17th "Guns and Hoses" Law Enforcement & Fire Regatta - Kona
[Photos] by Marjie Santos
The day started out with a 5 mile lond distance race which were in three heats. The winners came out to be Team Halawa crew from Oahu, "Team Glen" from Honolulu Police Department, for the men and women's distance races respectively. Second in both were won by West Hawaii Fire Department. Team Glen then continued on to the quarter mile sprint races by continuing their winning sweeps in both men and womens divisions.
Team Halawa (Prison) they also had some other top crews their as well, had a strong showing in entering into I believe was 15 out of 18 races and the distance men and women's race. This race was hosted by Hawaii County Police Department Kona side (where i work) and /West Hawaii Fire. Our police department raced in loving memory of Keala Young, a detective that passed on last year. All proceeds and entry fees were to benefit the West Hawaii Special Olympics who also helped out alot in hosting the event which was followed by an awesome awards ceremony with ono local food, great entertainment and of course, the paddling slide show... We also had representation from our local Police Officers and their Ohana, West Hawaii Firemen, Maui's Department of Land and Natural Resources, Prosecutors from Oahu, Honolulu Police, Halawa and others that I may have missed.
Posted by keizo on Sun, 02/20/2005 - 7:47am
for those of you that were there you all know the thruth...(meaning Halawa took 1st in the 5 mile,1st in the open 6 and the open 4, maybe this lady (santos) is making a simple mistake or she's just not showing us (halawa) the respect we deserve...will see if she writes a column to correct her self ....
#1 Mon, 02/21/2005 - 9:17pm
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I believe Team Halawa won 1st place in the 5 mile long distance race in the Mens Division. Please correct your 1st paragrah. This team put alot of hard work and time to make a good showing and represent Halawa in a big way. I think they deserve the recognition from everyone involved.
Aloha,
From the Booster Club
#2 Tue, 02/22/2005 - 2:03pm
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Special Olympics West Hawai'i would like to extend a huge heartfelt MAHALO to our heroes: The Officers and Firefighters who organized and participated in Guns & Hoses 2005. To us, you are ALL winners!
We know you all put a great deal of time and effort into training. We know how hard the Kona Dept. worked to organize Guns & Hoses 2005. Thank you for a wonderful event and for making SOWH your 2005 recipients.
Mahalo, me ke aloha pumehana from the management team, coaches, families, volunteers and athletes of SOWH
#3 Tue, 02/22/2005 - 3:51pm
Aloha All, sorry for offending anyone, it was a mistake, my bad, unfortunately I did not have the race results at the time I wrote the comments, which my concern was actually only placing the photos that I took all day as well as raced and I know all of YOu enjoyed looking at yourselves. Yes, the winner's of the long distance was HALAWA's awesome and very tough looking men! It was only brought to my attention by Waltz today at work... I am not a newswriter so sorry for the mistake, please accept my apology. Halawa was incredibly impressive with all their entries and organization of their crews, hope to see all of you continue on into regular season of 6 man paddling!
Aloha, Marjie
#4 Thu, 02/24/2005 - 8:45pm
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Thanks for making me feel bad for an honest mistake, and you are all very welcome for all the photos being uploaded for your view and use.
Marjie
#5 Thu, 02/24/2005 - 8:52pm
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