 Welcome to Think Tech on OC16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and to Hawaii. I'm Raya Salter. And I'm Nicole Horie. In our show this week, we'll cover a walk on the wild side, a street scene organized by the Kidney Foundation in Honolulu's Chinatown. The event included stands, booths, exhibits and food, all the way down Powahi Street and up the other side on Hotel Street. The National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii is the state's leading health agency dedicated to the detection, prevention and treatment of kidney and urinary tract diseases. If you didn't know, March is National Kidney Month. In celebration, the Kidney Foundation of Hawaii wanted to throw a party. The walk on the wild side was that party, a fundraising event benefiting the Kidney Foundation and an invitation to enjoy the best of Chinatown. That included a historic walk, a scavenger hunt, local food and entertainment, free health care screenings, and a craft fair with lots of Hawaii's most creative artists. The mission of the Kidney Foundation of Hawaii is to prevent kidney and urinary tract disease, improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by this disease, and increase the availability of transplant organs in Hawaii. In Hawaii, there are more than a thousand volunteers. They bring health and hope to the more than 2,000 Hawaii residents who suffer from kidney failure or who have kidney or urological diseases. First, we walked Malca on the Fort Street Mall to see what was going on, and we found among other things a large booth and exhibit presented by the Kidney Foundation of Hawaii. Everybody's concerned about health care. Nobody knows what happened before and nobody knows what's going to happen with Mr. Trump. So, how can you help? Well, basically we can help apply them for MedQuest. If they're ineligible for MedQuest and they're lawfully present here, we can also direct them to be enrolling on healthcare.gov. However, it is a closed enrollment period now on healthcare.gov, so they'll have to wait till November 1st if they do not qualify for MedQuest or they don't already have employer sponsored health coverage or Medicare. What is MedQuest? MedQuest is Medicaid. I'm an acupuncturist, and I'm sharing with people the power of acupuncture to treat kidney and nephrology disorders. What are you doing here? Spreading awareness for the Shogrens and Lupus Foundation of Hawaii. I have Shogrens syndrome, and they have Shogrens syndrome and Lupus, and we're sharing information on how to get educated and get healthy, living with both autoimmune diseases. First, I want to give a big mahalo to our platinum sponsors like Kaiser Permanente, Hawaii, the city and county of Honolulu, U.S. renal care, and our friends at HMSA. How about giving them all a round of applause? What's the wall of love? We're just putting notes and special words onto this poster, and then you can go and hang it over there on the wall of love. I'm looking for love. More specifically, we're looking for the wall of love. The wall of love is just further up the street here. Are you giving away food? We are not. This is for the visitors, for the kidney foundation. This is actually for the volunteers right now, and so if we can get JJ, oh, there goes JJ right there. JJ, there's a rumor that you're responsible for all this food. You know, for all the volunteers for the kidney foundation, of course I am. Well, we're helping the kidney foundation of Hawaii, and we're trying to create awareness, and I'm with Walk with the Doc. Ah, okay. So, we're trying to get those folks who know they need to walk out walking every Saturday morning, 8 a.m. at Central Oahu Regional Park. It's free. It's fun. It's a great event. Dr. Weed does a 5-minute health tip, talks about whatever is on our heart and our mind for that week, and hopefully can join us. You wouldn't happen to know where the wall of love is, would you? Gosh, I wonder where the wall of love is. Gee, could it be close by? I heard it was very nearby. If you haven't visited it, let me know. I heard it was a spectacular place. Will you take us there? Come on over. I'll show you. This is the wall of love. We've been looking for it all morning. The wall of love. Oh, look. Oh, the wall of love. There it is. I wonder what it says. Let's take a closer look. This is the wall of love. This is by Hospice of Hawaii, and it's about it honors those that have donated their organs to help others. As you know, there's a long waiting list for organs. So this is the wall. The families of the donors can put together a piece of a quilt and they put it together now because you have this whole fabric coming together, and this is what makes Hawaii special because we're all kind of tied. Everybody knows each other. I'm your auntie, you know, so you have to really behave. And this kind of honors, especially those families and those people who have given their organs. So someone else gets a chance. And the reason I'm here is my wife was a recipient and it gave us hope and another just a chance to enjoy each other for a short while more as it turns out, but it was that hope that we received and that's why we appreciate it. We're all here because we get touched. Everybody has a story. I'm part of this group. This is the hospice group if you've ever lost anybody. I want to talk to them. It's grief. Yeah. So they do a great job and I visit them once a month and I, you know, I can cry. Sure. You're wearing a national kidney foundation, but you're actually with hospice. That's right. I've got this on for the walk today and I've got my St. Francis shirt on underneath. Okay. Talks about hospice. Okay. Well in hospice care, we offer support for people who have a terminal diagnosis with a life expectancy of six months or less. And we take very, very good care of them. Most of them are in their homes and we go to visit them there, but we also have an inpatient facility where respite care is available. Talk to me with the non-profit. This is my non-profit, Walk with a Jock O'ahu. Okay. Talk to me. So this is a, we meet every Saturday at 8 a.m. and this is to just get the community healthy. I start with a health tip and then we also do a warm-up. We walk for 50 minutes at your own pace, cool down and we always have fruit refreshments. But I've been doing this for one year now at Central O'ahu Regional Park. We have 350 people who have signed up. We get about 30 people every week. And I would love to advertise and have people from all