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Posted on: Friday, August 22, 2003

THE LEFT LANE
Recorded tour lets hosts off the hook

Advertiser Staff and News Services

How do you get your house guests out of the house without playing tour guide yourself?

Hand them "TourTalk O'ahu" ($24.95 at www.tourtalkhawaii.com), a two-CD self-guided audio driving tour narrated by local personalities such as Joe "Pekelo" Recca and "Sista" Sherry Clifton.

The 2 1/2-hour tour describes key moments in O'ahu's history and includes storytellers, chanters and musicians as well as a 72-page booklet.

The west O'ahu company that made the guide, TourTalk-Hawaii Nei, plans to produce guides for the other major Hawaiian islands this year.

Keiki invited to float ideas for contest

Tugboats and container ships: That's what Matson Navigation hopes keiki learn about through its writing and drawing contests. Children in grades K-5 may enter an 11-by-17-inch poster showing what they imagine happens each day on the waterfront. Children in grades 4 to 6 are invited to do the same in an essay, poem or story of not more than 500 words.

Winners will receive prizes and be published in a booklet to be distributed at this year's Honolulu Harbor Festival. Entries are due Sept. 19, with name, grade, school, contact person and daytime phone number on the back, submitted to Harbors Division, 79 S. Nimitz Highway, Honolulu, HI 96813. For details, call the Harbors Division at 587-2044.

Kilauea club marks 35th annual picnic

Fifty years ago, high school graduates from Kilauea, Kaua'i, had two options: Stay in town and work at the sugar plantation, or move to Honolulu. Like many of her high school classmates, Pat Konno left Kilauea in 1945, to get a business degree from the University of Hawai'i. "We couldn't go back to Kilauea," she said. "There were no opportunities there for us."

In 1968, five friends from the small plantation town near Hanalei looking for a way to keep in touch started a club, Kilauea Kai. It registered 106 members and has been meeting for an annual picnic ever since.

Celebrating their 35th anniversary on Sunday, the club's 36 members (with children and grandchildren in tow) will honor their 80-year-old-plus members — 14 of them.

There will be games (led by the same man for the last 35 years), and bentos for lunch — a Kilauea Kai tradition. Annual membership dues remain the same as when the club started ($5). The picnic starts at 10 a.m. at Ala Moana Beach Park near the McCoy Pavilion.

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