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Final day of Native Hawaiian Convention on Maui concludes with call to action
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KAHULUI (HawaiiNewsNow) – The Native Hawaiian Convention on Maui ended on Friday with a call to action to rebuild Lahaina in the right way.
The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement’s Native Hawaiian Convention is the largest gathering of Native Hawaiians.
For the first time ever, it was held on a neighbor island. It was held on the Valley Isle this year to elevate the voices of the Maui community.
Many discussions were about rebuilding fire-ravaged Lahaina.
Several residents say they now have a clearer picture of what that looks like and have a plan of action moving forward.
On the final day, four of the five members from the Lahaina Advisory Committee shared their views for Lahaina’s recovery.
Each of them was handpicked by Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen after the August fires.
“The people that you see here are very inclusive of the community. It’s not one sided. Which is really, really important to the success of the communication from the community to us to the mayor, but also to the rebuilding of our homes,” said committee member Archie Kalepa.
Their goal is to guide the mayor with how Lahaina wants to rebuild Lahaina.
On Friday, they shared their responsibilities within the committee.
Kim Ball, former Lahainaluna High School wrestling coach and founder and president of Hi-Tech Maui, Inc., said his focus is on the economic recovery.
“Eight hundred businesses were impacted with 7,000 employees. That’s a daily revenue loss of $2.7 million from those businesses, and the total loss from businesses on Maui is $11 million dollars a day,” Ball said.
They also tackle issues like housing, education, keiki, kupuna, mental health and several other things.
They shared how community members can help them.
“If you know of people who have houses that might be able to open up to one of our families, that’s what we’re really looking for in the long term is some housing just to stay here and ride this out until Lahaina can be rebuilt,” Laurie DeGama said.
“Individually, pray for us. As we pray for you,” said Kaliko Storer.
They meet as a committee twice a week and hold weekly community meetings every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Lahaina Civic Center. They encourage everyone to attend.
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A 43-year-old woman is facing charges after Honolulu police say she assaulted a law enforcement officer Friday morning.
Police officials say the incident happened around 11:30 a.m. near the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu.
According to police records, the woman was arrested after refusing to show the officer identification and then assaulting the officer.
The details of the assault were not provided.
Officials say she is in custody pending further investigation.
The investigation is ongoing.
This story may be updated.
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Hawaii Island Police have identified the body found last week Thursday in Kea’au, as that of Ashley Kuregian.
Investigators say the 38-year-old died of a single gunshot to the head.
Officials say they believe her boyfriend, Matthew Poole, killed her at least a week before that.
He later took his own life as police surrounded his Keaau home on 36th Avenue.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call (808) 935-3311.
The investigation is ongoing.
This story may be updated.
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