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Skip to main content Our island has had a terrible year: When disaster struck Kauai s North Shore, a community rallied
April 25, 2021
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A mudslide that closed Kuhio Highway cut off access to Kauai s North Shore. To get aid to the area, volunteers had to transport supplies and food by boat.Chantal Zarbaugh/Courtesy of Kauai Government Employees Federal Credit Union
When Megan Fox saw how heavy the rain was falling on Kauai’s North Shore with no sign of letting up, she called a friend with a boat. Fox is the executive director of Malama Kauai, an organization that provides free food programs for Kauai’s low-income community as well as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) boxes for islanders; and the next day was their regular CSA delivery day for Hanalei residents. Whenever rain swelled the Hanalei River, the Department of Transportation closed the bridge, stopping traffic in or out of the Hanalei area.
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How Hawaii is trying to save Haena State Park, a Kauai tourist hotspot that s been loved to death
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Loved to death: Haena State Park is a popular destination for many visitors.Getty Images
It used to be her favorite beach on the North Shore of Kauai, but Mehana Blaich Vaughan hated taking her children to over-touristed Haena State Park. Like many Hawaiian families from the Hanalei region, she never imagined she could show her kids the Ke’e Beach of her childhood a sacred swath of white sand abundant with humuhumunukunukuapuaa, the Hawaiian state fish, with “crystal clean water and no cigarette butts in the sand.”