Hawaii
YOU may have read in Charley Memminger's "Honolulu Lite" column about how Miss Cleo, the alleged "psychic," is stalking me. On Wednesday, Charley wrote about how Miss Cleo has been bombarding me with e-mail and official looking mail and how he called, impersonating me, intending to ask some hard questions. Miss Cleo was unavailable -- probably making more TV commercials, but the woman who answered told Charley that he -- meaning me -- had a drinking problem or a girlfriend with one. He assured her I had neither, but was told a "Golden Window" would befall me in 11 days. I laughed it off until I realized that I'm playing a man with a drinking problem in a play, "The Dead," which opens on Nov. 9, exactly 11 days from when the column appeared. You see how easy it is for people to get sucked into believing in psychics? I'm still hoping for that "Golden Window" ... Psychic network predicts a
‘golden window’ Nov. 9WHO better to be honored at a "Celebrate a Legacy in Tourism" dinner at the Royal Hawaiian's Monarch Room Nov. 14 than Bob Burns, longtime G.M. of the Kahala Hilton (Now Kahala Mandarin Oriental) and as head of Regent International, one of the giants of the hospitality industry. He was also a strong advocate for the School of Travel Industry Management, the group honoring him that evening ... While I go way back with Burns, who opened the Kahala in 1964, I go back even further with the Bayanihan, the Philippine National Folk Dance company that will perform Nov. 30 at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. I saw them at Farrington Hall on the UH campus in their first Hawaii visit in 1959. They were returning from the Brussels World Fair and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Sidelight: In that company was a young Lito Arienza, now mayor of Manila, and a 14-year-old beauty named Hana who soon would become Mrs. Corky Trinidad, wife of the Star-Bulletin's star cartoonist ...
Calendar Girl
THE last place you'd expect to see isle-born actress Tia Carrere is on a dog calendar, but you can find her on Ralston Purina's 2002 dog calendar. Oh yes, Tia and other celebs like Michelle Kwan, Sarah Ferguson, Chris Evert, Wynonna Judd and Kelsey Grammer are accompanied by their pet doggies on the calendar. In Tia's case, it's a family of Shar-Peis ...THE HoloHolo Ku residential community on Parker Ranch land in Waimea will have two "artists in residence." After years of living on Hawaii with their landmark gallery and botanical garden, Hiroshi Tagami and Michael Powell are sold on the Big Isle and each has donated an original painting of Waimea for a raffle for all buyers of record at the project's groundbreaking today ...
Tree memorial
ONE localite killed on United Flight 93 as a result of terrorist takeover of the plane was Christine Snyder, certified arborist and project manager of landscape and planning for the Outdoor Circle. So what better memorial for her than a tree planting at the ewa end of Magic Island on Nov. 10. The City had to remove six trees from the island because they were burned at their bases by campers depositing used barbecue coals. Now the Circle is urging people not to leave their coals behind, destroying the trees planted in Snyder's memory ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com