Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 26, Number 1, 1 January 2009 — IANUALI CALENDAR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IANUALI CALENDAR

ALA WAI COMMUNITY CHALLENGE Sun„ Jan. 25, 8 a.m.-l p.m. The makahiki season brings community groups together to compete for the fun of it in quarter-mile-long outrigger eanoe races and other Hawaiian games, such as 'ulu maika (think bowling) and 'ō'ō ihe (sharpen your spear and aim). As it has always done in its 24-year history, the event pays tribute to Hawai'i's living legends of water sports. The 2009 honorees are master eanoe

builder Bobby Puakea and / big wave surfer Clyde Aikau. A double-hulled eanoe procession kicks off the day with hula and song by loeal hālau. Enjoy craft and food booths, loeal entertainment and some

rare educational activities, such as learning to make a smoothie by peddling a bicycle-powered blender, courtesy of a sustainability initiative at UH Mānoa. All this fun is for a good cause: proceeds from eanoe race participants benefit the nonprofit Waikīkī Community Center and its programs for counseling, case management, elderly affairs, daycare and other social services. Parking available at Tokai University and Ala Wai School. The "eanoe taxi service" starts at Ala Wai Boulevard and 'Olohana Street. Free admission. Ala Wai Neighborhood Park. 923-1802 or waikikicommunitycenter.org.

NĀ HANANA - EVENTS

The Ala Wai Community Chollenge includes a celebration of accomplishments by two of Hawūi'i's living legends of wafer sporfs, eanoe craftsman Bobby Puakea, far right, and big wave surfer Clyde Aikau. - Courtesy phoīo