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Rooted in excellence: Kapiʻolani CC to plant 80 native trees

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Kapiʻolani Community College celebrates 80 years

Kapiʻolani Community College celebrates 80 years

Kapiʻolani Community College celebrates 80 years

Kapiʻolani Community College celebrates 80 years

Students having pediatric experience at Shriner’s Hospital in the 1940s

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WHAT: Ceremonial Tree planting in honor of Kapiʻolani CC’s 80th anniversary

WHY: The project to plant 80 native trees on campus establishes living classrooms that nurture ʻike (knowledge), while honoring the college’s 80th-anniversary theme, “Rooted in Generations.” 

WHO: Kapiʻolani CC students, faculty, staff and leadership.

WHEN: November 9, 2026

OTHER FACTS:

The campus is also a nationally designated Tree Campus Higher Education institution.

Kapiʻolani CC invites the public to Mālama Kapiʻolani: Kanukanu Kanawalu on Saturday, November 14, 8 a.m.–12 noon to help plant 80 native trees fronting the ʻOlapa Building, along Kīlauea Avenue. Community members interested in participating are encouraged to register in advance at:

Native Hawaiian varieties to be planted include Kukui, ʻulu, niu (coconut), milo, wiliwili, ʻaʻaliʻi, Mānele, Lonomea, ʻŌhiʻa Lēhua

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BROLL: (1 minute, 46 seconds)

0:00-1:21 - 80th anniversary tree planting ceremony

1:21-1:46 - Historical video/pics of Kapiʻolani CC over 80 years

SOUNDBITES:

Misaki Takabayashi, Kapʻiolani CC Chancellor (11 seconds)

“We're always learning from the land that keeps giving, so we need to give back to the land so that we can take care so that our future students and their children can be taught by the land.”

Kaikea Kimura, Kapiʻolani CC student (Hawaiian language major) (9 seconds)

“I've been around here for a while, so to see KCC doing this and to be really doing the cultural work and the sustainability work is really amazing to see.”

Brandi-Marie Kaluhiwa-Cabral, Kapiʻolani CC student (double major in digital animation, New Media Arts, and Hawaiian Studies) (18 seconds)

“It's so important because each one of these trees represents a year that we've been around and is going to also be our 80 years that we give back to the campus to the ʻāina by providing more trees for our environment, specifically native Hawaiian trees.” 

Kholby Soong, Kapiʻolani CC ʻĀina Based Learning Coordinator (13 seconds)

“We foresee this place to be filled with native plants, and I guess the big idea is just to bring people back to Hawaiʻi, I mean back to ʻāina, back to Hawaiʻi, and to live in deeper relationship to that.”