Wahiawa Pine Fest Ready To Roll On May 8
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Del.icio.usThe Wahiawa Pineapple Festival could use some additional volunteers to help out on various parts of the May 8 event, planned for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Wahiawa District Park. (A parade into the festival grounds kicks off at 9 a.m. from Kaala Elementary School.
“This year we are doing something different,” said chairwoman Grace Dixon. “We divided it in villages.”
The major exhibitions feature a cultural village, keiki village, artists village, military village and a green village that will have an educational slate on solar and photovoltaic energy. There also will be fresh vegetables and flowers from area farms - including earlier ag giants pineapple and sugar cane. The old Leilehua gymnasium will screen a mini movie festival.
“We didn’t have a festival last year because no one was brave enough to take it on,” said Dixon, who also heads the Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens. “I’ve taken on a big challenge, but I have a very good committee. It’s a homegrown stimulus project with no government seed money to promote pride of place and a place to shop.”
Dixon said Leilehua graduates - no matter what year they graduated - should report to the old gymnasium terrace to be a part of an oral history project organized by Wahiawa Historical Society. Graduates may take part in one-on-one interviews or they may choose to fill out a printed questionnaire.
“We really want you to show up and check in at the gymnasium,” she said. “We really want to do this project. It would be interesting to see what did happen to people who graduated, and what are their recollections of high school, and maybe what it was about high school that helped them become a success when they graduated.”
Entertainers include Wahiawa Middle School Jazz Band, Na Kamali’i o Iliahi, Royal Hawaiian Band, and other singers and dancers.
Past festivals celebrated Wahiawa’s small-town feel and long-standing link to the pineapple industry, but agricultural diversity is the focus for 2010. For details or to offer help, call 621-0043.
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