Puako Home Sales / Kohala Coast Properties

14th from 4-9 pm. 20% of all proceeds from meals sold godirectly to the Three Ring Ranch, but wait, it gets better! 100%

critters.

yummy! ) and help feed the animals this special night.  Mark the

Three Ring Ranch mug will be given out, One per table.

   We are planning our annual earthday beach cleanup for Saturday April 25th. We plan to go to the newly reopened surf park in Kawaihae harbor and cleanup both the long stretch of beach and in the water. Email us at godiving@kohaladivers.com to sign up to join our event. As always we will provide refreshments, and free tanks for any certified volunteers. You don’t have to be a diver to sign up though, we need lots of cleanup on the beach too!!Read on for the facts on why keeping our beaches and oceans clean is a must do for our community!  Marine Debit facts About 230 million tons of trash is generated per year in the United States alone. Less than a quarter of that is recycled. Humans generate waste faster than it can be broken down and use up resources faster than they can be replaced. Two million plastic beverage bottles are used in the US every five minutes. 60,000 plastic bags are used in the US every five seconds. 106,000 aluminium cans are used in the US every thirty seconds. Six million tonnes of debris enters the world’s oceans every year. Approximately 80 percent of trash in our oceans and waterways comes from land – via wind and runoff from city streets and highways. About 20 percent of aquatic debris is generated from ships including floats and fishing gear. Nearly 90 percent of all marine debris is plastic. To date, plastic outweighs zooplankton 6:1. An estimated 46,000 pieces of plastic litter alone are floating on every square mile of ocean – 70 percent of which will eventually sink. The average person uses about 200 pounds of plastic in a year. Plastic industry experts expect that number to increase to 300 by the end of the decade. Each year, 15 billion pounds of plastics are produced in the US alone. Only 1 billion pounds are recycled. Plastics do not biodegrade. When plastic debris meets water it remains for centuries – breaking down slowly into smaller fragments and finally into plastic dust. Aluminum cans take up to 100 years to degrade and 6-pack holder rings 450 years. It takes glass bottles one million years to biodegrade in the natural environments. Entanglement and ingestion of fishing line, nets, rope and other debris has been reported in more than 260 animal species worldwide. An estimated 100,000 marine mammals including dolphins, whales, seals and sea turtles choke or get tangled in debris every year. Nearly 8 million items of debris weighing 7 million pounds were collected by about 35,000 volunteers worldwide during International Cleanup Day 2006. Nearly 300 species of defenceless wildlife suffers unnecessarily due to dangerous debris. More than 1 million seabirds are killed by aquatic litter each year. 86 percent of all sea turtles are affected by marine debris.

People often ask what do people do when they live in this area. This area is loaded with activities like dance classes, painting, nature tours and culinary spectaculars.

One well known local artisan ,Angel Prince, of Prince Dance helps organize and teach classes and events along the Kohala and Hamakua Coast lines. One class she is currently promoting is the Argentine Tango every third Friday of the month.

Friday March 20th

6:30-7:30 class
7:30-10:30 Milonga

At the Blue Barn in Puuanahulu
Upper road to Kona/waimea across
from the Big Island Country Club

“PrinceDance was formed to create new works of dance designed to enlighten, challenge and inspire its audiences. Using a multitude of mediums, the company explores new realms of expression and perspectives on personal, social and universal issues. PrinceDance strives to push boundaries and ignite new thoughts through its performances, classes, and collaborative projects.”

 From Rehearsal page of www.PrinceDance.com

I am fascinated as I watch: Angel Prince creates as she moves. She talks her dancers through the fluid motion of her mind as it is translated through her body. What I see happening is the best likened to the work of a sculptor.How the truly gifted sculptor allows the form to emerge from the stone, simple does the work of peeling off the layers, helping it to find and reveal its shape. For Angel, the dance emerges, quite naturally. Her task, and clearly her gift, is to intuit it. Feel it in the air around her body, how it moves in the music around her ears.

When I first met her, it was easy to understand her as a performer, a dancer and lover of life, but when I saw her work, as an instructor and as choreographer, I was able to understand more fully what makes her tick. It is not just dancing or just teaching, or even just coming up with movements that fit music. It is art. The dynamic business of intuiting form from nebulous matter and bringing to life in physical movement what we might only have been able to sense viscerally. Perhaps the greatest gift she gives to those she teaches is a way to communicate with the body ideas that are truly profound and which might simply be obscured by language. There is no argument in what simply rises in our hearts as we watch the body move and express. It just is. Thus is born the gift to the audience.

Be sure to visit her site.  
Visit PrinceDance Site

Folks,Looking for something to do Saturday night?Our Band (John Baldwin & Kim Sweeney + 6)   “Solar Wind Surf Band” Will be playing this Saturday evening at a fundraiser for the Hualalai Academy.We will play our “instrumental rock classics” from the late 50”s and early 60’s              >From 5-7 PM                     DJ Dance music for the rest of the evening.Steak & Lobster DinnerSee this website for details.

details.https://hualalai.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/SurfsUp2009HualalaiAcademyFundraiser/tabid/128935/Default.aspx

Just another great event on the Kohala Coast!