Have A Hali‘i Christmas Friday
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All of Waimanalo, it seems, is coming together to put on its Hali’i Christmas party, set for 5 to 9 p.m. Friday at Blanche Pope Elementary School.
The third annual event is open to “families, children, the needy, displaced or homeless” in a fellowship that includes dinner, games, movies, songs, a native Hawaiian book fair and free family portraits with Papa Kalikimaka (Kanaka Santa).
On the menu is cream turkey or jook with rice, rolls, hot cocoa and juice.
Children are invited to bring their blanket (hali’i) for the moonlit movies and music on the school lawn. Also planned is a keiki ornament parade.
“Some of our parading babies are even decorated with lights and rolling toy wagons for floats,” said event chairman Roy Brooks. “It is a precious moment indeed.”
Papa Kalikimaka is (shhh) retired policeman Joe Aragon, who formerly worked as a forensic artist for HPD. One of Aragon’s favorite title these days is “Uncle Joe” at Blanche Pope, where he serves as a kupuna and the school’s only male member of the Foster Grandparent program.
“I was so nervous on my first day since it was something new,” Aragon admitted, “but I can’t imagine a life without the students at Blanche Pope.”
For more information on the event, call 699-5888. Co-sponsors of Hali’i Kalikimaka are the Waimanalo and Kailua Hawaiian civic clubs, the DOE, state Department of Human Services, Ho’olu’a, Waimanalo Youth & Family Collaborative, God’s Country, Youth2Youth, Friends of Waimanalo, the Men’s Ministry, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Castle Medical Center, Queen Liliuokalani Trust, Partners in Development Foundation, Na Pono No Na ‘Ohana, and several local churches and agencies.
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