Ka 'Ōlelo O Nā 'Ōiwi 'Ōlino

"The words and wisdom of our Brilliant Hawaiian people"

Ka Wai Ola - The Living Water of OHA

Ka Wai Ola is a free, monthly newspaper of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Ka Wai Ola effectively serves the Hawaiian community by reporting on critical issues that impact not only Hawaiians, but the community at-large, and is posted online.

In addition to news, Ka Wai Ola provides a forum in which OHA trustees address concerns and express their mana`o. Ka Leo Kaiaulu, the letters to the editor section, is a public forum for readers to speak their mind. Feature stories add to Ka Wai Ola’s popularity, covering community events, health issues, Hawaiian-owned businesses, music and the arts, education, historic sites and other related topics.

Financial reports provide detail on OHA investments, revenues and expenditures. Kolamu `Olelo Makuahine, Ka Wai Ola’s Hawaiian language column, targets the growing population of Hawaiian language speakers. `Ohana reunion announcements bring families from far and near together, and are published free-of-charge.

Ka Wai Ola o OHA is mailed each month to homes statewide and on the continent. Copies are available at all public libraries, and are distributed to Hawaiian agencies and offices throughout the islands. Annual readership surveys help to shape the publication with public input, ensuring its optimum effectiveness as a communication tool for all Hawaiians.

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If you would like a free subscription, please use our online form .

 
Mailing address:

Ka Wai Ola
Office of Hawaiian Affairs
711 Kapi'olani Blvd., Suite 1250
Honolulu, HI 96813
Tel: (808) 594.1980
Fax: (808) 594.1865

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Our printing company changed the size of our newspaper in March 2009. We changed it again with the October 2009 issue. New ad sizes and rates apply. With this new rate sheet, we have adjusted the rates to make the prices more equitable to the number of column inches per ad and to more closely align the ad pricing with the cost per inch. And we have introduced a new, smaller, ad sizes to accommodate more advertisers.

• Download pdf for Ka Wai Ola insertion order, contract and rate sheet

The PDF contains our contract, insertion order, rate sheet and ad size specifications.

If you have any questions about advertising in Ka Wai Ola, please contact:

Blaine Fergerstrom
Media Production Specialist/Webmaster
Tel: (808) 594.0238
Fax (808) 594.0267
email: blainef@oha.org

Office of Hawaiian Affairs
711 Kapi'olani Blvd. Suite 500
Honolulu, HI 96813

Listen to recordings of this special radio series highlighting the stories behind a selection of Oahu's Hawaiian place names.

"Hooulu Lahui Aloha" is a series of one-hour roundtable discussion shows on Hawaiian issues, produced by OHA staff at Olelo communtiy television. Topics include current information on Hawaiian history, culture, politics, events, and language.

"Hooulu Lahui Aloha" airs on Oahu on NATV Channel 53 every Thursday night at 7 p.m., and is also broadcast on several community-access channels on the Neighbor islands and U.S. continent.

To view the show online at the same time it airs on Oahu, click on the "NATV-Channel 53" link in the OLELONET section at www.olelo.org.

On-demand online streaming video of selected episodes is also avaliable here.

Below is a listing of past "Hooulu Lahui Aloha" topics and panel guests.