Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 8, Number 9, 1 September 1991 — Aloha Festival begins with hoʻolauleʻa, Sept. 21 parade [ARTICLE]

Aloha Festival begins with hoʻolauleʻa, Sept. 21 parade

"E Pupukahi," or "We are One," is the theme of the 1991 Aloha Week Festival events being held on O'ahu in September. (Neighbor island events will take plaee in October). The O'ahu celebration opening ceremonies will take plaee on Friday Sept. 20 at 'Iolani Palaee, followed by a downtown ho'olaule'a. Highlight of the festival is the Aloha Week Parade on Saturday, Sept. 21. It will begin at 9:30 a.m. from the ewa end of Ala Moana Park, proceed down Ala Moana Boulevard to Kalakaua Avenue, and continue on Kalakaua to concludeat Queen Kapi'olani Park. A steel guitar concert will follow in the park at 1:30 p.m. The Aloha Week Parade, a nationally-televised event, will include about 14 floats, 25 marching bands, special guests, military organizations and 200 mounted pa'u riders on horseback. Pa'u marshal will be Francis Morgan, pa'u queen is Elizabeth Lindsey. Pa'u princesses representing the Hawaiian islands will be: Stacy Yates (island of Hawai'i); Leilani Hays (Maui); Beverly Muller (Moloka'i); Jonona Aleoneel (Lana'i); Suzette Hauoli Smith (Kaho'olawe); Esther Nawili (O'ahu); Cyndi Pa (Kaua'i); Ann Furtado (Ni'ihau); and Kanani Auwae (Molokini).