Week of April 6, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 14
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BETTA LATE THAN NEVER Liz Hahn raises award-winning fish
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Liz Hahn’s passion for raising fish has turned into awards, business
IHUE — Liz Hahn is passionate about breeding better bettas. “Fish are another way to help people to become more human,” the Waimea woman said. “To see all living creatures as part of the same world we live in. Not as an object or a color, something to decorate their house with, but something that can be a part of their family.” Hahn was the number three show breeder for bettas in the nation in 2017. She said she might have placed second, but her competitor had someone drive his fish to a show in Canada that she couldn’t enter because she couldn’t mail her fish there. But for Hahn, placing third nationally is still something to celebrate. Because many people can’t have furry animals, Hahn said having a betta is like having a dog. Only better. “They can really enjoy it,” she said. Picking out a fish, Hahn said, is like picking out a puppy. She advises people
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Liz Hahn talks betta fish with Lynne Sito and Carolyn Watanabe, both from California. “This is a love animal. Like every living thing, it’s all about love. When you love something you can survive through all kinds of stuff,” Hahn said.
to spend time with her fish and pick out one that’s most attracted to them. If the fish is fluttery, excited and happy to see the person, then that’s the fish for them. It’s not about the fish’s color. Hahn’s love for fish began when she was a child in Wisconsin. Her mother allowed her to keep guppies in their kitchen because it was the warmest room in the house. “Guppies are live breeders and they’re life bearers and they breed like rabbits so pretty soon I had five tanks
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of guppies in the kitchen,” Hahn said. From there, Hahn got into the varieties and characteristics of guppies, but it wasn’t until the 1990s that she became interested in breeding bettas. Her move to breeding bettas, she said, was a natural progression. “A lot of the characteristics we take for granted now, like the half moon where the tail fully flared goes out 180 degrees, that didn’t exist. Black SEE BETTA, PAGE 3
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While the majority of betta breeders are focused on fin Continued from page 2 size, Hahn said she keeps her fish in the tank for as long bettas didn’t exist,” Hahn said. as possible before breeding them because she is focused “Marbled bettas was just becoming genetically consistent on body size. “I want their bodies to be and so that was back in the ‘90s and that’s when I started.” healthy. In the fish mills of Southeast Asia where they And in Waimea, she had a lot of luck with bettas because have millions of fish, they jar them early because they want of the warm weather. their fins to grow because “That’s what bettas like, people are fin obsessed. So they like warm water,” Hahn people obsessed with finage said. “Other fish like koi and don’t care about bodies guppies and other tropical because people are looking fish, they’re tropical, but they at fins. I care about bodies,” like cold water, so bettas Hahn said. thrived. They did really well Hahn said she might not and pretty soon they started breed them until they’re a taking over the house.” year old, which is unusual. Taking a break from betta breeding to raise her children, Most breeders start breeding their fish after a few months. Hahn got back into the Though Hahn does work betta lifestyle when an old under the standards of the Incustomer contacted her and ternational Betta Conference asked if she wanted a fish. in her breeding, the overall She expected he would be health and happiness of her sending her one fish to be a fish is what’s most important pet, but instead, he sent five in the end, so she focuses on breeding pairs. Bettas are personal and can breeding compact fin fish. “I want it to be full like a half live a long time, Hahn said. They are sensitive to emotions moon, but I want it to stay and positive energy and in the proportionate like that until it’s old,” Hahn said. right environment with the The current trend, she said, right care, they can live up to is that breeders are breeding six or seven years.
their fish to have half moon and pectoral fins so large that they become too heavy for senior fish and they end up lopsided. That can be dangerous for the fish because it can’t get up to breath air or get its food. “They’re expecting the fish to live like that,” she said. Normally a betta will go up top to breath air, gulp air and then they blow bubbles,” Hahn said. “Like the males will blow bubbles, that’s part of their mating ritual,” she said. “They build a bubble nest so if a fish is sitting in still water they’ll build a nice bubble nest and they’ll do that when it’s raining and the barometric pressure goes down, (or) waiting for a girl to come by. That’s instinct.” She said it would be like humans walking around wearing large diving fins. Keeping a fish in a tank with a filter is not something Hahn agrees with because it takes away part of their behavior. “That’s not me. I’m about raising healthy fish,” she said. “So I want to see a fish that comes to the market, gets packed up the next day, goes to a show, wins a show
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“It’s like that first drink, that first cigarette,” Hahn said. “It’s hard work. You have to have devotion to do it and to be able to do it for any length of
and gets sold to a breeder, but these are the same fish I would send to a show.” Betta breeding, she said, is addictive.
