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Our beloved hulu kupuna Charles "Doc" Burrows passed away on Saturday, April 30, at his daughter Kathy's home in Leavenworth, Kansas. She shared the following kanikau with his family and friends, and we ask that you join with us in aloha and support for his wife Clara who has always been the guiding light for this remarkable man.
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Aue! Aue! Aue!
Luʻuluʻu ʻo Koʻolaupoko i ka ua nui.
Kaumaha i ka ua loku ʻo Apuakea
Heleleʻi kuʻu waimaka i ke alakaʻi lawelawe, ke koa wiwo ʻole
Ke kanaka akeakamai, ke kū kiaʻi loko iʻa ʻo Kawainui
ʻO Kauka Charles Peʻapeʻa Makawalu Kekuewa Burrows kona inoa
E mau ana ka hoʻoilina o ke aloha ʻaina i na haumāna me na liko hoʻoheno ana
Ua hele nō i ke ala hoʻi ʻole mai
Pau ka luhi, pau ka ʻeha, maha e Kauka Burrows
I ke ola mau loa me ka Haku ʻo Iesu
Na kou Haku e ʻi akula ia ʻoe, Maikaʻi no e kuʻu kaua kupono a piha i ka manaʻoʻiʻo.
E komo i ke olioli o kou Haku.

We grieve! We mourn! We cry!
Koʻolaupoko is downcast with great rain
Heavily weighted with grief in the pouring Apuakea rain
Tears flow in remembrance of a dedicated servant leader,
a fearless warrior of the land, a lover of wisdom and seeker of knowledge,
The fiercely loyal protector of Kawainui marsh and fishpond
Dr. Charles Peʻapeʻa Makawalu Kekuewa Burrows is his name
His legacy of aloha ʻaina, to love and care for the land,
will live on in his cherished descendants and students
He travels on a pathway from which there is no returning
Doc. Burrows, Rest in resurrection power where there is no suffering or pain
in the presence of our Lord, Jesus.
It is your Master who will say, 'Well done, good and faithful servant …
Enter into the joy of your Lord.’

Me kuʻu aloha palena ʻole,
L. Halani Berard-Boshard

From our email archive:

​Aloha e Kapalaiʻula,

Mahalo for the reminder about tonite's meeting.  Regretfully, we're unable to join in tonight but are looking forward to keeping updated through the KHCC website and minutes and participating whenever possible. 

We're looking forward to the warmer weather here especially being able to be outdoors more, especially Chuck so he can do some planting of fruit trees and vegetables at the invitation of the ʻohana here. 

Please extend our aloha as well as mahalo to all for the continuing prayers for Chuck as he's agreed to palliative radiation treatments, beginning this Wednesday.  With grateful prayers of thanksgiving to our loving God for all of you, too, as you carry out the much needed malama of our keiki and aina.

Blessings,
Clara Kalaʻe a me Doc 

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Aloha, e na kini o Kailua, 

Our next regular meeting of the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club is tomorrow,  Saturday March 19, at 4pm HST on Zoom. 

Tomorrow's agenda is posted, as usual, on the Member Essentials page of our website. One quick note: we will be deferring the approval of February's meeting minutes, so you can expect those to be shared over email at a later date. 

Hope all is well, and look forward to seeing some of you tomorrow. 
Me ke aloha, 
Kapalai

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Aloha e na lala o ka Hawaiian Civic Club o Kailua, 
e na mamo hoʻi o nei ʻaina aloha, 
** Hapenuia 2022 ** 

We hope you can join us on Zoom this coming Saturday, February 26th, 2022 at 4p HST for our first general membership meeting of the new year! Here's the simple one-click link that will take you straight to the meeting, or if you prefer, the meeting ID and password that can be used to join from the Zoom app:

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7593862956?pwd=Ti9kWDc4aFExcW5jMkNGc3VNaXRldz09

Meeting ID: 759 386 2956
Passcode: 656732

Last December's meeting minutes are posted on our KHCC website – kailuahawaiiancivicclub.org/member-essentials.html – for your review, along with the agenda for our upcoming meeting. As you can see, we plan on sharing highlights from January's virtual AHCC Convention, approving our meeting schedule for 2022 (proposed schedule is attached), and talking about some of the things we can look forward to in the coming year. 

I would also like to take a moment to remind everyone about membership dues. Some of you have already sent those in - mahalo nui! For those who have not yet done so, we accept PayPal through the website (although PP does take a percentage), or you can mail checks to us at PO Box 1123, Kailua HI 96734. Please note:

• $25 for Regular & Associate members / $10 for Youth members - due by March 31st
• If your contact info has changed, please submit a new registration form with your payment (forms attached below). No form is necessary if you have no changes.
• For more info, check out the Member Essentials page linked here and above
• If you're not sure about your membership status, email us at [email protected]

A great big mahalo to each of you for your patience, as it has taken a little longer than expected for this fledgling Pelekikena to get her feet under her. Thanks, as well, to the board of directors for your support and engagement through this transition period. 

Stay safe, and hope to see you on Saturday! 
Naʻu me ke aloha, 
Kapalaiʻula, pelekikena

Mahalo nui to all of our club members and extended family whose donations, in the absence of our usual Poi & Papale fundraiser, allowed us to award our usual $1000 scholarships to each of the following Aloha ʻAina.

• Jasmine Kuʻupua Chang: Charles Rose Family Scholar, UH Manoa, Marine Biology.
• Marcus Mahina Quiniones: Trask-Mahoe Scholar, Southern New Hampshire University, MBA.
• Dryden "Sonny" Seto Myers: Chuck & Clara Burrows Scholar, Stanford University, Anthropology & Native American Studies.

Doc and Clara left Kaneʻohe for Kansas on November 10th. They zoomed-in, three days later, for a celebration hosted by some of the people and organizations they most impacted: Benton Pang, Michael Nahoʻopiʻi, Lehuakona Isaacs, Steve Montgomery, Sigrid Southworth, Beth Anderson, and Terry Ogawa; Kamehameha's Hui Lama, ʻAhahui Malama i ka Lokahi, the Church of the Crossroads, and the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club. KHCC honored our hulu kupuna, Doc and Clara, with a mele inoa composed by Kihei and choreographed by Mapuana. It ends with: "Mapunapuna mai ana ke aloha / Mai oʻu hulu kupuna mai no / I ola ai na kini o Kailua -- Love pours sweetly forth / From my cherished hulu kupuna / Giving life to Kailua's people." (Click here for the complete text of this mele.)
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From our Mailchimp email archive:

Aloha e na hoa makamaka,

We'll hold a (short) general membership meeting this Saturday, October 16, from 5 to 6 pm on Zoom. Our agenda includes: 

• News from Kauluakalana and Hui Maunawili-Kawainui.
• Updates on the AoHCC Convention and Huakaʻi to Ulupo
• Our slate of nominees for the Nov. 20 BOD election
• a Kihei mini-lecture on the 1895 Water Commission Hearing at which Kailua's kalo and rice farmers sought to end the theft by WG Irwin and the Waimanalo Sugar Plantation of millions of gallons of Maunawili water.  An excerpt from Hikaʻalani's testimony at that hearing is given below.

We'll also post our agenda and minutes-to-be-approved on the usual Member Essentials web page, and we'll send out the Zoom link on either Friday evening or Saturday morning.

A hiki i ka wa kupono,

Mapuana and Kihei 

Mahalo nui to the KHCC members whose donations allowed us to commission Norma-Jean Lehuanani Chock of Kahailimanu to make these lei hulu for the installation of the new officers of the Association.