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HAWAII ISLAND 808-935-HOPE (4673) KAUAI 241-HOPE (4673) MAUI 873-HOPE (4673) Seniors 808-527-4777 Lanakila Multi-Purpose Senior Center Age 60 years and older living in Census Tracts 38-66 (Kakaako-Nuuanu / Punchbowl-Downtown-Liliha / Kapalama- Kalihi I Palama-Kalihi Valley-Moanalua). ...
My great grandparents immigrated from Hiroshima Japan at the turn of the century. Great grandmother was Yuku Kobata who was a picture bride married in 1914 to 1917 to Yotaro Ishimoto. She arrived on the Big Island on February 2, 1915. She was “deserted” according to Kalapana court records...
Not for the faint of heart or health Lava Flow Overlapping Lava flows Lava Crater Lava Reaching the Ocean Walking on the Lava Offerings to the goddess of fire, Pele Beautiful drive in the Pahoa area ~ hope it’s not affected by the current lava flow Puako Beach, Big Island, Hawaii Anothe...
entirely of hardened lava, and Kilauea, perhaps the world's most active volcano, has been adding more off and on for the last 300,000 years. "Lava is everywhere, but I never thought in a million years it would come through here," said Sugimoto, who lives in the small town of Pahoa....
In 2014, lava burned a house and destroyed a cemetery near the town of Pahoa. Residents were worried it would cover the town's main road and cut off the community from the rest of the island, but the molten rock stalled. In this still frame taken from video, lava flows toward a home...
Volcanic activity from the Malama Ki and Leilani Estates neighborhoods glows in the distance from Hwy 137, Thursday, May 17, 2018, near Pahoa, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia) Hawaii residents covered their faces with masks after a volcano menacing the Big Island for weeks exploded, sending ...