Maui’s homeless pups need you

Filed Under FYI, Spread the Aloha, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Who can resist those faces? Hopefully not you! If you live on Maui or are visiting soon, these lil pups make the perfect companion or souvenir that long returns on it’s investment! There are more dogs and puppies just like this who need your love and a furever home. Owning an animal is a big responsibility so please take it seriously. All it takes are meeting their basic needs and add love and you have a sweet little nugget that’ll give you unconditional love it’s whole life. To find out more about the animals here or at the shelter, go to the Maui Humane Society website.

Happy Easter

Filed Under Spread the Aloha | Leave a Comment

Just wishing my readers out there a very

I’ve officially heard it all…

Filed Under Spread the Aloha | Leave a Comment

So when the hospital lists visiting hours, do they include the equestrian population? What I love best about this story is how the off duty nurse posed with it.

Click here to read the story

Sunsets of Hawaii offers a freebie!

Filed Under Spread the Aloha | 1 Comment

Who doesn’t love a freebie? Our friends at Sunsets of Hawaii are offering a free 10 minute relaxation video download for personal use! If you have a high speed internet connection it only takes about 10 minutes to download. Just right click the picture and click “save target as” and you’re good to go. Nothing like seeing the waves seemingly lapping at your feet!

While you’re there, if you haven’t already purchased Sunsets of Kauai or Sunsets of Hawaii: Volume One, jump on it! These are the perfect gifts for ohana and friends on the mainland who wish they could pull over and watch a full sunset.

Email them and mention you saw their free bonus download blogged on True Aloha and get a coupon code to save on your purchase!

The hubby did good for Valentines Day

Filed Under Spread the Aloha | 1 Comment

Oh I know, I know, we shouldn’t have to rely on a big “commercial racket” , to quote Charlie Brown, to tell our significant others we love them but when you get a nice bouquet of flowers from the Big Island, whose gonna complain? We’ve always had great results from Linda’s Place of Hawaii in Kurtistown. We’ve used other places and the quality of flowers and packing just weren’t the same. So I was pleasantly surprised to receive this lovely bouquet from my honey. I am always amazed how much Hawaiian flowers cheer up a room. The great thing is you don’t have to wait for Valentines Day or someone else to cheer up your place. Whether you get them from a florist, a grocery store or a roadside farmers market, its a small investment in the way they make you feel and longer lasting than roses.

It always cracked me up to get them at work because people are always so fascinated with them. I’d get all kinds of questions “are they real?” or you’d have people coming up to smell them and say how great the anthuriums smelled. You couldn’t help but giggle because if you’ve ever gotten them you knew darn well they didn’t smell. But I’d take each stem and foliage out and arrange them in a vase I kept in my desk drawer. By the time I was done I had a beautifully arranged and completely unique bouquet that outshined anything in the office. I was the envy of the office and I have to say there was always one girl who always got flowers from her husband any time of year but when I got my beautiful Hawaiian flowers, she always commented on how much she loved them. You can’t help but feel good making the girl who gets 3-5 bouquets a year a little envious with one bouquet.

So how about you? Whether single, dating or married did you do anything to celebrate with your valentine? (Regardless of your valentine…your honey, your kid(s), your pet or yourself)

Save your lips this winter season with some aloha

Filed Under Spread the Aloha | Leave a Comment

As I sit here recovering from a horrendous respitory infection with the suspicion of the onset of whooping cough by my doc, I’ve had all of the usual cold symptoms in addition to a myriad of other “delights.” When you have a raw nose, sore throat, feel like you got hit by a Mack truck, etc. the last thing you need or want are chapped lips. I don’t know about you but the wax of Chapstick that fills in the cracks of chapped stick just annoys me. Then you have an ointment like balm like Blistex that gums up when you talk.

So I used to just suffer until one time I remembered I had some lip balm from Hawaii. People, I tell you it is the most relieving thing one can apply to cracked, chapped lips. The best part…the ingredients are all natural: palm oil, olive oil, macadamia nut oil, beeswax, natural flavors and aloha. That’s right, aloha. Tonight I felt the burn of those dry lips and put on my Kauai Kiss lip balm by Island Soap and Candle Works and almost instantly my lips were soft and relieved of the annoying pain. I thought my cold weather readers might like to enjoy some relief courtesy of the islands or heck even warm weather people can protect their lips from the sun and wind. I love this stuff and my lips are saying mahalo! I hope you give them a try!

