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Maui Attractions Newsletter
January 2010
[Events] [Natural History] [Arts & Culture]
[Braddah-Nics] [Local Grinds] [Hawaiiana]
 

Featured Properties

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MLS: 340653
Pictures: 7 more.
Price: $950,000 Fee Simple
District: Kapalua
Type: Vacant Land
Top of the Hill in Phase 1 with sunset views, whale watching and can see both Lanai and Molokai Island. Very level lot easy to build. Create your dream home from one of 6 plans to begin your retirement on Maui and have the Kapalua lifestyle. Swimming pool area has been redone. Large recreation center. tennis courts, Barbecue areas. Only lot listed in Phase 1. Begin today designing your Maui home.
MLS: 340657
Pictures: 10 more.
Price: $1,099,000 Fee Simple
District: Kapalua
Type: Vacant Land
Excellent opportunity to begin the Maui lifestyle at the Plantation Estates Phase I in Kapalua. Lot 13 is very level for easy foundation work. The lot faces east for all of the early morning sunrises and the evening moon rise. On the right side sits a one story home on the gully between the lots for privacy on any home built on this lot. This lot is really a real gem for either a one or two story home. Close to restaurant and beach access and midst the Plantation Golf Course. This is a gem. This is the best priced lot in Phase I or II of Plantation Estates. See it today.
MLS: 340661
Pictures: 25 more.
Price: $875,000 Fee Simple
District: Wailuku
Type: Single Family
Beds: 3
Baths: 2.00
Bi-Coastal views of the harbor, Haleakala, Kahului lights at night. Spacious single level home that is being sold unfurnished. Enjoy the cool breeze and quiet cul -de-sac living in this newer subdivision above Wailluku. This home has many upgrades with solar hot water system, water softener with reverse osmosis purifier. GE Profile refrigerator and upgraded Microwave, new blinds throughout, designer colors on walls and trim, cherry wood flooring throughout. Total square footage = 2,770 with 1,887 interior space 482 Sq. ft garage 401 Sq. ft of covered lanais. Outside lanai has 3 glass doors for protection from wind. 40 yr. manufactuer's guarantee on roof and siding. Seller may consider some financing for 3 years with a good down payment.
MLS: 340654
Pictures: 14 more.
Price: $148,000 Fee Simple
District: Napili/Kahana/Honokowai
Type: Condo
Building: Honokowai East
Unit: 303
Baths: 1.00
Excellent starter home. Unit has been upgraded and nice views from this unit. Up high to get some breeze also. A very good complex that is near the beach and shopping at the stores with sidewalks for walking. Complex has a pool and tennis courts for easy relaxing. Quiet complex. Tenant occupied so must have 48 hours notice to show. Electric included in maintenance fee.
MLS: 340655
Pictures: 12 more.
Price: $290,000 Fee Simple
District: Napili/Kahana/Honokowai
Type: Condo
Building: Honokowai East
Unit: 112
Beds: 2
Baths: 1.00
Excellent home for first time buyers. Nice ground floor 2 bed 1 bath unit that is in very good condition with numerous upgrades. This is a nice quiet property with many home owners living here full time. Complex has a very nice pool and tennis courts and easy walk to shops and the beach is across the street. Tenant occupied so do need 48 hours to show. Electric is included in maintenance fees.
MLS: 340647
Pictures: 18 more.
Price: $570,000 Fee Simple
District: Kapalua
Type: Condo
Building: Kapalua Golf Villas
Unit: 12T2
Beds: 1
Baths: 1.50
Great Golf townhouse right on the golf course with mountain and sunset views. Excellent condition as not in rental. Easy to show. This unit is very close to pool, restaurant, beach across the street for an easy walk. End of cul de sac location for privacy. Unit has street access. for easy entry.
MLS: 340794
Pictures: 12 more.
Price: $690,000 Fee Simple
District: Kapalua
Type: Condo
Building: Kapalua Golf Villas
Unit: 16P3,4
Beds: 2
Baths: 2.00
Excellent Golf Villa right on the fairway. Great viewing for the LPGA game to be held next October. Lanai has been enclosed on dining side for more living area. Some oceanview. Unit has not been in rental pool. Golf Villas have 4 pools and easy walk to beach, tennis,restaurrants and all of the Kapalua amenities. Unit is in very good condition.
MLS: 338995 - Potential Short Sale
Pictures: 7 more.
Price: $700,000 Fee Simple
District: Kapalua
Type: Condo
Building: Kapalua Bay Villas I
Unit: 17B-4
Beds: 1
Baths: 1.00
Potential Short Sale: Yes
OUTSTANDING VIEWS FROM THIS BRIDGE LEVEL UNIT. EXCELLENT RENTAL UNIT DUE TO LOCATION AND CENTRAL AC. SPECTACULAR LOCATION AND VERY COMFORTABLE LIVING. ANY OFFER AND SALE SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE CURRENT LENDER.
MLS: 340658 - Potential Short Sale
Pictures: 21 more.
Price: $700,000 Fee Simple
District: Kapalua
Type: Condo
Building: Kapalua Golf Villas
Unit: 26P1,2
Beds: 2
Baths: 2.00
Potential Short Sale: Yes
Great end unit at the top of the cul-de-sac for privacy. Four pools in Kapalua Golf Villas, short walk to tennis garden, restaurants, Kapalua Spa and beach. The unit is in good condition and in private rental program. Unit has central a/c and has some upgrades with the cabinets and tile. Fully furnished. Some view of the sunsets through the trees. Very nice for living as quiet and very private. Close walk to the new spa and shuttle will take you to all of the other Kapalua dining and beaches.
MLS: 340660
Pictures: 19 more.
Price: $715,000 Fee Simple
District: Kapalua
Type: Condo
Building: Kapalua Ridge
Unit: 1012
Beds: 1
Baths: 2.00
Very good views from living and dining area and kitchen. The Ridge has two very well located pools and also the big recreation room with kitchen and enclosed party room. The unit is well located to pool and short walk to office and beach across the street. This is a very good price for this unit. New carpet and has been kept up. Appliances are all in good working order. This is well priced for the market and you must see to appreciate living at the Ridge. Unit is being sold furnished with a few exclusions. This is a unit to see.
Events

