the Butcher and the Fisherman opened the doors to his old school candy counter. With the support of his family, the storefront is now Pegeder’s full-time occupation, which he manages in addition to DMD Pro-
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Donovan Pegeder completes a sale.
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REVIEW: IN ‘THE NUN,’ WHAT EVIL LURKS BENEATH A HABIT
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s frightening as the “The Nun” is, it doesn’t hold a candle to today’s real-life horrors in the Catholic Church. But while a new generation of filmmakers has breathed new life into horror by embedding it with frightful and salient social commentary, the “The Conjuring” franchise — of which “The Nun” is a spinoff and the fifth installment — isn’t about anything so real. It’s about exhuming classic horror archetypes — creaky old houses and creepy old dolls — with (mostly) old-school effects. And what’s more old school than a mean ol’ nun? Set in 1952, “The Nun” is the origin story of Valak (Bonnie Aarons), a demonic nun who first turned up in “Conjuring 2,” as the pursuit of Vera Farmiga’s paranormal expert. This time, our protagonist is Sister Irene (played by Vera’s younger sister Taissa Farmiga), a novitiate who, just before her vows, is dispatched by the Vatican, along with Father Burke (Demian Bichir), an expert in unexplained phenomena (or as he says, “miracle hunting”), to a remote Romanian abbey where a young nun has just hung herself. The decaying, overgrown abbey and its adjoining covenant are suitably eerie. The place, handsomely crafted by production designer Jennifer Spence, has the feel of a horror-movie set, complete with
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a foggy cemetery, and the action that follows has the almost comforting pattern of surprises and scares that’s to be expected. Entering the gothic world of “The Nun,” built so sturdily on horror movie clichés, is to slide into a darkly fantastical realm that’s practically cozy it’s so familiar. Crypts will turn into traps, apparitions will flicker in the mirrors and ancient Christian dogma will be used for all its sinister power. Certainly, anyone who goes anywhere at any time clutching a lantern will run into trouble. But what distinguishes “The Nun” is its silky, sumptuous shadows. Directed by British filmmaker Corin Hardy
(“The Hallows”) and shot by Maxime Alexander (who was also cinematographer on the “Conjuring” spinoff “Annabelle: Creation,”‘’The Nun” shrouds itself so much in darkness that it at times verges on becoming a nightmarish abstraction. You almost lose sense of what exactly is going on, as Sister Irene falls into a labyrinthine abyss. The spell, of course, gets broken as the demands of plot and franchise return. And “The Nun” has little to offer beyond: Beware of spooky Romanian abbeys. But for a moment or two, it hangs suspended in a luxurious gloom, the kind that these days passes for a welcome escape.
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it seemed like too much to do. Well, thanks to author Amanda Feifer’s recent book “Ferment Your Vegetables: A Fun and Flavorful Guide to Making Your Own Pickles, Kimchi, Kraut, and More”, it is easier than you might think! Once you learn the basics, it is easy to become hooked! And they taste so good! “Ferment Your Vegetables,” by author Amanda Feifer, fermentation expert and founder of phickle.com, takes us into the world of fermentation. Whether you
are just a beginner or you are the “seasoned” veteran, this book makes the process easy and accessible to make your own pickled products! Her approach not only covers the basics we all know and love, but she also provides new and delicious recipes that will make you want to experiment, too! With fresh new ideas, the possibilities are endless! At just 208 pages, this moderately size hardcover
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SURPRISE: PUBLISHER TO CELEBRATE SALINGER CENTENNIAL W
ith J.D. Salinger’s centennial coming next year, the big news so far is that his publisher is planning to celebrate it. Little, Brown and Company announced Tuesday that new editions of “The Catcher in the Rye” and his three other works of fiction — “Franny and Zooey,”‘’Nine Stories” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction” — would be released in November. Nationwide events will be announced later this year, Little, Brown said.
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ability to connect with readers through a character’s voice — readers have often said, upon encountering his The anniversary editions will include paperbacks with fiction for the first time, that they felt as if it had been new covers and a bound written just for them. We set of unjacketed hardcovhope these reissued editions ers. Little, Brown did not will help a new generation mention any releases of books Salinger reportedly left of readers discover the immense pleasures of reading unpublished at the time of his work.” his death in 2010. According to Little, Brown, “We’re thrilled to be pubthe New York Public Library lishing these beautiful new editions to coincide with Sa- will have an exhibition in linger’s centennial year,” Little, October 2019, featuring “manuscripts, letters, books Brown publisher Reagan and artifacts from Salinger’s Arthur said in a statement. archive.” “J.D. Salinger had a unique
Salinger readers may regret that no new work has been announced, but it’s a surprise that his publisher will do anything. In his lifetime, Salinger gave few interviews and had no use for anniversaries or reissues or anything that might attract publicity, such as allowing e-books or audio editions. Little had changed since his death. “My father hated birthdays, holidays, and pretty much any planned or culturally mandated celebrations, and he’d certainly hate this centennial — but he loved writ-
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auai Pop Warner Football League president Teddy Arroyo said in some places in Asia, when you give birth, you are already one year old. He joked about how long Pop Warner football has been in existence on Kauai, and the growth of the program that focuses on leadership and scholastics in addition to teaching the game of football. He was joined by Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. and Council Chair Mel Rapozo in welcoming players, parents, and fans to the 57th year of Pop Warner football. The welcome included bestowing honors to the 2017 national scholar-athletes, Kauai volunteers of the Year, Randi Levinthol and Ginny Agena, and the national volunteer, Lani Cummings of the Kapaa Eagles. Lance Miyao was honored for his years behind the clock, keeping track of countless number of football games. That said, the KPWFL welcomed the 2018 season with a full slate of football games starting with flag, and ending with a junior varsity matchup at Hanapepe Stadium.
Kaysha Mundon, Zalana Alapai-Pimental, Brynn Klebesadel, Kyary Cummings, Auree Cardinez, Jaylee Souza-Yim, Sabryn Dato
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