Glover woman helps Hawaii re­cover

by Leanne Day Harple

LAHAINA, Hawaii — Lizzy  Gib­son, who grew up in West Glover, now lives in La­haina, Hawaii, on the Hawai­ian is­land of Maui (full dis­clo­sure, she is also this re­porter’s younger sis­ter).  If the name of her small city sounds fa­mil­iar, it may be be­cause La­haina was es­sen­tially ground zero for the dev­as­tat­ing ten miles of wild­fires that erupted so sud­denly on the is­land on Au­gust 8.  Now, in the wake of the de­struc­tion, Ms. Gib­son is busily plant­ing na­tive trees as part of the ef­fort to grow new life in her adopted home.

On the day of the fire, Ms. Gib­son had only very re­cently re­turned to Hawaii af­ter vis­it­ing her fam­ily in Ver­mont for the month of July. It had been a busy day, she re­called, be­cause ear­lier that morn­ing, there had been a fire evac­u­a­tion that was can­celed when the flames from an ini­tial fire were con­tained. Ms. Gib­son had un­packed her evac­u­a­tion bag and was stand­ing on the bal­cony of the apart­ment that she shares with her boyfriend, over­look­ing the sea and the down­town city.

That was when she and her boyfriend, Ua Aloha Maji, no­ticed the smoke…

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