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Holomua • November 2011

 While on O‘ahu or APEC, Mayor Billy Kenoi took a solemn moment on VeteransDay to pay tribute to the many men and

  women who have served our nation.

He presented a wreath at the NationalMemorial Cemetery o the Pacic atPunchbowl.

 Te U.S. Census Bureau reports that over16,000 veterans live on Hawai‘i Island,and Mayor Kenoi says that it is importantto remember the sacrices o all veterans.

“We owe our reedom to each and every man and woman who has served in ourarmed orces, past and present,” MayorKenoi said. “I send to them and their

amilies my most heartelt mahalo.”

  Te Veterans Day holiday began at theend o World War I, under a dierentname. President Woodrow Wilsonproclaimed the rst Armistice Day onNov. 11, 1919, in commemoration o theceasing o hostilities between Germany and the Allies a year earlier. With severalincarnations o the holiday celebrated inthe intervening years, the Veterans Day as

 we know it was signed into law in 1954.

Mayor Kenoi and Deputy Managing Director 

Wally Lau take a wreath to pay tribute to our 

veterans on Veterans Day at the NationalMemorial Cemetery of the Pacic. Also present

was Director of R & D Randy Kurohara.

Mayor honors veteransat Punchbowl

  Te County o Hawai‘i this year entered into Sister City relationships withtwo cities in the Asia Pacic region which share important economic, culturalgeographic, and energy similarities with Hawai‘i Island. Both are in nations thatare APEC member economies.

Sister City relationships are agreements that bind regions together in cultural andeconomic cooperation. Te cities oten have similar histories and similar economicdrivers. In the case o Hawai‘i County, there are oten times citizens with ancestra

ties to our sister cities.

Hawai‘i County establishes new energy relationships with two new Pacic cities

Kumejima in Okinawa, Japan, is anisland about hal the size o Ni‘ihau

 with a population o about 8,000. LikeHawai‘i Island, Kumejima’s economy 

 was once based on sugar cane, and isnow dependent on the visitor industry.Kumejima also has a deep sea pipelinesimilar to Keāhole’s Natural Energy Laboratory o Hawai‘i that pumps upcold, clean water or use in aquaculture.Kumejima’s entrepreneurs have usedthe acility to grow seaweed andshrimp and to produce cosmetics.

Mayor Chokou Taira of Kumejima and Mayor Keno

solidied the sister city agreement on Sept. 11 in aceremony at NELHA.

Further south, Ormoc City in LeytePhilippines is home to the LeyteGeothermal Fields, a geothermaacility producing more than 700megawatts o electricity. Because thepower produced is more than enoughto provide the energy needs o OrmocCity’s 180,000 residents, Ormoc Cityexports the excess. Te city also serves

as a post-secondary educational centero the Visayas region o the Philippinesmuch as Hawai‘i County strives to serve

Mayor Eric Codilla of Ormoc City and Mayor Kenoi are pictured here at a Sister Cities summit

in September.

Hawai‘i with the University o Hawai‘i at Hilo and Hawai‘i Community CollegeMayor Eric Codilla signed the sister city agreement along with Mayor Kenoi onSept. 14.

“Our ties to these areas are deep, and Americans o Okinawan and Filipino ancestryon Hawai‘i Island played vital roles in establishing these sister city relationships,said Mayor Kenoi. “We are condent these sister city relationships will ostereconomic opportunities or the residents o our respective regions in what we allrecognize as the Pacic Century.”

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From the office of Hawai‘i County Mayor Billy Kenoi

Staff from the Four Seasons Hualālai were among

those presenting Hawai‘i Island’s Finest foods.

  Te Hawai‘i Island EconomicDevelopment Board and the Big IslandVisitors Bureau welcomed about 500APEC delegates, local dignitaries,Hawai‘i Island business leaders, andmembers o the media to a reception on

Nov. 9 showcasing Hawai‘i Island’s nestood, olks, music, and art.

