#LeiofRemembrance – ALS Foundation of Hawaii

May 26, 2023: Sign-Waving and “Lei of Remembrance” Memorial Ceremony

May 31, 2023

ALS awareness, Events, May is ALS Awareness Month, News, pALS, People with ALS

The Friday before Memorial Day, I drove to this quaint, orchid shop in Kahaluu, past the elementary school into this unassuming driveway where a small, barn-like shed with galvanized iron sheets for walls, houses a busy work arrangement of tables and chairs topped by all manner of workshop paraphernalia. A tall, lean, elderly lady with an envy-producing, ramrod-straight back, charmingly welcomes me with a smile. She knows what I came for – the 300+ purple dendrobium orchids that I will…

“Lei of Remembrance” Memorial Ceremony, 2020 Edition

May 22, 2020

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23 May, 2020, Kailua, HI. This year, the “Lei of Remembrance ceremony will be presented in video form. Every year for the past six years, the annual celebration – the ultimate culminating annual May event here in Hawaii – has been held in the courtyard of the State Capitol. In support of the State’s plan to stem the pandemic, the ceremony will be streamed for the first time on 29 May, Friday at 5-5:30pm. Streaming site will be announced midweek.…

“Lei of Remembrance” Memorial: A Fitting End to May, 2019 ALS Month-long Celebrations

June 17, 2019

ALS awareness, Events

Honolulu, Hawaii – It is an annual ritual – the fifth, this year – that our ALS community celebrates the Friday before the public’s Memorial Day. We bring out the signs that says, Mahalo, Hawaii!, to set the mood. Our state began celebrating “May as ALS Awareness and Families Appreciation Month,” with the Governor’s Proclamation in the Capitol, in City and County of Honolulu, and in other neighbor islands. We focused our attention into creating the social, educational, and political…