NAVY HANDS HELPING: Nessa Vierra, left, president of Friends of Kapena Falls, pointed out areas to be planted near the Nuuanu waterfall yesterday to Roger Fornier of the USS Denver. Members of the Navy ship volunteered to help replant the area with native Hawaiian plants.

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