The Kaua’i Coconut Beach Resort in Waipouli’s Coconut Plantation, recently sold for $13.5 million to Pacifica Companies, may be about to make a complete circle back to its origin as a Holiday Inn.
If you’ve never heard of the Gish Prize, you’re not alone. Vicky Holt Takamine (b.1947) hadn’t either. Not until the day the Native Hawaiian was informed she had won it.
Kea Smith, a 14-year paramedic station supervisor with the City and County of Honolulu, said his first- responder colleagues recently completed a survey. Read more ...