Lāʻie Days “fireside” honors PCC “labor missionaries” Young Mormon missionaries are widely recognized around the world, but some of you may be less familiar with a unique group of Mormon missionaries who began serving about 70 years ago, originally in Tonga and Samoa....
For the past 23 years the Polynesian Cultural Center has brought together many of the finest, most exciting Samoan knife dancers in the world — and please note, not all of them are ethnic Samoans — to compete for the title of World Fire Knife Champion. Over...
Laie sesquicentennial celebration: In early 1865 — 150 years ago — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased the two ahupuaa [traditional Hawaiian land divisions] of Laie, and established the small community as a Mormon plantation, headquarters and...
Mark Your Calendars: Samoan Fireknife Championships, Festival The Polynesian Cultural Center will stage the 23rd annual We Are Samoa World Fireknife Championships… May 7, 2015 (Thursday), 7 p.m. in the Hale Aloha: junior (ages 6-11), intermediate (12-17) and...
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