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Step two of Punahou74’s own Genki Ball effort is in the books. Will you be there to toss what these hard working classmates produced into the Ala Wai on June 7?
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As reported by Linda deSilva Howe:
On Wednesday, May 22, 2024, twenty-seven classmates–plus spouses–gathered at Charlie and Sandy Loomis’ gracious home …and got dirty! They played with dirt…all toward a good…you might say, ‘genki’ purpose.
Ralph Aona, Waiai Kaulukukui, and Cathy Kam-Ho organized the ingredients: 20 bags of local soil, donated by City Mill; 8 gallons of EM1 enzyme solution, 40 pounds of rice bran (also donated), 120 aluminum pans, stacks of newsprint, and dozens of cardboard boxes.
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Add willing volunteers and the result is close to 900 Genki (healthy) balls, destined to dry, baby, dry until the morning of Friday, June 7th.
Come June 7 even more classmate volunteers will heave the Genki balls, one-by-one, into the Ala Wai Canal, which is fed by mauka streams, including the Punahou spring. The beneficial enzymes and bacteria in them will, through biomediation, help clear the water in the Ala Wai.
See you on the morning of the 7th!
Additional pictures of the event can be viewed in the 50th Reunion: Genki Ball Making album on Flickr.
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