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		<title>Life in Business: Big Island Coffee Roasters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brandon Damitz and Kelleigh Stewart have combined their expertise in biological and culinary sciences and organic farming to create a business that offers the finest local products to the public along with support for other coffee growers in commercial roasting, packaging and processing. “In 2011 we re-named our coffee farm, mill and roastery Big Island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Business: Hawai‘i Biological Dentistry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Dr. Randy Ressler may be the most musical dentist in town! “Music has always been a big part of my life,” says the owner of Hawai‘i Biological Dentistry in Kailua-Kona. He’s been performing since he was 10 and he helped pay his way through college and dental school in Iowa by playing in various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Business: Water Works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Verne Wood, founder of WaterWorks, is a pioneer in the business of water catchment services and products on an island where many homes are independent of the County water system and rely on collecting rainwater. The company began more than 20 years ago as a trucking company in Puna, hauling water to homes with water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Business: Island Edges Beads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Turner retired from being a high school theatre teacher in Arizona. Looking for something different and creative, she took a few classes in jewelry making. A native of Phoenix, the single mom of two boys taught there for 26 years. In the early ‘80s she took a two-year leave of absence, taught speech for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Konabob and the Unique Kona Walkingbass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;By Shirley Stoffer&#8230; Bob Stoffer, known as “Konabob” to many people in Hawai’i and around the world, had loved Hawai’i and Hawaiian music for a long time before moving to the island. He listened to Hawaiian music at his bakery in the mountains of Colorado, with a picture of Gabby Pahinui and a map of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Master Chinese Brush Painter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…Shirley Pu Wills Practices the Art of Imagination and Chi …By Fern Gavelek … It’s both what you see and what you don’t see that create the magic in Chinese brush painting. “The thing about Chinese brush painting is you imagine what’s not there,” says Shirley Pu Wills of Captain Cook. “A painting of koi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gille Legacy: The Man Who Paints With His Nose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…By Cynthia Sweeney… Gille Legacy does not have the distractions that the rest of us do. Unable to use his body since birth, he is not confined to it and lives largely—both figuratively and literally—in his imagination. And the peace of that place comes through him and onto the canvas as a tangible connection between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ka Hana No‘eau i ka Hulu: &#8220;The Art of the Feather&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…By Noel Morata… Early Hawaiians believed that birds had symbolic spiritual power and their feathers carried magical properties, including keen eyesight, endurance and speed. These qualities would add to the value of garments utilizing feathers, which were created specifically for chiefly rank and status. When the early Polynesian settlers came to Hawai‘i, they brought with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://keolamagazine.com/the-life-as-art/ka-hana-no%e2%80%98eau-i-ka-hulu-the-art-of-the-feather/</link>
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		<title>Hawaiian Quilting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[…By Margaret Kearns… Scattered around Hawai‘i Island, small groups of women—and a handful of men—are using passion and knowledge, skill and patience, hands and hearts to save what they say is a dying art. Hawaiian quilting is literally a labor of love with deep roots in the culture of these islands. Created completely by hand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Beloved Daughter Retires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;By Fern Gavelek&#8230; She walks through the treasure-filled rooms—fingering the china, straightening a photo frame, smoothing a quilted bedspread and then opening wide an upstairs window. As the fresh air fills the stately bedroom, Aunty Fanny turns around and grins. If only rooms could talk. Fanny Au Hoy has been telling the stories of these [...]]]></description>
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