Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 5, Number 8, 1 August 1988 — Pukana O Kanialama Aug. 12-14 [ARTICLE]

Pukana O Kanialama Aug. 12-14

The fourth statewide family reunion of Pukana O Kanialama is scheduled for Aug. 12-14 on Kaua'i. David M. Inciong, O'ahu chairman of the ohana's board of directors, is encouraging as many of the descendants of the following to attend the three-day affair. • Kinikahikoainoa and Pooui Pahane. • Kaianui and Nakahili. • Kanialama and Kaohuaino Kaianui. • David Kalaunuiohua Kahanu and Kealiikuaaina Kanialama. • Joseph Chester Long and Elizabeth Pooui Kanialama. • Joseph Gooman and Elizabeth Pooui Kanialama. • John Kauahiokona (Kona) and Julia Keliikuewa Mania (Kailipaleuli). For details of scheduled events and associated costs, family members are to contact the following: Miehael V. Chandler, Kaua'i, P. O. Box 3001, Lihue 96766; Inciong, O'ahu, 94-1108 Hilihua Plaee, Waipahu 96797; Anthony D. Fernandez, Maui, P. O. Box 237, Kula 96790; Chester K. Long, Hawai'i, 76-B Hualani Drive, Hilo 96720.

Those attending are reminded to include their genealogy relationship to those family names listed above. The reunion opens Friday, Aug. 12, with registration at 4 p. m. at Wailua House Lot Park Pavilion. This will be followed at 6 p. m. by eoektails, impromptu entertainment and a poi supper. Grave visitations are scheduled for the morning of Aug. 13 at Anahola, Kilauea and Kahili. Luneh is at Kilauea Park where Hawaiian games will be played. A luau is scheduled that evening at St. Catherine's Church Hall. A Smith boat ride up the Wailua River is on tap for Sunday, Aug. 14. According to the latest O'ahu newsletter of the ohana, there are relatives living in such faraway places as Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, California, Iowa, Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, Wisconsin, T urkey and aboard the U. S. battleship Missouri. Statewide reunions of the ohana are held biennually with respective island meetings held annually. The remaining statewide schedule calls for O'ahu to host the 1990 reunion, Maui in 1992 and Hawai'i in 1994.