  Te reception was held at the WaikīkīElk’s Lodge, conveniently close to theAPEC venues but outside the specialsecurity zone. Te oceanront locationallowed or an open, relaxed atmosphere,echoing the Hawai‘i Island liestyle.Dignitaries in attendance included Lt.Governor Brian Schatz, Kaua‘i mayorBernard Carvalho, ormer Honolulumayor Mu Hanneman, and numerousstate legislators and Hawai‘i County council members. Business leaders romthe island were also in attendance.

A media room was set up just o themain reception where Mayor Billy Kenoisat television interviews with media romHawai‘i, across the U.S., and as ar away as Australia. Many more journalists oundout about Hawai‘i Island’s innovations,including the Natural Energy Laboratory 

Chrissy Henriques dances to the music of Mark Yamanaka and friends, among the Finest of Hawai‘i

Island showcased at the Nov. 9 media reception.

Finest of Hawai‘i Island showcased for  local, national, and international media

Hilo girls Ku‘uipo Kumukahi and Darlene Ahuna

brought their Hawai‘i Island avor to the reception.

County and State ofcials were on hand to meet

with media, like Keaukaha-born Chairman Alapaki

Nahale-a and Crystal Kua, and Don Aweau of the

state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, pictured

here with Mayor Billy Kenoi and his wife Takako.

Beautiful scenes from Hawai‘i Island like this one,

photographed by Bruce Omori, were presented by

Hawai‘i Island studio Extreme Exposure.

o Hawai‘i, the University o Hawai‘iat Hilo, and the island’s astronomy community, all o which were represented

 with exhibits at the reception.

“While we have extended invitations to visiting media to visit Hawai‘i Island, we

understand that many o them are ontight schedules. So we did the next bestthing to taking them to Hawai‘i Island,”said Mayor Billy Kenoi. “We broughtHawai‘i Island to them.”

Dishes prepared with Hawai‘i Islandingredients were presented by the FourSeasons at Hualālai, Hualālai Resort, andSansei Seaood Restaurant.

Musicians included Hawai‘i Island NāHōkū Hanohano award winners Ku‘uipoKumukahi, Darlene Ahuna, Mark 

  Yamanaka, and Kuana orres Kahele.Art was provided by ommy Kuali‘i andBruce Omori o Extreme Exposure.

“I think we denitely accomplished what we set out to do, that is to present Hawai‘iIsland to the international media andgenerate a buzz,” Mayor Kenoi said. “Wegot to share our island’s values and aloha

 with the world.”

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APEC is a premier orumor acilitating sustainable

economic growth, cooperation,trade and investment in the

Asia-Pacic region. Te APECmember economies represent

41 percent o the world’spopulation, 54 percent o the

 world’s total gross product and44 percent o global trade.

 APEC Member Economies

Australia

Brunei DarussalamCanadaChileChina

Hong KongIndonesia

 JapanKorea

MalaysiaMexico

New Zealand

Papua New GuineaPeru

PhilippinesRussia

SingaporeChinese aipei

 TailandUnited States

Vietnam

 What is APEC?

Manning the Hawai‘i Island exhibit during APEC were staff from the Hawai‘i Island Economic

Development Board, the Big Island Visitors Bureau, and the County of Hawai‘i. Pictured here from theCounty: Deputy Managing Director Wally Lau, Paulette Cainglit, Clarysse Nunokawa, Deputy Director of 

R & D Laverne Omori, Mayor Billy Kenoi, Lisa Robertson, Kaycie Saiki, Executive Assistant to the Mayor 

Karen Teshima, and Director of Research and Development Randy Kurohara.

Hawai‘i Island exhibit at ConventionCenter draws delegates, media

  Tough the estimated 20,000 peoplein Honolulu or APEC Leaders’ Week may not have gotten a chance to come toHawai‘i Island, the island was represented

  well at the Hawai‘i Convention Center  with an exhibit booth that brought theisland’s products and lots o aloha toHonolulu or the week.

