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Tom Tezak

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

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MLS: 343176
Pictures: 2 more.
Price: $350,000 Fee Simple
District: Kihei
Type: Single Family
Beds: 3
Baths: 1.00
What an opportunity, these residential condos (free-standing homes on condominiumized land) are situated just steps to Cove Park and offer very spacious floor plans for the buyer that is looking for a house but not the maintenance. Four homes to choose from.
MLS: 343177
Pictures: 3 more.
Price: $350,000 Fee Simple
District: Kihei
Type: Single Family
Beds: 2
Baths: 2.00
What an opportunity, these residential condos (free-standing homes on condominiumized land) are situated just steps to Cove Park and offer very spacious floor plans for the buyer that is looking for a house but not the maintenance. Four homes to choose from
MLS: 343182
Pictures: 2 more.
Price: $350,000 Fee Simple
District: Kihei
Type: Single Family
Beds: 2
Baths: 2.00
What an opportunity, these residential condos (free-standing homes on condominiumized land) are situated just steps to Cove Park and offer very spacious floor plans for the buyer that is looking for a house but not the maintenance. Four homes to choose from.
MLS: 343184
Price: $350,000 Fee Simple
District: Kihei
Type: Single Family
Beds: 3
Baths: 2.00
What an opportunity, these residential condos (free-standing homes on condominiumized land) are situated just steps to Cove Park and offer very spacious floor plans for the buyer that is looking for a house but not the maintenance. Four homes to choose from.
MLS: 342132
Pictures: 29 more.
Price: $599,000 Fee Simple
District: Kihei
Type: SF w/Det Ohana or Cottage
Beds: 4
Baths: 3.00
Wonderful South Kihei location in Keonekai Heights this great home is tucked away in a tranquil cul-de-sac with a 2-story main house which includes 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. At the foot of the driveway is a beautiful Koi Pond and adjacent to the attached 2-car garage is a workshop, lanai and additional storage. The home boasts an open floor plan and the property includes a legal detached 1BR/1BA cottage for extended family or as extra income. This home is centrally located to shopping, restaurants and many of the finest South Maui beaches.
MLS: 341725
Pictures: 8 more.
Price: $800,000 Fee Simple
District: Kihei
Type: Single Family
Beds: 2
Baths: 2.00
Single level, great view, on the park The best of it all, single level living with the best in finishes and location. This brand new gated Hokulani Golf Villas Home offers all the benefits of a condominium but has the privacy of a single family home. Situated within the Elleair Golf Course on the majestic slopes of Haleakala, this 2 bedroom & den home has an incredible spacious plan with volume ceilings a huge lanai and 2 car garage. On property you will find an exceptional community center with a gorgeous infinity edge pool, spa, barbeques and gathering room with a complete kitchen. The one thing you will love more than coming home to this wonderful house is being able to leave it and not worry about who is taking care of it!
MLS: 342055
Pictures: 30 more.
Price: $999,000 Fee Simple
District: Kihei
Type: Single Family
Beds: 2
Baths: 2.00
The best of it all, single level living with the best in finishes and location. This brand new gated Hokulani Golf Villas Home offers all the benefits of a condominium but has the privacy of a single family home. Situated within the Elleair Golf Course on the majestic slopes of Haleakala, this 2 bedroom & den home has an incredible spacious plan with volume ceilings a huge lanai and 2 car garage. On property you will find an exceptional community center with a gorgeous infinity edge pool, spa, barbeques and gathering room with a complete kitchen. The one thing you will love more than coming home to this wonderful house is being able to leave it and not worry about who is taking care of it! Also listing as Condo MLS #342053.
MLS: 341969
Pictures: 30 more.
Price: $1,199,000 Fee Simple
District: Kihei
Type: Single Family
Beds: 3
Baths: 2.50
Why not have it all, this great 1.5 story home features the best in finishes and location. This brand new gated Hokulani Golf Villas Home offers all the benefits of a condominium but has the privacy of a single family home. Situated within the Elleair Golf Course on the majestic slopes of Haleakala, this 3 bedroom home has an incredible spacious plan with an upstairs loft plus a den downstairs and spacious volume ceilings in the main floor living space. This home offers great ocean & golf course views plus a huge downstairs lanai as well. Gorgeous cabinets and granite counters, beautiful tile floors a spacious 2 car garage. On property you will find an exceptional community center with a gorgeous infinity edge pool, spa, barbeques and gathering room with a complete kitchen. The one thing you will love more than coming home to this wonderful house is being able to leave it and not worry about who is taking care of it! Also listing as Condo MLS #341967.
MLS: 343175
Pictures: 30 more.
Price: $1,299,000 Fee Simple
District: Maui Meadows
Type: Single Family w/Att Ohana
Beds: 4
Baths: 3.00
Absolutely charming home with gorgeous ocean views, vaulted ceilings, and beautiful Tigerwood floors. The large open kitchen has a snack bar area and walk in pantry. The bedrooms are large as is the lanai which features a sweeping view of Kaho´olawe & the ocean. This home has a chipping/putting green on the front lawn and a jetted resistance swimming pool in the back yard. The incredible Maui Meadows location backs onto the Ulupalakua ranchland offering tons of privacy. This exceptional property has 2 bedrooms upstairs and a wonderful 2 bedroom in-law suite downstairs. In the back of the property is a great 2 bedroom cottage that was just built in the last few years and made with exception materials.
MLS: 341382
Pictures: 14 more.
Price: $1,394,075 Fee Simple
District: Kihei
Type: Single Family
Beds: 4
Baths: 3.00
First time offered Hokulani Golf Villa model home with spectacular setting on the 18th green of the Elleair Golf Course with the majestic backdrop of Mt. Haleakala. See why these homes are considered the best value in South Maui. Single family condominiums located in a gated community provide the best of both worlds, privacy yet the convenience of a lock & leave lifestyle. Models open daily 9-6.
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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