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Oprah, Chicago woman help isle hospital, patients' families

In October, Oprah Winfrey gave $1,000 to each audience member at her show to give back to communities. Megan O'Gorman of Chicago, who does business here, used her $1,000 to buy things Kapiolani Hospital could use. Megan gave the medical center four round-trip tickets on go!, video phones and art supplies. Learning of Megan's gifts that would be used by neighbor islanders to visit their ill children, go!, donated 40 more round-trip tickets to the hospital. Three of Megan's tickets went to the family of Dan and Charlene Mersburgh of Kailua-Kona. They used them to visit their 5-year-old daughter, Ruth, on Thanksgiving. Ruth's photo was shown on the Winfrey show. Oprah, who has property on Maui, flashed a shaka sign as the program ended. Right on, all around! ... uh's year-old, $150-million John A. Burns School of Medicine, had the cover story in the November issue of Academic Medicine, the journal of the nation's association of 125 medical schools ...

Robin Leach and Al Masini were spotted in La Mer at the Halekulani Tuesday night ... La Mer and Chef Yves Garnier are presenting the Louis XIII de Remy Martin nine-course dinner for $155 through Dec. 30. It's not too far from what Napa Valley's acclaimed French Laundry, one the best restaurants anywhere, offers ...

SI calls Brennan 'dark horse Heisman candidate'

Sports Illustrated continues to beat the drums for UH quarterback Colt Brennan. In its Who's Hot column in the Dec. 4 issue, the magazine says he rallied the Warriors over Purdue for the team's ninth straight win. The blurb's last sentence reads: "Aloha, dark horse Heisman candidate" ... Mayor Mufi Hannemann was in Las Vegas Tuesday when the Society of Seven was honored with a star on the Walk of Stars. The mayor honored the group by proclaiming it "Society of Seven Day' in Honolulu. He and Fran Kirk of Outrigger Entertainment met with Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and gave him a proclamation naming Vegas Honolulu's first "Aloha City" ... She doesn't look anywhere near it but singer-hula dancer Carmen Haugen celebrated her 65th birthday Nov. 22. And what did her entertainer-husband Keith give her? A Senior's bus pass, that's what ...