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  • Paepae o He`eia

    This may be 'old news' for some of you, but it's a worthy announcement for those of you not in touch with Hawaiian culture:

    Yesterday, Saturday 12, 2015 over 2,000 volunteers showed up at the He`eia fishpond to repair an 80 foot rift in the wall which was caused by flooding and runoff.

    The 2,000 volunteers passed rocks and buckets of sand hand-to-hand until the breach was repaired. This was the same manner in which the fishpond was built by native Hawaiians hundreds of years ago.

    For those of you who don't know, fishponds were plentiful throughout Hawai`i until the overthrow. Curving walls were made of rock and sand where a stream fed into the ocean with one small opening which contained a grate which allowed young fish to swim in seeking food in the stream runoff, and when they fattened themselves up, they were too big to swim out again, and they were harvested for food.

    This amazing and inventive engineering provided a major food source for Hawaiians.
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