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Monday, June 12, 2000
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Someone out there must know something
about this building.
"Who," asks the Yank, "is Irene?" And the Scots just stare at each other. They don't have any idea who Irene is. The boat has always been named IRENE. So why ask?
Which brings us to this building smack dab in the middle of the city's Date Street mini park, a scrap of play space where the thoroughfares of Kapiolani, Date and Kamoku collide. Somebody, somewhere, likely knows all about this building. But that somebody was not available last week.
It has that C.W. Dickey, Mission-style civic/municipal utilitarian-but-classy architectural look that was popular in the '20s. "Wouldn't surprise me if Dickey designed it himself," guessed David Scott of the Historic Hawaii Foundation.
No one at the State Historic Preservation Office had the answer either. Director Don Hibbard did say it was a nice-looking building.
The arched windows were glassed as recently as the 1970s, allowing citizens to see machinery busily beavering away at some mysterious civic purpose.
It has the look of a Board of Water Supply Building. No, said Water, it's probably Hawaiian Electric. Hawaiian Electric looked at the tax-key map and declared it the Kapahulu Sewage Pumping Station. Wastewater Management said there is supposed to be an abandoned pumping station at the site, but it is no longer their property. The City's directory of mini parks says it's an electrical transformer building. And so the circle of confusion is complete.
We're guessing -- guessing, mind you! -- it is a later edition of that classic Traphagen pumping station still sitting forlornly and broken-windowed on Ala Moana Blvd. Except that no one is bidding to turn it into a museum or cultural center or Wolfgang Puck eatery.
By Burl Burlingame, Star-Bulletin
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Prepare to gulp burgers
Get ready for the return of the Teenie Beanie Babies. The cute critters are set to return to McDonald's tomorrow as a promotion for the fast-food restaurants' Happy Meals.McDonald's is dubbing the day McHappy Day, with a special Teenie Beanie Baby available in limited quantities. Proceeds from sales will benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities.
For those who remember getting stuffed with Happy Meals for a mere 12 Beanies in past promotions, this time around, there will be 29 Teenie Beanie Babies available in two series. That represents a whole lotta chomping down on burgers, cheeseburgers and McNuggets.
Happy Meal Beanie Babies will continue to be offered free with the purchase of a Happy Meal, or sold separately with the purchase of another regular menu item.
More exclusive Superstar Teenie Beanie Babies -- including "Dinosaurs" and "International Bears 2000" collectibles -- will be specially packaged and available for $2.49 with the purchase of a regularly priced menu item.
Log onto http://www.mcdonalds.com for more information.
Kid's lit conference set
Patricia McLaughlin, author of the Newbery Award-winning "Sarah, Plain and Tall," will be among the writers, educators, illustrators, parents, grandparents, librarians and children at the 10th Biennial Conference of Literature and Hawai'i's Children this weekend.The three-day conference, sponsored by Children's Literature Hawai'i, the University of Hawaii at Manoa English Department and the Outreach College, opens Thursday with a free celebration of stories, images and drama. The evening's activities will run from 7 to 9 p.m. at UH Campus Center.
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, there will be a series of workshops and activities for adults and teen-agers. A new Teen Track program will be presented to help teen-age writers and artists. Children's activities will run from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Conference fees are $35 for Friday and Saturday sessions. An additional fee of $20 will be charged for professional "how-to" sessions. The Teen Track program fee is $15. The childrens' activities will cost $5.
Other guests will be Ed Young, illustrator and author of children's books and magazines, including the Caldecott Medal-winning "Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China," and Marianne Carus, editor-in-chief of a series of children's books and publications, including "Cricket," one of the foremost children's magazines in the country.
Carus also will teach a workshop, "Who Says You Have to Do a Book?: How to Get Published in Children's Magazines," Wednesday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at UH Campus Center Room 308.
For more information on the conference, call 956-7559. For information about Carus' events, call 373-9522.
Masaki hosts Pianothon
Longtime piano teacher Ellen Masaki will stage a "Pianothon" July 9 to help raise funds for the Honolulu Symphony.The marathon concert featuring students from the Ellen Masaki School of Music will run 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sheraton Waikiki's Kauai Ballroom.
Students will raise pledges for their playing, and the public is invited to listen.
Masaki, who recently turned 72, has been teaching piano for 47 years. More than 165 of her students have soloed with the Honolulu Symphony and many have graduated to professional careers in music.
Among her students have been Sean Kennard, winner of the Chopin Competition and now at the Curtis Institute of Music; Juilliard graduate Lisa Nakamichi, now performing in Japan; Dwight Okamura, a pianist with the San Francisco Symphony; and Brian Masua, a choral director in Amsterdam.
Following the Pianothon, she will be honored at a 6 p.m. on site dinner that costs $40 per person and also benefits the symphony. For more information or to make reservations for the dinner, call Nancy Masaki at Thayer Piano, 593-9395.
Radio Log
KONG 570-AM / 93.5 FM: Adult contemporary rock with some Hawaiian music
KSSK 590-AM / 92.3-FM: Adult contemporary music
KHNR 650-AM: All news
KQMQ 93.1-FM: Contemporary hit radio
KQMQ 690-AM: Radio Disney
KGU 760-AM: Sports radio
KHVH 830-AM: News, talk, traffic, weather
KAIM 870-AM / 95.5-FM: Christian music and teaching AM; contemporary Christian music FM
KJPN 940-AM: Japanese-language news, adult contemporary music and talk shows
KIKI 990-AM / 93.9-FM: Contemporary country AM; contemporary hits FM
KLHT 1040-AM: Christian radio
KWAI 1080-AM: Talk radio
KZOO 1210-AM: Japanese-language, broadcasts from Japan
KNDI 1270-AM: Live news from the Philippines; programs in 10 languages
KIFO 1380-AM: News, public affairs
KCCN 1420-AM / 100.3-FM: All talk / UH sports AM; contemporary island hits, FM
KUMU 1500-AM / 94.7-FM: Adult standards, AM; light rock, FM
KHPR 88.1-FM: Classical, news, public affairs
KIPO 89.3-FM: Jazz, classical, news
KTUH 90.3-FM: Jazz, blues, Hawaiian, rock, country and alternative
KKUA 90.7-FM: Classical, news and public affairs
KKCR 90.9 / 91.9-FM: Hawaiian music, midnight-3 p.m.; and rock, reggae, classical and new age
KRTR 96.3-FM: Adult contemporary music and news
KPOI 97.5-FM: Modern rock
KDNN 98.5-FM: Contemporary Hawaiian
KORL 99.5-FM: Adult contemporary
STAR 101.9-FM: Modern hits
KKHN 102.7-FM: Country
KXME 104.3-FM: Top 40
KINE 105.1-FM: Hawaiian
KGMZ 107.9-FM: Oldies
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