Natural History

Owi, Oi, Vervain
(Stachytarpheta spp.)

Often, along the roadsides and lower forest byways, you will see a sprawling, coarse-looking weed with long. unbranched flower stalks which often extend a foot above the top of the plant and bear a few small but lovely blue flowers about a half-inch in diameter partway up its length. The effect can be lovely in a forest where the color blue is uncommon.

Jamaican vervain (Stachytarpheta jamaicense) is native to tropical America but is now widespread throughout the tropics. Jamaican vervain was first recorded in Hawaii in 1913 and is now common in dry, disturbed places, scrub forest and roadsides at up to the 1250 foot elevation, as are all the other varieties of Stachytarpheta. It especially favors the windward side. It is part of the Verbena family, which includes lantana, fiddlewood, verbena and vitex.

There are three other Stachytarpheta varieties in Hawaii. They differ in flower color ranging from pinkish and bluish to violet, and leaves vary greatly in smoothness. S. dichotoma, for example, differs in being more erect and having thinner spikes and hairy leaves. The earliest arrivals were probably cultivated here before 1871. All of the varieties are called owi or oi in Hawaiian and at least one variety was used in medicine for cuts and bruises, applying it externally and later sprinkling the affected area with the powdered root of the arrowroot plant. It has also been applied as a poultice for broken bones, sprains and rashes. Related species are used to cure eye diseases in Central America, and, in Uruguay, for fertility control. (One source says the flowers taste a bit like mushrooms.)

A subshrub that is about a foot or two tall, the plant is distinguished by its low growth habit. It has opposite, simple blade-like leaves with serrated leaf margins and long, thick spikes with embedded solitary lavender or blue flowers that are long and tubular with 5 lobes. The tiny fruits are oblong nutlets (small, discreet, one-seeded capsules) enclosed within the flower calyx that split into two black segments.
 

 


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Arts & Culture


Holy Ghost Church

The Portuguese were among the first Europeans to come to Hawaii. The first Portuguese plantation laborers arrived in 1878. Most of the Portuguese laborers recruited in the 1880s came from the Azores and Madeira. At first they worked on the coastal Maui sugar plantations, but as their contracts expired, they moved Upcountry to ranch and farm. One of their first needs was a church.

Kula's famous landmark, the octagonal Holy Ghost Church that is visible from the Kula Highway, was designed by Father James Biessel, the parish priest of the time, and was built by his parishioners. Some say its shape grew out of Father Biessel's boyhood memories. (The priest grew up near the octagonal chapel built by Charlemagne in Aachen, Germany. )

Others say the church was built as an octagon to resist strong winds. They claim this is why many of the Catholic churches in Portugal are octagonal buildings as well.

