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    • 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
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Cemetery Stewardship

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Once a month (the 4th Sunday) we clean 3 cemeteries 
each month: O’okala, Honoka’a and Kukuihaele..
To see the ground, the dirt, at the Hawaiian Christian church cemetery...and simply by steadily returning, we saw the dirt and are beginning to see more. The powerful scene of human beings steadily working, persisting, breaking up the overgrown vines, wheelbarrowing them away...focused...feeling the presence of the ancestors, feeling the ocean breeze cooling us on that beautiful afternoon...a miraculous miracle...quietly we have started the movement, just as we are learning that there are 2-3 people dedicated to other cemeteries, maintaining...regularly.  
​- Akiko Masuda
Our vision is your vision – legislation to protect graves of the immigrants – with cemeteries maintained by the community nearby.
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We continue with prayers that we are setting in motion a “community commitment” to those who came before us, that will start to sprout in communities all over our precious Hawaii – honoring on a monthly basis, those who came before us. 

Please know fully and in the depths of your soul, that the ancestors are most grateful that you come and work and clean and give attention in respect and gratitude. ​​
See the Last "4th Sunday" of 2021
Please consider joining the Friends of Wailea Village to support our continuing work in cemetery stewardship with a tax deductible annual pledge of:
  • $60 ($5/month)
  • $120 ($10/month)
  • or more...
  • a gift of any amount for the property fund

Contact us for free, confidential assistance with planned gifts or bequests of any kind.

With sincere gratitude for your consideration and support.
 
Garry Wyckoff
WVHPC Board Member
Friend of Akiko & Wailea Village
Mail checks payable to WVHPC: 
P.O. Box 272 

Hakalau, HI 96710
Or donate electronically through
​(click on PayPal logo):
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For more information, see the Upcoming Events or contact Akiko Masuda at 963-6422 or msakiko@hawaii.rr.com. 

Take a look at Wailea Village Historic Preservation Community and its other initiatives:  Reviving Hakalau School, Senior Luncheons, and Mochi Pounding.
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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!