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Today's Hawai‘i Skies was captured by Peter DeForest in Honolulu. "I just thought the combination of city and nature was an interesting photo."

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Today's Hawai‘i Skies was captured by Peter DeForest in Honolulu.

Hawaiʻi Skies: An interesting combo

Today&#039;s Hawai‘i Skies was captured by Peter DeForest in Honolulu. &quot;I just thought the combination of city and nature was an interesting photo.&quot; To submit your Hawai&#039;i Skies photo, visit us online or email: general@alohastatedaily.com

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Christian Shimabuku

Sports

For multiple years as a teenager in his native Greece, Costas Theocharidis searched for a solution to an ongoing conundrum. He excelled in volleyball and in school, but his options often included one or the other: turn professional and put his education on hold, or go to college and leave volleyball behind. 

Though aware of the NCAA as an avenue to pursue both, collegiate men's volleyball programs were only permitted to divvy up 4.5 scholarships per team at the time. Theocharidis didn't want his parents to pay for his schooling, so he wasn't going to play for anything less than a full scholarship. 

After receiving the fateful offer from University of Hawai‘i head coach Mike Wilton, Theocharidis arrived in the Islands ready to embark on a journey that became so much more than merely his college destination. Theocharidis immediately and continuously provided return on investment to the only school that offered him a full ride. The 6-foot-2 outside hitter was a first team All-American as a true freshman and the AVCA National Player of the Year as a sophomore. His junior year was capped by a national championship in 2002, the first in program history. He wowed the Hawai‘i crowds with his dynamic play. He still refers to his former teammates as his brothers for life to this day. 

"It's one of those things that when you feel deeply ingrained in the fabric of the UH community, those bonds don't just kind of fade away, right? They're always going to be there," Theocharidis told Aloha State Daily in a recent interview. "UH was the the reason why I left my small town in a rural, remote part of northeastern Greece back in '99 and made that leap of faith. I will forever be indebted to my coaches, coach Mike Wilton and his assistant Tino Reyes, for literally going all-in on me and offering me an athletic scholarship and helping realize my dream of coming to states to study and play at the college level."

Despite his accomplishments on the court in a Warrior uniform, Theocharidis' name became mired in controversy as the subject of an NCAA investigation. 

In the fall of 2003, the NCAA stripped Hawai‘i of its 2002 men's volleyball national championship. It was determined that Theocharidis played in 22 matches with other professionals in Europe before enrolling at Hawai‘i in 1999. Theocharidis did not receive any money for playing the matches in question, nor did he sign a professional contract or have an agent. Still, the NCAA ruled that Theocharidis broke amateurism rules. The University of Hawai‘i was fined $5,000 and ordered to return the 2002 championship trophy. Theocharidis was also ordered to return all of his individual awards.

Before it was taken away, Hawai‘i's four-set victory over Pepperdine in the 2002 national championship match gave the school its first-ever NCAA championship in a men's team sport. Watch the team's celebration, read about the welcome the Warriors received back home, hear about the bonds members of the team still hold dearly, then try to tell Theocharidis that championship wasn't real. 

"The championship point, I remember that very clearly," 

 "As a team, we worked really hard for it. We were basically on a three-year crusade to make it happen. Memories of a lifetime. I will never forget those memories, and it was it was pretty special moment. I would say it's up there in the top three, top five memories of all time for me in life in general. To have it taken away, obviously that was a pretty gut-wrenching experience. It's one of those things that I didn't necessarily deal with at the time, and over the years it was something that was always in the back of my mind."

Volleyball may have ended unceremoniously for 

Theocharidis, but his education continued. After earning a business administration degree at UH, he worked in private wealth management, where his first job in the field was for a firm in Mānoa. He then got a job at Merrill Lynch in Boston before briefly moving back to Europe to get a master's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science

Following his time in London, Theocharidis worked in corporate finance in New York. His family has made Boston home for the past handful of years, and he's currently working in real estate development. He's also an assistant coach for the MIT men's volleyball team. 

As the years went on, Theocharidis still felt as though he never got closure during his time playing volleyball at UH. He spent four years cementing himself as one of the program's greats, only to see it taken away over a matter of months. Feelings of angst had festered. 

