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Ben Wood
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Watermen get into the swim at Kahala store grand opening
Top watermen from Hawaii and California attended the Kahala isle clothing store grand opening Thursday at Ala Moana Center. Those wishing owner
Josh Feldman, creative director
Dale Hope and store manager
Krishna Chatterjee well included:
Ricky Grigg, Mark Rigg, Randy Rarick, Mark Cunningham, Jimmy Thurston, Duke Boyd, Jim McMann, Keoni Watson, Mark Fragale, Michael Cassidy, George Kam, Ray Rausch, Jock Sutherland and
Mike Holmes, among others. Primo beer, as it was in the old days, was the drink of choice.
Kahu Marion Lyman-Mersereau gave the blessing, using water from the exact spot off Kahala Beach where Dale scattered the ashes of his mom,
Gladys Hope. Kahu Marion was on the Hokulea with
Eddie Aikau when the canoe capsized in rough seas in 1978 and Eddie surfed away in the darkness to get help. He was never seen again ...
Mariah Carey spent some time earlier this month at the luxury Portlock home of Rob Burns, filming part of a video on the surf-pounding point of Koko Kai. Rob is a former owner of Kahala and founder of Local Motion. He sold Kahala to Dale. Dale sold it to Josh, who also owns Tori Richard. Rob is now one of East Oahu Realty's top agents. Are you still with me? ...
Nanakuli girl Daynin gets down to business
Daynin Dashefsky is swinging back into action with her business seminars. Her next one, "The Inventor's Tool Kit Seminar, is booked July 6 in the Ala Moana Hotel's Carnation Room, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and will cover designs, patents, production and selling. Daynin is an inventor who knows how to put things together for inventors. Her products are or have been sold by companies such as Longs, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, FAO Schwarz and Toys 'R' Us. She learned to work with her hands, building inventions at an early age. She even took a car completely apart, engine and all, and put it back together again when she was at Nanakuli High, not something a pretty young girl normally does. Daynin won the Miss Philippines America title in 1989. She and her ex, KHNL anchor
Howard Dashefsky, have two kids,
Kylee, 12, and
Briana, 10. The seminar cost is $250 in advance or $300 at the door. Call 263-8160 or e-mail
www.gfiassociates.com ...
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