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SO I bump into a longtime friend lunching with an attractive young lady -- not his wife -- and playfully tease, "I'm gonna tell on you." His matter-of-fact response, "May you be among the first to hear my wife served papers on me Friday." After 30 years! Sometimes it doesn't pay to make wise-acre remarks ... Possibly Open mouth,
put foot ininspired by playing surrogate mother to all the Von Trapp children in "Sound of Music" at Army Community Theatre last year, Katie Doyle has learned she's about the enter the "Parent (Von) Trapp" herself before year's end. She became approximately the billionth woman to remark that she doesn't care if she has a boy or a girl as long as its healthy ...
BURNING the candle at both ends in preparing for the Ritz-Carlton's eighth annual "Celebration of the Arts" on Easter Weekend is the hotel's Hawaiian culture expert and celebration chairman Clifford Nae'ole. I attended last year's event and it was a potpourri of Hawaiian music, arts and crafts that went around the clock for four days. If you'd like to see an excellent Internet website on the celebration, click www.celebrationofthearts.org ... Richard D. Williams, MSgt., USAF, who reads us on the Internet, emails from the Azores with a reminder that it's the 14th anniversary of the Sugar Bar in Waialua, and the fourth anniversary of the motorcycle accident which severely injured owner Peter Birnbaum as he was en route home from the 10th anniversary party. Sgt. Williams was a longtime resident of the area and frequent visitor to the Sugar Bar ...
More pluck than luck
WHEN Frederick Housel was a child, he lost a large portion of his jaw to a tumor, and doctors said he'd never fulfill his dream of playing the clarinet. Well, he showed them! Not only did he persevere with the clarinet, but now plays it brilliantly. Each year just one student from each state is picked to win an Emmerson Scholarship to attend the prestigious Interlochen Summer Music Program. Frederick once again overcame great odds and was this year's winner. The 17-year-old will be playing Saturday afternoon with the rest of the Hawaii Youth Symphony II orchestra at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. Call 941-9706 for tickets ...NOW the lucky ones: Iwon.com is holding a contest open to everyone entering its website in which someone wins $10,000 each day. Thus far, there have been two winners from Hawaii -- Lori Morisato, a pharmacy technician from Honolulu, and Donald Kramer, a retired air traffic controller from Hilo ... Also in the money is KHPR. The station's "Challenge 2000" ended yesterday, two days early, because it already had received pledges over $5,000 ahead of the stated goal of $277,750 ...
Prescription: Laughter
THE theme for this year's Leukemia & Lymphoma Society fund-raiser at the Sheraton Waikiki was "Laughter is the Best Medicine." Helping create the laughs were comics Ron Reid, Duane Goad and Mike "Boats" Johnson, all of whom have ties to cancer. Reid's nephew died of leukemia, Goad is a leukemia patient and Johnson is a cancer survivor. Besides the yucks, two tireless volunteers were also saluted. Winning "Ali'i Awards" as Man of the Year and Woman of the Year were Wally Miyahira, retired head of Castle & Cooke Homes Hawaii, and Sharon Ito Matsuo, Japan coordinator for HVCB. Matsuo, incidentally, was a McKinley classmate of leukemia patient Chris Pablo, who was in the audience ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
His columns run Monday through Friday.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com