Stripped 2002 national title notwithstanding, the University of Hawai‘i men's volleyball program won national championships in 2021 and 2022. A pair of Greek standouts in outside hitter 

 and opposite Dimitrios Mouchlias were key members of the team, and Mouchlias reached out to Theocharidis. Following their conversations, Theocharidis decided to take in some UH matches at the Stan Sheriff Center during the 2023 season "for the first time in many, many years," he recalled. 

Theocharidis also went to Virginia to catch the team during the 2023 Final Four. Though Hawai‘i's quest for a threepeat was thwarted by UCLA in the national championship match, witnessing the program's rise evoked countless memories for Theocharidis, who realized he had many unresolved feelings about his time as a Warrior. Since then, he has authored a pair of books documenting his experience with UH. 

"Costas: Warrior for Life: Thriving within the chaos,"

"I do address my personal journey from Greece to Hawai‘i, and having the ride of a lifetime, discussing this whole eligibility ruling and the stripping of the championship," Theocharidis says. "It allowed me to a certain extent to get some closure on the whole thing, and it allowed me to move on with my life as well, because it's something that you cannot change. Whatever happened, happened." 

On Friday evening, all those emotions will be revisited yet again as Theocharidis becomes inducted into the UH Athletics Circle of Honor for the Class of 2026 at the Stan Sheriff Center. 

The announcement was made over a year in advance

 during a Hawai‘i women's volleyball match on Oct. 12, 2025. 

"I'm very thankful to the committee members for taking this very bold step and inducting me," he said. "When you contextualize it, you bring in the full picture of all the stuff that happened in the past, and I'm sure it was not an easy decision. I'm just hoping that the '02 team at some point will be able to join in the Circle of Honor because we did it as a team, and I was surrounded by awesome teammates."

' playing days, the nature of college athletics has changed dramatically. Most notably, the introduction of new name, image and likeness (NIL) rules in 2021 have allowed collegiate athletes to get paid, with 

. Even Baylor men's basketball center James Nnaji, the 31st overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft, returned to play 18 games for Baylor in the 2025-2026 college basketball season. 

The new rules have caused some entities to undo past rulings, such as 

Reggie Bush getting his 2005 Heisman Trophy back

 in 2024 after being stripped of it in 2010. 

Might the ruling on the 2002 Hawai‘i men's volleyball be revisited, ending with the championship banner being re-raised in the Stan Sheriff Center rafters? 

"I have no control over those things, right? I'm just hoping that the university will step up and recognize that great team," Theocharidis said. "The controversial decision to take away the 2002 championship made me a pariah overnight in college sports. You have active student-athletes basically playing at the highest level in in the Olympics with professional teammates, obviously. And where we are nowadays, the whole concept of being a student-athlete with the existence of transfer portal and NIL, being a student is the priority, right? Getting that degree, graduating, is supposed to be the priority. At least that was my priority when I came to the to the states. I wanted to get a degree.

"I'm cautiously optimistic that the 2002 team, to a certain extent, will eventually be recognized as well, but all those things take time. I don't know when or If it's going to happen, but I'm doing the best I can to actually raise the issue, make everybody aware of that, because again, you have a new (university) president and AD. I'm hoping that at some point, we'll come full circle, and that team will be recognized, and then the banner will be re-raised in the arena."

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Theocharidis, the star outside hitter from Greece who suited up for the Warriors from 2000 to 2003, will be one of five figures officially into the Circle of Honor on Friday evening at the Stan Sheriff Center.

Costas Theocharidis reflects on joy and pain of UH career ahead of Circle of Honor induction

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Government & Politics

As Hawai‘i voters begin receiving their ballots for the general election, they may ask: What does Constitutional Amendment Question 2 actually mean?

 to the state constitution will be on the ballot this election. One of those is self-explanatory — should the state Senate be allowed 60 days to appoint judges and justices between April and January, instead of the current 30 days — but the other may seem complicated.

Constitutional Amendment Question 2 asks whether the state should allow the counties to issue “Resilient Infrastructure for Shelter and Equity bonds” — or RISE bonds — to help fund public improvement projects. These bonds would be repaid by future tax revenues on the new developments funded by said bonds, without imposing additional taxes or raising tax rates, and would be exempt from the counties’ debt limit.

The proposed amendment was introduced in the state Senate this year with the stated purpose of attempting to lower the development costs of affordable housing. As noted in 

 — the measure introducing the amendment — the development of new homes requires large up-front investments in water, drainage and other infrastructure.

