KÅNE'OHE — Ua hā'awi 'ia nā hale 'aina o ke kula aupuni o Feberuari ma ka moku'āina o ka moku'āina i ka manawa kūpono e lawelawe ai i nā pancakes pepa mai'a (mai'a) no ka 'aina kakahiaka me ka ho'ohana 'ana i ka mai'a mai'a. ʻO ka maiʻa ʻāpala Hawaiʻi ka ʻano nui i kanu ʻia e nā mea hana kūloko. Ua manaʻo ʻia he 2,135 paona o ka ʻāpala maiʻa kūloko i hāʻawi ʻia e lawelawe i nā kula he 92. 

Ua ho'āla mai ka pākī maiʻa i kahi papa ʻaina kakahiaka punahele hou no kekahi mau haumāna ma ke kula haʻahaʻa o Kāneʻohe.

"Maikaʻi loa, ʻo ia kekahi o nā ʻaina kakahiaka maikaʻi loa i loaʻa iaʻu," wahi a Beau Makua o ka papa ʻehā. “E kiʻi hou ana paha au ma hope o kēia.”

"Ua like koʻu manaʻo ʻo ia ka ʻaina kakahiaka maikaʻi loa a mākou i ʻai ai ma ʻaneʻi," wahi a Logan Park o ka papa ʻelima. “Ma muli paha o ka ʻono o ka pancake a me ke ʻano o ka maiʻa. Manaʻo wau he ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi o ka maiʻa kūloko ma mua o nā maiʻa āpau.

ʻO ka manaʻo o ka ʻoihana mahiʻai i ke kula e hoʻoikaika i ka hoʻomau ʻana i ka meaʻai ma Hawaiʻi a e kūlike me Kanawai 175, e kālele ana i ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i ke olakino o nā haumāna me ke kākoʻo ʻana i nā mahiʻai kūloko. 

“Makemake au no ka ʻāina ia a ke hoʻohana nei mākou i nā mea i loaʻa mai ko mākou ʻāina,” wahi a ka makua kāne ʻo Kāneʻohe Elementary Marian Clark. ʻOi aku ka maikaʻi, ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi o ka ʻono, a ua puni wale ia mai kahi a mākou e noho nei. ʻO kā mākou huahana ia, ʻaʻole i hoʻouna ʻia mai nā ʻāina ʻē a i ʻole nā wahi ʻē aʻe. 

ʻO nā kula aupuni o Hawaiʻi ka mea kūʻai nui loa o ka mokuʻāina i nā huahana meaʻai, e lawelawe ana ma luna o 100,000 mau meaʻai haumāna i ka lā. Ke hoʻomau nei ka 'Oihana i ka hana pū me nā mea kūʻai kūloko a puni ka moku'āina e ʻike i ke ʻano o ka hoʻonui ʻia ʻana o nā huahana kūloko hou ma nā kula āpau i ka wā e hiki mai ana.