Week of Friday, February 9, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 6
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Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend
ALL KINDS OF COLORS Kauai quilters put on a show
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HAWAIIAN SLACK-KEY GUITAR AND UKULELE CONCERT 4 to 6 p.m., Hanalei Family Community Center Tickets $10-25. Info: McMasterSlackKey.com or 826-1469 QUILT SHOW 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Kukui Grove Center, the Kauai Society of Artists location Free admission. Over 60 locally made quilts on display, many for sale. Meet the quilters opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Info: Lea, 652-2261 SATURDAY
SWEETS AND SWEET THINGS 8 a.m. to noon, Lihue Parish Hall Food, crafts, games, silent auction, bake sale. Funds will help maintain the parish hall.
KACHI KACHI DANCE 7 to 10 p.m., Waimea Canyon Middle School cafeteria With Los Kauaianos. Fundraiser for school. Food available. Donation $15 per person. Info: 338-6830 KAUAI ISLAND CRAFTERS FAIR 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Church of the Pacific, Princeville SUNDAY
VEGAN POTLUCK AND LECTURE 4:30 p.m. Sun Village clubhouse Troy Schacht presentation, “Easy Gardening from the Heart, Inspired by Mother Nature.” Lecture is free.
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Quilters Lea Ingram, Joanne Watson, Julie Whitney and Jenny Conley sort through various quilts for donation quilts for the Kauai Quilt Show, Tuesday at Vicky’s Fabrics.
Kauai Quilt Show opens today
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ometimes, you wake up in the middle of the night and you wish the quilt was done, already, said Vicky Masuoka at Vicky’s Fabrics in Kapaa. “Then I wake up, cut out the pattern, and go back to sleep,” Masuoka said. “And when I get up, guess what? It fits.” Vicky’s Fabrics is one of the sponsors of the Kauai Quilt Show which will run with free admission from Feb. 9 through 21 at the Kauai Society of Artists gallery at the Kukui Grove Center through the sponsor-
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More than 70 quilts, many available for sale, will be on display at the KSA gallery, ship of Vicky’s Fabrics, Kapaia and quilting enthusiasts will have an opportunity to vote Stitchery, the Kauai Quilt for “Viewer’s Choice 2018.” Guild, Nene Quilters, and Discount Fabric Warehouse. Masuoka and Wass will also “I’ve got one for this year’s have their quilts on display. “I started out sewing show, but I’m not driving clothes,” Wass said. “I had a to Wainiha to get it,” said storefront in Michigan, and Toni Wass, a visitor from Minnesota who was helping as shoppers came through, I had to learn quilting. Now, the quilters sort through I sew both — clothes and this year’s assortment of quilts.” donation quilts. “I ended Donation quilts, a popular up a winner from last year’s facet of the show in 2017, show and the picture of will be available for buyers the winning quilt is on this where 100 percent of the year’s promotional fliers.”
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Detail of a donation quilt which will be available during the Kauai Quilt Show which runs Feb. 9 through 21 at the KSA gallery at the Kukui Grove Center.
quilt’s sale will benefit a community nonprofit, the beneficiary being indicated on the quilt when the show opens. “This was very popular with shoppers,” said Lea Ingram, a quilter. “People write the checks directly to the nonprofit. Everything goes to them.” Joanne Watson said another new facet to this year’s show is the elephant sale featuring cut materi-
al, fat squares, yarn, tools, and even books related to sewing, quilting, knitting, or needlepoint. “When people — we get a lot of visitors — come in, we give them a square to finish,” Ingram said. “At first, we got a few back. But now, we get squares from all over the country as people go home, finish the square, and mail it back to us. We had a teacher who took enough squares for her class, and
they finished them and sent it back to us. A lot of these squares go into creating the donation quilts which is done by all of the quilters getting together.” The Kauai Quilt Show opens at 11 a.m. today with a Meet-the-Quilters reception scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. at the KSA gallery. From that point, the show is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily. Friday hours are from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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Chef Judy Capertina of Haole Girl Island Sweets shows off a tray of ‘savory’ croissants, in this case Havarti with Carmelized Mushroom and Onion. Chef Judy will be providing ‘savory’ treats and a cake for the silent auction for the Zonta Club of Kauai’s Eat Dessert First event.
