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Writer's pictureBetty Plevney

Blessing the Kula Community Center

On Monday morning, the County of Maui conducted a blessing of the (Kula) Von Tempsky Community Center Complex on the land newly acquired from the Von Tempsky family. Members of the family, the County administration, the Board of the Kula Community Association, and Kula residents listened to a moving story of the history of the land told be Kim Von Tempsky and enjoyed speeches by Mayor Bissen and Council Member Yuki Lei Sugimura.


People wearing leis and gathered in from of a community center building
Kula Community Association Board Members join the Von Tempskys, Mayor Bissen and Kumu.

People wearing lei and gathered in from of a community center
County Administration and the Von Tempsky familiy

Man in an aloha shirt and wearing lei speaking into a microphone
Kim Von Tempsky sharing the history of the land on which the Kula Community Center is located

Man wearing Hawaiian kihei and performing a blessing
Kumu blessing the Community Center

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