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Just two days after announcing closure, the Ilikai Hotel announced on Friday that the hotel will soon reopen.
Just two days after announcing closure, the Ilikai Hotel announced on Friday that the hotel will soon reopen. Negotiators for UNITE HERE Local 5 and the new owners of the Ilikai, iStar Financial, reached agreement on a new contract late Thursday that will rehire most of the hotel’s employees.
This agreement is subject to a ratification vote by members of the union and, once it is ratified, the Ilikai Hotel will reopen “as soon as practically possible under a new management team and operational structure,” said owner iStar Financial.
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The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Paddle the Kaiwi Channel
The determined all-female paddling crews who were first to dare the Molokai to Oahu crossing, a race once restricted to men.
Sep 12, 2017
Considered the pinnacle of long-distance Hawaiian outrigger canoe racing, the Kaiwi Channel is a grueling 41-mile stretch of open ocean separating the Hawaiian Islands of Molokai and Oahu. In Hawaiian,
ka iwi suitably means “the bone” it takes every muscle and fiber of the human body to complete, a reminder that, when one’s physicality is stripped away and tested, our ka iwi is truly all we are.