Noelani Josselin said she was with surfer friend Patrick Murphy in Ireland when they noticed a seabed of what looked like opihi as the sea receded at low tide.

They turned out to be a close relative called limpets.

An old Irishman told them that residents no longer gathered and ate the “barnacs” as they did during the great famine when there were no sheep or cows.

“I was just so amazed there was just so much opihi,” Josselin recalled. “My wheels started spinning and one thing led to another.”

Kapaa High School will finally have a real home football game this year thanks to a huge volunteer effort, Kauai Mayor Bryan Baptiste has announced.

Calling the project “something the (Kapaa) district has wanted for years,” Baptiste said Friday that the new football and soccer stadium, with seating for 3,000, will be built using existing fields at the Kapaa New Town Park.

Work on the nearly $1.3 million facility is under way, with the funding coming from a bond sale and a grant from the county park trust fund.

The Kauai Police Department has a new police chief — its third in just over a week.

Clayton Arinaga took over as acting chief yesterday. Former chief K-C Lum retired, and his deputy, Ron Venneman, was demoted by the police commission.

Arinaga became acting police chief after a four-to-one vote by the commission.

Arinaga was publicly at odds with Lum and Venneman.

He says he complained to his superiors when vice officers flew to attend a conference in Maui but claimed they were sick.

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