Newspaper of the Diocese of Honolulu
Tyla, a seventh grader at Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Pearl City, displays a handful of invasive algae at Paiko Beach on Maunalua Bay in East Honolulu. On April 11, the school’s sixth through eighth graders donned gloves and tabis to help the environmental organization Malama Maunalua remove the unwanted plants that are choking out the native sea grass beds, and turning the waters of the popular water recreational spot cloudy and brown. (Photo courtesy of Our Lady of Good Counsel School)