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| Big Island's Famous Mai Tai Festival |
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| 07/11/2010 |
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| Football Returns to Puna |
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| 04/25/2010 |
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| Pahoa Jamms and Fashion Show |
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| 03/05/2010 |
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| Kenoi Meets Obama |
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| 01/22/2010 |
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Mayor Kenoi met President Obama at the 78th Winter Meeting of the US Mayor's Conference:
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| Mahalo to HBAT for DUI Campaign |
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| 09/09/2009 |
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| Concilwoman Naeole Getting Married |
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| 08/26/2009 |
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Councilwoman Emily Naeole to Get Married in two months.
I just spoke with Councilwoman Naeole for a second this morning... I was on the phone talking to my wife getting my son ready to get on the bus...
And Emily drove by... Stopped... and said... "Big News... I'm getting married in 2 months". 
I was on the phone and didn't even begin to question it! 
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| County Events Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Statehood in Hilo and Kona |
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| 08/11/2009 |
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The County of Hawai‘i will celebrate Hawai‘i’s 50th anniversary of statehood with a special concert and celebration Friday, August 14, 2009, at Afook Chinen Civic Auditorium from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. A similar celebration will be held in Kona on August 23.
Special guests at the Hilo event will include former mayors of Hawai‘i County and dignitaries. The Makaha Sons will be the featured entertainers, and admission is free.
“We are looking forward with special anticipation to this celebration,” said Hawai‘i County Mayor Billy Kenoi. “Everyone on the program has helped make our county what it is today, and their contributions over the first half-century of statehood will help to move us through the next 50 years...
...Also on the Hilo program are Halau O Ke ‘#256;nuenue, Big Island Portuguese Cultural Club, Hui Okinawa Taiko KoBuDo, Marie Onomura, Hawai‘i County Band, Hui Okinawa Shishimai, El-Leo The Jarican Express, Pam Ahuna, Wai#257;kea High School NJROTC and Big Island Filipino Community Council.
In addition, 10 time capsules will be buried at locations around the Island of Hawai‘i with items that represent what life is like today for those who will open the capsules upon the 75th anniversary of statehood. The time capsules were provided by the Hawai‘i 50th Anniversary of Statehood Commission...
More Here:
http://damontucker.com/2009/08/10/county-events-celebrate-50th-anniversary-of-statehood-in-hilo-and-kona/
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| Watch Tomorrow's Live Stream of the Hawaii County Council Meeting Live |
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| 07/11/2009 |
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A couple of us Pizza lovers forgot to teach someone how to post news... so I'll just keep deleting the old news until I get that magic wand that shows me how to post gnu news.
Been looking...
Think I had one too many @hawaiinuibrew's tonight! LOL |
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| Who is the troll |
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| 07/03/2009 |
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Who is the troll? On punaweb everyone with a mind of their own |
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| Live Council Streaming of tomorrow's Council Meeting |
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| 06/18/2009 |
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I will be posting the link to tomorrow's fiasco to view live on the internet to see what a bunch of clowns we have for our county council tomorrow when I get the URL that will be used.
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| Beautiful Day in Puna |
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| 03/27/2009 |
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Beautiful Day in Puna
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| There They Go Again |
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| 02/13/2009 |
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The Hawaiian Beaches Action Team are at it again...
They don't talk about it, they just do it.
New Bus Stop built on Puna Makai Loop North.
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| Welcome |
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| 02/05/2009 |
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Welcome to all new folks that are dropping by PunaOnline.
Feel free to cruise for a while.
We only bite with our canines, but we release with the right words.
Feel free to "lurk", Feel free to jump in at any time, but what ever you do, Feel free to invite us to your next party.
    
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| Current Events |
| United Nations International Day of Peace |
 Posted by Jon on 08/29/2010 at 10:38:06 AM |
Damon put up a news banner for the "United Nations International Day of Peace" Parade...
Though I think the idea of world peace is good, the UN's idea of peace has become an iron boot on the necks of everyone on the world.
Just like the US congress, the UN was given limited powers and it has proceeded to take more and more power over the years.
