Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill, which, as its name suggests, is the group tasked with the closure of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Facility, will hold a community open house and town hall! The details are as follows:
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026
Time: 5:00 P.M. – Open House
6:00 P.M. – Town Hall
Location: AMVETS West Oahu Veterans Center, 5001 Iroquois Avenue, Ewa Beach, HI 96706
Saturday, December 12, 2026
Parade begins at 9am at Pearl Ridge Elem.!
Family Fair begins at 10am next to ʻAiea Library!
Do you or your group want to walk, drive, or otherwise spread holiday cheer in this year’s parade?
Or do you want to set up a booth or perform in the fun fair?
Or, do you want to volunteer with us?
If so, please fill out this short application!
Online Google Form
PDF (not form fillable yet)
Please see the following message from the Stadium Authority:
The Stadium Authority, Aloha Hālawa District Partners and the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and Arts, invite the community to take part in Community Art Day on Saturday, September 26, at the Aloha Stadium.
From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., community members and groups of all ages are invited to help enhance the temporary construction wall with a colorful community lei mural inspired by the history and landscape of Hālawa Valley. Participants will have the opportunity to add their own artistic touch to the mural while helping transform the construction barricade into a vibrant expression of community and aloha.
No artistic experience is needed. The mural is designed using a pointillist technique, with individual dots representing flowers, making it easy for participants of all ages and artistic abilities to contribute.
Participants will register for a designated time slot, check in upon arrival and spend approximately 15 to 20 minutes helping create the mural.
“We wanted to create an opportunity for the community to literally leave its mark on Aloha Stadium,” said Michael Yadao, stadium manager. “This mural serves as a visual bridge between our past, our community and the new vision of Aloha Stadium.”
The mural is an abstract interpretation of lei, drawing inspiration from the history and natural landscape of Hālawa Valley. The mural concept was created by Solomon Robert Nui Enos, a Native Hawaiian artist, illustrator and visionary from Makaha Valley who has been creating art for more than 30 years. Working across a variety of mediums, including paintings, illustrations and murals, Enos brings his distinctive artistic perspective to the design.
When viewed from a distance, the design will evoke strands of flower and feather lei, as well as the rippling waters of the valley’s traditional taro patches. Flowing patterns and vibrant shades of blue, aqua and turquoise will be accented with touches of red and orange.
The pointillist design allows each participant to contribute individual dots to the larger artwork — creating a mural that is literally made up of hundreds of individual community contributions.
More than a community art project, the mural represents an opportunity for people to create a personal connection to Aloha Stadium as the site moves into its next chapter.
What: Leave Your Mark on Aloha Stadium — Community Art Day
When: Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Aloha Stadium / Aloha Stadium Swap Meet & Marketplace
Activity: Paint a section of the community lei mural
Participation: Approximately 15 to 20 minutes
Registration: Limited spots available per time slot
The mural activity will be located at the South End Zone Construction Barricade — Row B, across from Hoʻokipa Hale and the retail units at the ʻEwa end of the Swap Meet. Participants can access the area by walking through the Swap Meet toward the ʻEwa end.
Register Here for a Community Art Day time slot
Community Art Day will take place during the Saturday Aloha Stadium Swap Meet & Marketplace. Standard Swap Meet admission rates apply:
All parking gates are cash only.
Public parking:
Skyline/public transportation:
ADA parking:
For event details and parking information, visit the Aloha Stadium website.
August 29, Saturday, 9am-2pm
ʻAiea Public Library, 99-374 Pohai Place
Selection of used fiction, travel, cookbooks, business, self-help, children books, etc….
Proceeds will help to support ʻAiea Public Library’s programs!
Updated:
Our August 2026 meeting will take place on Monday, August 17 at 7pm. This will be a virtual-only meeting, so please do not go to the library!
Files from the meeting will be posted here.
Added after the meeting
The following files were distributed or referenced during the July 2026 meeting.
