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: A subordinate (underling), who performs menial tasks for a supervisor.

“Huli-Maka-Flip": To take a face-first tumble or fall over (like wen you cook huli huli chicken).

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Hilo's Yolanda Keehne shares a few of her favorite pidgin words, including "gadut," "hamajang" and “huli-maka-flip."

My favorite local saying: Hard for pick just one

Here are Yolanda Keehne&#039;s three favorite pidgin words: “Gadut,&quot; or garoot: A subordinate (underling), who performs menial tasks for a supervisor.“HamaJang&quot;: In disarray or messed up“Huli-Maka-Flip&quot;: To take a face-first tumble or fall over (like wen you cook huli huli chicken). To submit your Favorite Local Saying, visit us online or email: general@alohastatedaily.com.

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Arts & Entertainment

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 is playing slack key guitar in the airport. To his left are cousins and to his right is his girlfriend, more cousins and his grandparents, Milton and Anne Lau, the founders of the Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festivals.

A flight attendant for Hawaiian Airlines walks by and smiles.

In less than 26 hours, this group of 10, which includes six grandkids and two of their girlfriends, will be putting on the 29th Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival - Kona Style on Hawaiʻi Island. The festival, 

organized by the Kī-hōʻalu Foundation, Inc., took place Sunday, Oct. 18. Celebrating almost 30 years of music, it is older than most of the ʻohana making it happen.

Over 44 years, Milton and Anne Lau, who live in 

 have put on more than 140 festivals across the state. That number doesn’t count slack key guitar festivals held on the Mainland and in Japan. This year, they have already orchestrated festivals on Oʻahu, Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, with Kauaʻi just a few weeks away. Next year will mark 45 years of festivals on Oʻahu, 36 on Maui, 35 on Kauaʻi, and 29 on Hawaiʻi Island.

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At the moment, as the family waits for their plane at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, laptops and tablets are open. Coffee is in hand. Milton explains that two grandsons will be continuing a three-generation family legacy by playing this weekend: Micah at the start of the festival and Ryder in the middle of it.

For this festival, many of the artists won’t arrive in Kona until Sunday, but the Lau family is heading over a day earlier.

“Aloha, Flight 1108 will now begin boarding...” a voice drones over the loudspeaker.

Suddenly, Ryder zips his guitar into its bag. It’s about 20 minutes to take-off and the ʻohana is on the move.

As the family boards the plane, the sound of slack key guitar music fills the cabin over the speakers. The melodic chords of “Radio Hula” drift across the aircraft, and soon the plane is airborne.

The flight between Honolulu and Kona is less than an hour. As the aircraft begins its descent, the captain announces it is 84 degrees.

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The grandkids collect the luggage, while Milton and Anne head to the car rental to grab rides. Normally, they drive vans, but today they have a Nissan Armada and a Wagoneer. Milton arrives in one, and Anne, who normally drives a Prius, is in the other.

This is Anne’s second trip to Hawaiʻi Island in the past six months. She was last here in April to watch her granddaughter, Kala Lau, perform at the Merrie Monarch Festival.

It’s hot and humid. The first year of the Kona festival, the event was held outdoors, Milton explains. They quickly decided not to do that again.

“Since then, we’ve been indoors and air-conditioned,” he adds.

In the car, the air conditioning is on and pop music is playing. The vehicles pull into a parking lot about four miles from the airport and the family is making its first stop: Mrs. Barry’s Kona Cookies. The ʻohana fills the store, where a sign on the wall inside reads: “Happy Birthday Mrs. Barry 90, loved and blessed.”

Milton and Anne begin ordering cookies for the entire family. Haukea, who is the youngest Lau on the trip, is especially excited.

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After, Milton, Anne, Haukea, and her sister, Olena, head to Costco to get canned food for The Salvation Army, which will collect cans at the festival.

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As the car follows the ocean toward Outrigger Kona Resort & Spa, the Laus share how they met. Anne grew up on the West Coast in Washington. She moved to Oʻahu to attend the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and never left. More specifically, she met Milton.

They met by accident — literally. The young surfer ran into her while riding his bicycle. He was single, so after making sure she was OK, he decided to invite her to a party.

“And the rest is history!” adds Anne, with a laugh.

They have been married more than 50 years. Together, they share 14 grandkids, six of whom are on this trip.