Rep. Luke Evslin, chair of the House Committee on Housing, said Wednesday that the solution to this has been either to pass on those up-front costs to homebuyers, leading to rising house prices and a lack of affordable housing, or to raise taxes.

RISE bonds would, in theory, present a third option by allowing counties to fund that infrastructure, with the debt being serviced by future increases in tax revenue specifically generated by those selfsame new developments made possible by the infrastructure.

This is not an original concept; 48 other states, excluding Hawai‘i and Arizona, use “tax increment financing bonds,” which operate on the same principle.

Evslin told Aloha State Daily Wednesday that it’s only due to a quirk in Hawai‘i's constitution that the state doesn’t also use these bonds. He said the constitution as written does not permit the counties to issue such bonds, hence the need for a constitutional amendment.

Evslin emphasized that the bonds do not bring an increase in taxes. The property taxes paid by new homeowners in a new development made possible by the bonds will be at the same tax rate as any other comparable development, but the revenues from those taxes will go to pay off the bond, rather than back to the county.

However, Gov. Josh Green said Wednesday that this does not mean the bonds will reduce the counties' tax revenues, as the tax revenues generated by these new developments do not currently exist. Rather than reduce existing revenues, the bonds will simply redirect some future revenues.

Furthermore, the amendment would exempt RISE bonds from counties’ debt limits, which Evslin said means a county could issue any number of the bonds — although, he added, because developments funded via the bonds will still require taxpayer-funded services such as police and fire department responses, counties will likely be judicious in how many they issue.  

Evslin said that the tax increment financing bonds are typically structured conservatively so that the municipality that issues them takes on little to no risk. He said in the event of a disaster wiping out the infrastructure investments — something he said has happened in California — typically the bondholder, not the municipality, is left holding the bag.

The proposal was nigh-universally popular as it passed through the legislature, with major unions such as the Pacific Resource Partnership and the General Contractors Association of Hawai‘i voicing strong support of the amendment. This week, the Chamber of Commerce Hawai‘i urged members to vote yes on Question 2. 

One of the few people to testify against the proposal, Hawai‘i County resident Cindy Freitas, warned about the potential for lost tax revenue and the lack of guardrails for how much of a county’s tax base can be captured by the bonds.

But Green and several other lawmakers spoke in favor of the amendment Wednesday. Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi said there is a roughly 28,000 unit deficit of housing on O‘ahu, which he said RISE bonds can help to reduce.

Kaua‘i Mayor Derek Kawakami called the bonds “a monumental change to how we fund infrastructure,” adding that, after the many disasters of 2026, it is clear that the state’s resilience is dependent on having modern and reliable infrastructure.

“Communities can only be as resilient as the roads that connect us,” Kawakami said.

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Voters may wonder what Constitutional Amendment Question 2 means when they receive their ballots this week.

So what is a RISE bond anyway?

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Kelli Shiroma Braiotta

Food & Dining

Husband and wife Randy and Rachael Raquino, owners of 

, were both born and raised in Wahiawā. When the opportunity came up to open their own business, the Raquinos wanted to create something with their hometown in mind.

“I’ve always had an entrepreneurial heart,” Rachael Raquino says. “I always wanted to own my own business. When the opportunity came up and this location ended up being available, we thought it would be such a great idea to have something to serve the Wahiawā community.”

Wahiawā Brewed, located on Kamehameha Highway, is in the former space of a barber shop, according to Raquino.

“We thought it would be great to have a grab-and-go service, so you don’t even have to get out of your car in the morning,” she says. “You can swing by, get your coffee, and you’re on your way to work.

“My family and my husband’s family are all born and raised here in Wahiawā,” she adds. “We wanted to bring something important to the community; we wanted to support local vendors. We also wanted to build a legacy for our family and for our children.”

When it came to choosing a business name, Raquino says “Wahiawā Brewed” was a family decision.

“We had two or three family dinners, and all the family came around,” she says. “They all had (potential) names they wanted to present. We ended up with two final names and had a final vote. We wanted our name to represent coffee and Wahiawā, and our whole support around the Wahiawā community.”

Wahiawā Brewed’s grand opening is this Saturday, Oct. 17, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Attendees can look forward to giveaways and more festivities, according to Raquino, who says the store did a soft opening last weekend.