Several hundred delegates, media,ellow exhibitors and convention sta and volunteers stopped by the exhibitover the week to sample Kona and Ka‘ūcoees, locally grown macadamia nuts,and other ‘ono products rom Hawai‘iIsland, and pose or photos. Visitors alsogot a chance to talk story with the sta rom the County, the Hawai‘i IslandEconomic Development Board, and theBig Island Visitors Bureau to learn moreabout our home. All sta were dressedin clothing designed by Hawai‘i Islandentrepreneurs.

 Te presence at the Convention Centerled to many media inquiries rom newsoutlets rom all around the Asia-Pacicregion. Conveniently located in anexhibit space two doors down the APEC

media center, several local, domestic, andinternational news outlets interviewedCounty ocials that were on hand at thebooth, including Mayor Billy Kenoi.

“We produced an exhibit that tellsthe story o Hawai‘i Island, a uniqueenvironment that not only breedsinnovations in sustainable technologiesbut honors and preserves the host cultureto which these sustainable principles werea way o lie,” said Beth Dykstra o theCounty’s Department o Research andDevelopment, who was instrumental inassembling the exhibit.

Other Hawai‘i Island exhibits at theConvention Center included APECBusiness Innovation awardee BigIsland Carbon, ocean thermal energyconversion technology developer MakaOcean Engineering, and a numbero representatives o the astronomycommunity including the University oHawai‘i and the Tirty Meter elescope.

  Te exhibit also marked the debut o new website with inormation about theisland at hawaiiisland.org.

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From the office of Hawai‘i County Mayor Billy Kenoi

Sopogy, the Honolulu-based developer

o solar power technologies, signed a dea with China’s Sichuan Dongjia InvestmentCompany during APEC that will growSopogy into the Chinese market.

  Te memorandum o understandinsigned outlines how Sichuan Dongjia

  would invest in Sopogy and projecusing Sopogy’s MicroCSP technology inHawai‘i and China. MicroCSP units areabout one-third the size o a traditionaconcentrated solar power mirror, making

them much easier to install on a smallerscale. In return, Sopogy is agreeing toexpand in China with Sichuan DongjiaInvestment Company as its marketingand manuacturing partner.

Marking the conclusion o weeklongactivities or the APEC summit, a signingceremony took place at the China AlohaBusiness Leaders’ night gala on Nov. 13.

Sichuan Dongjia Investment Company was a member o the APEC 2011 Chinese

Business Delegation. Te company isocused on real estate development andinvestment, technology application oenergy savings, building design andconstruction and property management.

Sopogy was the Honolulu winner o the2011 Business Innovation Showcase orits MicroCSP technology. On Hawai‘Island, Sopogy operates the Holanikusolar arm at the Natural EnergyLaboratory o Hawai‘i in Kona.

 wo Hawai‘i Island high schoolers wereamong ve statewide winners o anessay contest held by the APEC Hawai‘iHost Committee. Waiākea High Schoolsenior Alexander Bitter and Hawai‘iPreparatory Academy junior Zoe Sims

 were honored at an Oct. 18 ceremony atthe oce o Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz.

Students were asked to compose anessay answering the question “Why issustainability important to you, Hawai‘iand APEC?” Entrants shared theirthoughts on Hawai‘i’s uture and therole that sustainability plays in balancingthe needs o our growing economy.

  Te three other winners o the essay contest were ‘Iolani (O‘ahu) juniorBen Chao, St. Anthony (Maui) seniorMatthew Matasci, and Kamehameha

Hawai‘i Island high schoolers win APECsustainability essay contest

– Kapālama junior Shane-JustinNu‘uhiwa.

  Te winning students had theunprecedented opportunity to hear romPresident Barack Obama, President Hu

 Jintao o China, and other world leadersand global CEOs rom NorthropGrumman, Better Place, ime WarnerCable and more by attending the APECCEO Summit.

“Te high school essay contest wascreated to engage our local youth by providing them with the extraordinary opportunity to take part in APEC,”said Peter Ho, APEC Hawai‘i HostCommittee Chair. “We were extremely impressed by the caliber o writingand thoughtulness o Hawai‘i’s nextgeneration o leaders.”

