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  • Home
    • Upcoming Events
    • About hakalauhome
    • Contact Us!
  • Yesterday
    • Timeline
    • Camps
    • Schools >
      • Hakalau School
      • John M. Ross School
    • Churches & Cemeteries >
      • Churches >
        • Hakalau Jodo Mission
        • Honohina Hongwanji
      • Cemeteries
    • The Voice of Hakalau
    • Sugar Production >
      • Hakalau Mill & Other Buildings
      • Wailea Milling Company
    • Infrastructure and Transportation >
      • 19th Century Hamakua Roads
      • Bridges
      • The Railroad
  • Today
    • Hakalau Farmers Market
    • Hakalau Jodo Mission Today >
      • Obon Festival
      • Memorial Day
      • Celebrations at Hakalau Jodo Mission
    • Honohina Hongwanji Today
    • Hakalau Reunions
    • Wailea Village Historic Preservation Community >
      • Cemetery Stewardship
      • Reviving Hakalau School
      • Senior Luncheons
      • Mochi Pounding
  • Tomorrow
    • Arsenic Remediation
    • Cliff Failures
    • Hāmākua CDP & the CDP Action Committee

The 2010s

2010

  • The County studied the historic rural gyms and finds toxins, including asbestos, lead paint, arsenic, mercury and but lacks money to renovate and mitigate the situation. Hakalau Gym was the only gym closed completely due to toxins.
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Hawaii Tribune-Herald, February 20, 2010, accessed via Newspapers.com.
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Hawaii Tribune-Herald, May 23, 2010, accessed via Newspapers.com.
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Hawaii Tribune Herald, September 25, 2010, accessed via Newspapers.com.
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Honolulu Star Advertiser, October 8, 2010, accessed via Newspapers.com.
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Hawaii Tribune-Herald, October 8, 2019, accessed via Newspapers.com.
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2011

2012

  • Akiko Masuda and Miyo Harumi, of Miyo's Restaurant, providing the inspiration, leadership and hard work, initiated the Hakalau Jodo Mission Senior Luncheons. Three times each month 30-50 grateful kupuna gather to tell stories, sing, exercise, laugh and eat a wonderful lunch. Yet another way Akiko perpetuates the culture and demonstrates respect for our kupuna.
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Akiko Masuda leading exercise at Senior Luncheon. Photo courtesy of Garry Wyckoff.
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Honolulu Star Advertiser, May 10, 2012, accessed via Newspapers.com.

2013

2014

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2015

  • With the vision of creating the Hakalau Learning Center and maintaining the old buildings, Akiko assembled a crew of volunteers and began cleaning the grounds of Hakalau School in 2015. They continue their labors on the second Sunday of each month. The spirit of all who participate is a blessing for the community. Some of Wailea-Hakalau neighbors and elders cannot come help work so they donate money. Some of the Thai community cannot come so they too donate money for food or send food or hire someone to work in their place. The devotion to the vision and to the community is humbling. Prayers continue for everyone’s good health – mind & body, for committed united belief in the vision of the Hakalau Learning Center, and deep gratitude that the community is blessed to live and work here & to grow strong together.
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  • The County of Hawaii Windward Planning Commission approved the Special Management Area Use Permit for 10 lots makai side of the Hawaii Belt Highway in Ninole at Mile Marker 19. Community concerns expressed prior to approval related to impact on the view plane, insufficient space between the highway and the cliffs, contamination from the former gas station/garage on the site, and cliff instability.
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Cliffside development next to the Hawaii Belt Highway at Mile Marker 19. Photo taken in March 2016 by Robert Nishimoto.

2016

  • Akiko Masuda honored the ancestors by initiating a program of cemetery stewardship, a community commitment to those who came before us. Her vision is that this monthly effort will be replicated in communities across the state, honoring those who came before us.  With Akiko as their guide, volunteers work and give attention to the ancestors with respect and gratitude.
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2017

2018

  • The Hāmākua Community Development Plan was adopted in August 2018 after NINE years of work by the Steering Committee and communities along the Hāmākua  Coast.

2019

For the Hakalau Kuleana, our responsibility is to care for the land, the people, and the culture. We are guided by cultural values of YESTERDAY: Engage in collective effort. Look out for each other. Honor hard work. Show respect for those who came before us. Aloha and Mālama `Aina. In 2021, Akiko Masuda added two more values to the list: Consistently show up. Whatever has to be done, jump in and do it!