“A lot of people from the community came to visit us, and it (the soft opening) ended up being excellent,” she says. “Thank you for everyone’s support so far; it’s been great. We’re so excited to bring this to the community — we have a lot of new state offices here in Wahiawā, a lot of different facilities popping up, and a lot of people going (through Wahiawā) to the North Shore.”

The store will be open for both, walk-in orders and pre-orders. Customers who pre-order — using the link on the business’s Instagram page — can pick up their beverages at the drive-thru window.

“Once you pre-pay, you can drive to the window and grab your order,” Raquino confirms.

Wahiawā Brewed’s menu features classic drinks — including hot drip coffee ($3.50) and iced lattes ($4.80) — along with specialty beverages ($8.50 each). The specialty drink names are inspired by landmarks or “things that signify Wahiawā,” according to Raquino.

“Some of our signature drinks are the Leilehua, which is our banana bread latte, and Exit 8, which is chocolate haupia,” Raquino says. “Da Raq special is a Chantilly latte; Chantilly is my absolute favorite. We wanted to have something different and try to create signature flavors that you can’t get anywhere else.”

 Coffee Roasters, according to Raquino. The Leilehua is an iced banana latte with banana bread cold foam, and it’s expected to be a customer favorite. Meanwhile, the Keno is an iced caramel cookie butter latte with caramel cold foam.

“The Keno is a name that was signified by our nephew, who has a clothing brand around the last name ‘Raquino,’” Raquino explains. “Most of our syrups are homemade, and all of our cold foams are homemade as well.”

Following its grand opening, Wahiawā Brewed will be open from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays (closed Mondays and Wednesdays).

“(Through this business), we also wanted to build a legacy for our family and for our children,” Raquino says. “We wanted to show them the importance of hard work and dedication, and to build something as a family unit to pass down from generation to generation. Family value is very important to us.”

Open from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; closed Mondays and Wednesdays

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The business is celebrating its grand opening this Saturday, Oct. 17. Husband-and-wife owners Randy and Rachael Raquino, who grew up in Wahiawā, wanted to open something with their community in mind and support local vendors. The coffee shop is open for walk-in orders; customers can also pre-order online and pick up their beverages at the drive-thru.

Wahiawā Brewed is a new coffee shop with a drive-thru

My Favorite Local Saying

My dad and his friends used the pidgin word "

" a lot when I was growing up. They all worked at Oʻahu Sugar Co. and would pau hana in the garage after work, drinking beer and playing ʻukulele singing hits like “Dahil Saʻyo.”

Depending on the context, pohō can mean (but not limited to): "No Can," "Waste Time,” "No Good" or "Poor Ting." Most times it is coupled with a disapproving head shake and/or other local facial expressions appropriate to the occasion. 

Nowadays, pohō isn't mainstream, but I know someone is old school if I say it because it instantly perks them up and [they] are like, “Oh yeah...pohō. Boom. Instant connection. Roots!

To submit your Favorite Local Saying, visit us 

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Words such as pau, bumbai and more carry stories of the cultures and languages converging at that time. "What began as a way for workers to communicate across communities became part of the way generations of local families still talk today," writes Hawaiʻi’s Plantation Village.

Hawaiis Platation Village 2025

My favorite local saying: Pidgin words from Hawaiʻi's plantation era

Nancy Partika shares her favorite saying from "small-kid time."

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My favorite local saying: When 'Wot da frick!' skirts the swear jar

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Mahalo Lorena from Waipahu for sharing this memory and photo from your dad’s time working at Oʻahu Sugar Co.

My favorite local saying: ʻPohō’ isn’t mainstream, it’s old school

Snuggy Bear. Strawberry shortcake. Kūlolo crunch. These are just a few of the ice cream pie flavors at 

The business, which used to be located in Kilohana Square, closed its storefront when its lease ended in June. Once the shop closed, business owner Heather Lukela was presented with a lot of opportunities to pop up in friends’ spaces or work markets.

She took some time to figure out what worked best for her business, and looked into the rules of opening a food truck in a residential area.

“I found that it’s possible to operate from home, as long as the truck is on private property and you have the owner’s consent,” she says. “I was talking to my friends that live on the main road (in Moanalua Valley) about my plans to pop-up in my driveway. Without hesitation, they said, ‘Why don’t you just do it here? You’ll be way more visible.’

