The Kokua Festival and STAR 101.9 joined forces this past weekend by offering pre-sale ticket purchase opportunities and mobilizing over 1000 residents to help clean Hawaii’s beaches! All participants earned a pre-sale code good for purchasing two Kokua Festival tickets during the Beach Clean-up Pre-sale. They were also entered in a raffle where, along with other great prizes, two winners from each clean-up received a pair of free Kokua Festival tickets!
Four Beach Clean-ups took place on Oahu and Maui this past Saturday, February 13th. Locations included Sand Island Beach Park, Kea’au Beach Park, Malaekahana Beach Park, and Kahului Harbor Maui. The Kokua Festival team would like to thank STAR 101.9, BYU-SIFE, Kanu Hawaii, the Kokua Hawaii Foundation, Rep. Maile Shimaburkuro, Maui Time Weekly, and Surfrider Oahu for their efforts to promote and coordinate the clean-ups.
Sand Island Beach Park:
Surfrider Oahu partnered with STAR 101.9 and the Kokua Hawaii Foundation in gathering approximately 350 volunteers to participate in their “Love Your Beach†beach clean-up on the eve of Valentine’s Day. More than 500 pounds of trash and recycling was collected. Sunetric’s Watt Wheels and the band Die Trying motivated the crowd with a solar-powered performance.
Kea’au Beach Park:
Kanu Hawaii & Rep. Maile Shimabukuro co-sponsored the beach clean-up with STAR 101.9 and the Kokua Hawaii Foundation at Kea`au Beach. Other supporters included Nani `O Wai`anae, Schnitzer Steel, Roll-Offs HI, Interstate Batteries, Penske, City & County of Honolulu & Wai`anae Community Outreach. Over 200 volunteers, including several of the Kea`au houseless, gathered approximately 700 bags of trash, container-sized truckloads each of bulky items and metal, 25 batteries, and over 200 tires!
Malaekahana Beach Park:
Over 400 community volunteers from Mokulei’a to Hawai’i Kai descended upon Malaekahana Beach Park in Lai’e where BYUH SIFE, STAR 101.9, Surfrider and the Kokua Hawai’i Foundation partnered ridding the beach of large and heavy marine debris such as fishing nets and ropes, to the smallest nurdles (small plastic pieces, often ingested by marine wildlife) hand picked and sifted from the sand by children. Bulky household, automotive, and boating/fishing related debris were added to the mountain of trash that was picked up, while volunteers busily sorted glass and plastic recyclables. Over 3 miles of beach was left sparkling.
Kahului Harbor, Maui:
Maui Time Weekly, Community Work Day, and organizer Matt Lane joined forces with STAR 101.9 and the Kokua Hawaii Foundation for the Kahului Beach Cleanup. 100 people attended and fanned out to clean from Kahului Harbor to Waiehu Beach. 2,600 pounds of trash collected, 3 trailer loads of netting and fishing debris, and numerous tires.
For those that missed out on the beach clean-ups and pre-sale, Kokua Festival tickets will be going on-sale this weekend. Kokua Festival tickets are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com, or by phone at 800-745-3000.
Hawaii-Only Sale*: Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 9am Hawaii Time
General Sale: Sunday, February 21, 2020 at 9am Hawaii Time
*Hawai’i Only Ticket Sale:
- All Hawai’i zip codes are valid—-including neighbor islands.
- To buy on-line/by phone, you must have a credit card with a Hawai’i zip code as the address to pay for the tickets.
- If you do not have a credit card with a Hawai’i mailing address——tickets can be purchased in person from any of the outlets on O’ahu—-Blaisdell Box Office, Macy’s Ala Moana, Macy’s Pearl Ridge or Sports Gear at Windward Mall.