Rally to help save Koloa’s monkeypod trees

Filed Under Spread the Aloha, Upcoming Events | Leave a Comment

About 16 of Koloa’s historic monkeypod trees that have been standing for 80 years are about to be cut down to accomodate a retail center. If you live on or are going to be visiting Kauai this Saturday, please attend the rally to show your support to save these gentle giants! If you cannot attend, contact info is listed below.

WHAT:
Demonstration to “Save the Monkeypod Trees”

WHEN:
Saturday, December 22nd, from 10:00am – 5:00pm

WHERE:
Koloa across from Lappert’s Ice Cream Shop

TARGET:
People from the Knudsen estate to write to:

The owner is:
Eric Knudsen
PO BOx 415
Verdi NV 89439

The developer is:
David Nelson
Nelson Development
6960 Orchid Lake Rd suite 200
West Bloomfield MI 48322
email: dnelson@nelsoncos.com

FOR INFO:
Koloa Community Association
Carol Ann Davis-Briant
phone: 808-742-6523, 742-2111
email: carolanndavis@hawaii.rr.com
write: 2381 Kipuka Street, Koloa HI 96756

Kudos and frustration

Filed Under Hawaii Activities, Spread the Aloha | Leave a Comment

The Kalalau Trail is an 11 mile trail that traverses the north shore of Kauai. Many day hikers will hike in the first four miles to Hanakapi’ai Valley waterfall as this is as far as you can go without a permit. Over the years, the trail has gone into serious disrepair including spots where it was virtually impassable. I was pleased to see this article in The Garden Island newspaper about how local Bill Summers was affected by a family hiking on the trail ahead of him that literally had to collect themselves after getting across a tight section of the trail. Summers, tired of waiting for the DLNR to do anything about it began hiking out to the trail with minimal tools and buckets and began widening/defining the trail on his own to make it safer for hikers. The more he hiked, the more he saw other areas in disrepair.

Here’s where the frustration comes in…IF the DLNR catches anyone making improvements on the trail, they will be cited!! Yeah. Well I know that the goverment is riddled with red tape and the money to complete the first two miles is being released in the beginning of next year but its pretty sad when you have people wanting to improve this natural wonder and your idea is to cite them for doing so! Now they did say they want to work with him because of the job he’s doing and I’m assuming they’re not making trolling the trail a top priority but the thought of citing people is ludacris.

With tourism being a main source of revenue for the islands, you would think that places like the Kalalau Trail and the Pu’u O Kila lookout at the Kalalau Valley, both of which are heavily advertised to potential visitors would be a main priority for funding. Yet both are in major states of disrepair. What is wrong with this picture??

So to the Bill Summers’ out there, the people who don’t wait for someone else to do it… a big mahalo to you. Let’s hope your acts of aloha make the government take notice in a GOOD way and restore the access to these natural places of beauty for all to enjoy for years to come! (Pictures below courtesy of Kalalautrail.com)

Happy Thanksgiving from True Aloha!

Filed Under Spread the Aloha | Leave a Comment

Just wanted to wish my readers a very Happy Thanksgiving! I’m thankful for all of the great people who stop by here every day and for the future readers to come. Feel free to leave a comment on how you spent your Thanskgiving. For instance, I have a turkey in the oven that is wearing a foil bikini. You know, like that email you always get every November? Yep, I wanna see if it works! I’ll take pics and let you know how that turned out! How about you?

(Greeting courtesy of Pacific Expressions Shaka Ecards)

KKCR’s Fall 2007 Pledge Drive Celebrates the Power of Community!

Filed Under Hawaiian Music, Spread the Aloha | Leave a Comment

Please help Kauai Community Radio stay on the air by contributing what you can to their Fall Pledge Drive which runs now through the 18th. They’re a great local radio station on Kauai and rely on support of listeners… local and global. In the need for some good local music, make sure you tune in and listen live!

Your support makes community radio possible. There are many ways that you can help us to support community grown radio. Whether its an individual or business donation, volunteering your time or donating membership gifts, KKCR greatly appreciates your contributions. Members receive a plethora of island benefits as well as cd’s, and other gifts based on the level of membership. Individuals or businesses can also donate gift certificates, goods or services that we will then give away on the air as incentive gifts for membership. Donations of food for our hungry volunteers during the membership drive are also welcome. Remember, KKCR is a 501c3, non-profit organization which means that your donations are tax deductible. For more information on any of these options, please call the office at (808) 826-7774.

« go back — keep looking »