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A group of children and adults are gathered around a large outdoor chessboard with oversized black and white chess pieces. Some children are actively engaged in moving the pieces, while others observe. The setting is a grassy area near a sidewalk with a mural-painted building in the background. A green plastic chair is placed nearby. The atmosphere appears casual and social, with people enjoying a game of chess in an outdoor community space.

Waimea Chess Club

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The Waimea Chess Club is a project of WPA. For several years the Club has met at WPA on Monday afternoons to learn and enjoy the centuries-old game. Occasionally and…
Friends of Waimea CERT Community Emergency Response. Waime, HI

Friends of Waimea CERT

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The mission of Friends of Waimea CERT is to “do the greatest good for the greatest number of people” when a disaster strikes our communities. The Friends of Waimea CERT Program,…
Friendly Fridge in Waimea. Shows the fridge outside the WPA Building

Friendly Fridge Waimea

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Friendly Fridge Waimea…This is who we are as a community.The FF morphed from the Grab ‘n Go food program which ran during COVID-19 to provide food to those in need…
Historic Spencer House from the front.

Historic Spencer House

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“One of Waimea’s oldest buildings, the Spencer House, survives to this day at the Waimea Center entrance close to McDonald’s. Built mid-nineteenth century by William French, an early local businessman…
Minuke'ole Park

Helping to Care for Minuke’ole Park

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“Waimea Preservation Association (WPA) has been helping care for Minuke’ole Park behind Parker Ranch Shopping Center for a number of years. One restoration event was a Hawaiian dry-stone setting workshop…
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