over join me. I've had wonderful results, testimonials, people, it has changed their lives. This is just something to give people a little nudge. How can they find you? You have a website? We have a website, Walk with a Jock O'ahu so you can contact us there. Otherwise, just show up at Central O'ahu Regional Park. Every Saturday, rain or shine and it starts at 8 a.m. promptly. And you're the doc? I'm the doc. You know, there's a lot of people around, you know, supporting you with you here today on Saturday. And I bet none of them has told you that you have a spider on your face. It's a butterfly. Oh, I see. It's supposed to be a butterfly. So this is how we get to transform lives. You come from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Come out and join us. Walk with a doc O'ahu. Then we proceeded ever into Chinatown on Pauahi Street to see what was going on. We are hosting a make and take for the community so that people who are participating in the Walk on the Wild side and visiting various booths and hopefully participating in the scavenger hunt can stop by and as they leisurely hunt for their clues can come and do a free make and take. And today they are doing a magnet, a refrigerator magnet. Chinatown is a great place to walk around and see all the hidden gems. Well, Haku Rocks. And what we're doing over here is we're doing a little experiment. Well, actually it's a fun exercise. And what we're doing is we have these Hawaiian values. For example, Kuliana, Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha, Ho-Oh-Hano, and they have the English explanations of these values from the Hawaiian culture. These values are very interesting because what is the things that you value? What are the things you value? Outdoors. Outdoors. Green grass. Clear sky. Clear sky. Nature. What we're going to do now is we're going to have you pick. The value picks you. So you're going to pick from here, obviously you're going to do it upside down. Pick one. I'm picking one. Can I tell you what it is? Yeah. It is Ho-Oh-Kaw-Like. Say that. very nice that means to bring everything into balance what you're going to do is you're going to use this yeah and you're going to write ho-o kaulike on the rock on the rock very nice you did it very well you even put in the okina very good of course okay so now put this someplace where you always see it and remember that you always want to bring things into balance and that is your value this is Marcia Joyner she's going to take us for a tour so these are all antiques and Roy has been in Chinatown for 25 years 27 years I'm a veteran Chinatown many many different many years yes and Roy just has the most interesting things that you will ever find in in Chinatown but especially the Donald Trump toilet paper my name is Peter Murray how you doing Peter and tell us about all these beautiful things you have here well I pretty much just make animals and pottery for fun and also for sale yeah this is my last my lit one of my latest creations Peter pods 808 oh I'm in Michael and Nicole Halle and put sort of and yeah no basically most of my stuff has to do with the inner tour miles or the inner motions of moving between now and tomorrow and where we stand as to who you are in this space yeah so most of these things are basically based on that you know it's kind all of these commlerations of where people are from and where they came from and what they're doing all meet here and these are some of my okay I'm looking for the spirits of the old I am looking for solutions not I looking for solutions that's not for tomorrow because I don't think the tomorrow solutions work I'm looking for the solutions of yesterday my name is Ron Tosh president of Honolulu woodturners it's a group of guys that turn wood Honolulu is probably 110 members so I made the ball at first this is out of mango and the ball comes apart and inside is just a lattice turning so there's all just one piece of wood I turned out of a blank my daughter who's getting married next week about three weeks ago called me and said can you make two goblets for me which I make things out of wood not typically for using for drink so this is she said make it with a dragging claw and so this is what I came up with that is except for the glass that's all wood and then for her husband on the toast she wanted something with the moon and then she also specified you had to be able to see all the way through it so that was the criteria when I tell her hey I'm almost done with them she says by the way can you make a ring box for me which being a guy I don't even know what a ring box is but I assume it holds rings so I made this here this is a well for displaying the ring can I hold it up there for you so you put the two rings in there now I'm hoping that the ring bearer boys not too scared of dragons no young person it's scared of dragons no anyway so that's it so I'm all done next week I'll be at the wedding hopefully this all works for them Dave from Minekind Hawaii these are photos that our photographers take their natural landscapes waves turtles this is a metal print and it's actually one photo with our effects imposed on it I'm one of the stampers for one of the clues station number six to be exact my name is Stanford you and I've been a longtime resident of Chinatown and I grew up here Chinatown has turned the corner and this through the efforts of many many organizations the city organization like what you belong to the arts and culture district and we have many other Chinese community organization that promotes Chinatown also Stuart Feinberg and tell us why you're down here in Chinatown with us today to help make death with dignity a law that passes we're signing up people to help us move the death with dignity bill along hopefully next week in the house and we're going to need everybody on board for this one it's going to be a heavy lift to get it through the house call right your house representative and if they're on the health committee call them this is Sarah from HPR Sarah say hi hi so why are you out here today we're out here to get the word across about listening to Hawaii public radio and to talk to people about our realignment that we just did mid-February kind of response you're getting mixed responses some people are really excited about it and then some people have lots of feedback about the changes tell us about HPR what is it I mean why why should Hawaii listen why should Hawaii support HPR well it's the one station where you can get a