Milton and their son, Chris, have won a Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award and been nominated for three Grammy Awards as producers. As a musician, Milton started his career playing top 40 music in clubs and has played bass guitar, guitar and piano. Chris plays bass.

“I play the radio,” Anne tells Aloha State Daily later.

In the back seat, Haukea practices the multiplication table of 12. The full-size SUV veers toward a road with an entrance lined in palm trees, and suddenly the sign for the Outrigger Kona Resort & Spa is in sight.

As Anne pulls into the valet, she rolls down the window to say hello to Ron, who has worked here for many years.

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Slack key guitar predates the ʻukulele in Hawaiʻi. When the 

Brittish gifted cattle to King Kamehameha I

 in the early 1800s, they ran wild. Eventually, King Kamehameha III brought in 

, or Spanish-Mexican cowboys, to teach the Hawaiians how to handle the cattle. And the vaqueros brought guitars.

“Hawaiians never even saw that kind of instrument before,” Milton said. “I guess at the end of the day, they would play the guitars around the campfire and whatever. And the Hawaiians were fascinated.”

When the contract ended, the vaqueros headed back to California and left their instruments.

“But they didn't give them any lessons,” he said. “That meant they had to figure out how to play this stuff.”

The paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboy, did not know how to tune a guitar and simply adjusted the strings until it sounded pleasant. 

,” Milton said. “The different cowboys and their families came up with their own tunings, and they wouldn't tell the other guys what their tunings were.”

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“Really, it's kind of a great story about how the Hawaiians had great ears and a love of music,” he said.

Milton started the slack key guitar festivals in honor of his friend, Gabby Pahinui, a legendary slack key master who used to hold kani ka pila sessions where musicians played music at his home in Waimānalo. When asked to pick just a few words to describe Pahinui, Milton selected inspirational and charismatic.

“And kolohe,” adds Anne, using the Hawaiian word for mischevious.

After Pahinui died in 1980, the City and County of Honolulu dedicated the pavilion at Waimānalo Beach Park

in his name. Milton helped organize a festival in Waimānalo to celebrate Pahinui’s contributions to music, and about 5,000 people showed up, he said. It was so popular, they brought it back the next year, moving it to the Lester McCoy Pavilion at Ala Moana Regional Park.

Eventually, Milton approached the Bank of Hawaiʻi, which was the event’s title sponsor for about 15 years. Soon, the festivals were being televised.

“Then, we went three years, five years, seven years, eight years, 10 years,” Milton said. “What happened was after the 10th year, I realized that if people are interested with this in Honolulu, maybe other Neighbor Islands, they would be interested. I expanded to the Neighbor Islands and I started with Maui.”

At one point, there were festivals on Molokai and in Japan, as well as across the Mainland, including in Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia. But eventually, it became hard to live in so many hotels, Milton said. Today, the festivals on Oʻahu, Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi remain.

Now, the events are funded with grants from the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority, which has sponsored the festivals for about 25 years.

The festivals are also run with a whole lot of family support.

“I gotta tell you that if I didn't marry her, probably the festival wouldn’t continue,” Milton said, as he sits next to his wife.

“In the early days, we would do a whole lūʻau for the musicians,” Anne adds.

She and Milton’s parents would be backstage preparing the food.

“It’s kept our family really close,” she said.

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The first musician to take the stage for the 29th Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival - Kona Style is Milton and Anne’s grandson, Micah Lau. He jumps on stage about a half hour before the festival starts to play a set for the growing audience inside the Kaleiopapa Convention Center.

After playing a few songs, Micah tells the audience he is trying to learn “Radio Hula” and “Yellow Ginger Lei” from Uncle 

“I’ll play until I don’t remember the rest,” he says.

He starts the first chorus, and the crowd 

As the official program starts, entertainers of all ages take the stage and share the many sounds of slack key guitar. One of them yodels. Another adds the sound of a train.

The musical line-up for this festival features 15 musicians from across the state, including the Nā Hōkū Hanohano Lifetime Achievement Award honoree 

, who was born and raised on Oʻahu; Anthony Pfluke, who recently won the Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award for 

, who recently won the Nā Hoku Hanohano Award for 

 and was born and raised on Hawaiʻi Island.

In the middle of the festival, Milton and Anne's grandson, Ryder, takes the stage. The first time he performed at a slack key festival was three years ago on Kauaʻi, his grandfather explains. Milton gave him six months to learn the song.

