The Left Lane
Kids say . . .
Virginia Nishimoto, a cashier at Safeway on Beretania, tells this teachers' strike-related story: Her 11-year-old daughter, Taryn, a fifth-grader, misses her teachers and friends at Hokulani Elementary so much that she says she's "school sick."
— Rod Ohira
A final gift
In a lifetime of ethnobotanical research and teaching here, Beatrice Krauss became not only one of the Islands' most respected experts, but one of the most beloved. She died at 94 in 1998, but her final gift to the Islands is just being born: "Plants in Hawaiian Medicine" (The Bess Press, paper, $22.95 hardback, $12.95 paper), completed just before her death, was officially launched last week.
Krauss' partner in the project, illustrator Martha Noyes, is making appearances this month to sign books and talk about the importance of her friend's work on this informative, practical and easily understood guide to 30 healing plants. See her 12:30-1:30 p.m. April 20, Native Books and Beautiful Things, Merchant Street; 11 a.m.-noon April 21, BookEnds, Kailua; 2-4 p.m. April 21, Native Books and Beautiful Things, Ward Warehouse (with a medicinal plant display); and 11 a.m.-1 p.m. April 28, the Lomi Shop, Windward Mall.
— Advertiser staff
