Kihei Community Association | Maui, Hawaii

Katy, Ryon, Steve and David (not pictured) make up the Aloha Bluegrass Band, performing at the Farmer’s Market in Kihei on Saturday. (3/30/13) morning, inspiring a lot of head bobbing and foot tapping by the produce shoppers and sellers. The members are split between Kihei and Haiku, and true to their areas, play at Casanova’s and [...]

A couple of Kihei sisters and an upcountry cohort entertained early shoppers last Saturday (3/23/13) at the Farmer’s Market. Self accompaniment on guitars with their melodic singing brought smiles an applause from the fresh organic(mostly) produce buyers off Lipoa in central Kihei. The three friends, Chelleigh Starfish (upcounty), Isa Inca, and Celeste Keele have only performed [...]

UPDATE (MAR 22, 2013) As the County Council awaits receiving the budget from  the mayor on Monday (3/25/13), KCA is awaiting confirmation that the money is there for this long expected bicycle path (APR 24, 2012) As the community enjoys the just completed bike path makai of Liloa between Lipoa Street and Waipuilani Road, Public Works [...]

At 9:00 AM this morning (3/16/13), Maui County blessed and opened the first official off leash dog park at Keopuolani Park in Kahului, and has already announced plans for the next one in Makawao. Will south Maui be next?  While there is an off leash dog park now in Wailea, it is not a county [...]

KCA has been a very strong supporter of the Pump Don’t Dump  group for several years, and link to that website, www.pumpdontdump.com  remains of our own homepage with a select group.  The strong actions of this unfunded grass roots group finally caused the cessation of much of the human waste dumping by commercial charter boats within the [...]

Over three years ago the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), while attempting to extend the long time man made reef off Keawakapu Beach, had a tragic mishap while dropping  1400 two ton huge reinforced concrete modules, when 125 of them fell on live coral in error. Over the past 37 months the DLNR [...]

While our County voters overwhelming approved the Charter amendment on Nov 6, 2012 to move our Ocean Safety Officers (OSO’s) from the Parks and Recreation Department to Fire and Public Safety, as the bureaucratic process moves along to group “first responders” together in the same department, the officers at Kamaole I Beach started this new [...]

We always wonder what motivates a vandal to destroy property needlessly, as we encounter a second “burned to ground” Porta-Potty at Kihei beaches. The first episode  occured back on Oct 5 near intersection of So Kihei Road (SKR) and Uwapo, adjacent to the new bus shelter. A week later, the mess was removed and a [...]

The Maui County Animal Coalition’s  (MCAC) meeting on Tuesday (10/9/12)  welcomed guest Sue Kiang,  a supervisor of Maui County Parks and Recreation Department, for an update on the long awaited “off -leash” dog park program, at their monthly meeting in South Kihei. The Coalition is composed of fourteen animal welfare organization across our county’s three [...]

UPDaTE (8/31/12)  Most of it was mowed yesterday- See pix Seemingly this new green-way makai of Liloa (behind Safeway) is not being maintained. Much of the grass is uncut, and there are large (and growing) bald or weak patches. Since opening months ago, it was very well cared for weekly, but no longer. What happened? KCA [...]