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KEKAHA, Kauai — Everyone calls her Grandma Lei. Even her license plate totes the moniker, one that Laorinda Cano wears proudly in her Kekaha neighborhood. She grew up in Waianae on Oahu’s west side but moved to Kauai in 1979 when she was awarded a Hawaiian homestead.
Cano and her late husband raised six kids in Kekaha, a tight-knit neighborhood of about 800 families, packed together on a 1.2-mile stretch of Kauai’s west side.
“I love Kekaha because it’s a lot like Waianae,” Cano said. “We love our neighbors. We all get along.”
