Hawaii
Toilet paper line
sign of timesWOULDN'T you know that on the heels of Labor Day, the threats were fast and furious that we're about to enter a term of Non-Labor time, at least as far as local hotels and the shipping industry are concerned. A non-union friend at Sheraton said there were doubts a strike would be called for Tuesday since it was payday. But after that, they were told to prepare to move into the hotels and fulfill such functions as making beds and cleaning rooms. Hopes are that no strike will last long as it will have a deleterious effect on both union and nonunion workers, as well as prospective tourists, who may turn elsewhere ... As for shipping, we're already seeing TV news footage of people buying bags of rice and loads of toilet paper and other necessities in case the expected goods from the Mainland don't arrive ...
MARYKNOLL School celebrates its 75th birthday tomorrow. It was exactly three- quarters of a century ago that Maryknoll Sisters opened the school. Believe it or not, some alumni who attended classes at Maryknoll on that first day of school on Sept. 6, 1927, will be recognized at the 75th birthday event including Bob Moranha, Virgie Gonsalves and Bill Garcia. Maryknoll Sisters and Fathers, along with alumni and current student representatives, will shower the statue of Mary with flowers ...
Hongo Hongo Hongo
PERFORMERS Randy & Gay Hongo next week head back to Japan for the 13th time. The couple will be singing at numerous cities while there and premiere their second Japanese language CD, "Songs of Praise." While the two remain active in propagating Christian music, one family member who held an important post with Angel Records, son Andrew Hongo, is leaving his post. Despite rubbing elbows with names from the classical and Christian music fields, Andrew confided to his dad that at the end of many days, his heart felt empty, so he's applied for and got a job doing PR work for Teen Challenge, a drug rehab center in Brooklyn. Behind the scenes: Andrew was a friend of Dara Onishi, like him a Punahou and Yale alum, whose life was cut short after a boulder freakishly crashed down her Nuuanu hillside and crushed her in her bed. Andrew is also a friend of Onishi's boyfriend, a student at Yale. He called them "the perfect couple." He hopes to do good in Brooklyn leaving the music to Randy & Gay ...THAT "Gifts of Aloha" project is running short of funds to take 25,000 lei, T-shirts and gift baskets to 9/11 ceremonies in New York, so various fund-raisers are being held to help make the gift of aloha a reality ... Mark Takahama took his fiancee, FM100 morning personality Charley Espina to her first bon dance. She proclaimed the Maui evening "a blast." ...
Fiddling around
FORMER Irish Hearts fiddler Lisa Gomes will be fiddling and heading a singalong at Ferguson's Pub in the old Dillingham Transportation Building tomorrow night and on Sunday playing in an Irish jam session at Kelly O'Neil's on Lewers. Then on Sept. 13, her old zydeco band, Bon Ton Roule, begins a comeback at the Ho'olaulea outside Murphy's and O'Toole's at Merchant and Nuuanu ...
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