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Maui Attractions Newsletter
January 2008
Don't forget to check out Debra's
Current Maui MLS real estate property listings!
Happy New Year!!!
Here are some great ideas for fun ways to kick off the new year at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center:
January 4th: Cyndi Lauper! (Go with 'girls who want to have fun'!)
January 10th: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (I haven't seen them since college! I bet they are still great!)
January 11th: Warren Miller's latest extreme ski/snowboarding movie (it is such a fun annual event on Maui!)
January 12th: Jake Shimabukuro the Ukulele Virtuoso (this should be another extraordinary concert!)
January 21st & 22nd : Shanghai Circus (another popular annual event on Maui)
And here is another idea………buy a new home on Maui! We have a GREAT new listing, a home on the Pukalani Golf Course, in perfect condition, for only $699,000! Scroll down to check it out along with some of our other fabulous listings.
And please remember, if you or anyone you know is looking to buy or sell real estate - or have questions regarding real estate - please feel free to contact me. My e-mail address is: deb@HomeOnMaui.com, my direct local number is 283-0049; and my toll free direct number is (888) 212-4626. I look forward to hearing from you!
Take care.
Aloha,
deb
Featured Maui Real Estate Property Listings
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Pukalani– Upcountry Real Estate
2886 Ualani Place - click here for more info
Immculately maintained 3-bedroom, 2-bath, single-level home on the 9th fairway of the Pukalani Country Club.
$699,000
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Pukalani– Upcountry Real Estate
124 Ala’apapa Place – click here for more info
Custom 4-bedroom, 3-bath home, detached cottage and 5-car garage! Hardwood floors, central AC, central vacuum, granite counter tops, travertine bathrooms and dramatic views. www.HomeOnMaui.com/Kulamalu
$1,095,000
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Haiku– Upcountry Real Estate
1390 Kokomo Road – click here for more info
Maliko House – a romantic and unique property with complete privacy, mature tropical landscaping, a 2,000 sf workshop/studio and much more on 1.9-acres.
$2,350,000
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Sunnyside – Upcountry Real Estate
1900 Baldwin Avenue – click here for more info
You will feel like you stepped back in time when you enter this property! The 1930’s era house, cottage and studio are on over an acre of land that over looks miles of sugar cane fields to north and south shore ocean views.
$2,250,000
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Olinda – Upcountry Real Estate
25 Lumahai Place – click here for more info
This beautiful 4-bedroom, 3-bath home and detached 1-bedroom, 1-bath cottage are on 2.88 acres with great north shore views and tons of privacy!
$1,550,000
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Kahului – Central Maui Real Estate
13 Ho’owehi Place – click here for more information
Like-new 3-bedroom, 3-bath home in a great new neighborhood!
$609,000
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Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
0 Kula Highway – click here for more information
7.9-acres with coast to coast views! New gated large lot subdivision with only 5 lots. Spectacular!
$1,300,000 |
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Haiku – North Shore Real Estate
241 Waiama Way – click here for more information
Haiku Hill at its best! 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath, 4,500 square foot
home. Amazing attention to detail. Sweeping ocean views.
$2,850,000 - SOLD
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Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
65 Maud’s Place – click here for more information
This is a beautiful 5-bedroom home with a wonderful floor plan! Located in the Keokea area on a 2-acre view lot – this is one of the nicest homes on the market in Kula.
$1,595,000 - SOLD |
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Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
2936 Lower Kula Road – click here for more info
This 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath home in lower Kula has a detached cottage and sits on a level, half-acre lot. GREAT views!
$890,000 - SOLD |
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Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
295 Pulehu Road
Architecturally-designed home in desirable Lower Kula, surrounded by
multi-million dollar homes on 2- to 20-acre parcels.
$2,995,000 - SOLD
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Haiku – North Shore Real Estate
2080 Lilikoi Rd.
This C.W. Dickey-designed home and detached art studio was built in 1930 for Ethel and Harry Baldwin and moved to its present site in 1997. A “must see” if you are looking for views and privacy!
$1,225,000 - SOLD
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Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate
670 Hoene St., Maui Uplands
Beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with ocean views and detached 1 bedroom, 1 bath cottage on a half-acre.
$985,000 - SOLD |
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Olinda – Upcountry Real Estate
2188 Pi’iholo Road
Great cottage on a .5-acre in Olinda! Check it out!
