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For six years, it’s been Paige Altonn’s dream to have Fourth of July fireworks in her own community. Now, with the support of a newly formed Hawai’i Kai Chamber of Commerce, the Hawai’i Kai Neighborhood Board, a few community groups and several area businesses, she’s hoping to launch a fireworks display off Maunalua Bay by July 4, 2008. Hawai’i Kai is a flourishing, thriving community, but it’s not personable. I think it will be a great day, but we know we have a long way to go.  A side benefit, Altonn said, is the feeling of community that the fireworks will bring to Hawai’i Kai. With a thousand new homes built over the past five years and several hundred more in the pipeline, Altonn feels the community needs to be drawn together.

The Hawaii Kai Chamber of Commerce is being formed to help support and facilitate community events and area businesses.   Go to the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce to learn more about the various Chambers in Hawaii .  The Hawaii Kai Chamber of Commerce is in it’s infant stages and doesn’t even have an office yet.

We will be virtual to start. Without any money, we can’t have an office.

said Bill MacDonald

We have all known that the vacant land on Hawaii Kai Dr. at the base of Mariner’s Ridge was going to be developed with condos, however, the plan may be a little different than what some had thought.  The developer’s plan to build a condominium up to 90 feet tall moved forward at the public hearing that was held.  The City Council Zoning Committee recommended approval for a zoning change that would move the height restriction on the parcel of land from between 40-60 feet, up to 90 feet. 

The Hawaii Kai Lions Club every fathers day cooks up roughly 10,000 pancakes for it’s only fundraiser of the year.  The money earned goes to a long list of great community projects the Lions Club helps with: Paint curbs, buildings and help with carnivals at Koko Head, Kamiloiki and Haha’ione elementary schools and Kaiser High School; donate books to the Hawai’i Kai Library; build and install benches in front of the post office, on school campuses and at bus stops; host the annual Lunalilo Home Christmas party and help organize the annual Christmas parade; and help with the Hawai’i Food Bank drive, beach park cleaning, the annual Koko Head District Park Easter Egg Hunt and the Eyeglass Recovery Program.

The Fathers Day Breakfast takes nearly 3 months to plan and about 80 people to cookand serve the community.  What goes into the annual Father’s Day Pancake Breakfast sponsored by the Hawai’i Kai Lion’s Club:

• Seven griddles
• 540 pounds of pancake mix
• 14,400 sausage links
• 7,500 eggs
• 50 pounds of rice
• 57 cases of juice
• 24 cases of milk
• 3,600 single-serving containers of pancake syrup
• 6,344 pats of butter

Where to go

What: The Hawai’i Kai Lion’s Club Father’s Day breakfast
When: 6:30-10:30 a.m. June 17
Where: Kaiser High School cafeteria.
Tickets: $6 and can be purchased at the door, online at http://www.hawaiikailions.org/breakfast/ or phone 395-9281

The Halona Blow Hole, in Hawaii Kai will have major work done to repair the aging and deteriorating lookout, according to the Honolulu Advertiser.  The lower portion of the lookout was closed in 1997 and with the renovations, will once again allow visitors to get closer to the blow hole action.  This could cause for some traffic headaches around the construction site.  Lets hope it doesn’t hold things up too bad or there will be more people cutting through on Hawaii Kai Drive to Lunalilo Home Rd. during the renovations.  Read Halona lookout to get major overhaul for the full story.