October 16, 2005 Ms. XXXXXXXXXXXXX P. O. Box XXXX Mossyrock, WA XXXXX Aloha, I am the Secretary for the Ocean View Chamber of Commerce. Basic information about Ocean View: Motels, restaurants, horse riding, historical sights and museums, malls, deep sea fishing tours. I promise to say something about each of these. First I’m going to start with a history of Ocean View written a few years ago for our local Chamber Directory. Ocean View History The area known as Ocean View was once part of Kahuku Ranch's vast pasturelands. Oldtimers will remember when sales of HOVE (Hawaiian Ocean View Estates) were being conducted in the late 50's and early 60's. Karl Embrey and Ed Bossing worked out of a desk in the old Kona Inn Hotel. They would order box lunches from the hotel for their prospective clients and drive them to the new subdivision and then enjoy the million dollar views from the open-air pavilion, (The Lookout), on the site where the HOVE Road Maintenance Corp. now has its base yard. The original developer of HOVE was the Crawford Oil Company consisting of Walter and Lillian Crawford and their two sons, Donald and Jack. Lillian Crawford named all of the 156 miles of roads! The first few residents of HOVE were hardy pioneer types, like the Roths, who established the HOVE Evangelical Church on Leilani Circle, which became a meeting place for early residents. These "pioneers" saw the need for a community organization and eventually incorporated as Hawaiian Ocean View Estates Community Association, Inc. in May of 1969. As more and more people moved to the area, businesses began to pop up, such as Harry McKees Realty, the Southpoint Restaurant, and a small country store operated by Jim Freeman in the Rancho's. In the early 1980's we acquired a service station and a rental building where the first hardware store began its business, run by Ken Arbo. In 1989 the Ocean View Town Center was developed and the Ocean View Road Maintenance Corporation began an extensive rebuilding program of the roads in HOVE and the surrounding areas. The town was expanding rapidly and shortly thereafter the Ocean View Development Corporation started the new market which included the Laundromat and restaurant. Ocean View now has two thriving shopping centers. With the work and diligence of quite a few people Ocean View was finally awarded its own Postal Zip Code and the growth of the area now has the town in need of a larger Post Office! These last few years have seen people from all over the world moving to Ocean View, loving the views and wide open spaces and wanting to help in the further development of this rural area. The area once known as HOVE is now referred to as Ocean View and now also encompasses the developments of Hawaiian Ocean View Ranchos, Kahuku Country Gardens, Kula Kai View Estates, Kona Gardens, Keone's Ranchos, and Kona View Estates. There are approximately 1300 homes built at this time with more new faces being seen everyday. One of the strengths of this area are the people, known for being "rugged individualists", they are also the most artistic, creative, and hard working! We have a beautiful new Fire Station built totally by volunteers and the Ocean View Community Center, which was also built by volunteers, has become a meeting place for all ages and interests. The Ocean View Chamber of Commerce, along with the Ocean View Community Center hold quarterly Town Meetings where residents can all join in discussing the various interests of the town. As we experience the growing pains of our small community, we are actively petitioning the State and County Government for additional services, as we need them. In the future we hope to see a larger post office, a local well, a bank, a police station, and somewhere along the way our own school. With the growing number of children and young people this is something that must be planned for our future. Ocean View has come a long way in the past 30 years; we're all looking forward to the growth of our community in the next 30! We thank all of the local businesses supporting the Ocean View Business Directory and we also thank Beverly Byouk and Ken Arbo for their contributions to this history of Ocean View. *** Ocean View is a vigorously growing community of about 15,000 lots of 1 acre and 3 acre in size. Ocean View is also only a tiny portion of the District of Ka’u “Kaa - ooo”. Ka’u is larger than all of the island of Maui, about 60 miles from north to south. We have our very own active volcano which has been in active eruption for over twenty years. It is believed that Ka’u was the first part of the Hawaii island chain seen by the voyaging Polynesians, estimated up to 2,000 years ago. They landed at our South Point, the southernmost point of the US, farther south than Key West, Florida. At South Point, you can see a heiau (temple) and burial site of several, Hawaiian chiefs. There, too, are huge blocks of stone that were used to anchor the large double-hulled voyaging canoes. The holes bored through by hand in hard basaltic lava bear witness to the determination of those sailors and the size of the ropes needed to hold their craft safely. While there are several beaches in Ka’u, the easiest to reach are Punalu'u Black Sand Beach which offers swimming and honu watching (large sea turtles), and Whittington Beach, a county park without sand, but which was the center of sugar export by rail and sea before the advent of a road circling the island. If you know where to look , quite a bit of evidence still remains of the use of railroads in the sugar industry. Motels: no. We have several B&B’s, a motel in Waiohinu (probably the oldest community in Hawaii, and the place Mark Twain rested before continuing his trip to the volcano by horseback. Volcano House is a hotel. Restaurants near the ocean. While there are many fine places to eat, none are near the ocean. I know of no museums in Ka’u, however there is an excellent museum in Hilo, the royal palace in Kailua-Kona, the “Refuge” at Honaunau (which is, I think, the most beautiful place on the planet), the Heiau of Kamehameha, first King of Hawaii, near our harbor in the north. This temple is important to Ka’u because Kamehameha invited the Chief of Ka’u to the dedication ceremony. When he landed on the beach before the temple, he was killed as a sacrifice, and some say was later eaten. Which leads us to believe that he would not have gone if he’d known he was to be so involved in the celebration feast. Malls: no, not in the same sense as you would find in Kailua-Kona, or Hilo, however there are many fine shops in Ka’u where local artists offer their work. Many of the large hotels of Kailua-Kona and Hilo offer dining at or near the sea, plus there are many opportunities to attend a luau (Hawaiian feast with entertainment) at the shoreline at the hotels. Deep sea fishing tours are available in Kailua-Kona, with many varieties of game fish, including marlin up to 7 or 8 hundred pounds. Horseback riding in Ka’u: Pahala Ponies offers this service and there is another in Waiohinu, although I don’t know the name of the business. Ka’u is cowboy & ranching country. There are lots of horses here. I urge you to use the internet to search for more of the information you require. Our dot com web page at ovchamber offers a lot of information about Ka’u, Ocean View, and the west side of the Big Island. Come to Ocean View, come to Ka’u. There’s lots to see, far more than I’ve written about here. Ka’u is the largest district, with the fewest, and friendliest people in the islands. It is not Waikiki, and we like it that way. Mahalo, George Wallace
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