One storyteller recounts how an 18th-century queen of Portugal prayed to the Holy Ghost to save her drought-stricken country from famine. When the rains came, she gave her crown to the church. Ever afterwards churches honoring the Holy Ghost in Portugal were built as octagonals, echoing the eight-sided crown. Another story says the church pays homage to Lisbon's Church of the Holy Ghost, an octagonal church built by Portugal's Queen Isabella as thanksgiving for divine intervention and salvation from a plague that was spreading across Europe.

Construction of the church at Waiakoa started in 1894. It was completed two years later, but the first mass was celebrated in 1895 although the church was not completely finished.

It is said that a silver crown was commissioned by the parishioners from craftsmen in the Azores using funds raised through house-to-house solicitations. It arrived in 1895. On Easter Sunday, fifty days before the feast honoring the Holy Ghost (Pentecost), a drawing was held. Those who drew tickets numbered one through seven were allowed to keep the crown in their houses. The family holding ticket number seven kept the crown from Holy Ghost day until Easter of the following year.

The church's gilded altar, an elaborate replica of a Gothic cathedral embellished with fine detail work, and the ornate, rich paints and statuary of the Fourteen Stations of the Cross are considered museum-quality examples of 19th century ecclesiastical art. They were gifts from the king and queen of Portugal after the church was built and were made by a master Austrian woodcarver, Ferdinand Stuflesser. The artwork was shipped in sections from Austria. It traveled around Cape Horn and arrived on Maui in 1897. The pieces were then hauled up Haleakala by oxcart and installed in the church.

As Holy Ghost Church neared its centennial year, the parishioners were told that the structure was infested with termites. There were two choices: tear it down and move the wood carvings to a museum, or restore the building (at an estimated cost of $1 million.)

The restoration was financed through the sale of pao doce (Portuguese sweet bread), which was baked every week for a decade by the ladies of the church. The debt for the restoration was paid off in 2000, but for years afterwards the bread was still available at the church and in some local stores.

Holy Ghost Church is listed on the State and Natural Registers of Historic Places. Services are still held at the church, and the parishioners still celebrate the Feast of the Holy Ghost with a community luau and mini-carnival and bazaar.


 

 

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Hawaiiana

'Ohana: family

Makuahine: mother

Makuakane: father

Kaikamahine: daughter

Keiki kane: son

Kaikua'ana: older sibling of same sex

Kaikaina: younger sibling of same sex

Kaikuahine: sister

Kaikunane: brother

Poki'i: youngest sibling

Kupuna wahine: grandmother

Kupuna Kane: grandfather

Mo'opuna Kane: grandson

Mo'opuna Wahine: granddaughter

'Anake: aunt

'Anakala: uncle

Hoahanau: cousins

Pepe: baby

Hoaloha: friend

Keiki: child

Kamali'i: children

 

 

 

 

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Braddah-Nics Lexicon


STANDARD: Who told you that you could do that?
BRADDAH-NICS: Who said?!?

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STANDARD: Why are you eating my cake?
BRADDAH-NICS: Who said?!?

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STANDARD: That's a juicy bit of gossip!
BRADDAH-NICS: Who said! 

 




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Local Grinds


Pork Stir Fry with Tofu and Vegetables

 

Ingredients: 

  • 1 small tray of boneless pork
  • 1 large yellow onion
  • 3 medium bunches of broccoli
  • 1 large round eggplant
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 tray of white button mushrooms
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 1 zucchini
  • 1 tray of firm tofu
  • ½ cup of oyster sauce
  • 3 tablespoons of Kikkoman shoyu
  • ½ cup of Aloha shoyu
  • ½ cup of water
  • 1 tablespoon of cooking oil
  • Salt and Pepper to preference

 

Procedure:

  • Cut pork into strips and season with salt and pepper in a deep frying pan with your cooking oil, stirring occasionally for 3 minutes on high heat.
  • Add 1 tablespoon of Kikkoman shoyu and continue frying pork for another 3 minutes on medium heat.
  • While waiting chop the onion into thin strips, then add to pan and cover.
    Next chop the red bell pepper and break apart the broccoli into bite-sized chunks and add into the pan and cover.
  • Chop the carrot into thin strips and the eggplant into bite-sized chunks. Add vegetables in along with the remaining Kikkoman shoyu, the Aloha shoyu and the oyster sauce. Stir until everything is evenly coated and mixed well, then cover.
  • Chop zucchini into bite-sized chunks and the mushrooms in half. Add to stir fry and mix carefully.
  • Cut the tofu into thin square slices and add to the stir fry, mix it into everything else carefully so that it doesn't break apart. Cover and turn off heat, let it sit for at least 5 minutes before enjoying.

 

 

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