Kaneohe Will Salute Its Own At Luau
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Evans Yim
Evans Yim, co-founder of the Kaneohe Business Group, will be honored as a distinguished Kama’aina at a luau Aug. 4 at Kualoa Ranch.
The event is a scholarship luau marking the 70th anniversary of the Koolaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club and is considered a highlight of the Celebrate Kaneohe calendar.
The public event will run from 3 to 8 p.m. Aug. 4 - first come, first served - at Kualoa Ranch. Proceeds from the $30 dinner tickets go to scholarships for students in the 96744 zip code area.
“We are very proud of him,” said Janis Chun, Yim’s daughter and a member of Kaneohe’s pioneering Chinese family.“He’s definitely a very gentle, kind, community-oriented service person. He’d give the shirt off his back to someone in need.”
Chun said the business group was instrumental in getting several “firsts” in Kaneohe such as the Satellite City Hall, Windward Mall, and the regional post office - all of them bordering the rural Windward town’s main corridor, Kamehameha Highway.
The event also honors 11 other key kama ‘aina, both living and dead, who have helped put Kaneohe on the map.
They are 1) pioneer congregational missionary and educator of Native Hawaiians Rev. Benjamin Parker, 2) benefactor and landlord Harold K.L. Castle, 3) self-made land-management executive for Kaneohe Ranch Henry Ho Wong, 4) country doctor, oral historian and community leader J.I. Frederick Reppun, 5) community advocate, teacher and “mayor of Kahaluu” Joe Harper, 6) homegrown entertainer Don Ho who began singing at Honey’s Lounge (current site of Times Coffee Shop-Kaneohe), 7) youth sports volunteer for four decades Alice Hewett, 8) respected hula teacher and composer Emily Kau’i Zuttermeister, 9) historian and steward of the land Rosamond Swanzy Morgan, 10) konohiki and Koolaupoko water manager Ulysses Jones, and 11) Castle High School’s own Olympian Bryan Clay.
“There are so many we could honor, this is long overdue,” said Rocky Kaluhiwa, who is co-chairing the luau with Mahealani Cypher. The event features a silent auction and entertainment by Kaneohe’s own Hoku award-winner Kekoa Kaluhiwa of Holunape, Kahaluu native Jerry Santos, and honoree Alice Hewett’s son Frank Hewett’s halau.
The theme of the celebration - “I am rooted in Kaneohe” - will be carried out through with the center pieces, fashioned from bamboo grown in Kaneohe (meaning “bamboo husband”).
For more information and tickets, call 235-8111.
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