IMO
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| I am so proud |
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Posted by Blimppie on 08/02/2010 at 09:32:55 AM |
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Our president has declared an end to the war in Iraq. Well, did we win or what? There is only one intention to go to war and that is TO WIN. I guess the next thing he will say is we won and we are going home (or to Afganistan) where we can do the same. Gees - just nuke em and get it over with. |
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Posted by damon on 04/02/2010 at 3:42:54 PM |
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| Reason for Obama's call to service |
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Posted by Blimppie on 04/01/2010 at 05:17:58 AM |
The Meaning of Service
At one time in my life, I thought I had a handle on the meaning of the word "service."
"It's the act of doing things for other people." Then I heard these terms which reference the word service:
Internal Revenue Service, Postal Service, Telephone Service, Civil Service City & County Public Service Customer Service Service Stations.
Then I became confused about the word "service." This is not what I thought "service" meant.
So today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said he had hired a bull to "service" a few of his cows. Suddenly, it all came into perspective. Now I understand what all those "service" agencies are all about.
I hope you now are as enlightened as I am.
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| Does Obama have a clue????????????????? |
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Posted by Blimppie on 03/31/2010 at 08:33:16 AM |
Texas Town on High Alert as Mexican Town Across Border Braces for Cartel Gun Battle
Residents of a small Mexican border town under siege by at least one of the country’s most notorious drug cartels are fleeing into a tiny Texas community, which is on high alert and preparing for a surge of illegal immigrants should a street battle break out with another cartel – or if gunmen begin carrying out a threat to start killing the town’s children.
At least 30 residents of El Porvenir, located about four miles from the Texas border town of Fort Hancock, have crossed into the U.S. and asked for political asylum, telling authorities that they fear for their lives. Fort Hancock officials tell FoxNews.com that they consider the situation serious.
“We just got word that the cartel has threatened to kill children in schools across the border unless parents paid $5000 pesos,” said Mike Doyle, chief deputy sheriff of Hudspeth County. And that time might come sooner than later. Schools Superintendent Jose Franco said word has spread that everyone in the Mexican town must stay indoors while members of rival cartels prepare for a shootout.
“I may not be working in school that day. I may be working as a medic,” said Franco, who moonlights as an ambulance paramedic.
Franco also confirmed the ransom demand for students across the border, adding that some of his students had already paid the money to be left alone.
According to Doyle, the cartel posted signs in El Porvenir earlier in the month ordering people in the town of 10,000 “to get out or pay with blood.” He said he wasn’t sure of the deadline that was given. “We have heard anywhere from a week to 40 days,” he said.
Since then, Fort Hancock, population 1700, has been in the grip of fear. The school district has seen a rise in the number of enrolled students as families in Mexico send their children to live with relatives on the other side of the border.
The Fort Hancock high school, one secretary said, is preparing for more pupils and holding conferences with law enforcement on how to face the crisis. Franco says contingency plans are being drawn up in case the entire population of El Porvenir flees. “It is what we fear the most,” he said.
Doyle said his office is on “high alert.” So far there has been no violence on the U.S. side of the border, “but I have had a few Fort Hancock residents killed across the border,” he said.
A former law enforcement officer who lives in Fort Hancock and asked not to be named said the siege of El Porvenir is important because the town straddles one of the oldest, least defended smuggling routes on the Mexican border.
“It is one of the key staging areas for the cartel and has no fences," he said. "All they do is wait for shift change at the border posts and walk across. There is no obstruction to crossing the border here.”
And that, he said, “was the most likely cause of the violence 860 yards away.”
He said El Porvenir has been contested for some time, and machine gun fire is often heard coming from the town. “The mayor and his son were recently murdered,” he said. “They even have a pickup truck with a .50 caliber machine gun on top.”
While the problem has been seething for some time, it has finally gotten attention from both Washington and Austin. Last week Texas Gov. Rick Perry ordered a multiagency task force to the area. Rep. Kay Granger, the area congresswoman, pushed through the sale of three helicopters to the Mexican government to monitor the area. And the local sheriff has shifted patrols to the area in the hopes of stemming any violence that might
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