Butch Helemano

http://www.huinaauao.com/ is a traditional knowledge project conducted by Kupuna Butch Helemano at Waimea falls park. Butch is fronting Unit 405 with Japanese school and our property fence in the back ground.

Project Goal is to provide a program to our community that works closely with traditional knowledge practitioners. And to teach skills which can be used to help perpetuate our cultural heritage

Many of our cultural traditions are no longer taught or practiced. Our goal is to create in our community a guild of craftsmen and artisans who, learning from our elders, will help to perpetuate our many wonderful traditions.

Classes are on Sunday 10:00 - 1:00. Classes change each week on everything from dry-stacking rock walls to weaving thatched roofs, to making tools from natures valleys and more. For more information call Butch at 292-4292. Don't feel bad if he doesn't answer, he never hears his phone ring. But he'll know you were thinking of him.





Butch is here at our property preparing to perform a wedding for a military guest and his son.

Cable & Phone lines

In tracing the Cable and phone lines in my unit, I have found that most if not all the cable lines in the single bedroom units, in the master bed room, there is a wall cover plug with the cable line wrapped up in it. It may have both the cable line and the phone line installed along with a pull line.

There is also a cable line in the living room on the CMU wall. In my Unit 402, for some reason, there was newspaper plugging the whole. The date on the newspaper was April 14, 1998. The cable line was inside but was not an active line.

There is also a cable "J Box" on the outside common wall between the two units approx. 16" up from the floor. By removing the cover place, you will have access to each of the cable lines in the two units. The wiring is black in color and marked, but not with a legable or rather understandable code.

The problem I find so far is that the cable lines in the "J Box" are black and the ones coming out from inside the unit are either Brown or White. This indicates that there have been some changes to the interior by someone at some time, but so far, I am finding that the after market installation is neither consistent nor logical. This usually indicates that the installation was done by more than one person.