Plans for our hotel property are moving forward as we continue through the various approval steps at the City level, which include an environmental assessment and special management area permit. We have been in discussions with the Marriott hotel group and are pleased that they have expressed firm support for the project. We believe that all pertinent agreements will be completed soon.

As announced previously, the 48-room Lā‘ie Inn will be replaced by a new 220-room hotel for guests visiting the Polynesian Cultural Center, Brigham Young University-Hawai‘i, the Lā‘ie Hawai‘i Temple and other destinations in our area. The low- impact design, combined with Polynesian themes and tropical landscaping, will reflect our unique character and provide a fresh, new option for visitors.

Construction is planned to begin in early 2009 with an expected completion date of early 2010.

HO‘OMUAHO‘OMUAHAWAI’I RESERVES NEWSLETTER, ISSUE VI HOLIDAY 2007

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HRI Acquires New PropertyHawai‘i Reserves Inc.’s recent acquisition of land between Lā‘ie and Mālaekahana brings us one step closer to achieving our goals of creating affordable workforce housing and a beautifully master-planned community. It also provides an opportunity, subject to feasibility, for more open space, parks and a potential secondary road system all within one contiguous area.

HRI purchased the 227-acre parcel from KRC Golf, LLC in October. With it comes greater possibilities for our development plans, and we are currently in the process of reassessing them in light of this new acquisi-tion. HRI intends to incorporate its general land-use master plan into the City’s sustainable communities plan amendment process for this particular area, which is currently undergoing a five-year review. HRI is also exploring the State of Hawai‘i’s affordable housing program, which would allow for an expedited entitlement and permitting process.

Our goal is to make the majority of the homes affordable to households earning 140 percent or less of the area median income, as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and to build a community where area employees can live, work, and play.

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Aerial view of the 227-acre parcel between Lā‘ie and Mālaekehana

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President’s Message

A Mission of Music

HRI Executives Marler and Hoag Live Strong

Looking Back at Lā‘ie’s First School

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The Lā‘ie Mission School was 32 years old when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints turned it over to the Territory of Hawai‘i to be a public school.

When first opened in 1895, the school was located on a prominent hill just southeast of the old Lā‘ie Chapel and was called the Latter-day Saints Private School. Church leaders decided to relocate the school to accommodate the building of the new temple, and its six wooden buildings were moved to Lā‘ie Elementary’s present location.

Aunty Gladys Pualoa-Ahuna, who retired as postmaster in 1997 from the United States Postal Service station in Lā‘ie, attended the school as a child. She can still name teachers who were there when the enrollment hov-ered around 120 during the 1930s. She said she was surprised to learn that there are now six classes of kindergarten at Lā‘ie Elemen-tary. Among the students are some of the 28 grandchildren and 16 great grandchil-dren she counts among her jewels.

“When I was a student, there were five single classroom buildings, a cafeteria and a bathroom. It was quite small,” Pualoa-Ahuna said. “Now it has an enrollment of some 900 or more!”

Looking Back at Lā‘ie’s First SchoolThe original school site was where Elder David O. McKay, then a member of the LDS Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, set Lā‘ie’s educational milestone in place when he visited during a worldwide tour of LDS missions. On February 7, 1921, he observed the mul-tiethnic children in the mission school raising the U.S. flag and was moved enough to write about it in his journal.

Elder McKay shared his feelings with his companions and told them he was impressed that a college should some day be built in Lā‘ie for the benefit of the young people. Remarkably, that flag raising ceremony is reproduced in a spectacular mosaic mural at the very university that President McKay envisioned.

Cy Bridges, a BYUH Fellow and kumu hula at the Polynesian Cultural Center, observed that many children in Lā‘ie today can trace back to the very students at that flag-raising and grew to become their tutus, their great grandpas and great grandmas. It is a memory that illustrates how prophetic dreams come to fruition, and how we should strive for the benefit of future generations.

honoring the past

Aunty Gladys Pualoa-Ahuna

A mosaic mural shows the flag-raising witnessed by Elder McKay

from the president hri pride

Aloha! As you may know, the City & County of Honolulu has held a num-ber of meetings in our com-munities recently to discuss the Ko‘olauloa Sustainable Communities Plan (KSCP). The KSCP, adopted by the City in February 2000, is designed to help guide land

use and zoning in our moku through the 2020 horizon. Recent meetings are part of the city’s five-year review amend-ment process.

Some of the issues discussed include the pressing need for affordable housing, the desire to retain the character of our communities, and agricultural sustainability. Those who have attended the meetings are aware that there are diver-gent views on these and other issues affecting our future. For instance, some have expressed concerns about planned resort and residential development in Ko‘olauloa, while oth-ers have expressed the desire to see moderate growth in our communities to support those who live and work here.

As a public input process, the success of the KSCP amend-ment depends on whether all residents take the time to let their voices be heard. The KSCP is our plan for our home, and residents are encouraged to become informed and par-ticipate in shaping this plan, which will impact the quality of life in this area.

Together with other groups and landowners, HRI is partici-pating in the review process and intends to incorporate its general land-use master plan into the KSCP amendment. With our recent acquisition of land just to the north of Lā‘ie, we’ve decided to revisit and revise the current configu-ration of the Mālaekahana master plan. Having that parcel will give us a little more flexibility with the layout and will hopefully help with the affordability equation. If you have any input on our project or about land use in general, please feel free to come in and share your mana‘o.

