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NATATORIUM GETS A CLEANING

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM More than 200 volunteers registered to help clean up invasive algae yesterday at the Waikiki Natatorium. Among them were McKinley High School students Loan Dao, Erika Okamoto and Suzanne Nguyen, who passed along a burlap bag filled with algae. Six previous cleanups collected nearly 28 tons of algae.

SMILES AT THE PLANTATION

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM Simuta Faamasino, right, held and played with her niece Grace of God Faamasino as they listened to the music yesterday at the Pacific Islanders Festival at Hawaii's Plantation Village in Waipahu.

YEAR OF THE HAWAIIAN FOREST

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM Children planted native seedlings with their families at the Hawaii Nature Center yesterday in a celebration of the Year of the Hawaiian Forest. Sarai Uesato, 3, and her grandmother, Judy Uesato, prepared to plant a ma'o, or Hawaiian cotton plant. The event was co-sponsored by the Seagull School Early Education Center and the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.