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ʻO ke ahi ʻāhiu i ʻai nui iā Lahaina, Maui ma ʻAukake 2023, ʻo ia nō paha ka mea e lilo ai ia mea i Wahi Hoʻoilina Pae Aupuni. 

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I kēia mahina, ua ʻāpono ka Hale Lunamakaʻāinana me ka ʻAha Kenekoa i ka pila ʻo . Inā pūlima ʻia e Pelekikena Joe Biden, na kēia pila e noiʻi aku i ke kūpono a me ka makepono o kēia hana. 

ʻO nā Wahi Hoʻoilina Pae Aupuni, ʻo ia nō nā wahi e launa pū ai nā kumu waiwai he moʻolelo, he kuʻuna, a he kūlohelohe, “a lilo kēia mau mea i mau hiʻona ʻāina koʻikoʻi, he mau hiʻona hoʻi i kohu kekahi i kekahi,” ka National Park Service. “E like ʻole naʻe me nā pāka pekelala, ke noho kanaka nui ʻia nei nā Wahi Hoʻoilina.”

Mālama ka NPS i nā wahi hoʻoilina he 62, a ʻaʻole ʻo �Ჹ�ɲ���ʻ�� kekahi o ia mau wahi. 

My bill w/ to study designating Lahaina as a National Heritage Area is headed to to be signed into law!

There are 62 National Heritage Areas nationwide, none of which are in Hawaii. It is fitting that Lahaina is under consideration to be one of our first.

— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono)

Ua hāpai ʻia kēia pila e Kenekoa Mazie Hirono me Lunamakaʻāinana Jill Tokuda, a ua kākoʻo ʻia e Lunamakaʻāinana Ed Case. 

Ua ʻōlelo maila ʻo Hirono ma kekahi ʻaha kūkala nūhou, na ke ahi “i hōʻike mai i ka waiwai o kēia kūlanakauhale, he waiwai iā Maui, i ka pae ʻāina, a i ke aupuni.” 

ʻO nā kumu waiwai he moʻolelo, he kūlohelohe a he moʻomeheu ma Lahaina, wahi āna, “na kēia mau mea e haʻi aku i moʻolelo koʻikoʻi” a na kēia pila e hoʻomau aku “i ka haʻi ʻōlelo ʻia ʻana o ua moʻolelo nei no nā hanauna hou e hiki mai ana.”

Ua ʻōlelo maila ʻo Tokuda, ua pili kēia pila “i ka hoʻokumu ʻana i ko Lahaina hānau hou ʻia ʻana me kona kūkulu hou ʻia ʻana,” i ka moʻolelo, ka moʻomeheu a me nā mea kuʻuna o ke ahupuaʻa, kahi i noho ai ke kapikala kahiko o Ko �Ჹ�ɲ���ʻ�� Pae ʻĀina. 

Inā e ʻāpono ʻia kēia pila, na ia mea e alakaʻi i ko NPS hana pū ʻana me ke Kalana o Maui a me nā kōkoʻolua he pae mokuʻāina a he pae kamaʻāina. 

ʻO ka Wahi Hoʻoilina Pae Aupuni mua loa, ʻo ia hoʻi ʻo Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Area, ua pūlima ʻia i kānāwai e Pelekikena Ronald Reagan i ka makahiki 1984. 

Ua kākoʻo ʻia kēia papahana e ka ʻOhana o Harry Nathaniel, Levani Lipton, ka ʻOhana Mar, a me Lisa Kleissner.