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ichelle Lemay will give a free Vegan Society of Hawaii presentation, “Dispelling Vegan Myths, Kauai Style,” at 4:30 p.m. May 6 at Sun Village Clubhouse. She will also offer resources Lemay to support having a plant based lifestyle on Kauai. Lemay’s passion for plant-based eating began as a health quest while healing from major surgery. It began with changing her belief system around being vegan,
she said. “Whether you been vegan for years, new to plant based living or just plant curious, you are sure to learn how to successfully eat out almost anywhere on island, support local farmers and to choose a plant based lifestyle out of self love, yes even here on Kauai,” according to a flier. For the potluck dinner, please bring a vegan dish, with recipe/ingredient list), or a donation, $10 suggested (free for children 12 and under). Info: 346-8743 ••• TGI!FRIDAY
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IHUE — Plants could be the key to food security in America, according to a new study, and vegans on Kauai say The Garden Island is the perfect place to try out plant-based fare. That’s according to researcher Ron Milo at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, whose research showed America could feed all of its 327 million people, plus an additional 390 million by switching the focus from animal products to plants. The math adds up for some vegans and farmers on Kauai, like Robert Zelkovsky, who isn’t vegan, but has a diet high in plants. “I do promote it as kinder, healthier and better for
the environment,” he said. “I grow and eat lots of sprouts!” Michelle Lemay, who has been vegan for nine months and made the switch to a vegan and gluten-free diet in order to heal after a surgery, said she thinks plant-based diets would feed more people as well. “It makes sense, especially if we were to use the land and resources that go toward growing meat toward growing food,” she said. “We’d have an abundance.” She secures most of her food through farmers’ SEE VEGANS, PAGE 5
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markets on Kauai and her diet consists of things like overnight oats with fresh fruit, chia and hemp seeds, quinoa salads and stir-fries made with fresh vegetables. She also throws in the occasional substitution food like almond milk or vegan cheese. “With the farmers’ markets, it’s reasonable, and there really is an abundance of food that grows here,” Lemay said. Those home-cooked meals are often simple, she said, using many of the same recipes she did when she was eating animal products, just “veganized.”
When she’s not feeling like cooking at home, Lemay visits places like Eat Healthy Kauai, and Our Place in Kapaa, where the menu is fully vegan and ingredients are usually harvested the same day. Many restaurants around the island have options, she said. “I go out often around the island and I’ve been finding there’s a lot of places that are willing to substitute or already have one or two options that are vegan and gluten-free on the menu,” Lemay said. She continued: “I find it easy, because I know I’m going to find something to eat, always. I’m not going to starve. It’s not restrictive.” At Verde restaurant in
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Vegan tacos at Verde in Lihue and Kapaa are just one of many options for vegans on Kauai.
Lihue, for instance, manager Jessica Kerber said the vegan tacos are popular. “I’ve seen more and more people coming in for vegan food over the last year or so,” Kerber said. “I’m not sure
if it’s because the trend is growing or if people are searching it out online and they see us on Yelp, so they come here.” The vegan community on Kauai is vibrant, said Lemay,
who is involved in the Vegetarian Society, which meets monthly for food and plant-based lectures. She’s speaking on May 6, and plans to share info on the availability of farmers’ markets, as well as vegan food options by region on Kauai. When it comes to food production, farmer Marshall Paul of the Kauai Food Forest said just about anything would be more efficient than growing a cow when it comes to calories, but animals are essential to the success of a farm. “Because of the essential role of the nitrogen cycle in plants, animal integration of one sort or another is necessary,” Paul said. “Choose the ones that are most
Obituary for James Keith Schmidt James Keith Schmidt known to friends and family as “Jim”, passed away on March 18th, 2018 at his home in Koloa, Kauai after a year-long battle with cancer. His wife and friends were by his side as he entered into his eternal life. Jim was born on August 4, 1947 to Lorraine and Norvell Schmidt. After spending years stationed in the Aleutian Islands conducting intelligence for the U.S. Army, Jim worked with insurance companies providing investigation services. In 1977, he received his Private Investigator’s License from the State of California and provided investigative services for the remainder of his career. Jim retired to Kauai where he enjoyed playing golf, volunteering for the Veterans’ Museum and hosting friends and family from both the Island and around the Globe. Jim will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Dorothy (Dot) Schmidt; his sisters, Phylis and Paula, and brother, Rick. Jim will also be fondly remembered by his children, Chris, Geoff (Krista), John (Lori), and Gina; his grandchildren, Vincent, Dominic, Alesia and soon to be Baby Girl Natalia Lynn Schmidt. Celebration of Life to follow at a later date. In lieu of flowers we request that donations be sent in Jim’s name to: Kauai Hospice 4457 Pahee Street • Lihue, HI 96766 or Wilcox Medical Center Oncology Department 3-3420 Kuhio Hwy • Lihue, HI 96766
