aloha welcome to hawaii showcase television magazine i'm not poor and i'm really excited to be here today because we have a lot of exciting wonderful things going on up here in the pacific northwest in fact because we finally have had our summer we're so excited we've had it for a while now and i'm just excited because this is when our weather gets good this is where we have a lot of buy activities going on in the area of course we still have our canoe races that goes on every saturday and you can find out on the northwest canoes pacific northwest canoes abounded canoes regattas and all the different races that they have locally they have an open green lake and over on the puget sound and by silverdale and you name it they've got them all over the different places so you might want to go and check that out great time to be able to enjoy the beach and watch the canoe races at the same time we've also had some wonderful exciting things happening in the area you know this is a time when people like to have they like to go to camps and i had an opportunity to be at a an aloha hula camp on raft island right in the heart of gig harbor and it was fabulous it was a very first time that they've ever had an aloha hula camp for young children and they were the ages from five years old to eleven and many of these children have heard about hawaii but have never gone to the islands of hawaii and so we had an opportunity to share with them our who look cultures they learn how to dance to love they learned about the different cultures of the hula the the different value systems never been to the islands we do have one of the host young ladies bella her where she does frequent hawaii quite a bit and she was there and you can see the the children going through a little yoga exercise as well as just hearing and listening and talking story that little young lady in the back in the pink she's a little five year old that just came along enjoyed it very much every day there was an excursion that went right directly to the beach we walked down to the beach and checked out some sea shells in they used many of their treasures from the seas to make their own little craft and art from the seas the seas it was really wonderful and so i waters would come in the tides you could actually see the tides come in and out twice a day just you know in our want wonderful pacific northwest we still have beautiful sights like that that just is still reminiscent of the islands of now exciting around in this area the one of doherty the different summer festivals have been happening in the area and dragon fest just completed their their little festival a couple of weeks ago and very very exciting the they'd ha their dragon fest in an area that was brand new it's not really so much brand new but it's been there for a long time it's the china gate the china town gate beautiful very ornate and the backdrop was absolutely was also very very much a fun activity there's also been other other local festivals the greenwood festival has been happening green leg a lot of the shoreline activities are going on this weekend shoreline  festival is going on show and arts festival is going on this weekend in the richfield school area and that's very very that's going to be a fun one go down there and take a look and see all the fun things that's going on there's a lot of national night out events that's going on as well all over in a different communities one you don't want to miss is up on the plateau up in the sun holly plateau it will be the  so mannish comments up on for the lake it's a samantha's days festivities they're going to be starting off sponsored by the city of the mammoth and swedish hospital they're going to present several different things it's going to start off with a kids parade it starts at ten o'clock and it continues with all kinds of different foods crafts in entertainment from all over the world the year's event includes a food truck visit rodeo one of the only east side events to feature of mobile food trucks all ages are welcome and it's a free event starts off with a parade at nine forty five and on the main stage right after the parade there's going to be  belly dancing and right after that is going to be the rinse sleeve low low for a laugh and irish dancers and they're going to follow up with the mariachi you toula and there's going to be another group from from within nucleus it's all over there's a couple of other stages that's happening right in the some mannish days this coming saturday on the eighteenth of august now that day we had a wonderful e mail that came in from tom and and by west they are the folks who run the mollified a shack and they have asked us to share their hot mala fathers and hawaiian coffee for a couple of days they'll be at the outdoor polynesian festival right in watching my august eighteenth and then one thousand that's this coming saturday and sunday there's a great festival that's going to be held at the rented watch in my eye during the h food week this is a schedule of music and dance and you don't want to miss this saturday at nine o'clock to ten but a gomez is going to do a live broadcast and he's going to d j there at the hope for the hawaiian radio connection fifteen all at two forty five you don't want to miss this it's the whole pia eating contest i'd suggest that you go to that and come with an empty stomach so that you can come and participate in that competition it is the next day on the nineteenth more talented groups at twelve o'clock at elias khoury honey if you haven't had a chance to hear him awesome he's a wonderful entertainer he plays a lot at the t a very exciting exciting little happening that's going to be going on in kirkland labor day weekend there's the tall ships are going to visit carolyn point and downtown kirkland labor day weekend leave labor day weekend is already going to be happening here in just a couple of weeks but lady washington is the official ship of the state of washington is going to be accompanied by a y and chieftain and this is presented by the grays harbor historical sea port authority that's located right outside of westport and westport is that home of where half moon bay bar and grill is where donovan maples is there does is wonderful food he's heading back to go to