“And all the musician uncles came up in the front row,” adds Anne, as she remembers that first performance at a festival. “No pressure.” 

Sometimes musicians request that one of their granddaughters dance hula, as recently happened in Waikīkī, when Kala performed under the stars. Today, she is taking pictures.

After the festival, Milton and Anne return the sound system and take the entire family out to get hamburgers to celebrate.

In just three weeks, the family will bring another festival to the state. The 

34th Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival - Kauaʻi Style

 will take place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Outrigger Kauaʻi Beach Resort & Spa. Kamaʻāina can buy tickets at the door to see a line-up of at least a dozen artists, including multiple Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award winning musicians, for $15.

Milton plans to run the festivals for at least 50 years.

“I know that one day I’m not going to be able to do it,” he said. “The good thing is the family has been involved a long time. All the musicians have been involved. And they all tell me: ʻHey don’t worry because when you're not able to do it, we're going to work with your kids or sons and whatnot to keep it going.’ ”

As he speaks, Ryder plays slack key guitar quietly in a lounge at Ellison Onizuka 

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34th Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival – Kauaʻi Style

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Kamaʻāina tickets are $15 at the door. Tourists tickets are $25.

Festival family

<title>When music meets ʻohana: In tune with the Lau family</title>

Anne and Milton Lau have organized slack key guitar festivals across Hawaiʻi for more than 40 years. The festival founders share how three generations of family celebrate the tradition of kī-hōʻalu, or slack key guitar, and keep a musical tradition alive.

When music meets ʻohana: In tune with the Lau family

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Crime & Courts

A man who allegedly shot an elementary school building in ‘Aiea last month faces up to 15 years in federal prison.

According to U.S. District Court records, Honolulu resident Joseph Chester Brown, 51, allegedly fired a gun during a road rage incident shortly after noon on Monday, September 21 near ‘Aiea Elementary School.

Honolulu Police officers learned that two men were seen arguing just outside the elementary school campus, shortly before a gunshot was heard coming from the direction of their altercation.

Later, a fresh bullet hole was found in the wall of a nearby school building. School was in session at the time of the shot.

A subsequent police investigation identified Brown as the alleged shooter. The other man in the altercation told officers that he had been standing next to his truck when Brown drove up to him and pointed a firearm at him.

Brown was arrested on Oct. 22. During his arrest, he was reportedly in possession of a loaded firearm with the serial number filed off.

Brown has a criminal history in Hawai‘i: in 1999, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for first-degree robbery, and was released in 2018. Consequently, Brown, as a convicted felon, is not permitted to own a firearm.

However, Brown was not charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, nor with possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, both of which have sentences of up to 10 years in prison. Instead, he was charged in U.S. District Court with unlawful transport of ammunition, a charge carrying a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, and a fine of up to $250,000.

According to an HPD report, the ammunition used in the altercation necessarily must have been transported to the state. Convicted felons are prohibited by federal law from any interstate transportation of ammunition, hence the more severe charge.

Brown pled not guilty to the charge on Friday, but remains in the custody of U.S. Marshals. Federal prosecutors have requested that Brown be held without bail; a hearing on that matter is scheduled for Oct. 28, and a trial is set for Dec. 22.

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Joseph Chester Brown faces 15 years in federal prison over road rage incident.

Honolulu man charged for allegedly shooting ‘Aiea school building

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Kelsey Kukaua Medeiros

in both surgical and stroke care, with a goal of improving patient treatment and recovery close to home.

O’ahu residents can now access the newest generation of robotic-assisted surgical technology — 

 — currently only available on island at the Kailua-based hospital. Across the state, the Hilo Benioff Medical Center is the only other hospital using this latest model, while other health care facilities utilize 

the fourth-generation system, according to Dr. Jon “Kai” Yamaguchi of Adventist Health Castle.

“At the current time, this is the most advanced surgical system in the world,” he says, noting that technology is always changing.

What’s the differences in capabilities between the models? He likened it to the new iPhone 18.

“In terms of the cases you can do, it’s very similar,” Yamaguchi told Aloha State Daily. “But can you make a call on your iPhone 5? Of course, you can. Can you make that same call on your brand-new iPhone 18? Absolutely. But the way you interact with the equipment, the technology and the advancements in the hardware and the software are what really make the difference.”

