By Dave Donnelly
Friday, January 24, 1997
Joe Moore, Stacey Archer-Little
Joe Moore, Stacey Archer-Little
YOU hear people say "Lucky You Live Hawaii" all the time, and you see Paul Klink's "Live Aloha" bumper stickers virtually everywhere. But occasionally something happens that brings home exactly what those slogans exemplify. Yesterday morning I had a checkup with my doctor at Kaiser Moanalua, and got in and out very quickly. As I was driving out of the lot behind a line of cars, I approached the woman in the guard house and handed her my ticket with the $2 charge for the first three hours. "Thank you," she said and as I started to drive off she yelled, "Hold it!" Did I short change her, I wondered? She returned the two dollar bills. "No charge," she said - I'd been there less than a half hour and there's no charge for that. Try telling that story in New York, and you'll hear, "Yeah, right!" ... I’ll say it again,
aloha livesHARD to figure how Joe Moore gets all his energy. Not only does he do his nightly newscasts on KHON-TV; he finds time to guest-conduct his beloved Mozart with the Honolulu Symphony, make the odd movie ("Aloha Means Goodbye") and do one-man shows of Will Rogers and John Wayne. He also wrote a play about Billy Mitchell in which he starred, and now he's completed another. It's a comedy/drama about the White House called "The Buck Stops Where?" and he's talked none other than Terence Knapp (best known for "Damien") to co-star in it with him this spring. No word yet on which theater will stage it or play dates. But whatever vitamins Moore is taking, I suggest he market them! ...
WHEN UH Rainbow Dancers choreographer Stacey Archer decided to start a Little family, she had no idea how rapidly it would grow. Now Stacey Archer-Little, she's putting on a dance concert at the end of the month for Kamehameha Schools where she's Performing Arts Company director, and a week later is due with her third child. Stacey is married to Dave Little and together they run the Hawaii Dance Alliance ...
THINGS are all smiles on the face of Mauna Lani Bay topper Don Dickhens these days. When he learned his hotel's catering department was a finalist in the Special Events Magazine "Best Events of the Year" competition, he sent catering director Sharon Bianco to Las Vegas for the awards ceremony. The next thing you know, her name was called and "Cuisines of the Sun" was named the No. 1 event of the year. Bianco was called up to accept the huge trophy, pose for pictures and say a few words, something she wasn't really prepared to do. But win they did - not everyone can claim that in Vegas - and Dickhens is bursting with pride while planning a proper place to display the trophy ... Dickhens of a time
MAUI'S Bonnie Friedman writes, "Like you, I am appalled at the mispronunciation and misuse of so many words by newscasters and sportscasters nationwide." Knowing my pet peeves, Friedman says that " 'Forte' is one that drives me nuts, too." But her big complaint of the moment is hearing William Rehnquist called "Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court," something even Sen. John Warner did. His title, says Friedman correctly, is "Chief Justice of the United States." Then she heard an incorrect local version yesterday on KHPR. Ronald Moon, she notes, is Chief Justice of the State of Hawaii and not the Hawaii Supreme Court ...
LAST year was a terrible one where deaths of friends were concerned, and 1997 isn't getting off to a great start either. You probably read yesterday about the passing of the Rev. Claude Du Teil, founder of IHS, the "Peanut Butter Ministry." Now comes word of the death this week of Sandy Parker, founding member of the Wahiawa Rotary and Jaycees and Military Appreciation Week, which began in Wahiawa. Sandy was well known at Mokuleia polo matches for his ever-present smile, good humor and horse-drawn wagon. He wore an eye patch, thanks to a polo accident, and his playing days extended back to when matches were held in Kapiolani park. Sandy was 86 ... Aloha, aloha
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