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Memorial for Kent Bowman set next Saturday in Kailua
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erriam Olds will arrive next week from Las Vegas to set up a memorial for
Kent Bowman next Saturday at St. Anthony's Church in Kailua at 10 a.m. Kent died Dec. 20 in Las Vegas, where he and wife,
Joyce, lived. Merriam is married to
Bill Olds, Kent's nephew. Bill, a retired Army colonel who gave the eulogy for Kent in Las Vegas, won't be here. He departs tomorrow for Iraq, where he is a civilian contractor working for he U.S. government. Besides being a successful businessman, Kent was the first big-name local comedian that I can remember. He had audiences rolling with laughter with his pidgin English-speaking characters, most notably politician
K.K. Kaumanua. Bill said about 200 people came to Kent's services Dec. 27 in Vegas ...
Fashionplate Jany Cataldo, one of Honolulu's better-known party-givers when she had a home between Doris Duke's Shangri La and Jim Nabors' home and later at her Colony Surf apartment, is engaged. The lucky guy is businessman-yachtsman Beau Champion. Jany and Tiana Torii, another of the town's best dressed, attended Dior's party at the Ala Moana store Dec. 27 for the unveiling of Dior's 60th-anniversary book. Dior chief Cammy Maheras had Marisa Gey and Branka Knezevic model spring fashions as guests enjoyed champagne and pupus. Carolyn Haik won a Dior bag and book in a raffle ...
Erin Cafaro rows up a storm at Clark Hatch
Clark Hatch Fitness Center members who worked out the day before Christmas were surprised to see a new young woman on the rowing machine, performing like a champion. And a champ
Erin Cafaro is, having been a member of the U.S. women's four rowing quartet that won the world's championship in Munich, Germany, last September. Erin, 24, is gunning for the Olympics as a member of the U.S. National Team, specializing in the women's eight sweep event. Erin and her parents,
John and
Vian Cafaro, were visiting Kauai from Modesto, Calif. There was no gym with a rowing machine equipped to measure Erin's training that the national team requires, so she flew to Honolulu to use a machine at Hatch. Good-guy owner
Bill Monsen did not charge her. Erin spoke with Hatch rowing stars
Tony Gill and
Roc Ley while here. After the four-hour visit she was back on a plane for Kauai ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of people, places and things in our Hawaii. E-mail him at
bwood@starbulletin.com