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A dinner honoring Charlie and Lucy Wedemeyer will take place in the Tapa Ballroom of the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Jan. 19. UH's football coach of the year June Jones is honorary chair. Motivational speaker Zig Ziglar is guest host. The evening will include a silent auction. Sam Choy is donating a dinner for 20 people, prepared by him, for the auction. In 1977, Charlie was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease and was given a year to live by doctors. Twenty-two years later, he is still making motivational engagements, getting his message across through Lucy. Dinner tickets are $100. Funds raised will help complete a documentary on Charlie and Lucy, "The Courage to Live: A Message of Love and Hope." Fred Hemmings, Pal Eldridge and Wayne Sterling are helping with the program. Call Patty Lee, 778-3312, for more ticket info ... Wedemeyers to
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Museum garden featured
House and Garden TV was in town recently to feature the meditative and sculpture gardens at TheContemporary Museum for "Secret Gardens of Honolulu," airing next spring. Museum Director Georgianna Lagoria was interviewed. The Contemporary Museum gardens recently won a Medallion Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. The award was part of a once-in-a-century program to honor landscapes that "improve the quality of life in communities throughout the nation." Other isle gardens filmed for the show are Foster Gardens, Sen. Hiram Fong's Plantation, and landscape designer Leland Miyano's garden at his Kahaluu home ...
CDs make good last-minute Christmas gifts and there are a bunch of them out for the holidays. The Society of Seven, Al Waterson, Melinda Caroll, Marlene Sai with her daughter Mahela, Willie K, Amy Gilliom and John Keawe all have CDs out. A CD that would make most anyone happy is Iz's "Facing Future," recorded years ago. That's the one on which he sings "Over the Rainbow." Christmas music CDs by various artists have been released by Hula Records and Pa Leo Hawaii ...
Incredible chases on land, water, in the air and skiing on steep treacherous mountain slopes, along with gorgeous women, plenty of gunplay and explosions, make "The World Is Not Enough" a must-see picture for James Bond fans. Pierce Brosnon is a solid Bond ...
Former isle-based public relations woman and author Babs Harrison is engaged to writer Robert McGarvey. He gave her a South Seas pearl ring with diamonds that he designed. Babs is with Sheila Donnelly & Associates based in San Francisco ... Ben and Gayla Kaluna Townsends' recent luau and how to prepare it took up most of the front page of the Citrus County Chronicle food section. The luau, for 150 people, took place at the Townsends' Crystal River, Fla., home ... Singer Anita Hall stars in the New Hope Christian Fellowship Christmas program Tuesday through Friday nights at Farrington High Auditorium ... Singer-pianist David Swanson is a holdover at Diamond Head Grill, formerly David Paul's ...
Get a taste of this
Former isle resident Jerry Hopkins, now living in Bangkok, has a new book out, "Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies -- An Epicurean Adventure Around the World." According to USA Today, Hopkins says he's made a meal of things such as waterbugs silkworm cocoons and baby frogs. Burp! ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets
of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of
people, places and things every Saturday.
E-mail him at bwood@starbulletin.com