Happy New Year!

2020 Goals for hakalauhome.com

Continue implementation related to goals 1-3 from 2019: 

• Goal 1 (2019-2020): Expand historical information about the former Hakalau Plantation using newspaper sources. As of January 4, 2020: The timeline has been expanded to include articles and ads. In June 2019, digitized and searchable copies of Hilo newspapers became available, greatly expanding reporting sources and enhancing human interest stories. The approach is to tackle one decade at a time and within a decade, one year at a time. The timeline for the following decades are most fully developed: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1960s-2000s. Not only is this an ongoing process, but it is iterative as well. 
• Goal 2: (2019-2020): Track and explain the sale of lands to sugar interests after the Great Māhele and the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875.
• Goal 3 (2019-2020): Quantify and describe the demographic changes over time in the Hakalau Kuleana, the area within the boundaries of the former Hakalau Plantation from the Kolekole River in Wailea to the Poupou Stream in Ninole (at the 20 Mile Marker).

​Add new features:

• Goal 4 (2020): Redesign so users have the option to view pictures in full size. (Contact us with suggestions related to pictures.)
• Goal 5 (2020): Add more downloading options. (Contact us with recommendations regarding downloading files.)

​Please also contact us with other recommendations you have for hakalauhome.com.

Updates as of January 6, 2020

Yesterday:

• Added new page on Plantation Values
• Added new page on Schools
• Added new page on Churches, including a picture of the Hakalau Sacred Heart Church
• Updated the Hakalau Jodo Mission page on The Later Years to include photos of Rev. Wansa and Rev. Miyazaki, the current minister
• Expanded content on Cemeteries based on feedback from site users, residents, scholars and staff from the County Planning Department.
• Added new pictures of John M. and Georgiana Ross circa the 1920s donated to the Lyman Museum by Mrs. Mildred T. Isomura. Mrs. Isomura's mother, Hanyo Sumida, was their maid for many years.

​Today: ​​

• Updated the Issues Today with the latest update (December 13) about Kolekole and Hakalau Bay Parks
• Updated Upcoming Events, including a new Music and Movement class for children 0-5 years of age at the Hakalau Jodo Mission.
• Updated Hakalau Neighborhood Watch with the plan for 2020 and the addition of a new page, Latest Area Crime and Suspicious Activity Reports

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Tomorrow:​​​​

• Updated information about the Hawai`i County General Plan 
• Updated status of the implementation of the Hāmākua Community Development Plan (CDP) and its Action Committee
• Updated information related to Arsenic Remediation of Hakalau Point including the recently approved remediation implementation plan.