hawaii but go by there and take a look anyways it's going to be awesome but the the tall ships are going to be here in the kirkland area if you've not had a chance to go see these beautiful ships these are replicas of the kinds of shifts that carried home lions from the islands of hawaii to the pacific northwest they came and brought the folks here not only for the first trading but they first came here for lumber they did some lumbering some lumber industry as well as gardening in agriculture work and all kinds of other types of businesses forced work forestry work but this is the tall ships they're going to the going to be arriving and visiting the to cook in marina during an eight day visit in august and september the ship the scheduled to arrive at caroline's point monday a the marina monday august twenty seventh they're going to partner up with the would mark hotel in cooking for a number of private charters and tours on august thirtieth lady washington will sail for the cook when marina where she'll open for one day of public activities sponsored by the city of kirkman now you want to get there because these are all free events and there on the ship itself it only carries forty five passengers and i would definitely encourage you to go and go down into the on to the boat and onto the ship and take a look go down underneath the the main galley and see how the whole lions and their crew traveled across the pacific ocean in these beautiful replica of the old ship that left la hina to come to the pacific northwest lots of history definitely want to bring your camera and take some beautiful pictures on there  it's a fabulous fabulous fun weekend for the entire family but make sure you go there early you can check them out at the tall ships kirkland dot eventbrite dot com or it's going con contact the would mark hotel dance club and spa at the carillon point or you can also just visit them at the grays harbor historical sea port authority an interesting thing about these guys is this a couple of years ago they actually did an internship program where they were looking for local hawaiian kids that were wanting to go and on this trip from the seattle area to hawaii and they do this pilgrimage every couple of years and it's a wonderful experience for the kids because they learn they learn to actually be one of the deck hands and learn how to navigate the ocean they're gone from the entire time from seattle to the islands of hawaii and it's a great experience if you know the the kids the local white kids that you'd like to have them participate in any other future events like that contact grays harbor historical sea port authority i think you would really enjoy that and and you know that i think for the kids we've had an opportunity to speak to a couple of the children who are the i could at the van not really children the kids the young kids who went on their trip  mind boggling and what a wonderful experience for these kids to experience the same kind of experiences of the local hawaiians had felt of our ancient ancestors that would have been a wonderful wonderful event and speaking of that i wanted to share that many of the his history information been reading a book called leaving paradise the indigenous hawaiians in the pacific northwest in stemming from seven hundred eighty seven to eighteen ninety eight it's written by jean barman and ruth macintyre watson this is the book and it's it it really literally talks about how the how why and made their journey from wha and how they made it over here to the the pacific northwest there's many locations in the book that people don't recognize anymore like fort astoria for vancouver for think of are still there are many many other locations along the columbia river and along the pacific northwest that highlights where the whole lions traverse and where they came and visited and just fabulous in fact it's a tiny little sound up and as far north as you can be up on vancouver island and this sound is known to be the very first place where the first white man arrived and also the first location of the arrival of the how why and and there's a story that uncle jim hall has shared with us in his research about the a couple of hula dancers that traveled from the island of hawaii to kind of a it's an interesting story the story goes like this the there was a ship that came into the islands of hawaii and the native hawaiians had paddled their canoes onto the  ship and there's quite a number of folks who are arrived on the ship and there was a huge big party a company a welcoming party that was going on for the crew and a number of home lions had had partaken in the first time they were introduced to alcohol and so here there was a lot of call it part of their festivities is not and that nothing like anything else that you know we haven't ever done in parties and a couple of the ladies w participated and of course you know introduction to the first alcohol they passed out and they end up staying on that island are on that boat and that ship and the next morning it took off and arrived in new of the sound and jim had brought a couple little small group of tracing tour folks to go up to that island and visit that new cuss sound apparently there is a  plaque a historical plaque that is right on the beach about the first arrival of the hawaiians there and thanks to these hula dancers that's where they were that group that couple of hula dancers end up traveling down into the pacific northwest area washington oregon and ended up down in the in the california area in the spanish territory of the old home of the old united states in ended up staying there but it was a piss kind of an interesting that these stories keep popping up and throughout this book leaving paradise it continues to address stories  the hawaiians and their contribution to the united states history so a lot of folks think that the whole want only were in the islands of hawaii but that's not the case so there's vancouver and that is beautiful we took a little we took a little tracing tour ourselves up through that area ended up over campbell river and realize that the a lot of local hole y and still live there they of course married the native canadian indians and this is an interesting story we ended up with the at