Hilo Zone

You have to click on this picture to see it better. This is our Zone Photo.Back Row:

Elders Auguson, McKenderick, Pyle, The Wrights, Aranda, Stenquest, Jose

Front Row: Burnham, Kidd, Miller, Aldrige

Mother's Day

I received a beautiful Lei for Mother's Day

from Bro & Sis Mafi

(Ward Mission Leader)

Sandy Jardine's Baptism

Sandy Jardine was baptised by her brother, Kamiana, on May 9, 2009.
Sandy's family...Nicole, Yolan (mother), Sandy, Kamiana, & Damien (father)

Sandy & her Tutu (grandmother) Queenie

Ka'u Garden Ready To Go

This is the finished garden after planting.

The pictures after are the process leading up to the finished product.

Ready for tilling
Can he remember how to run a tractor?
He has got the skills

Ready to plant!

Ready for instructions

Kalili giving instructions

Everyone get to work.

We had 60 people show up to help.

Tongans planting ti leaf

Young women helping

Loading up the wheel barrow with fertilizer

Nice ti leaf work.

The garden is outlined in ti leaf.

Hard at it

Putting up bamboo for the vine plants to grow up.

Many hands makes light work.

Ray Fujikawa

(age 75)

Shonda Fujikawa

Tongans having a rest.

Raelene Moses

Kalili Hansen & Stalma Makuakane

The labor workers

Elder Wright

Ready to eat!!!!

Ka'u Portuguese Oven (Start to Finish)

Master Builder...George Quensell
Preparing the foundation

Completed footings

First Layer

Moving up

Tongans came to help

Making the lava rocks fit perfectly

Adding re-bar

Middle is filled with sand

The floor of the oven is covered with fire bricks

Climbing higher

Beginning of the dome

Re-bar holding up the dome while the cement dries

Close to the finish

Inside of the oven

The door frame

Just a little more

Young Kaawa boys come to assist...Eric & Quincy

Tsugie & Quincy helping with final touches

The master piece!