ho’s going to get the baby? The baby, accompanied by a special premium, is baked into the King’s Cake, and whomever gets the slice with the baby, earns the premium, said Edie Ignacio Neumiller of the Zonta Club of Kauai. “I just confirmed this with Wendy Oyama of Mark’s Place and Contemporary Flavors Catering,” Neumiller said. “They’re doing a King’s Cake for Eat Dessert First.” The signature Zonta Club of Kauai event will be celebrating its 25th anniversary when the event unfolds,
Zonta Club of Kauai hosts 25th Eat Dessert First
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Feb. 13 at the Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the event runs through 7:30 p.m. as a benefit for the Zonta Club Foundation scholarships. “Last year, the Zonta Club presented scholarships to Ava Wagner, Bronwyn Kay, Mandy Sugihara, Gracie Yatsko, Railae Layosa, and Sharae Cua totalling $13,000,” said Jeanette Bonilla, the Zonta Club of Kauai president. “Since we started giving out scholarships, the club has
provided more than $250,000 to Kauai students.” Advance tickets to Eat Dessert First are available through any of the Zonta Club of Kauai members, ticket outlets, including Vicky’s Fabrics in Kapaa, The Wine Shop in Koloa, and Deja Vu Surf Hawaii at the Kukui Grove Center. Advance tickets sold prior to noon on Feb. 13 offer a discounted rate over tickets which will also be available at the door. Tickets are also available online at www.zonta-kauai.org/eatdessert-first. Mark’s Place is one of more than a dozen providers of
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Show Case Desserts, including the Hukilau Lanai, Haole Girl Island Sweets, and Dizzy Lizzy whom the Zonta Club said have been supporting the effort for many years. “I’ll be doing savory petite croissants,” said Chef Judy Capertina of Haole Girl Island Sweets. “We did it last year when the Zonta Club adopted the Mardi Gras theme, and customers liked it. Everyone else seem to lean toward sweet. We’ll be doing savory, including our popular Purple Sweet Potato and Coconut croissant. We’ll also be doing a cake for the silent auction.” Michael Sterioff of Passion Bakery Cafe said he’ll be doing several hundred
Chocolate Chip Fast Freddy cookies. “This is our most popular cookie,” Sterioff said. “We’ll be doing several hundred sample-sized versions.” Other vendors include Kayas Cakes, VIP Sweet Treats, Ono Pops, The Spot Kauai, Gaylord’s Kilohana, Sweet Treats, Kauai Coffe, and Sustainable Boost Teas. Malama Auctiions will be assisting with both the silent and live auctions which feature a grand prize that includes an overnight stay at the Kauai Marriott’s Presidential Suite, an Outfitters Kauai safari tour for two, and a $100 gift certificate to Duke’s Canoe Club at Kalapaki.
“Mardi Gras is known here as Malasada Tuesday, and the theme was well-received when we started it last year,” Neumiller said. “This year, we’re building on it by adding a dance floor (people were dancing on the carpet, last year), and a Dixieland band featuring a washboard player and Eric Dyrenfroth on banjo. We’re also adding more space by opening up the Kauai Marriott ballroom.” Additionally, for people planning on eating dessert first, sales from the Mardi Gras section at Malia Kai, a boutique located on Rice Street, will have a portion being set aside for the Zonta Foundation.
