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10 NOVEMBER 23, 2022
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New Hau‘ula Trail Celebrated
An official dedication re- cently took place to celebrate the new Ola Resilience Trail in Hau‘ula. The event includ- ed an oli (chant), blessings in Hawaiian and English, music, hula, mural painting, walking tours, and local produce and other food for sale.
The trail, completed with the help of an $18,000 AARP Livable Community Chal- lenge Grant, is already being used by kūpuna and keiki for exercise and play.
“We are calling this the Ola Resilience Trail. Ola is a Hawaiian word that means to survive but thrive and be resilient,” states Dotty Kel- ly-Paddock, the executive director of the Hui o Hau‘ula, which received the AARP Community Challenge Grant. The trail goes around the site of the future 5-acre Ko‘olauloa Community Re- silience Hub.
Participants dedicate the new Ola Resilience Trail in Hau‘ula.
PHOTO COURTESY AARP HAWAI‘I
out power, water, shelter and food for weeks.
states Hau‘ula resident Jojo Chang. “I want to thank AARP for the donation of the benches and the trail, it’s going to be an awesome addition to our community.”
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The building planned for the hub will house health, education, social, economic, food, housing and other ser- vices, and will also serve as a Federal Emergency Man- agement Agency Community Safe Room to protect Wind- ward O‘ahu residents in case of a hurricane, tsunami or other disaster.
Hui o Hau‘ula plans to continue clearing land on the hill above the trail so that the future FEMA communi- ty safe room/disaster shelter can be built on higher ground about 80-90 feet above sea level and out of the extreme tsunami zone.
Applications for the 2023 Community Challenge Grants will be available next year. Nonprofit or gov- ernment organizations with ideas on how to improve their communities are en- couraged to apply.
In the meantime, the land already cleared has become a community hub for the Satur- day Hau‘ula Farmers Market and for recreation.
For more informa- tion, visit states.aarp.org/ hawaii, email aarphi@aarp. org, or visit facebook.com/ AARPHawaii.
Most government buildings on the northern Windward coast are in flood or tsunami zones, and there are no disas- ter shelters between Kāne‘ohe and Mililani, notes Kelly-Pad- dock.
“It’s critical for this com- munity to have a resilience hub because it is so at risk,” she adds.
In a disaster, officials ex- pect Kamehameha Highway, the only road connecting Hau‘ula to the rest of the is- land, will be shut down. That would leave residents with-
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