Kauai is a placed filled with rich heritage, culture, and it is a place to dance! Memorial Day Weekend is a time when the island’s history of dance comes to life at the annual 2007 Kauai Polynesian Festival.

The festival begins on Thursday May 24th with a Grand Polynesian Luau Celebration and fashion show at the Hilton Kauai Beach
Resort in Lihue on Kauai, and runs through Sunday May 27th at the Vidinha Stadium soccer field on Kauai located in Lihue off the Kapule Highway (turn left at the first traffic light leaving the airport).

The Hawaiian Superferry which will offer travel between the Hawaiian Islands, including the northernmost island of Kauai, has announced their schedule as of July 2007. The service will begin with travel between Honolulu and Mauai, and Honolulu and Kauai, with our second ferry arriving in 2009, which will offer service between O‘ahu and the Island of Hawai‘i, and a second daily O‘ahu-Maui roundtrip.

The schedule can be found at www.hawaiisuperferry.com/main/faresroute/rtssched/default.aspx.

Fares are higher for vehicles up to 55 feet long. For vehicles more than 8 feet high, fares will vary based on whether the vehicle contains cargo or is empty.

A trial is underway on Kauai, regarding a man who supposedly stole his friend’s identity, and whose body has been found shot in the Philippines.

Henry Calucag is the one on trial. He allegedly was with his friend John Elwin, a prominent Kauai resident, in the Philippines, where Elwin was shot and killed. Elwin had gone to the Philippines to use a condo bought from Calucag but never returned.

Calucag did return, then went to the state Bureau of Conveyances to file a document indicating he was the owner of a plot of land in Kauai that belonged to Elwin. Prosecutors are saying the document was forged.

Kauai Village is one of Kauai’s largest shopping centers covering eight acres with a stunning ten foot waterfall in an open air court. The land is traversed with stores, restaurants and a series of landscaped ponds and streams complete with walking bridges and walkways. It is located on the Kuhip Highway, midway between the southern resort area of Poipu and the northern resort area of Princeville. It was first opened in 1990 and has an impressive 110,000 square of leasable area with over 30 ships and restaurants.

“Our mission is to provide unique programs that enhance the positive development of youths, businesses and the community,” says founder, president and co-owner of Just Live Julianne Lester in an interview with Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi, writer of Hawaii’s Backyard in the Star Bulletin.

What is Just Live? Well it’s adventure – a business on the beautiful island of Kauai that offers zipline tours, rock wall climbing, a ropes course challenge and more in an amazing five-acre forest that runs between Lihue and Poipu. The business is more than just fun however as they also have teen adventure camps and corporate training programs that build the skills of teamwork, trust, respect, creative problem-solving, positive communication and more.

Kauai, is at the northernmost island of the exquisite Hawaiian Islands, a vacation spot that is ideal for honeymoons, for family getaways, and for just getting away to paradise. When traveling to such a relaxing luxurious place you want your flight to get there, quickly, fast and on-time and Hawaiian and Aloha Airlines are continuing their reign as the nation’s most reliable air carries according the the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The Department of Transportation compiles its rakings based on statistics from the activity of 20 airlines. Of these 20 airlines Hawaiian and Aloha are the only voluntary participants.

The best surfers are endorsed by companies worldwide who wish to promote their products. Ussually the surfers sport these endorsements on their boards with everything from CPA’s to hair care products to clothes and sunglasses.

However, this week we are seeing a different trend – a trend of purely altruistic regards as this week in the Billabong Pro Teahupoo, kicking off in Tahiti, instead of the brightly colored many logos surfboards, Andy and Bruce Irons from Kauai, will be paddling out with surfboards showing just the dark purple and burned orange logo of Virginia Tech University.

Senator Gary Hooser who lives in Kapa’a, Kauai called in to the KSSK-FM radio show last Friday morning to talk about politics and found himself in a “hostile environment” that ended up being seemingly focused on a much more personal agenda.

Hooser started to say how the legislators had accomplished a lot of good things for the year and was then asked from talk show host Larry Price “”You keep using the word honest, Senator. Where are you from?” Hooser said he was born in California, educated on Oahu and now lives in Kapa’a Kauai.

In Kauai a massive project is over half way completed; one that requires two decades of work, is involving a village of craftsmen in Bangalore, a score of Hindu monks on Kauai, and nearly 9,000 individual donors from 65 countries. The project is the building of the first ever all-granite Hindu temple built outside of India that will be the centerpiece of the Marga Sanctuary on Kauai.

The temple is being built in the shadow of Mount Waialeale which rises 5,200 commanding feet above Kauai. It is a sacred place to Hawaiians, a place that is said to have been the site of a row of seven ancient temples which went from Waialeale all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

The surfing on Kauai is spectacular and therefore it has molded some of the best surfers in the world, so it is no wonder that three up and coming Kauai surfers are competing at the World Junior Surfing Championships.

Leila Hurst and Alana Blanchard are competing in the girls competition and Dylan Goodale is surfing in the boys division. Kauai and Hawaiin are hoping that the Hawaii team will take back the first place trophy they won in 2005. Last year they came in third in the competition. In total Hawaii has 12 of their best junior championship surfers competing.