“Although the task o making Hawai‘i sustainable,in terms o basic ood and energy resources, mayseem daunting, it is not one that we can aord to shy away rom… As one o the wealthiest and most politically stable areas in the Pacifc region,Hawai‘i holds great promise in becoming the world’s experiment in sustainability; i it will workanywhere, it will work here.” 

 Alexander Bitter, Waiākea High School 

“Sustainability calls for protection of the natural world for generations to come – this has always beenthe challenge of environmental stewardship… We must strike a balance between revering nature and supporting human quality of life. Tis equilibrium iscrucial for us as individuals, and an imperative for Hawai‘i, APEC, and the world… APEC has the opportunity – and the responsibility – to lead the region and the world towards sustainable solutions.” 

Zoe Sims, Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy 

Sopogy signs deal with Chinese rm

Sopogy’s Holaniku solar farm at NELHA in Kona.

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  Te APEC Hawai‘i Business

Innovation Showcase recognizes leadingedge innovation and achievementin Hawai‘i’s business community,reinorcing Hawai‘i as a place o strongeconomic opportunities and engagingthe Hawai‘i business community. Tecriteria required o businesses andbusiness-related projects included beingattractive to markets outside Hawai‘i;having developed unique, leadingand cutting-edge innovations; havingpositively impacted Hawai‘i’s business

environment; and having adoptedenvironmentally sound practices.

Sixteen applications were reviewed by aHawai‘i Island review committee, whichselected the six that were submitted tothe APEC Hawai‘i Host Committee.

Big Island Abalone: Te only abalonearm in Hawai‘i that produces and servesthe world market with premium, liveabalone. Te product is eatured in many restaurants in Hawai‘i, the mainland

U.S. and Japan. Teir business plan isto expand into the Asian marketplaceparticularly in China, aiwan, andHong Kong.

Hawai‘i Oceanic Technology : Te rmdesigned a sh arming system calledthe Oceansphere. Te $100 billionaquaculture industry must double in thenext 20 years to meet global demand.Hawai‘i Oceanic echnology’s goal isto perect its patented Oceansphere by 

arming its King Ahi brand o tuna.Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy : HPA’senergy Lab, the world’s greenest K-12school building, serves as the hub orthe school’s sustainability program. It isthe nucleus o an international studentnetwork dedicated to developingskills, awareness, and solutions or thenext century’s global challenges and aprototype or green building design,sustainability and occupancy.

Mauna Kea Observatories: In

partnership with ‘Imiloa, theobservatories share the scienceinnovation, and technology o MaunaKea through a myriad o educationaopportunities or local, nationaand international communities. Byintegrating cutting-edge science andtechnology with Hawaiian practicesthey are enabling multi-culturacommunities to ully participate in anever-changing global economy.

Pacic Regional Disaster Preparedness

Center: Te PRDPC is planning a newdisaster preparedness training acility inHilo that will become the ocal pointor all disaster management servicesPRDPC already provides FEMA-sponsored disaster coursework andtraining; the acility will become thepremier location or those services inthe Pacic Region.

And the winner or Hawai‘i Island: BigIsland Carbonand its rst-in-the-world

high tech plant utilizing macadamia nutshells as eedstock to produce premiumspecialty Granular Activated Carbon

  Te output will be sold to specialtusers throughout the Asia-Pacic Rimand the world in the upper end o thisgrowing market.

Honolulu’s winner was Sopogy . WhileSopogy is headquartered in Honoluluit operates a solar arm at the NaturaEnergy Lab o Hawai‘i in Kona using

its patented micro-concentrated solarpower (MicroCSP) technology, whichuses mirrors and optics to intensiythe heat energy rom the sun, creatingthermal energy. Sopogy’s President andCEO Darren Kimura is also a Hilo boyan alumnus o Waiākea High.

 Te winners were recognized in variousmedia, and also represented in exhibitsat APEC venues and on the APEC in-room television station.

Big Island Carbon takes island’s top honors in showcase

With the Hawai‘i Convention Center in the

background, Mayor Billy Kenoi talked story with

Hawai‘i News Now’s Howard Dicus on the

Sunrise morning news show.