“That says a lot about this community,” Lukela adds. “All of my neighbors have always been so supportive and helpful.”

Originally, Lukela intended to open the business’s pink Slice Cream truck every other week, but decided on monthly pop-ups. She says she still fills custom cake and pie orders, and weekend orders are constant. The business still participates in the monthly market at Pearl at Kalauao, along with private events.

“I do the majority of the production for the truck,” she says. “Since we’ve closed up at Kilohana Square, I’ve continued to fill any orders coming in through calls, messaging or email. With the Moanalua pop-up, I’m pretty busy, despite not having a shop.”

At pop-ups, the biz features fresh pies ($15), dorayaki ice cream sandwiches ($7), and cutie pies ($8 per cup or two for $15), or ice cream pie flavors in cup form. 

Cutie pie flavors include Rocky Road cookie dough (with a chocolate cookie crust and dark chocolate cornflake topping), caramel banana butterfinger (with a graham cracker crust and salted peanut crumble), Snuggy Bear (coffee almond fudge ice cream, Oreo crust and salted milk crumble), and kūlolo crunch (whipped cream, kūlolo ice cream and mac nut shortbread crust).

“Our newest flavor is the kūlolo crunch, which is usually the first flavor to sell out,” Lukela says.

The biz also features cakey cups ($4) — strawberry cake with vanilla bean ice cream, whipped cream and sprinkles — and boozy scoops ($7). The latter is a treat designed for individuals ages 21 years and older; the first pop-up featured Hibiki Suntory Japanese harmony whiskey and Meyers dark rum raisin.

Dorayaki ice cream sandwiches come in flavors like strawberry yuzu, matcha white chocolate, hojicha, and Sakura. They're inspired by the Japanese confection, which usually features castella-style pancakes with a red bean paste in the middle. 

“Our dorayaki ice cream sandwiches are very popular; they’re made with Japanese dorayaki pancakes,” Lukela says.

Lukela says she will have a few fresh pies on the menu; flavors will rotate at every pop-up.

“Our last event offered the strawberry cheesecake, with a cream cheese mousse on pretzel crust with glazed strawberries,” she says. “The second flavor was chocolate peanut butter pie. This one has chocolate mousse on peanut butter cookie crust with peanut butter whipped cream.

“I just served lilikoʻi meringue pie at the last Prime Rib Club dinner (at Hamada General Store), and it came out nice,” she adds.

Slice by HB Baking operated its first Moanalua Valley pop-up in early September. Lukela says working in the Valley was “exciting” since she lives down the street.

“It takes me no time to get to my venue; I don’t have to worry about forgetting anything,” she says. “I’m able to sell more (desserts) because my inventory is close by.”

Slice by HB Baking’s next pop-up will be on Sunday, Oct. 18 from 11 a.m. until sold out. This will be during a lunchtime event, along with the Prime Rib Club held at Hamada General Store.

Her next Moanalua Valley pop-up will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Halloween (1418 Ala Aolani St.).

“The coolest thing about this (neighborhood pop-up) is that I get to meet so many families that live here,” she says. “(Representative) Garner Shimizu came! They (the community members) were all so nice and happy that there was an ice cream truck. Now, when I’m out walking Penny (my dog), neighbors say ‘hi’ and talk story about the items they bought. It makes me grateful for this community.”

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The business, which was located in Kilohana Square, closed its shop when its lease ended in June. Slice by HB Baking now does pop-ups with its pink Slice Cream truck in Moanalua Valley. The biz offers ice cream pies and cakes using fresh, homemade ice cream.

Slice by HB Baking’s mobile pop-up features ice cream pies

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Katie Helland

Arts & Entertainment

Aloha Spirit

Ready to make plans for the weekend? Aloha State Daily compiled a list of 10 ways to spend the weekend on Oʻahu. From the final days of the 

 to a convention focused on a cappella and barbershop music, there are lots of ways to spend this Friday, Oct. 9, through Sunday, Oct. 11.

, a children’s hula competition, will take place on Friday, Oct. 9, and Saturday, Oct. 10, at Kamehameha Schools Maui. Or head to Hawaiʻi Island and catch the 

No plans to travel? ASD has you covered with these events happening across Oʻahu. 

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Honolulu Orchid Society Show and Plant Sale. 

Looking to adopt an orchid? Or just want to see the variety of plants that exist? Go to the Washington Middle School Cafeteria, and catch the Honolulu Orchid Society Show and Plant Sale. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9, and Saturday, Oct. 10. Free. 