Files/links shared for the June 2026 meeting will be posted here. More files/links will be added as they are shared.
Via Eric Matsumoto from ʻAiea Hongwanji (with slight edits for brevity):
On Sunday, May 24, 2026 at 12:30PM, there will be a special ceremony at the Pearl Harbor National Monument focusing on world peace and reconciliation. Yuji Sasaki of Sadako Legacy will be bringing a peace flame from Yame City, Fukuoka to Hawaii. It was originally a flame from an ember from the World War II Hiroshima bombing that Mr. Tatsuo Yamamoto brought back from his relatives’ destroyed home and business in Hiroshima from his relatives’ destroyed home to his home in Fukuoka. Mr. Yamamoto held on to that flame for decades. It represented the anger and hurt that he was feeling.
However, at a certain point in time, he realized that holding on to such negative thoughts and feelings does no one any good. So, the flame was transformed to a peace flame. Subsequently, he donated the flame to Yame City, which built a peace flame monument to house the flame.
Yuji Sasaki is bringing a portion of that flame to Hawaii for this, now, flame extinguishing ceremony. Originally, the hope was to build an Eternal Peace Flame Monument at Pearl Harbor (or somewhere in Honolulu) but it was too challenging. So, we decided to still acknowledge the original symbolism of the flame (of anger and hurt), but extinguish it to symbolize all of us releasing those negative emotions with the thoughts of emphasizing its current symbolism of peace and reconciliation (which Pearl Harbor now also recognizes or has embraced as part of their mission statement).
Also, we are unveiling a new temporary display (until Pearl Harbor builds their new facility/pavilion) for Sadako’s paper crane (which the Sasaki’s had donated to Pearl Harbor close to 15 years. Back then we did a fundraiser for a special nitrogen filled container to protectively encase the delicate paper crane, but the apparatus, disappointingly, seems to have been broken for quite a while (so the Public could not view the crane). We had raised $70,000, of which the largest portion came from Hawaii Kyodan and its members. More recently (while I was still Bishop), Wayne Miyao, Arthur Taniguchi and I embarked on another fundraiser to help Sadako Legacy with this flame and also a documentary on Sadako and her cranes for educational purposes. It is still a work in progress for the documentary. We raised around $35,000 as Hawaii’s contribution mostly from Big Island.
Special guests include: Mrs. Akie Abe, wife of the late Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan (who both folded paper cranes which were donate to Pearl Harbor several years ago), Cliffton Truman Daniel, grandson of President Harry Truman, Mr. Hidetoshi Tojo, great grandson of the late Japanese General Hideki Tojo, Former Governor David Ige and Mrs. Dawn Amano-Ige, and of course Masahiro Sasaki, Yuji Sasaki and his immediate family, and Yuji’s older brother Sumiyuki Sasaki of Sadako Legacy. You can see the significance of the ceremony by knowing the participants!
Please spread the word as the 12:30PM ceremony is open to the public. Just remember you CANNOT bring bags no matter how small, unless they are transparent, into Pearl Harbor! It takes forever to place in paid storage there so it is best to leave larger bags including purses at home. Cellphones are okay. Thank you.
In gassho, Eric
Files from the May 2026 meeting are posted here.
Via Kumu Keola Kalani (ʻAiea High School):
ʻAiea High School’s Hale O Nā Aliʻi will be holding its annual Hōʻike on Saturday, May 2, 2026 at the ʻAiea High School Gym from 6-8pm. This year, they will be joined by students from Webling Elementary School and Waimalu Elementary School (with whom Hale O Nā Aliʻi partnered with this past school year to share language, history, culture, and fine arts).
The event is free but donations are appreciated!
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Over the past several years, Arlene Ching, the former branch manager of ‘Aiea Public Library, tirelessly spent countless hours interviewing long-time current and former ‘Aiea residents. The fruits of this labor can be found in ‘Aiea: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, a compilation of these oral histories. Order your copy now for only $25.00!
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