On July 26, 2025, the Hawaii Kai Lions assisted Kaiser High School’s PTSA with their Project Grad 2026 – BBQ Bash. This event was held on the Kaiser parking lot between the hours of 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. and included food trucks, crafters, live music, and a BBQ competition Read more…
Hui Nalu’s annual fundraiser is the Kaiwi Coast Run & Walk is held the Sunday before Thanksgiving each year. They gratefully thank the following Hawaii Kai Lions for their volunteer support. Lion Ellsworth Fujii arrived at Sandy Beach around 5:30am and was invaluable at the start of the event with Read more…
The University of Hawaii Marching Band is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year. On November 9, 2023, it hosted the annual Marching Band Festival, inviting nearly twenty public and private high school bands to participate in the marching band extravaganza. This festival began in 1979 and, this year, the venue Read more…
Koko Head Elementary School was transformed from a proper school to one crawling with creepy creatures, superheros, princesses, and more at its Boo Bash held on October 27, 2023. Spooky and whimsically decorated trucks and vans were on hand to give out candy to the excited trick or treaters (and Read more…
On the morning of Saturday, October 28, 2023, the Hawaii Kai Lions Club joined other communityvolunteers to clear the hiking trail for the annual Ka Iwi Explorations public access hikes. Volunteers walked over a half-mile into the established jeep road trail to clear hale koa wood branches and shrubs to Read more…
On October 20, 2023, four Lions and two CISs assisted Kamiloiki Elementary School by manning two drinkstations and watching over the upper playground area during their Keiki Carnival. This is the school’s firstcarnival since the pandemic and appeared to be a great success by the huge amount of students and Read more…
A spirited team of five Lions Club members and volunteers spent their Saturday morning on October 7,2023 to mark storm drains in the lower portion of Kalama Valley with medallions imprinted with messages to discourage the dumping of harmful chemicals. The markers help to remind residents to avoid using chemicals Read more…
On September 22, 2023, the Hawaii Kai Lions Club supported fellow zone club, the Diamond Head LionsClub, and Kapahulu Center at the Annual Kapahulu Bon Dance. The Annual Kapahulu Bon Dance is the last major bon dance event on Oahu that concludes obon season.Proceeds from the event (i.e., ticket and Read more…
On September 16, 2023, five Hawaii Kai Lions, two CIS, and one potential member patched numerous areas on Kaeleku St. in Kalama Valley. They endured the hot Hawaii Kai morning sun with minimal breezes. Scott Goto, from the City’s Division of Road Maintenance’s Malama O Ka Aina (MOKA) community volunteer Read more…
Alongside Principal Jeffrey Shitaoka and a slew of Koko Head Elementary School PTSA parents, President Yolisa Ishibashi, Secretary Cynthia Chun, and Lions Eric Kimura, Appan Subramanian, and Frances Lum got down on the ground and sorted through a sea of plastic and glass bottles and aluminum cans on August 29, Read more…