really good local cultural programming in terms of radio stations right you have a variety you get you have a choice of classical you have a choice of jazz you have a choice of world music and then there's the news and talk it's national it's international it's local it's objective and it's telling you personal stories and giving you a chance to really think about things I'm here to be supportive of the radio station and it's actually it's a great opportunity to come out to the community and meet and greet a lot of the people that are here I'm actually on the side picking out a show you know because she's kind of like chatting it up but really it's you know to be supportive and you know there's nothing better than actually physically pounding the pavement and getting outside of our little station box and meeting the people that actually listen to the station we were shy child I was actually a little bit I actually was in it and it that's why radio became one of the like the perfect medium because you can just talk talk talk and not really see who you're actually talking to thank you Nick and let me say I let me close by asking you how much of what he said do you agree with I think I agree with a hundred percent of it but I didn't know that you're shy as a child I do find that a little surprising my name is Phong Tran first generation come from Vietnam I stay in Hawaii's already 36 year and this is the gallery 29 year this is all my painting I paint this is in Hawaii the waterfall is just Simity that's Halamao Mao and this is Kalapana yeah sandy pole yeah famous pole gallery oh thank you so much it's you know it's a part of Hawaii culture Hawaii art for sure yeah this was tell us about running the pole gallery well it's just a very fun thing I get to represent Hawaii's best artist so I'm happy it's all good yeah he died in 1999 and I could have just sat on the artwork that he left me but so I opened up an art gallery just keep me busy but most of all because it's so fun I get to meet so many new people I get to talk to you that's true what a treat and I get to talk to you yeah it is a treat so that that's oh sorry I take this okay so I'll be talk to him I have one question for you is it hot it is hot all right let's see nobody's gonna argue with that we headed back on Hotel Street to return to our studio on the Fort Street Mall but not without a little lunch first at one of the great food trucks there I'm an artist and I like to have fun with people I did fencing in in college you know yeah yeah yeah yeah it's more like this tag so we're here to talk about a project in the downtown Chinatown area we have a repaving coming up part of the repaving effort that the mayor has been doing over the past four years the opportunity came up that the downtown Chinatown roads needed some fixing with that we looked at that and tried to leverage it by not just putting back what exists but looking to make some pedestrian and bicycle improvement we are trying to hear from the public those that live work and play in these areas what do they see an experience it's been great feedback and we're going to take all of that back and weigh that against some of the pros and cons that we've seen and some of the additional input that was seen and taken through the traffic analysis we are with the fantastic justine is spirit to think tech Hawaii star today I'm here in the capacity of bike share Hawaii as you know recently announced we will be launching this summer downtown Chinatown is gonna be an area that we're gonna have plenty of bike share stations we're gonna be launching with a hundred stations and a thousand bikes which is really exciting most cities launch with about half that 50 stations 500 bikes but it's really important to have a really dense network for the Hawaii bicycling leg so we're a nonprofit organization that's dedicated to getting more people cycling making it safer to cycle so we do that through education we do that through advocacy for more bike lanes and we do it through events designed to get people out riding having fun with each other we have this thing we're pushing called minimum grid it's the idea that we need a minimum network of bike lanes they're gonna allow people to get from point A to point B this is the planer painters of Oahu Mark Brown is our teacher and so we tend to paint every Saturday once a week and a lot of these are the artists that paint with us every week I can't help but see that you guys are taking advantage of this chess game here yeah it's pretty fun are you guys playing for money oh no I am the leader of fighting against the Hawaii home go on Filipino tell her this is her with the Honolulu authority for rapid transportation the three or four most asked questions are when's it gonna run how much is it gonna cost me to ride and is it safe we're looking to open the first 10 miles by the end of 2020 the full system 20 miles end to end by the end of 2025 we're still trying to figure out how much the fairs will be it's a very creative menu that you did you figure this out but it's someone else oh it's a work in progress excellent how long you've been in business about seven years when you get home at night after a long day's work do you have the same food that's on the truck oh no you want to buy to this all in all it was a lovely sojourn through a delightful event in which we enjoyed so many interesting booths and exhibits and saw so many friendly people we hope we'll see lots more Chinatown events like this one open-air public events like this improve the quality of life in our community we like to think that this is an expression of the positive transformation we hope to see in the public spaces of our city have you noticed the changes in Chinatown there's first Friday of course on the first Friday evening of every month and so many new restaurants shops art galleries and now walk on the wild side after all these years it's finally emerging as a place we want to visit a place of innovation of entrepreneurship want to know more about the kidney foundation of Hawaii check it out at kidney hi dot org want to know more about what's going on in Chinatown these days check it out at Chinatown now calm and now let's take a look at our think tech calendar of events going forward there's so much happening in Hawaii sometimes things happen under the radar and we don't hear much about them but think tech will take you there remember you can watch think tech 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