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    This was received earlier tonite thru my Hawaiian Civic Club list. If anyone has any idea where this bracelet may have ended up, please give her a call - I'm sure the halau's phone number will be listed. or PM me and I'll provide her # or address. Mahalo!

    This is a letter from Kumu Hula Mapuana deSilva:
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    I am writing to ask for help in trying to help me locate my Hawaiian
    bracelet. Last night, Thursday, June 14, 2007, someone burglarized our home
    while we were having dinner. They stole my purse with everything in it:
    the usual stuff ID, credit cards, money, cell phone, and keys to my van and
    my home. Because I had just come home from hula my Hawaiian bracelet was
    also in my purse.

    It is a 10 mm, flat bracelet, with Mapuana on the outside in slanted letters
    with a fleur d'lise pattern at the ends of my name. The inscription on the
    inside is: With love, Mom and Dad 6/3/67. The inside is also stamped
    with DB14K [Dawkins-Benny 14 karat]. I'm sad that it has been taken and if
    it finds its way back to me I will be very happy.

    I would appreciate any and all help I can get, so I decided to email this
    plea to all of you, and hope that maybe you will pass it on to people on
    your email list, and if sympathetic people keep passing it on maybe this
    message will find its way to the person who now has my bracelet. If anyone
    finds it or learns of any information that may help me to find it please
    leave me a message at the halau phone.

    I apologize for burdening you with my loss. Please do not feel obligated to
    help or pass on this message. I am grateful that you have read it. The
    more people who know about this the greater the chance that it may find its
    way home.

    Me ka ha'aha'a,
    Mapuana de Silva
    "Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
    – Sydney J. Harris

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    Re: Request for help from Kumu Hula Mapuana DeSilva

    Forgot to add - the halau's name is "Halau Hula Mohala Ilima".
    "Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
    – Sydney J. Harris

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    • #3
      Re: Request for help from Kumu Hula Mapuana DeSilva

      Heard on the radio that it's been recovered.

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      • #4
        Re: Request for help from Kumu Hula Mapuana DeSilva

        right on! hope it happened

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        • #5
          Re: Request for help from Kumu Hula Mapuana DeSilva

          Message from Mapuana De Silva:

          KE ALA `OLINO “PULE PATROL!”
          MAHALO NUI LOA!

          MAPUANA’s HAWAIIAN BRACELET WAS RECOVERED!!
          Mahalo Ke Akua, Na `Aumakua, Na Kupuna...Alo-ha.




          READ and FORWARD THIS NOTE FROM MAPUANA
          Mahalo, Mahalo, Mahalo.


          GOOD NEWS! I recovered my Hawaiian bracelet today. The police are still working on the case so I don't want to give out too much information. When it's the right time I will send you more complete information on what happened, but for now I would appreciate it if you could forward this good news and GREAT BIG MAHALO to everyone you sent my first email to.

          I am humbled by the help I received, the wishes and love I received, and the numerous emails, phone calls, and notes I have received since last Friday. There's no way I can thank all of you enough for your time and your good and positive thoughts and actions that went into the recovery of my bracelet. Please let the Hawaiian community know that they are very powerful! I hope this is just the beginning of our unified efforts in all areas of being Hawaiian and being sovereign.

          Please pass on the good news and the gratitude.

          Me ka ha'aha'a,
          Mapuana de Silva



          SUPPORTED BY:
          Ke Ala `Olino Native Cultural Center
          Maohi Festivals
          www.maohifestivals.com
          "Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
          – Sydney J. Harris

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          • #6
            Re: Request for help from Kumu Hula Mapuana DeSilva

            Woo hooo!!! That is awesome!

            MM
            Well I am just a monkey man, I'm glad you are a monkey woman too.

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            • #7
              Re: Request for help from Kumu Hula Mapuana DeSilva

              so happy for you!!

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              • #8
                Re: Request for help from Kumu Hula Mapuana DeSilva

                See good things do happen to good people!

                The initial robbery wasn't good but it went to show how loved she is in the community and what can happen when people all work together.
                Toku toa, he toa rangatira ~ He whakatauki
                My bravery is inherited from the chiefs who were my forebears ~ Maori whakatauki

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