Female, Maui gridders impress
FOOTBALL is on nearly everyone's mind these days. There were even two Monday night games this week, thanks to the World Series extending to seven games and forcing the Miami Dolphins to move their scheduled Sunday game to Monday to make way for the Marlins ... Then there was Kalaheo High student-athlete Jessica Kisor, who was named to the all-conference first team in her school's division. Of course she's a kicker, and many rough and tumble footballers think of all kickers as girls ... Switching sports for just a moment, do you suppose now that the NBA has named two female referees that cross-dressing Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman might have a leg up, so to speak? ...
MEANWHILE, back to football, when a high-tech firm from California decided to hold a sales seminar in Hawaii, they turned to MC&A, the local event planning firm, for help. Bobbi La Voie led the MC&A effort in building an event around -- what else? -- football! Some 400 sales reps descended on Maui where Baldwin High's football team was recruited to kick off the festivities with a pep rally and put the visitors through some basic drills. The week concluded with Baldwin's marching band and cheerleaders closing the show. The high-tech firm's honcho was so impressed and inspired by the students that he donated $5,000 to the school ...
Eastern seaboard report
HAWAII may be surrounded by marine life, but the largest marine art exhibition in the world is the Mystic Seaport Mystic International competition in Connecticut. More than 5,000 entries are received each year and about 140 paintings, sculptures and scrimshaw are chosen for exhibit. This year the Award for Excellence went to an island artist, Yoko Gaydos, for her scrimshaw rendition of Admiral Perry's opening up Japan in 1863 with his imposing "black ships" (kuro fune). Gaydos has shown her works at Mystic Seaport annually since 1990, but this was her first Award for Excellence.MORE news from the East: Steve Hirano and wife Amy took a 10-day cruise of Canada and while walking the streets of St. John, Nova Scotia, looking for a place to eat, they were stopped by an ATV-TV news reporter. The reporter asked Amy what she liked about St. John, and she replied that the people were warm and friendly and the crafts beautiful, but they needed more of the aloha spirit in letting people know where to go and find things. The reporter then turned the Hiranos on to a place called Joe's Warehouse where they lunched, but he forgot to get their names. When they returned to the ship, the reporter, apparently energized by the aloha spirit, was waiting to make sure their names were mentioned in the report that aired that night ...
Montana--no, not Joe
THERE'S a real Hawaii-Montana connection. When Sandra Kimberley Hall, biographer of Duke Kahanamoku, returned from a visit she reports she stayed on a tiny street in Whitefish with just four houses, three of them having Hawaii connections. Jim Nabors owns one as does her friend Peg Holwick and attorney Mike Ferrington and wife Patty. Mike's parents, Dr. Ed & Joyce Ferrington of Kona, told Hall about how Duke's sister, Bernice Kahanamoku, taught Dr. Ed to play the ukulele. Hall's daughter Katherine (Kaiser '96) is now at college in Portland and wanted to go fly-fishing in Montana. So who turned up to take her out but Lester Matsumoto of Leilehua, class of 1974. Several other isle residents also own property in Big Sky country ...
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