Down to the wire!
Just a few more keiki clipping tours.

Calling all Kailua Canoe Club paddlers!

Time:
8:30 am until 11:30

Where:
Meet at the halau

Bring:
Clothes to get dirty and a paddle (We will be working from the canoes.)

Please kokua we need 20 to 30 people this Saturday.
 

Please kokua for this fundraiser for Kailua Canoe Club!

For new comers to Kailua Canoe Club we have received a grant from Castle foundation to remove the mangrove from Kalepulu and Kawainui Streams. The grant will be used to purchase a new fiberglass racing for the club"

This community effort has been made possible by many groups and individuals including:

• A generous grant from NOAA through the Hawaii Community Foundation
• Additional incentive of a brand new racing canoe donated by the Harold Castle Foundation
• The Enchanted Lake Residents Association for barges, labor, and incentive
• The Kailua Neighborhood Board for community outreach and moral support
• The City Department of Public Works for green waste pick-up dump fee waiver
• The Kailua Hardware Hawaii store for a HUGE discount on all the hand-tools used.
• Unitek for the loan and transport of 25-yard green waste containers
• O'Brian Landscaping for use of his backhoe for offloading mangrove-filled barges, and
• The hundred-plus volunteers who came out week after week since last spring to help achieve this goal.

What’s the big deal with the mangrove work days…$20,000 that’s the big deal!

Mangrove is an invasive species in Hawaii and their removal is linked to positive benefits in water quality and native fish and waterfowl recovery.  The Kailua Canoe Club Mangrove removal project aims to eradicate mangrove in the makai reaches of Ka’elepulu Stream, our main practice area.  

The project is funded by 2 grants: one from the Hawaii Community Foundation to fund the removal and disposal of the mangrove and the second grant from the Castle Foundation which will reward Kailua Canoe Club for its participation in removing the mangrove with $20,000 towards the purchase of a new canoe!  

The only catch is that Kailua Canoe Club Paddlers have to provide the manual labor and remove all of the Mangrove by December 2011. Upon removal of the mangrove from Ka’elepulu Stream our canoe club will be given $20,000!  

Work days have been held monthly since April 2011 and the majority of the work is done but we need the help of everyone to tackle the last few remaining sections of mangrove.  So rally yourself, rally your crew and bring your family-even the keiki can get involved!

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