He adds that the da Vinci 5, which was just released last year and acquired by Castle several months ago, has 10,000 times more computing power; the 

visualization is also clearer; and the new force feedback feature allows surgeons to physically "feel" tissue tension instead of solely relying on visual cues. 

For patients, one benefit of robot-assisted surgeries is “quicker recovery with less tissue trauma.”

“The less force you can put into a piece of tissue, the less likely you are to injure that tissue,” 

Yamaguchi explained. “We’re trying to get patients better, faster, with as little cosmetic impact as we can. If I can do a surgery in a way that leaves a patient that much more confident, feeling at their best, that’s certainly a priority.”

Ultimately, he hopes the new system will help expand the number of cases the hospital can do, while improving individual care and giving patients the option to be treated at home. Internally, he says, part of that is shortening the learning curve for new robotic surgeons.

Raised in California, Yamaguchi told ASD that he knew he wanted to become a doctor at a young age. He 

graduated from medical school at Temple University in 1999 and went on to train in general surgery and transplantation.

“Medicine was a career that had a good balance of science, objectivity, personal interaction, and the technical aspect with surgery,” said 

Yamaguchi, who also served in the U.S. Army Reserve.

He’s been practicing in Hawaiʻi since 2013, exclusively at Castle since 2021, and is nearing his 1,000th robotic-assisted surgery so far.

When asked what this milestone means to him, Yamaguchi said, “It’s just a number, but I think it shows my commitment, as well as my institution’s commitment to not just provide OK surgery with OK results but really trying to be a front-runner for our island and our patients.”

“Healthcare is not an easy profession, but it is very fulfilling,” he continued. “We are the most geographically isolated landmass that’s populated in the world. We need qualified and quality healthcare practitioners here – there’s always a shortage but having the latest generation of technology on our island, allows patients to receive the same, if not better, care than patients across the country and the world.”

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Earlier this month, Adventist Health Castle also debuted the state’s only Volt Pulsed Field Ablation System, an advanced treatment option for atrial fibrillation, which increases the risk of stroke, heart failure and other serious complications.

Unlike traditional methods, The Volt Pulsed Field Ablation System uses targeted electrical pulses to treat the tissue causing the irregular heartbeat, while reducing the risk of damage to surrounding tissues.

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The Kailua-based hospital is now utilizing the da Vinci 5 surgical system, the latest and only model on the island. Meet one of the doctors operating it and learn more about its recent advancements in both surgical and stroke care.

Adventist Health Castle invests in new surgical, stroke equipment

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Food & Dining

Business & Tourism

Brownie pain chocolate croissant. Purple monster ube muffins. Jack-O-Donut.

These are just a few of the seasonal desserts customers can find at Chee Hoo Patisserie, located in the main lobby of Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikīkī Beach Resort. The bakery/cafe has transformed into “Chee Boo Patisserie” for the month of October, and is featuring a variety of themed treats until the end of the month.

“For Halloween, I was inspired by the colors,” explains executive pastry chef Urielle Mounin. “Halloween is a lot of orange, a lot of dark colors, and a lot of red.”

While the bakery usually features croissants, pain au chocolate and chocolate muffins, its Halloween menu takes pastries to the next level. For instance, the spider web croissant ($10.50) — a red pastry with a black “web” design — features a vanilla cream and fresh fruit filling. The pumpkin croissant ($10.50) features white chocolate, cream and a pumpkin seed garnish; the bloody red fruit croissant ($10.50) is filled with raspberry confit.

Mounin notes that the Jack-O-Donut, spider web croissants and devil red fruit pain chocolate croissants have been especially popular.

“The pumpkin crookie ($10.50) has a pumpkin cheesecake filling,” she explains. “The idea for the devil red fruit pain chocolate croissant was to have a pain au chocolate, so we kept the chocolate inside, but we also put red fruit (strawberry and raspberry) inside. The top (of the croissant) is red, and the inside is black.”

Seasonal drinks include the pumpkin spiced iced tea float ($9-$11), pumpkin cream cold brew ($7-$8), and witches pumpkin whip ($9-$10).