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WAGING A SPIRITUAL WAR CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY
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n our bookstore, we like to carry a wide variety of subjects and categories. One of them is Christian fiction, which has a strong
and growing following! One of the standout books in this category is Frank E. Peretti’s “This Present Darkness.” It has been a strong seller in general fiction since 1986. We find it to be a very well-written book. The engaging writing style, the character development, the strong themes, and the multi-layered storytelling has made this a most impressive work of fiction! In many ways, the story concept itself tackles a rather timeless
issue! In the vein and quality of many of the popular best-selling writers, Peretti’s “This Present Darkness” captivates us right from the start. In the small town of Ashton, there are strange things afoot as an unusual group comes into the area, inviting people to join their spiritual movement. This catches the attention of a local reporter (and natural-born skeptic) as well as the local priest,
who both begin to uncover a darker motive behind this group’s purpose. What makes this book so very interesting is at the
same time, there are two other conflicts occurring… one on the angelic spiritual level, and the other in the demonic realm. These two forces are at battle with each other, and their actions cross over and manifest into the physical everyday human world of Ashton! Peretti’s imagery is fantastic, and his story’s pacing immediately
REVIEW: EASTWOOD’S ‘15:17’ RECREATES A THWARTED ATTACK
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n his latest film, “The 15:17 to Paris,” Clint Eastwood has taken his famously no-frills filmmaking further than ever before. Having already dispensed with many of the typical accoutrements
of Hollywood filmmaking — lengthy development, a battery of takes, any handwringing at all — he has, with characteristically little anguish, jettisoned actors from the picture, too. Who
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needs ‘em, anyway? Truth be told, there are numerous professional actors in “The 15:17 to Paris,” about the foiled terrorist attack on a 2015 Paris-bound train. But the central characters, and even many of the extras, are played by themselves. The movie, simple and straightforward, derives most of its appeal from its verisimilitude — from its distinctly un-Hollywood-ness. That’s enough to make “The 15:17 to Paris” a refreshingly humble artifact in the often bombastic genre of terrorism thrillers. But it’s not the quality of the acting that limits Eastwood’s film. It’s a threadbare script that fails to find much of a story to tell behind the headlines about how Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone and their friend Anthony Sadler, a college student, tackled and subdued an assailant armed
with an AK-47 and nearly 300 rounds of ammunition. “The 15:17 to Paris” follows Eastwood’s “Sully,” which also told a story of a regular man turned international hero. In the overly morose tale of Capt. Chesley Sullenberger’s 2009 Hudson River landing, Eastwood focused on the strain of an unwanted spotlight. Here, he gladly shines it on Skarlatos, Stone and Sadler, all of whom look understandably thrilled to be in a Clint Eastwood movie. Skarlatos and Stone aren’t elite forces, though, just regular guys who want to serve their country. Much of “The 15:17 Paris” recounts their childhood together (the three became friends in middle school), their early aspirations of joining the military, and their disappointment at not quickly finding distinction in the ranks. Stone fails to qualify for the Air Force Pararescue. Skarlatos finds himself pro-
viding security — “basically a mall cop,” he sighs — in Afghanistan. Dorothy Blyskal’s script, based on the book the trio wrote with Jeffery E. Stern, flashes through key points in their lives, focusing mainly on Stone. Judy Greer and Jenna Fischer drop in as single moms. There is Thomas Lennon as a school principal and Tony Hale as a gym teacher — a set-up worthy of a promising network sitcom, but their moments here are brief. Really, what any of them are doing in the film is a little uncertain. “The 15:17 to Paris” is even more out of balance once it gets to the guys backpacking through Europe ahead of the attack. As they philosophize while taking selfies and plot their next party, a Richard Linklater film is almost at risk of breaking out. “The 15:17 to Paris” is a brief ride at 94 minutes
draws us in to wanting to find out what happens next. Surprise! When you finish this amazing book, there is a wonderful sequel that Mr. Peretti wrote that continues in the town of Ashton, making it a bit of an epic! So whether you are religious or not, “This Present Darkness” is a read that you will never forget! ••• Ed and Cynthia Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.
JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS but it’s a meandering one littered with gaps in the narrative and a missing sense of purpose. Eastwood feels less engaged with the material, content to settle for merely recreating a patriotic outliner in an otherwise tragic recent history of terrorism. But by focusing solely on the three pals, Eastwood has slighted the story of Mark Moogalian, a 51-year-old American-born Frenchman and professor at the Sorbonne who was one of the first to battle the gunman. Moogalian, who appears in the film as himself, was shot in his neck. We get the Legion of Honor ceremony for the three Americans, but neither the backstory nor even a final word on Moogalian’s fate. The heroes of the train attack deserve all the praise. But zoom out a little and it’s hard not to see Eastwood’s America-centric focus in “The 15:17 to Paris” as self-serving.
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arvey Maeda of Kauai Classic Cars said when he got up, Saturday, he saw the weather and thought the car show at The Shops at Kukuiula would be canceled because of all the rain and threatening weather. But the show went on as scheduled with a fewer number of vehicles showing up because of the rain. “A lot of the Eastside drivers didn’t get here,” Maeda said. “We have a lot of people from the Westside because it must not have rained that much.” A steady stream of people flowed among the classic cars that ranged from a 1932 Ford to more contemporary Pony cars like the Camaros and Mustangs of the 1960s vintage. “That’s a cab-over from 1948 to 1952,” said David Graham, a visiting California auto enthusiast. “We used to make a lot of parts for them. I have several cars, but the only one I have here is a WWII vintage Jeep. I didn’t want to drive it all the way from Princeville.” Graham said he’ll check out the auto show scheduled for Saturday at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Mana from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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