Grand Opening

Posted on May 15, 2008

Thanks everyone who came on May 5th. To recap, the evening ran quite well, with an estimated 150 people showing up on a Monday evening. Paddlers from Australia, New Zealand, California, Washington, and all over Hawai’i in town for the Kaiwi Relay were able to make it. Over 700 raffle tickets were sold for the canoe giveaway — proceeds of which will be donated to the Hawai’i Va’a Association.

For everyone who didn’t come or couldn’t make it, we’ll do it again some time.

THANK YOU to everyone who helped out all night. Thank you to:

Sokchea and Tiare for cooking all day and taking charge of all that. Peter for helping out Sunday night and all day and night Monday. Jeremy and Kulani for running the grill. Kaimana for helping with the raffle tickets and everything else. David for hooking us up with the ‘Oiwi prizes. Jodi and Lia for helping cook.Danny and Johnny for the clinic. Brian Merrit Electric for hooking us up with the show room lights. Alan for helping before the clinic. Tyson for bringing down his rudderless for us to display. Jordan for bringing the paddling machine. Dagan, Shawn, Julian, Ikaika, and Julie for everything.

Thank you to everyone for all the support.