$598,000 - SOLD
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Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
28 Ka Drive
Located in one of my favorite neighborhoods, Kula Kai, this single-level home sits on a private 14,255 sq. ft. lot with ocean view.
$698,000 - SOLD |
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Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate
111 Keleawe Street
This 4-bedroom, 2-bath home has a flexible floor plan, a detached 2-bedroom
cottage and a large workshop/storage building. It's a great value at
$779,000 - SOLD
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Kahului - Central Maui Real Estate
Kahului Ikena #40-221
1 bedroom, 1 bath condo with NEW: carpet, tile, paint, faucets, blinds refrigerator and closet built-ins!
Convenient location.
$239,000 - SOLD |
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Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate
50 Ahuwale Place
3 bedroom, 2 bath home plus detached studio/workshop with bathroom on 2 level, useable acres only 15 minutes to town.
$885,000 - SOLD |
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Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate
320 Hololani Street
Impeccably maintained, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on the 11th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course.
$819,000 - SOLD
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Haiku - North Shore Real Estate
373 Ulumalu Road
Tucked back from the road among beautiful big trees is this 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home with 3 large bonus rooms.
$750,000 - SOLD |
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Makawao – Upcountry Real Estate
1000 Ukiu Rd.
Classic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath ‘plantation’ home in perfect condition on a 10,000+ sq. ft. lot. Large kitchen and bedrooms; private backyard.
Perfectly priced at $550,000 - SOLD
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Kula - Upcountry Real Estate
11 Welina Place
This is a beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 4,364 square foot home on 2 acres in Kula 200. It is all on one level with the exception of the 816 square foot master bedroom suite which has a bi-coastal view. Fabulous!
$1,685,000 - SOLD |
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Kula - Upcountry Real Estate
297 Kulamanu Circle
This like-new home has great curb appeal. Very nice landscaping and sideyard. Private and tranquil inside the home. Upper and lower decks overlook ranchland and Maalaea. Beautiful ocean view from living room and master BR. 9' ceilings upstairs. Fireplace (with blower) in living room. Double-pane windows throuighout. Built-in Bose sound system. Stainless steel appliances and Corian countertops. Walk-in closet in master BR. Whirlpool tub in master BA. Big family room with half-BA (and closet )downstairs. Easy to show.
$860,000 - SOLD |
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Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate
157 Pi'imauna Street
Kua'Aina Ridge: This gorgeous 3-bedroom, 2-bath home has amazing attention to detail (crown molding, plantation shuttered windows, bead-board wainscoting, etc.), a gourmet kitchen, perfect landscaping and nice north shore ocean views.
$760,000 - SOLD |
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Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
1576 Lower Kimo Drive
Immaculate 4-bedroom, 3-bath (OR: 3-bedroom, 2-bath with attached 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana). Newly painted inside and out, brand new flooring and new appliances. Nothing left to do but move in and enjoy the great south shore ocean view and the fabulous Kula climate!
$715,000 - SOLD
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Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate
256 Hololani St.
Beautiful 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana on the 12th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course.
$929,000 - SOLD
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Kihei - South Maui Real Estate
Menehune Shores #416
Oh what a view! Walk in the front door and all you see are islands and ocean! This 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 4th floor, ‘front & center’ unit was completely renovated in 2001 – new EVERYTHING!
$650,000 - SOLD
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Haiku - Upcountry Real Estate
2080 Lilikoi Road
This is the classic C.W. Dickey-designed home on 2-acres with an amazing view!
$1,550,000 - SOLD |
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Kula – Upcountry Real Estate
28 Mano Drive, Kula Kai
Nice, big, comfortable 4-bedroom, 3-bath home in Kula Kai with a very flexible floor plan. This would be a great house for a large or extended family as the downstairs offers independence from the rest of the house.
$825,000 - SOLD
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Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate
350 Lokelani house
A cute 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 2-car garage and panoramic north to south shore views!
$700,000 - SOLD
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Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate
This is the classic “old plantation house” that everyone wants! Complete with glass door knobs, French doors, a big porch and an old “wash house” out back! Located across from pineapple fields this is a great buy at
$495,000 - SOLD
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Events
Natural History
Croton
(Codiaeum variegatum)
 The croton is a common tropical hedge plant and ornamental shrub in Hawaii. It was much-beloved by the people living in the plantation camps. Hedges lined the perimeters of house-lots and the bushes found a place in plantings next to the houses as well. It made great dry district roadside plantings and were often cut low, rather than as privacy screens.
