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Explore the possibility of creating manufactured packaged items including baked good products; preserved-pickled items; craft kits; etc. These items could be featured at the Mill Mall as well as shipped out on mail or internet orders.

Explore the possibilities of eco-tourism efforts with "hometown" showcases which can include: plantation-heritage concepts to include music, arts and crafts, folk-medicines, etc.

Coordinate a "Four-Season Festival" Format with the following:

Spring: A Time for New Beginnings

Summer: A Time for Ohana (family)

Autumn: A Time for Harvest and Thanksgiving

Winter: A Time for Remembrances and Honors

These festivals can be the "centerpieces" for community events, giving the various community groups to have opportunities for fundraising efforts.

Establishing a Recording Studio to capture homegrown talent to also service health, educational and research needs for documentation. The formats could include compact discs for both audio and visual approaches which can incorporate the establishment of a TV Satellite Station.

Explore Virtual Reality Modes: Open the doors for creative expression and technical expertise to be combined to present formats of Hawaii, out host culture's history; our plantation heritage of ethnic varieties; the stories and the creative approaches that can emanate from the community.

These "suggestions" are made in spirit of opening possibilities of pursuits. Each must be discussed, weighed and measured, modified and amplified, according to the will of the people in this community.

What might or can happen will be determined by the "will of the people".

Kekaha, "The Place" to Be!

A Personal Perspective by Jose Bulatao, Jr. 2011