campbell river and decided we needed to get to refresh ment's and ended up shopping up at this and this woman comes up to was and starts talking to us he's a gal that works there turns out that she her family was are also hawaiians name married to the native american native canadian indians and her family was some of the folks that first arrived and settled in the salt spring island right outside of vancouver island it's amazing thought the salt spring island used to be an a in a region where they called some of the streets and one of the streets there was called conoco roll and this is where a lot of the native hawaiians had stayed and lived and contributed to the fur trading industry back then it was called the northwest for a trading company and so it's it's kind of an interesting story if you get a chance to go up to that salt salt island salt spring island it's no longer i mean there's no traces of hawaii at all there because now they're known for its winery even yearns and they're also known for their artistic work that they have a lot of artists live in that area great place to go and visit though i think you would really enjoy them so those are just some of the things that you could be doing in this area the the journey the indian journey canoe journey has just ended just a couple of weeks ago it ended up canoes and all its people arriving at the same time it just keeps building its momentum they're going to be going again next year that next july and you can look forward to seeing the canoe journey they will be  on the coastline of washington so now our last activity we'd like to share with you is oh here it is goats on a roof have to tell that that was that was a great little place in coombes on vancouver island these are goats that live right on the roof and of it's just a fabulous little place if you don't even know that they are there you'll just drive right by it it's a fabulous little marketplace it's very rustic they've got great ice cream there and very unique wonderful different kinds of gifts and eateries different  horticulture items that there there's even a canoe shop there but there they are the little goats on the roof they live there and naturally of course the goats have a lot of cheese and guess what there's lots of wonderful cheese that you can find there as well i had a great time there just snooping around and shop and then grazing in enjoying the food in the colony area areas that they have there was wonderful they also have up  vancouver island a forest grove called the garden grove and the garden grove of course it boasts having some of the old this oldest trees and i actually embraced one of them which with an eight hundred year old tree still living beautiful definitely just kind of felt you know we are just a speck in the world in our lifetime compared to these trees that could tell us stories of all the different things that happened in the last eight hundred years i just i was in awe of seeing these beautiful trees so plenty of things to do up on the vancouver island and closest thing to getting over to the islands of ha now upcoming in september lots of exciting things happening we talked about the tall ships that's coming up on the twenty seventh of august and the thirtieth they'll be in the curtain area definitely a must see to do around the labor day weekend then following that in september very well but fun fun fun event it's the live aloha a wine cultural festival that's happening on september ninth it's a free event at the seattle center goes on from eleven am to seven pm at the armory center homes and the mural amphitheater this event is just really fun tons of folks like to come up to this and just spend the day they come from all over the place uncle jim harp and karen most likely will be there they come all the way from over by aberdeen area there's going to be one music and there will be a who the workshop that's going to be presented by county elise wife you're going to love her hula she's going to teach a workshop all day long and the folks who learn the workshops from there will be presenting that at a bad business fabulous concert on sunday the ninth it starts at that concert starts at four o'clock and it's going to be featuring the members of cup ana and three of the newer generation the younger generation taking over the kapan a with going to be a fabulous concert that day there's going to be all kinds of activities and all kinds of hawaiian entertainment you can visit the seattle live aloha festival dot com w w w dot seattle live aloha festival dot com and get a chance to see all that mural amphitheater are going to be performing there they're going to have some fabulous hula dancers coming from all over including allow who own a pool any and all alone the pool and he will be on the stage at the center house at three forty five you don't want to miss that as well and of course none other than our uncle greg porter is going to be helping to facilitate the super super is going to be meeting this weekend for their their annual picnic and and so that's going to be an of an awful lot of fun of things that's going to be going on watch for more information about tuba and other local level events in the area so i think that is about all that i've got to share today i've been sharing all kinds of wonderful events in the area and we do appreciate that you contact us i want to give a shout out to two viii and tom west for being making sure that we knew all that's going on in the area of the places that is happening in the area futuristically coming up cyril pioneer he's lucky festivals coming up in november as well as there looks like kohala will be coming back up in the area by popular demand bainbridge museum is looking to have them come back up and sharing a little christmas style in that time so i just kind of wanted to share all of the other festivities that's going to be coming up in the next few months so with that i just wonder say mahalo for coming and checking us out and seeing us weekly i want to say hollow to tom from the oak harbor area who watches our show and also listens to our radio show often the we have really have a picture of our new sounds of the pacific island radio show that is has been going on now for a year they're going to be marking their first