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Hawaii
NOT one to be outdone by local designers Trees decked
in jewels, goldlike Anne Namba or artists Peggy Chun and Mark Chai, Hawaii's First Lady Vicky Cayetano is demonstrating a creativity of her own. All the above (and more) have designed and decorated miniature trees for the Festival of Trees gift sale and silent auction this weekend at Ward Warehouse. Vicky's tree is as impressive as any, since she hand-beaded 30 multi-colored glass bead bracelets for her decorative touch. Bids for the silent auction close Sunday at 2 p.m., and someone will end up with the one-of-a-kind "Jewels of the First Lady" tree ... Billie Takaki, who took over as Miss Hawaii when Angela Baraquio became Miss America, has also designed a tree, created as a tribute to the Golden Year of the Dragon, not just her sign, but Angie's as well ...
WHICHEVER team wins the high school football state championship tonight, St. Louis or Kahuku, will still have a daunting task ahead. At least they'll have to team up with as much muscle and brawn as they can to lift the first ever perpetual trophy above their shoulders, like the Stanley Cup victors do in hockey. Commissioned by Chevron Hawaii and designed by Hawaiian artist Alani Apio, the trophy stands about 5 feet, 2 inches -- about the size of Bette Midler -- only it weighs a bit more. The trophy has a solid koa wood base and is topped off with a stone perch and a kamani wood calabash. The imposing trophy will be presented by Chevron's Albert Chee and Keith Amemiya of the Hawaii High School Athletic Association to either coach Cal Lee's St. Louis Crusaders or coach Siuaki Livai's Kahuku Red Raiders after the game ...
Pueo, Protector
BEFORE he succumbed to cancer in January 1998, Msgr. Charles Kekumano let it be known he hoped someone would come up with a protector, an aumakua, for the good works of the American Cancer Society in Hawaii. He envisioned the protective spirit as a pueo, an owl, and in his final days a pueo statue carved and polished from native bluestone was found. On Dec. 14, the sculpture devoted to Msgr. Kekumano's protector will be dedicated on the grounds of the local chapter of the Cancer Society on Nuuanu Avenue. The sculpture, by C.W. Watson, is in tribute to the monsignor ...IT was a family gathering at Murphy's the other evening. Ray Sweeney of Sweeney Communications gathered his wife, Adrienne, sister Penny, plus children Erin and Ryan in honor of his in-laws, Al and Ann Liva, visiting from San Francisco. Al is about to turn 90 and Ann 86, and while he moves rather slowly, Liva talks rapidly of his love for the St. Mary football teams from the 1930s onward, from Skip Madigan (about which he knows seemingly everything) to Herman Wedemeyer, Hawaii's gift to the Gaels. Ray revealed he introduced his father-in-law to Wedey a few years ago, and for the first time in his life, found the man speechless ...
John Boy
IF you're planning to take in the Jim Nabors Christmas show at the Hawaii Theatre tonight, as I seem to do each year, you might want to set your VCR to tape "Elton John: Greatest Hits Live! One Night Only," on KGMB-TV. This is Elton John's first network TV special and features him doing duets with the likes of Billy Joel, Mary J. Blige and Kiki Dee. The special was taped during John's sold-out Madison Square Garden concerts in October. He'll be bringing his same band when he plays the Blaisdell Arena on Jan. 12 and 13, 2001 ...
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