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efficient and that can fulfill your nitrogen needs.” “If you really back up and see how the world can be fed, it looks like local, diversified, intensive agriculture is the way to go,” Paul said. “Back up and simplify, localize, diversify and intensify.” The researchers out of Israel examined America’s eating habits between the years 2000 and 2010, and used computer calculations to remove beef, pork, chicken, dairy and eggs from the American diet, replacing them with plant-based foods that were “nutritionally comparable.” Those kinds of foods include potatoes, peanuts, soybeans and other plants. SEE VEGANS, PAGE 6
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TALES OF TWAIN AND HIS TIME IN THE ISLANDS CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY
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Their model showed that on land that could produce 100 grams of plant protein, growers would end up
Mark Twain! Author Bettye Oliger Fox presents us with a fascinating, easy-to-read biography of this unforgettable figure of American history’s time in 1800s Hawaii, entitled “The Privilege of Man is to Dream: Mark Twain’s Visit to Hawaii”. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain) was a young man of 30 when he boarded the sail-steamer Ajax on March 7, 1866, to venture on an ocean voy-
age to the Hawaiian Islands as a roving reporter for The Sacramento Union. He had not yet written his classic iconic works “Huckleberry Finn,” “Tom Sawyer,” or “Life on the Mississippi.” Still poor and not yet internationally known, his Sandwich Islands venture (a place later to become known to the wider public as the Hawaiian Islands) would become the catalyst to take Clements from roving reporter to famous
speaker to famous writer, enabling him to ascend to the heights of literary greatness. Planning only to spend one month in Hawaii, he was so intoxicated by the islands and this culture that he spent four months more than planned. His adventures on Maui alone, with such happenings as the local ladies turning a water hose on him to secretly find out if he had other attire beyond his
flapping linen duster, only intrigued him to stay longer on Maui. After leaving Honolulu, he would not return for another 29 years. But his experiences during the short months that he was here made an impression, for he had spent his single “youth” at 33 years old in a different place and culture that he quickly learned to appreciate, and it became the catalyst that started his famed writing career.
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with 60 grams of edible protein using the land for eggs, 50 grams of protein in chicken form, 25 grams of protein from dairy cows, 10 grams of protein from pigs, and 4 grams of protein from beef.
Eliminating eggs and replacing them with plants that offer the same nutrients would make it possible to feed 1 million additional people, researchers found. At the other end of the spectrum, swapping plants for beef would result in enough food to “meet the full dietary needs” of 163 million extra people. In the middle were dairy
(getting rid of it would result in food for 25 million more people), pigs (cutting them out would feed 19 million more people) and poultry chickens (without them, farmers could feed 12 million more people). If beef, pork, chicken, dairy and eggs all were replaced by a nutritionally equivalent combination of potatoes, peanuts, soybeans and other plants, the
total amount of food available to be eaten would increase by 120 percent, the researchers calculated. To put that in perspective, the amount of food that’s currently wasted due to things such as spoilage and inefficient production methods is between 30 percent and 40 percent of what U.S. farmers produce. “The effect of recovering the opportunity food loss,”
the authors wrote, “is larger than completely eliminating all conventional food losses in the United States.” Downsides cited in the study included a decline in the consumption of micronutrients, like vitamin B12. ••• Jessica Else is a staff writer at The Garden Island newsapaper and can be reached at 245-0452 or at jelse@ thegardenisland.com.
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these two tribute albums is, with some exceptions, a collection of fairly clear-cut covers of their biggest hits, your level of enjoyment will depend mostly on your like, dislike, tolerance or rejection of the contributors. Sir Elton curated “Revamp,” which gathers versions by inhabitants of the rock and pop worlds, from Lady Gaga and Mary
J. Blige to Coldplay, Sam Smith and The Killers, and opens with Pink, Logic and a John cameo on “Bennie and the Jets.” Highlights include Florence + The Machine’s take on “Tiny Dancer,” Queens of the Stone Age surprisingly contained “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and Sam Smith’s “Daniel.” Ed Sheeran reclaims “Can-
dle in the Wind” for Marilyn Monroe. Taupin took “Restoration” under his wings. Miranda Lambert carries with grace the emotions behind “My Father’s Gun,” while Lee Ann Womack is an ideal choice for the groovy “Honky Cat.” Vince Gill, Don Henley, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Chris Stapleton and others appear.
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APAA — More than 250 people showed up to demonstrate their support for the battle against multiple sclerosis Saturday during the annual MS Walk and Roll (it’s called the MS Walk elsewhere) at Kapaa Beach Park. Utilizing Ke Ala Hele Makalae, the Kapaa multi-use path, strollers and rollers enjoyed the clearing afternoon and fellowship of other combatants against MS as well as people living with MS by walking for about a mile while engaging in a poker run around the Kapaa Beach Park encampment, bidding on silent auction bargains, and enjoying grinds from Duke’s Canoe Club. In total, the group met its goal of raising more than $40,000 while having a fun afternoon.
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