{"id":96521,"date":"2021-01-13T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=96521"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:49:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:49:25","slug":"great-aloha-run-together-mo-bettah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/great-aloha-run-together-mo-bettah\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Mo&#8217; Bettah Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-greataloharun-lt05_hero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-greataloharun-lt05_hero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-greataloharun-lt05_hero.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-greataloharun-lt05_hero.jpg?resize=450,299 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-greataloharun-lt05_hero.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-greataloharun-lt05_hero.jpg?resize=335,223 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Everything is going in the right direction for the 37th annual Hawai\u2018i Pacific Health Great Aloha Run and founder Carole Kai Onouye, thanks to a new theme (\u201cTogether Mo&#8217; Bettah!\u201d) and platform (virtual).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in its nearly 40-year history, the iconic Hawai\u2018i Pacific Health Great Aloha Run is going virtual, offering participants the chance to walk, jog or run the 8.15-mile race at any time and place between Feb. 8 and 15, while raising money for local charities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of COVID-19, we wanted to be there to help the needs of the people, and there are so many needs out there, so we thought we would continue to try to get entries in,\u201d explains Carole Kai Onouye, who founded Great Aloha Run and continues to spear head the event through Carole Kai Charities. \u201cEverybody who signs up (they have about 5,000 entries so far), will get a T-shirt and medal sent to them saying \u2018Together Mo&#8217; Bettah!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s a very apropos word that we can all say, \u2018Hey, we&#8217;re in this together and together mo&#8217; bettah \u2014 we can fight it together.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since its start, Great Aloha Run has achieved many milestones, including raising close to $15 million for about 150 nonprofit health and human service organizations and community groups throughout Hawai\u2018i.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96523\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-great-aloha-run2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96523\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-great-aloha-run2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-great-aloha-run2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-great-aloha-run2.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-great-aloha-run2.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-great-aloha-run2.jpg?resize=335,223 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Runners take off at the start line of the 2019 Great Aloha Run. PHOTO COURTESY GREAT ALOHA RUN<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There were nearly 12,000 entrants the first year, about 20,000 last year, and as many as 34,000 in years past. Traditionally, the race starts at Aloha Tower and finishes at Aloha Stadium, with competitive elite runners leading at the front, Sounds of Freedom (military running in formation) on the side and casual walkers toward the back.<\/p>\n<p>But the history of the event actually dates back to the Carole Kai International Bed Race, a popular event in Waik\u012bk\u012b from 1974 to 1994.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt University of Hawai\u2018i, they had mattress races; the fraternities had mattress races right by Varney Circle,\u201d recalls Kai Onouye. \u201cIt was so much fun that I said, \u2018Hey, why don&#8217;t we do that and do it on beds?&#8217; So, I got hospital beds the first year and people started making their own beds after that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Great Aloha Run grew out of the bed race because the city would not let us use the area anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the core of these events was the goal of connecting people to make a positive difference in the community.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Hawai\u2018i Pacific Health Great Aloha Run, Carole Kai Charities, with the help of Rene Mansho, has been offering free computer classes to senior citizens for 17 years (last year&#8217;s program was canceled due to COVID-19, but they hope to resume this year).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96524\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-carole-kai-1987-gar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96524\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-carole-kai-1987-gar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-carole-kai-1987-gar.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-carole-kai-1987-gar.jpg?resize=450,307 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-carole-kai-1987-gar.jpg?resize=768,524 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-011321-carole-kai-1987-gar.jpg?resize=335,229 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carole Kai at the Great Aloha Run in 1987.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last month, Hawai\u2018i Pacific Health Great Aloha Run hosted a holiday food distribution at Aloha Stadium, with support from Hawai\u2018i Foodbank and the City &#038; County of Honolulu, for 3,500 families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother (Ethel Iwamoto Akamine) didn&#8217;t only want me to be an entertainer, she wanted me to be a giver,\u201d says Kai Onouye. \u201cShe said unless you do more than raise money for yourself or do stuff for yourself, your life isn&#8217;t very important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother was so poor growing up. She became a barber, and her whole life she wanted to give away and do stuff for people but she couldn&#8217;t because she had to raise three kids on her barbershop pay and send us all through college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart just broke for her because she never had anything. So, I wanted to do something to make her happy and the happiest moment I had was during the bed race, we had a parade down Kalakaua Avenue and I put my mother in the car, and she was waving at people and it just made me so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Onouye, a 1962 graduate of McKinley High School, spent much of her childhood with relatives in neighboring Kaka\u2018ako and was known as Carole Shimizu.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96525\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-gar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96525\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-gar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-gar.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-gar.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-gar.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/mw-cover-gar.jpg?resize=335,223 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The annual race attracted about 20,000 participants last year. PHOTOS COURTESY GREAT ALOHA RUN<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first started performing in Waik\u012bk\u012b, I was working at the Moana Surfrider as a pianist \u2026 and the music director for all the Sheratons could never pronounce my name,\u201d recollects Kai Onouye. \u201cHe would call me Shimuzu, Shimizi, Shimazu \u2014 he just pulverized my name. I said, \u2018Please, my name is Shimizu.&#8217; He says, \u2018Oh, you know what, it&#8217;s too much of a bother. I&#8217;m just going to call you Carole Kai&#8217; \u2026 and the name stuck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also grew up spending her summers in Kahuku with cousins, and describes herself as \u201ca real local, country girl at heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Onouye, whose husband Eddie Onouye was her first boyfriend in high school, majored in piano and minored in voice at UH, and went on to a successful entertainment career that took her around the world, including throughout South America, Asia and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI performed at the Hilton in Hong Kong and big hotels in Singapore and then Indonesia and, oh my goodness, I&#8217;m starting to remember all this now, it was fun,\u201d she says. \u201cI also worked in Vegas and Reno and Tahoe \u2026 I had a seven-piece band and two singers, and we drove everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, she partnered with Dirk Fukushima on <em>Hawai\u2018i Stars<\/em>, the local television talent show that was the brainchild of then-state Sen. Mike McCartney.<\/p>\n<p>She and Kimo Kahoano continue to cohost the show, which still airs today.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the beloved musical group Local Divas, comprised of Onouye, Melveen Leed, Nohelani Cypriano and the late Loyal Garner.<\/p>\n<p>Her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 also includes appearances in dozens of episodes of the original <em>Hawai\u2018i Five-0<\/em> and <em>Magnum P.I.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many (career) highlights, but I think the fact that I was able to do what my mother wanted me to do and start a charity is probably the most fulfilling,\u201d says Kai Onouye. \u201cIf we can continue to do well and good for other people, that&#8217;s the most important thing. To be able to make an impact on other people&#8217;s lives rather than just your own because if it&#8217;s just for yourself, like my mother said, you&#8217;re nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to make sure we continue to give monies away through the Great Aloha Run and it&#8217;s because of the people who participate. We couldn&#8217;t do it without them, so it&#8217;s important to have people know that this whole journey is about connecting with other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to register for the 37th annual Hawai\u2018i Pacific Health Great Aloha Run, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/greataloharun.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">greataloharun.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is going in the right direction for the 37th annual Hawai\u2018i Pacific Health Great Aloha Run and founder Carole..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":96522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A &#039;Mo&#039; 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