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#11Valley Hearing& AudiologyEmpowering your life witha hearing solutionas individual as you are...808-573-54432881 Main Street • Hilo, HI 96720Dr. John PhilipsBoard Certified in AudiologogyCall Us Today to Schedule Your FREE Hearing EvaluationPuʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical ParkIs a United States National Historical Park located onthe west coast of the island of Hawaií in the U.S. state ofHawaií. The historical park preserves the site where, up untilthe early 19th century, Hawaiians who broke a kapu (one ofthe ancient laws) could avoid certain death by fleeing tothis place of refuge or puúhonua. The offender would beabsolved by a priest and freed to leave. Defeated warriorsand non-combatants could also find refuge here duringtimes of battle. The grounds just outside the Great Wall thatencloses the puúhonua were home to several generationsof powerful chiefs.The 420 acre (1.7 km2) site was originally established in 1955as City of Refuge National Historical Park and was renamedon November 10, 1978. In 2000 the name was changed bythe Hawaiian National Park Language Correction Act of 2000observing the Hawaiian spelling. It includes the puúhonuaand a complex of archeological sites including: templeplatforms, royal fishponds, sledding tracks, and some coastalvillage sites. The Hale o Keawe temple and several thatchedstructures have been reconstructed.Haleó Keawe heiauThe park contains a reconstruction of the Hale o Keawe heiau,which was originally built by a Kona chief named Kanuha inhonor of his father King Keawe´īkekahialiíokamoku. Afterthe death of Keawe´īkekahialiíokamoku, his bones wereentombed within the heiau. The nobility (ali’i) of Konacontinued to be buried until the abolition of the kapu system.The last person buried here was a son of Kamehameha I in1818.It was believed that additional protection to the place ofrefuge was received from the mana in the bones of thechiefs. It survived several years after other temples weredestroyed. It was looted by Lord George Byron (cousin of thedistinguished English poet) in 1825. In 1829, High ChiefessKapiólani removed the remaining bones and hid them in thePali Kapu O Keōua cliffs above nearby Kealakekua Bay. Shethen ordered this last temple to be destroyed. The boneswere later moved to the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii in 1858.LOOKING FOR GREAT OFFERS AND FREEBIES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD - VISIT OURTOWNSFINEST.COM • ©2019 TODAY IN MAGAZINE • 1-818-573-54438
HILOHilo is the largest town and censusdesignatedplace (CDP) in Hawaii County,Hawaii, United States, which encompassesthe Island of Hawaiʻi. The population was43,263 at the 2010 census.Hilo is the county seat of the County of Hawaiiand is in the District of South Hilo. The townoverlooks Hilo Bay, at the base of two shieldvolcanoes, Mauna Loa, an active volcano,and Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano and thesite of some of the world’s most importantground-based astronomical observatories.Much of the city is at some risk from lavaflows from Mauna Loa. The majority ofhuman settlement in Hilo stretches from HiloBay to Waiākea-Uka, on the flanks of MaunaLoa.Hilo is home to the University of Hawaii atHilo, ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii, aswell as the Merrie Monarch Festival, a weeklongcelebration of ancient and modern hulathat takes place annually after Easter. Hilois also home to the Mauna Loa MacadamiaNut Corporation, one of the world’s leadingproducers of macadamia nuts. The town isserved by Hilo International Airport.HistoryAround 1100 AD, the first Hilo inhabitantsarrived, bringing with them Polynesianknowledge and traditions. Althougharchaeological evidence is scant, oralhistory has many references to peopleliving in Hilo, along the Wailuku and Wailoarivers during the time of ancient Hawaii. Oralhistory also gives the meaning of Hilo as “totwist”.Originally, the name “Hilo” applied to adistrict encompassing much of the eastcoast of the island of Hawaiʻi, now dividedinto the District of South Hilo and the Districtof North Hilo. When William Ellis visited in1823, the main settlement in the Hilo districtwas Waiākea on the south shore of HiloBay. Missionaries came to the district in theearly-to-middle 19th century, founding HailiChurch, in the area of modern Hilo.Hilo expanded as sugar plantations in thesurrounding area created new jobs anddrew in many workers from Asia, making thetown a trading center.A breakwater across Hilo Bay was begunin the first decade of the 20th century andcompleted in 1929. On April 1, 1946, a7.8-magnitude earthquake near the AleutianIslands created a 46-foot-high (14 m)tsunami that hit Hilo 4.9 hours later, killing160 people. In response, an early warningsystem, the Pacific Tsunami WarningCenter, was established in 1949 to trackthese killer waves and provide warning.This tsunami also caused the end of theHawaii Consolidated Railway, and insteadthe Hawaii Belt Road was built north of Hilousing some of the old railbed.On May 22, 1960, another tsunami, causedby a 9.5-magnitude earthquake off the coastof Chile that day, claimed 61 lives, allegedlydue to the failure of people to heed warningsirens. Low-lying bayfront areas of the cityon Waiākea peninsula and along Hilo Bay,previously populated, were rededicated asparks and memorials.Hilo expanded inland beginning in the1960s. The downtown found a new rolein the 1980s as the city’s cultural centerwith several galleries and museums beingopened; the Palace Theater was reopenedin 1998 as an arthouse cinema.Closure of the sugar plantations (includingthose in Hāmākua) during the 1990s led toa downturn in the local economy, coincidingwith a general statewide slump.[citationneeded] Hilo in recent years has seencommercial and population growth, as theneighboring District of Puna became thefastest-growing region in the state.#12Enjoy GreatSpecialsOpen For Lunch & Dinner2881 Main StreetHilo, HI 96720808-573-5443LOOKING FOR GREAT OFFERS AND FREEBIES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD - VISIT OURTOWNSFINEST.COM • ©2019 TODAY IN MAGAZINE • 1-818-573-5443
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