We had been warned about all of the fireworks that go off on New Year's. Dave met one man from Honolulu who had come to the north part of the island to get away from the smoke! But they really celebrate in La'ie too! However,this was the last year for that as they have outlawed fireworks in Hawaii. New Year's Day is awesome in La'ie. There is a business man (actually a bread man)who, for the last 20+years, has sponsored music groups to perform in the BYUH gymnasium. Then the past 4-6 years he started having a free lunch, complete with pork, cooked in an emu(in the ground);chili (sorry but Texas' is better); green salad; macaroni salad (you see it a lot on the island);rice; and dessert. Volunteers help "Junior" with his generous acts. The little bread store he owns, sells 1,000 loaves of bread a day, five days a week. They also sell lau lau (meat or fish cooked in leaves)and other Hawaiian favorites. It's quite a business! Also,some days Dole has too many bananas so they send them to Junior and he distributes them from his property. We stopped and got free bananas from the 1,000 boxes that he had. What a wonderful, hardworking, generous man he is! Lucky community!
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