Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 5, Number 1, 1 January 1988 — Kunimura Names Flores to Historic Committee [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kunimura Names Flores to Historic Committee

Eric Kalani Flores, resource teacher for the Department of Education on Kauai, has been appointed by Mayor Tony Kunimura to the Loeal Government Historic Certification Committee. He replaces the recently deceased Julia Wiehman, a mueh respected member of the community. Flores, a graduate of the Kamehameha Schools who received his Bachelor of Arts in Hawaiian Studies from the University of Hawaii at Hilo, speaks fluent Hawaiian. He works in the DOE's Hawaiian Studies program.

Flores, who has exhibited exceptional talents in eultural and artistic fields, was a member of the Koloa Canoe Club in the historic "Na Holo Kai" sailing eanoe race recently in a Ho'olako 1987 Year of the Hawaiian event.