Board of Directors
Antya Miller, President
Evelyn Kaneshige, Recording Secretary
Boyd Ready, Treasurer & Local Historian
Julie Patacchia, Director & Heritage Exhibit Chair
David Robichaux, Director & Land Use Consultant
Margaret Sagaysay, Director & Programs Chair
George Tanabe, PhD, Director & Japanese Culture Historian
Cy Yamanoha, Director & Marketing/Communications Chair
Kumu Keith Awai, Director Emeritus
Staff: Karen Benally, PhD
Front Row L-R: Julie Patacchia, Evelyn Kaneshige, Antya Miller, Margaret Sagaysay
Back Row: Boyd Ready, Cy Yamanoha, George Tanabe, Jr.
Not Shown: David Robichaux
Our Mission
" To preserve and promote the history of Hale'iwa and the Waialua Moku." This includes collecting, researching, preserving and promoting information or items of historical interest for a future local history museum.
The Society is a 501 c 3 nonprofit incorporated in the state of Hawaii.
Programs
Program Activities:
I. Continue historical research and archiving of documents and artifacts acquired.
II. Continue to provide historical tours in Hale‘iwa and Waialua Towns and later agriculture tours.
III. Continue writing monthly North Shore News history articles. (Sign up for free color copies at NSNHaleiwa@gmail.com)
IV. Installed two history signs of Waialua in the Waialua Bandstand Park funded by the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority.
V. Continue restoration of the Waialua Sugar Company’s Office Building, where our office is now located. The goal is to renovate the building for use into the future.
VI. Research placing the Halstead Sugar Mill Stack on the State Register of Historic Places.
*We completed an Historic Structure Report done by an historic preservation architectural firm, Fung Associates.
*Also completed was a Community Engagement process of three community workshops to solicit ideas for Adaptive Reuse or how to use the building into the future for the community. * * * Above were funded through grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Atherton Family Foundation.
*The attendees voted to have a community and heritage center.
Haleiwa Waialua Historical Society
2024 990-EZ federal tax filing (open to public inspection)