Hawaii
SO you think you were on the go last week? Look at what marketing man Paul Klink had on his plate. It started off with a flight to see his ailing mother in New York, but her situation being much improved, Klink flew off to Switzerland for an exam at the Clinic de Cardiac in Geneva. Have a few days off -- take a breath here -- Klink visited the Cannes Film Festival in Monte Carlo, eyeing lots of stars and seeing some films; watched the Formula One Grand Prix race in Monaco; took a spa treatment at an Alpine resort; visited Montreux for some jazz; and finally watched a few tennis matches of the French Open. And through a friend in Geneva, Klink did his tooling around in a new Lamborghini Murcielaga, the car that just set three international speed records ... Jet-setting around Europe
keeps Klink in the pinkSPEAKING of ex-pats, former isle singer Anna Lea is back in town from her Vegas home and is visiting with old friends here, occasionally being called up to sing a number or two in a club. The pixielike Filipina used to sing at the Kahala Mandarin (when it was the Hilton) and at various other Honolulu clubs ... Do you get the idea that TV spot for American Cash Flow Corp. was recorded on the mainland? The announcer giving the address of seminars listed one at the Hilton Hawaiian Village "on Kah-lie-uh Road," rhyming it with Mariah Carey ... Hats off to Cycle City on Oahu and Maui for donating $96,000 worth of Harley-Davidson apparel to Malama Na Keiki Foundation for kids at risk for abuse and neglect. Now island keiki from Ewa Beach to Kahului can dress up like UH Warriors coach June Jones and Castle & Cook's Harry Saunders. It's something of a luxury for families where clothing takes a back seat to rent and food ...
Last of the dawn patrol
FRIDAY was the marking of a change at two TV stations. Leslie Wilcox catered a breakfast for KHON employees and said goodbye after nearly a decade of morning news anchoring. Leslie, Howard Dashefsky and Emme Tomimbang started the morning newscasts as we known them in Hawaii in 1992. Now she can sleep in because after a three-week vacation, she'll begin anchoring a 5 p.m. newscast. Meanwhile, KGMB folks said goodbye Friday at Chai's Island Bistro to Lynne Mueller, GM of the station. After three years in that slot and another two decades of TV sales with a now defunct ad agency, Mueller is off to Southern California. How come? To get married, that's why ...An entertainment center and performing-arts center is on paper, but is far from being built, at Mililani Iki. Castle & Cooke Homes has donated three acres for the site, but organizers, led by Tony Saguibo, still have one little matter to attend to: the raising of $12 to $15 million needed to build the facility ...
Awards a pair
DUKE's Canoe Club is presenting its fourth Duke's Ho'okahiko Award to woodworker and canoe builder Wright Bowman Jr. tomorrow afternoon at Duke's at the Outrigger Hotel ... Dr. Dan Tuttle, whom many of us remember for his commentary on television during elections in past years, has been nominated unanimously for the Hawaii Education Association's Honor Roll for Distinguished Service for 2002. Also honored was John Kwon, who died in 1993 ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com