Jed Elmaleh, a 46-year-old Mount Pleasant man with advanced multiple sclerosis, got bad news recently.
A brain tumor that he’s managed for years is growing, and his doctors have advised him to have surgery. Next week, he’ll become the first person with MS to have brain tumor surgery at Roper with its high-tech cyberknife.
For most of us, that alone would be plenty to worry about.
But for Elmaleh, he’s taking it all in stride and is …Â Details
The Great Hawai’i Hope for canoe paddling has come down to a great debate.
To club or not to club, that is the question.
Outrigger Canoe Club and Team Primo — considered Hawai’i’s top contenders for Sunday’s Moloka’i Hoe championship race — offer a contrast in philosophies.
Outrigger has been…Â Details
Human Powered Electric Amphibious Vehicle (HEPAV)
A velomobile is a “a human-powered vehicle, enclosed for aerodynamic advantage and protection from weather and collisions, […] derived from recumbent bicycles and tricycles.” The list of features doesn’t usually include the ability to move on both land and water, but Czech inventor David Buchwaldek’s HEPAV is of a new breed. In fact, it is kind of like the offspring of an electric-assist trike and a kayak…Â Details & Pictures
Central Oregon’s slice of Hawaii is colorful. Bend Oregon Outrigger includes nearly 50 members who bring a centuries-old Polynesian sport to an unlikely location — an inland high-desert town.
The core group of competitive paddlers — about half of the club’s membership — trains twice a week for races throughout the Pacific Northwest, California, Hawaii and Canada. The local paddle-sport club was founded in the early 1990s by Bend residents Meg Chun and Leslie Blok, who formed a women’s team. A competitive men’s team followed a few years later and completed Bend Oregon Outrigger… Details