Kind Regards,

R. Eric Beaver President & CEO

with the planners, architects and engineers, discussing infrastructure, drainage systems, the power grid, and gridlock. At the end of the day, the road calls.

“One reason I love bicycling is that I can see a lot more of the island,” Marler said. Indeed, occa-sionally he’ll go out on a “century ride”—a 100 mile bike ride—to see more and test his endur-ance. “I cover more geography on my bicycle, and it’s not as hard on my joints as running. Within an hour and a half I can see 25 miles of coastline, and at the same time get rejuvenated.”

Mountain Thrills & Trials SkillsAs Marler rides makai, his colleague, Steve Hoag, heads mauka on a mountain bike. The 900-foot climb to Lā‘ie’s pine forest is a challenging workout, and Hoag says that’s part of the fun.

“After about 20 minutes the endorphins kick in on the way up, and the ride down the mountain is an adrenaline rush,” Hoag said.

Hoag also gets pumped in the urban environment with “trials” biking; a style that takes its name from the challenge of balancing, riding and

You may not recognize them riding through the community or in the hills of Lā‘ie, but at the end of the workday Eric Marler and Steve Hoag stay fit by trading their business attire for biking gear.

Road TherapyMarler, HRI’s executive vice- president and CFO, shifts mental gears by swapping out his aloha shirt for a singlet. A new accounting system kicks in on his road bike: debits and credits are exchanged for heart rate and watts as Marler sets off up the coast from Lā‘ie to Shark’s Cove or as far as Dole Plantation.

“Riding helps to cleanse the day’s activities from my mind and helps me

to regain my focus. For me, it’s spiritually and physically refreshing,” Marler said.

At HRI, Marler maintains the organization’s financial activities and oversees development projects for the company. This keeps Marler shoulder-to-shoulder with his colleagues for its public relations and business-to-business discussions. It also keeps him on the ground

HRI Executives Marler and Hoag Live Strong

Eric Marler prefers the open road

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jumping the bike in ways that defy gravity and convention. While trials is a technical fusion of athleticism and acrobatics, Hoag rides for simple reasons.

“It’s a great workout—and a lot of fun learning to relax and do things that initially seem pretty impossible,” he said.

An attorney by profession, Hoag is HRI’s director of human resources & government relations and assistant to the president, and oversees human resources, government rela-tions, public relations, safety, security and customer service.

Mused Hoag, “I usually get a quizzical look when I explain to people all the things that I do at our little com-pany, but I enjoy the variety.”

Biking helps Hoag maintain balance. When asked if he thinks about work when mountain biking, he replies, “Usually not. Al-most like surfing, I just enjoy the flow riding down the mountain, and being completely alone with nature and God.”

Steve Hoag launches off a table top

Following 25 years as the conductor of the 360-voice Mormon Tab-ernacle Choir, Jerold Ottley is in his third year as an interim faculty member at Brigham Young University Hawai‘i, where he and his wife JoAnn, also on faculty, assure their students hit all the right notes.

Since they first joined the faculty at BYUH more than two years ago, the pair has taught music courses based on their years of experience and extraordinary talent. Brother Ottley serves as professor of music and leads the University Chorale, the non-auditioned chorus. He also teaches conducting, and serves on the faculty advisory council. Sister Ottley, who sang with the Tabernacle Choir and for 24 years was also its vocal coach, is a noted soprano soloist, private teacher and reper-toire coach. She teaches pedagogy, which instructs singers to teach and also teaches diction in French, Italian, German and English, as well as in the international phonetic alphabet—an international alphabet of sounds that crosses many languages.

As they concluded their service with the Tabernacle Choir, the Ottleys helped establish the Tabernacle Choir Training School and Temple Square Chorale, a training body where new members learn and where long-time choir members cycle through to hone their musical skills.

According to the Utah History Encyclopedia, “Under Ottley’s leadership, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has achieved new standards of excellence, becoming stylistically more versatile and varied in its repertoire…its musi-cal mission has been simplified, with an emphasis on hymn singing for

the general meetings of the church. On the other hand, its role as a cultural and spiritual ambassador has led to a greatly expanded repertoire.” In fact, while Ottley was conductor, the choir produced one of its five gold records and two plati-num records for the Hallmark Card Company.

“One of the things I often am asked is regarding the secret to the success of the choir,”

Brother Ottley said. “The obvious answer is that the members are the se-cret: their loyalty, their dedication and their commitment. But really, there is no secret. We do simply what the Lord wants.”

And that is part of the mission of the choir. According to Ottley, when the choir goes into an arena for a performance where there is a degree of hos-

A Mission of Music tility toward the Church, a transformation occurs. “The audience feels the love the choir has for the music they are singing, the commitment they have for what the choir represents, and it’s almost impossible to resist that,” Brother Ottley said. “There aren’t many places in the world where you can witness that kind of genuine commitment to good things.”

Now that the Ottleys have been in Hawai‘i more than two years, both expressed gratitude at this opportunity they have to serve in the islands. They said they especially appreciate the wonderful blend of nationalities that comprise the BYUH student body. They will remain in Hawai‘i through May 2008, and take a stab at easing up on their schedule.

“We are going to try to retire just a little bit if we can,” he said. “We’ve had very interesting careers and need to take time to write our memoirs and personal histories.”

JoAnn Ottley

Jerold Ottley