Shootz! From Keiki To Kupuna, A Week When Autumn Took Hold

A pumpkin festival, North Shore surf, celebration of storytellers, a restaurant worker mourned and railroad repairs.

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A pumpkin festival, North Shore surf, celebration of storytellers, a restaurant worker mourned and railroad repairs.

Keiki enjoy a carnival ride at the Aloun Farms 22nd Annual Pumpkin Festival Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Kapolei. The festival is open during the remaining weekends of October. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Keiki enjoy a carnival ride at the Aloun Farms 22nd annual Pumpkin Festival on Sunday in Kapolei. The festival continues on weekends through October. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Ronnie Soto of Waianae photographs keiki in the Aloun Farms 22nd Annual Pumpkin Festival sunflower field Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Kapolei. The festival is open during the remaining weekends of October. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Ronnie Soto of Waianae snaps a shot in a sunflower field at the festival. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
University of Hawaii water polo athletes Jordan Wedderburn, left, and Stevilyn Griffin, both seniors, try to hold back their laughter as they compete in the Aloun Farms 22nd Annual Pumpkin Festival pie-eating contest Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Kapolei. The winner who ate the quarter of a pie the fastest without using her hands, Johnneen Kapua of Pearl City, not pictured, took home a Southwest Airlines gift certificate. The festival is open during the remaining weekends of October. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
University of Hawaii water polo athletes Jordan Wedderburn, left, and Stevilyn Griffin, both seniors, try to hold back their laughter as they compete in the festival’s pie-eating contest. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Aloun Farms 22nd Annual Pumpkin Festival takes place Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Kapolei. People could pick pumpkins, string beans and corn for an added expense. The festival is open during the remaining weekends of October. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Festival-goers could pick pumpkins, string beans and corn at the event. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
One of the premier North Shore Surfing locations shares the role of being one of Oahu's best beaches to watch a sunset. Tourists and locals alike gather October 15th to watch the Sun drift below the horizon. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024
Daylight’s end is enjoyed Tuesday at the aptly named Sunset Beach on Oahu’s North Shore. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
One of the first North Shore swells of the season came ashore at Sunset Beach. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Even the smallest of waves attracted surfers eager to practice their sport. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The new Amazon warehouse in Honolulu is fully functional as trucks enter the facility after a day of deliveries Wednesday. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The University of Hawaii Board of Regents held a press conference in Bachman Hall at the University of Hawaii, October 17th, 2024 to present Wendy Hensel as their choice to replace the retiring President Dr. David Lassner.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Wendy Hensel  speaks at a press conference in Bachman Hall on Thursday after being named the new president of the University of Hawaii. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Hunter's Super Moon was visible from Makapuu on Thursday evening. (Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2024)
October’s full moon, the Hunter’s moon, seen from Makapuu on Thursday. (Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2024)
An invasive Giant African Snail crawls on a stem of a kalo plant Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Waimanalo. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
An invasive Giant African Snail crawls on the stem of a kalo plant Wednesday in Waimanalo. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
A pig wakes up from its waterbed nap at Mokulua Farms Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Waimanalo. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
A pig wakes up from its waterbed nap at Mokulua Farms on Wednesday in Waimanalo. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Civil Beat Hawaii StoryTellers event at Dillingham Hall on the Punahou school Campus, half October 17th, 2024 (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Brandy Lee entertains the audience during a Civil Beat Hawaii Storytellers event honoring kupuna at Punahou school Thursday. She was the iconic showgirl and show producer of The Glade nightclub that reopened in 1963 in Honolulu’s Chinatown after a five-year ban on drag shows in Hawaii. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Storytellers gather on stage for a photo concluding a Civil Beat hosted event.
The storytellers at evening’s end. From left, Cynthia Thielen, Amy Agbayani, Neal Milner, Brandy Lee, Charles Naumu and Kimo Alama Keaulana. (Kawika Lopez/Civil Beat/2024)
Storytellers gather on stage as the audience applauds the featured Kupuna
The storytellers’ view as the audience applauds at the end of the kupuna-focused event. (Kawika Lopez/Civil Beat/2024)
Hawaiian Railway Society Engine 302 transported crew members and material to repair a section of their tracks at Kahe Point Beach Park Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Kapolei. Engine 302 is a narrow-gauge locomotive and formerly a diesel-engine workhorse for the Navy. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Hawaiian Railway Society Engine 302 transports crew members and material to repair a section of track at Kahe Point Beach Park on Friday in Kapolei. Engine 302 is a narrow-gauge locomotive and formerly a diesel-engine workhorse for the Navy. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Hawaiian Railway Society crew members repair a section of their tracks at Kahe Point Beach Park Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Kapolei. They transported themselves aboard their diesel-engine locomotive while a flatbed car carried materials needed which included railroad ties, spikes and rails. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Hawaiian Railway Society crew members do the repair work. They transported themselves aboard their locomotive while a flatbed car carried railroad ties, spikes, rails and tools. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Hawaiian Railway Society crew members repair a section of their tracks at Kahe Point Beach Park Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, in Kapolei. They transported themselves aboard a diesel-engine locomotive and materials on a flatbed car. Vandals damaged this section of their tracks which is approximately the half-way point of their educational tours where a narrator talks story about the history of the train (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Vandals damaged this section of the tracks at about the halfway point of route of the society’s educational tours, during which a narrator talks story about the history of the train and area. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Rep. Darius Kila pauses at a memorial for Kashka Otto Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, at the Nanakuli Wendy’s in Waianae. The fast-food restaurant re-opens today after Otto, 22, was killed on Sunday, Oct. 6, during an altercation with a patron who allegedly stabbed the Wendy’s employee with a knife and injured another. Cotti Foods, owners of this franchise, is donating all proceeds to Otto’s family from today’s sales. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Rep. Darius Kila pauses at a memorial for Kashka Otto on Friday at the Nanakuli Wendy’s in Waianae. The restaurant reopened Friday after Otto, 22, was killed Oct. 6. Reynaldo Cheney, 60, has been charged with murder and attempted murder for the stabbing death of Otto and the injury of another Wendy’s employee. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Messages near the memorial for Kashka Otto is photographed Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, at the Nanakuli Wendy’s in Waianae. The fast-food restaurant re-opens today after Otto, 22, was killed on Sunday, Oct. 6, during an altercation with a patron who allegedly stabbed the Wendy’s employee with a knife and injured another. Cotti Foods, owners of this franchise, is donating all proceeds to Otto’s family from today’s sales. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Messages at the memorial for Kashka Otto.The owners of this Wendy’s franchise, Cotti Foods, donated all proceeds from Friday’s sales to the Otto family. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)

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