Feast the Flavors of Waikīkī Restaurant Week. 

More than a dozen Waikīkī restaurants are featuring specials and prix fixe menus as part of this new, 11-day Flavors of Waikīkī Restaurant Week, which runs Oct. 1 through Oct. 11. Monkeypod Kitchen Waikīkī offers drink and breakfast specials, while Ruth’s Chris Steak House lists a four-course meal from $75+ and Roy’s Waikīkī offers a three-course meal for $72. 

Chorus and quartet singers from New Zealand, Australia, Japan and the West Coast will gather on Oʻahu for the Pan Pacific Harmony Convention, which focuses on a cappella and barbershop music and will convene at Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikīkī Beach Resort, and more this week. Events run Tuesday, Oct. 6, through Sunday, Oct. 11. Tickets are $80 for adults, $40 for youth, and $30 for keiki. 

Brian Culbertson’s Hawaiʻi Jazz Getaway. 

Join the award-winning jazz fusion artist Brian Culbertson for two nights of music at Hawaiʻi Theatre. The getaway starts with a VIP Welcome Reception with Brian Culbertson and special guests on Thursday, Oct. 8. The following night, on Friday, Oct. 9, catch Brian Culbertson & Band, featuring David Benoit and Paul Taylor, at Hawaiʻi Theatre. On Saturday, Oct. 10, catch Brian Culbertson & Band along with Candy Dulfer and Keiko Matsui

 at the same location. There is an additional VIP luncheon on Sunday, Oct. 11. 

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Bring a book that made an impact on you and trade it for another thoughtfully chosen read at Fort Street Mall. The curated book exchange, which runs from noon until 6 p.m., also includes ambient beats from local musicians and a chance to shop a market of local vendors. Free. There will be single-origin coffee and ceremonial grade matcha available for purchase. 

. Celebrate Hawaiʻi’s 34th annual Hispanic Heritage Festival, which falls during Hispanic Heritage Month. There will be live entertainment, food trucks, pop-up booths, crafts, cultural and art displays, and a classic and vintage car show, plus activities for keiki. The festival also has a beer garden for attendees who are at least 21 years old. The event runs from noon until 10 p.m. at AMVETS West Oʻahu. Tickets are $10, if purchased in advance. 

Halloween is on the way and locations across Oʻahu are hosting themed events for Spooky Season.

 with prizes, while the Children’s Discovery Center is hosting a 

, where keiki can explore hands-on experiments with Halloween magic on Saturday, Oct. 10. 

 with opportunities to get food and drinks, plus visit a pumpkin patch.

Sample local beers from Hana Koa Brewing Co., Honolulu Beerworks, Kona Brewing Co., Lanikai Brewing Co., Maui Brewing Co. and more inside a historic hanger at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. There will be live music and food. The event runs from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. Tickets start at $50, plus fees. There are also $20 tickets for designated drivers, which include food, soft drinks and activities. 

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More than Pink by Susan G. Komen Hawaiʻi. 

Join about 3,000 walkers and runners in this fundraiser sponsored by the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which provides resources to those dealing with breast cancer and supports research for more effective cures. So far, about $143,000 has been raised for the event’s $200,000 goal. The walk starts and ends at the finish line for the Honolulu Marathon, near the bandstand at Kapiʻolani Regional Park. The opening ceremony starts at 8 a.m. 

 ʻIolani Palace will host a kōnane tournament at the upcoming Kamaʻāina Sunday. Check-in for the tournament starts at 9 a.m. and the competition is open to players who are at least 12 years old. While the tournament is limited to 16 competitors, others can play kōnane casually in Hale Koa, which is also known as ʻIolani Barracks. Kawika Lum-Nelmida will also lead cultural workshops, including one for a hulu hairpin and another for a hulu brooch at 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., respectively. Complimentary self-led audio tours are available to the first 500 visitors. Free. 

Kamaʻāina Sunday workshops

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Aloha State Daily rounded up 10 ways you can spend the weekend. From a pumpkin patch visit at Waimānalo Country Farms to a craft beer event inside a hanger at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, there are lots of events happening on Oʻahu this weekend. ʻIolani Palace will also host its Kamaʻāina Sunday this weekend, which includes a kōnane tournament.

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