#adopt a highway

The Heart of Aloha Church and Tenrikyo Molokaʻi received the Adopt-A-Highway Nō Ka ʻOi Highway Hui Award for the fourth quarter of 2024 and first quarter of 2025, respectively. Both churches and their volunteers have regularly picked up trash along a two-mile segment of highway for the past eight or more years, helping to prevent roadside rubbish from blowing into the ocean or other sensitive ecosystems.

A hui of three Marriott properties in Wailea has received the No Ka ʻOi Highway Hui Adopt-A-Highway Award from the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, Highways Maui District, in recognition of their collaborative community care efforts.

Mauiʻs Cathy Toda and Robert Spangler of Maui Lavender are the latest recipients of the Nō Ka ʻOi Highway Hui Adopt-A-Highway award from the state Department of Transportation, Highways Maui District.

Maui Economic Opportunity’s Kāohi youth program on Molokaʻi received the state Department of Transportation Nō Ka ʻOi Highway Hui Award for keeping a 2-mile stretch of Kamehameha V Highway clean.

Duke’s Beach House at the Honua Kai Resort & Spa has been selected by the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, Highways Maui District as its first Nō Ka ʻOi Highway Hui Award recipient of 2023.

Hundreds of volunteers from dozens of groups helped remove more than 2,000 bags of trash from state highways in Maui County in 2022, according to the State of Hawaiʻi, Department of Transportation Highways Division – Maui District.

The Department of Transportation’s Highways Division selected the Notestone Crew to receive the No Ka Oi Highway Hui Awards. The quarterly recognition honors Adopt-A-Highway participants that have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to the anti-litter public service program.

The owners of Old Lāhainā Lūʻau, Star Noodle, Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop, and Aloha Mixed Plate were commended by the Department of Transportation’s Highways Division for their employees’ impressive and sustained volunteerism for Maui’s environment.

The small but dedicated Hāna Lava Tube Group has received the Nō Ka ʻOi Highway Hui Award in recognition for its sustained volunteerism since 2005 for the Adopt-A-Highway program.

The State of Hawaiʻi, Department of Transportation, Highways Division – Maui District’s (HWY-M) awarded the Nō Ka ʻOi Highway Hui Award to Kīhei-Wailea Medical Center in recognition of the center’s 14 years of notable volunteer work for the Adopt-A-Highway Program.

Hawaiian Electric – Maui County has received the No Ka Oi Highway Hui award in recognition of its sustained and exemplary commitment to the State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation, Highways Division – Maui District’s (HWY-M) Adopt-A-Highway Program.