Between the exhibit booth, the mediareception, and other APEC unctions,

  journalists rom China, South Korea,Russia, England, Australia and Vietnamas well as other countries had theopportunity to meet and talk with County ocials as well as leading businessmenrom Hawai‘i Island.

As they are collected, we will link tostories about the island rom the Mayor’s

 website, HawaiiCountyMayor.com.

Media turns its eyes toHawai‘i Island

A story about Hawai‘i Island, including an interview

with Mayor Kenoi, ran in China’s Guangzhou Daily,

the 24th largest newspaper in the world with a

circulation of 1.6 million.

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From the office of Hawai‘i County Mayor Billy Kenoi

Pilot project putting cutting edge tech in thehands o Hawai‘i County rst respondersA cutting-edge pilot project in East

Hawai‘i is developing a system to allow rst responders and other County agen-cies to access County networks and ap-plications wirelessly at broadband speeds.

Te network is similar to commer-cial mobile Internet service rom wirelesscarriers like A& or Verizon. However,the technology behind this secure systemallows or eatures like prioritizing publicsaety ahead o other network trac toensure that rst responders always havethe access they need. Te closed system

  would not be vulnerable to the outagesoten experienced by the commercialcarriers during emergencies, when heavy public usage brings those systems down.

Because the network can carry all kindso data, the applications or this new techare limitless. Users in a mobile commandcenter can video conerence with head-

quarters to discuss a situation. Policeocers can check on a vehicle accidenton their way to the scene, and reght-ers can access the vehicle’s schematics toaid in a speedy rescue. Any applicationrunning on a County network can be ac-cessed wirelessly.

Te rst phase o the network is al-ready online in the Hilo and Kea‘au areas.

  Te network operates in the 700MHz spectrum, which is reserved or publicsaety use.

Hardware or this phase o the pilot

project is installed on existing County-owned radio towers. Tis inrastructure isbeing provided without cost to the Coun-ty by the U.S. Department o Agriculture,as part o their eld testing o the tech-nology. Te overall project by the USDAaims to improve broadband access in ru-ral communities and communications or

all levels o government.Mayor Billy Kenoi is proud to host thiscutting-edge project in Hawai‘i County.

“I want our public saety crews toexperiment and innovate, to be awareo what is possible with this technol-ogy, and be ready or the innovations inpublic saety broadband technology that

 we all know are coming. Tis technology   will make our communities saer, it willmake our police and reghters saer, it

 will help to reduce crime, and it will savelives,” Mayor Kenoi said.

New network hardware enabling mobile broad-band access for public safety is already in place

on this radio tower at Hilo’s Public Safety Building.

A recent recycling audit o the WestHawai‘i Civic Center, home to ocesor 11 County agencies, ound it to be

almost a Zero Waste acility.

  Te audit, conducted in Octobeestablished that 98 percent o the

  waste generated at the acility bCounty employees is being recycledor reused instead o being thrown intoour landlls. Te diversion rate orthe entire acility, including public-generated waste, is 90 percent.

Zero Waste is a way o lie thatpromotes the goal o reducing the

amount o material we throw awayIn this way, we greatly reduce ourimpact on Hawai‘i Island’s naturaenvironment and how much rubbish

 we generate, protect Hawai‘i Island’natural environment, preserve ourresources or uture generations, andsave our community tax dollars.

“Tis is a tremendous achievement orthe County and or our island. Only

  with the support o all o the staat the Civic Center, we successullydemonstrated that zero waste ispossible,” said Angela Kang, RecyclingSpecialist or the County whoconducted the audit.

  When opened in January 2011, th WHCC implemented its Zero WasteProgram, diverting nearly all o its solid

 waste rom the landll with its “BlueBin” mixed recycling bins to divertpaper, plastics and metals. Employeesalso use on-site composting bins todivert ood scraps and green wasteHI-5 and oce equipment collections

take care o e-waste, batteries, ink/toner cartridges and other recyclables.