The wild, green-leaved form is native from Fiji, westward to Australia. The bright-colored foliage of cultivated forms is very conspicuous and the plants are often massed in clumps. The bushes are large but rarely reach a height of 15 feet.
 There are more than 200 varieties of croton that vary widely in leaf form, color and shape. Colors can include reds, oranges, yellows, greens, purples, and even pure white. The popular names for these varieties are often very descriptive: Indian blanket, cup-and-saucer, bottle neck, yellow parasol, Bermuda red, ribbon-leaf, red or yellow duckfoot, gold-dust, green or red corkscrew and curly croton.
The leaves can be plain, spotted or mottled and they come in a variety of forms including oblong, narrow, lobed, twisted or wavy. No matter what colors the mature leaves exhibit, the new growth on most crotons start out green. All croton leaves are thick, smooth and short-stemmed and range from 3 to 10 inches long. The leaves of the narrow crotons are sometimes used in Micronesian-style lei that are plaited like the Hawaiian haku lei. Old-timers say the croton has an unfortunate habit of staining clothes with its milky sap.
A sunny location encourages the best leaf color, it is said, although some varieties, especially the hybrids from Florida, have sensitive foliage and prefer partial shade. The plants need well-drained soil, but they can't be allowed to go without moisture for very long.
Small flowers grow from the axils of the upper leaves in narrow spikes from 6 to 10 inches long and are inconspicuous compared with the showy leaves. The male flowers are white, each with 15 or more stamens.
Croton fruiting capsules are small, globular and three parted.
The roots and leaves were once used for medicine, the leaves of some forms are cooked for greens and the young growth has been used in some countries as water buffalo fodder.
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Arts & Culture
The First Bank Robbery
 On February 3, 1934, a quiet Saturday morning, Maui was the scene of the first bank robbery ever in the Hawaiian Islands. It took place at the Paia branch of the Bank of Hawaii, "a daring, broad daylight holdup." Two bandits, one of them armed with a .25 caliber automatic, took $976.41 from the two tellers who were alone in the bank, and escaped by automobile. Although neither robber was masked, both wore sunglasses and ties and one sported a large mustache he had painted on himself with an eyebrow pencil.
The bandits were captured less than five hours later after a manhunt by Sheriff Clem C. Crowell's men. David Wong, 21, and George Wong, 18 broke down and confessed to the crime. Both young men were from Lahaina and were unrelated.
Within a week they pleaded guilty and were sentenced by Judge Daniel Case to 20 years in prison on Oahu. Of the money they had stolen, $934 was recovered and returned to the bank.
No other bank robberies were reported until 1955, when the American Security Bank on Beretania Street in Honolulu and the Bank of Hawaii's Paia branch (again) were held up.
The Paia bank was organized in 1913 as First National Bank of Paia. The First National was the first bank in Hawaii to be housed in a concrete building on its own land. In 1917, First National merged with banks in Lahaina and Wailuku as Bank of Maui, Ltd. Then, in 1930, Bank of Maui merged with Bank of Hawaii.
The branch relocated to a new building further down Baldwin Avenue. The old building (which is close to the Ikeda building) is now privately owned.
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 Braddah-Nics Lexicon
STANDARD: Do I care that they are making all kinds of trouble? No.
BRADDAH-NICS: What? I kea dem buggahs make all kine any kine? Not even!
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STANDARD: The problem was not that he made a mistake; he compounded it by
refusing to correct it.
BRADDAH-NICS: Ne' min' he make mistake, but he nevah try make 'em pono.
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STANDARD: Russell, I feel you are taking advantage of the situation here.
BRADDAH-NICS: Ho, Russell....jus' make house!
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 Local Grinds
Fizzy Fruity Slush
Ingredients:
- 5 oranges
- 3 lemons
- 5 cups water
- 4 cups sugar
- 3 mashed ripe bananas
- 1 can crushed pineapple
- Other fruits as desired.
- Lemon lime soda or ginger ale.
Procedure:
Juice oranges and lemons in pitcher. In saucepan, combine sugar and water and boil until sugar is dissolved. Let cool.
Combine juice, sugar water, and fruits in pitcher: Freeze.
Toss frozen mixture in glass and add soda. Enjoy!
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