“All the pumpkin cream is made with pumpkin spice, ginger, cinnamon and a lot of vanilla,” 

Beyond its seasonal dessert line-up, the bakery has recently gained traction because of its unique trompe-l’oeil pastries ($12-$14), which are available all year long. The bakery started serving these pastries about six months ago, according to 

“In France, we call the desserts ‘trompe-l’oeil,’” she says. “It’s something that looks like something, but it’s not what it looks like. It’s been popular in France for a long, long time.”

Chee Hoo Patisserie’s trompe-l’oeil pastries look like fruits, but reveal a layered cake or mousse on the inside.

“The shell is made with chocolate, and all the filling inside is made with fresh fruit,” 

Mounin says. “Usually, we have a light mousse cream. The strawberry has a lot of fresh strawberry inside; the pumpkin has a pumpkin cheesecake and pumpkin mousse.”

Mounin notes that the trompe-l’oeil pastry selection usually has one rotating flavor — in this case, pumpkin — that changes each month.

The bakery started with about four or five fruits, but has expanded its selection, due to the desserts’ popularity, according to 

“When people eat it, we want them to feel like they’re really eating the fruit,” she explains.

So far, the strawberry ($14) — vanilla cream, compote de fraise, biscuit and crunchy chocolate shell — and mango have been local favorites. The mango dessert comprises mango mousse and mango within a crunchy chocolate shell. Other flavors include coconut ($12) — filled with coconut mousse and mango, pineapple and lilikoʻi brunoise in a dark chocolate shell — raspberry ($12), mandarin ($12) and blueberry ($12).

Mounin encourages customers to try the peanut ($12), coffee ($12) and pistachio ($14) flavors. Pistachio is filled with a pistachio cream and pistachio praline in a crunchy white chocolate shell. Coffee — shaped like a coffee bean — comprises coffee cream, praline coffee, and soft caramel in a crunchy chocolate shell. Meanwhile, peanut features peanut mousse, praline peanut and soft caramel.

“The pistachio has a soft pistachio cream inside,” 

Mounin says. “It’s a treat; it really looks like what it’s supposed to be.”

She notes that the desserts can be stored for up to five days in the refrigerator, since the fillings are usually made of cream and fresh fruit.

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“Everything is homemade here, and it’s a lot of work,” she adds. “It’s a long process (to make the desserts); it takes a lot of time, and we really try to use good-quality, local products. Everything is made fresh; everything is made in house.”

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The bakery/cafe, located in the main lobby of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikīkī Beach Resort, has transformed into “Chee Boo Patisserie” for spooky season. Customers can enjoy limited-time desserts, ranging from decorated croissants with fillings to Jack-O-donuts and pumpkin "crookies," along with the bakery’s trompe-l’oeil pastries, which are available all year long.

Chee Hoo Patisserie features festive Halloween treats

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Haley Lehman

Government & Politics

When Brandi Saragosa took a job as a driver for Maui Food Bank in 2019, she had no idea she’d be at the helm of the nonprofit seven years later.

She’s served in a multitude of roles over the years, and she told Aloha State Daily that her work has only begun. Maui Food Bank distributed 6.7 million pounds of food during the 2026 fiscal year, according to its

Saragosa said she feels humbled and honored to serve the residents of Maui County, and that the mission is central to her work.

“It means everything that our mission is successful,” she said. “I want to see local families be able to stay here and stay in the home they grew up in.”

Saragosa said that the landscape of food insecurity on Maui is continuously evolving, 

from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Maui wildfires, increased fuel prices, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program increasing administrative costs to the states.

“If anything, that has taught me that you can’t get too comfortable,” she said. “You have to be innovative. You have to be willing to grow and change and fail and make mistakes and get up from them.”

As part of that innovation and growth, Maui Food Bank is in the design phase for a new facility in Central Maui to increase storage capacity and strengthen its disaster response.

“Our commitment is to build resiliency in our infrastructure and in our distribution for [refrigerated food],” Saragosa said.

Maui Food Bank’s operations are currently fragmented across three facilities and Saragosa said it would increase efficiency to combine operations to one facility.

Community members voiced a need for space for a farmers market and a meat processing center at the new campus. Saragosa would like the campus to include a pavilion where hālaus could practice and to bring kūpuna together with keiki.

After seven years at Maui Food Bank, Brandi Saragosa stepped into the role as Chief Executive Officer in July. Aloha State Daily sat down with Saragosa to learn about the lessons she’s learned and her goals for Maui Food Bank’s future.

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