 Te Hawai‘i County Council adoptedthe principles o Zero Waste as a long-term goal in December 2008, andMayor Billy Kenoi has committed theCounty to making the WHCC Zero

 Waste program a model or expansionto County acilities island-wide.

Visit the County’s Solid Waste Division website at www.hawaiizerowaste.org.

 West Hawai‘i Civic Centerapproaching Zero Waste

Representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as state and county departmentsgathered for a demonstration of the public safety mobile broadband network in East Hawai‘i. In thisphoto, a trafc camera in Hilo is being accessed wirelessly from the Civil Defense Mobile Command

Center, just one of a number of possible uses for the new technology.

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Representatives rom De Luz Chevroletin October took Mayor Billy Kenoi ona test drive o the Chevrolet Volt, a new electric vehicle that is being considered oraddition to the County’s feet beginningin the rst quarter o 2012.

  Te Volt, an electric car with a range-extending gasoline backup generator, willbe charged by solar power at the WestHawai‘i Civic Center. Te Civic Center’s250-kilowatt photovoltaic array already provides more than enough power or the80,000 square oot complex’s needs. As aresult, the system will charge the vehiclesat a raction o the cost (o conventionalgas-powered vehicles).

A concern o early electric vehicles  was limited range between charges, a

particularly valid concern given the sizeo Hawai‘i Island. On a ull charge, theVolt can drive an EPA-estimated 35 milesbeore ring up a gas-powered generator.In other words, a trip under 35 miles in

Mayor test drives plug-in electric car Using the photovoltaic array at West Hawai‘i Civic Center to charge its battery,

the new vehicle can take trips up to 35 miles using no fossil fuel 

the Volt charged at the West Hawai‘iCivic Center will use no ossil uel.

On a ull charge and a ull tank o gas, theVolt has a total EPA-estimated drivingrange o 379 miles. De Luz Chevroletrepresentatives reported that a round trip

over Saddle Road rom Hilo to Konaand back used just 2.5 gallons o gas. Terange and eciency o the Volt makeit a practical choice or electric vehicletechnology in the county feet.

“Embracing this plug-in electric vehicletechnology will allow us to make good useo the ample solar power already availableat the West Hawai‘i Civic Center,” saidMayor Kenoi.

  With vehicles like this in the County’s

feet, we will reduce our dependence onossil uels, realize the associated costsavings, and continue to set an example inembracing new, green technologies,” saidMayor Kenoi.

A Chevy Volt was demonstrated by De Luz Chevrolet for County ofcials, including Mayor Billy Kenoi.

Latest phase of Saddle Road work pau

continued rom 1

o the road, which has three lanes in themile-marker 18 area.

Sen. Inouye said the continuingconstruction o the Saddle Road ulllsa commitment he made to himsel in1964 when he decided to devote his lieto to public service.

  Te longest-serving senator in thUnited States said his commitments toHawai‘i Island were to bring east and

 west together, create a our-year collegein Hilo and to improve Saddle Road.

“I’ll be around, believe me,” said Sen

Inouye, speaking to the 80 or so people  who gathered in the cold and rain weather, “until this is nished.”

  Just as soon as this blessing wcompleted, ocials moved to the westside o the Saddle Road, where KirklandConstruction is expected to begin civiengineering work on the second-to-lasleg o the Saddle Road, rom mile 41sometimes called the “Steps” or “GirScout Hill,” to mile 14 o Mamalahoa

south o Waikoloa Road.

Kirkland was recently awarded the $33.7million contract and could be given thenotice to proceed in the next ew days

 Te company, which plans to use locaconstruction workers or a majority othe work will have until June 2013 tocomplete the 9.6 miles o earthwork. Acontract to pave that portion o the road

 will be advertised at a later date.

So ar, the Saddle Road project has

spent $250 million and employed 2,000people at one time or another. By thetime it is completed, ocials estimatethat 2,700 people will have worked onthis project.

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 Art on the cover of this issue:“Old Kalapana Fishing Grounds”

by ommy Kuali‘i o Extreme Exposure

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