MidWeek East - July 6, 2022

FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 6, 2022
STORYTELLERS
East O‘ahu students win a video competition award. SEE PAGE 4
SURF FINALIST
Local girl Carissa Moore earns another win. SEE PAGE 7
Student Voyages Seas And Studies
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Chaminade University student Lucy Lee poses aboard the Hōkūle‘a.
PHOTO COURTESY CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY
IBY STEPHANIE LOPES
n Lucy Kanoelehua Lee’s senior year at Kamehameha Schools Kapālama, she took a celestial navigation and sailing course
that would start her on a voyage of sailing seas and also surmounting struggles.
The class introduced her to the Polynesian Voyaging Society, where she had the oppor- tunity to meet Nainoa Thompson, and con- cluded with a sail from O‘ahu to Maui.
“On my first sail, I felt seasick,” Lee rec- ollects, “and I did not know if I would ever sail again.”
Upon graduation, Lee followed her pas- sion to sustain Native Hawaiian rights’ to the sea and land. With a significant merit-based scholarship, she enrolled in Chaminade University’s unique Bachelor of Science in environmental studies and certificate in pre-law programs.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Class- es were held online, and the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia were dry-docked. Lee’s former navigation teacher, Chris Blake, asked her if she would
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