Hawaii
1-club champ: Have
six-iron, will travelIF you're attending Dolphin Days at the Hilton Waikoloa Village this weekend and a guy comes up carrying a 6-iron and challenges you and your entire bag of clubs to a game of golf, run! Chances are it's Thad Daber, who's playing in the tournament at the King's Course on the Big Island this weekend. Back in 1987, Daber took out his 6-iron and birdied four holes at the 6,200-yard Lochmere Golf Club in Cary, North Carolina, carding a two-under par 70 and capturing the Guinness Book of World Records one-club scoring record. Daber is a four-time world one-club champ and still travels with his trusty 6-iron ...
HE seems to have been playing around Oahu as much as working, but that's all coming to an end. Bruce Willis and his "Hostile Rescue" cast and crew will be having a wrap party on Sunday. Brian Wilson's musical director, musician/songwriter Jeffrey Foskett, here to perform with Papa Doo Run Run for the "Taste of Honolulu" Saturday night, will stay over and perform at the wrap party...
FOR the first time in more than 20 years, Guido Salmaggi won't be here to sing the National Anthem at the Pearl Harbor Fourth of July celebration and for the Macfarlane Regatta. His wife, Maria, isn't well and Guido elected to stay in Florida and care for her instead of flying off to his former Hawaii home ... Jim Vitatoe is among those flying in for this week's brain injury symposium at the Convention Center. Who he? He's a partner in the Masry & Vitatoe law firm featured in "Erin Brockovich." ...
Family of firefighters
THE Hawaii Foodbank's annual patriot's celebration Wednesday at the Hilton Hawaiian village will be honoring dedicated members of Honolulu's fire, police and emergency medical services. None should get more attention than that First Family of Firefighters, the Akionas of Waimanalo, Pawaa station's retired rescue captain Peter Akiona Jr., and offspring Byron, Aaron, Kevin, Peter III and Hawaii's first female firefighter, Debbie Akiona ...THAT big and beautiful quilt hanging in the dining room of Sansei at Restaurant Row was designed by the staff, one square each, as a gift for owner D.K. Kodama's mom, Sandy. Mama Kodama's at the restaurant nearly every day, and is now sporting a crisp, white chef's coat with her title, "Executive Mom," embroidered on it ... Roy Yamaguchi demonstrated his culinary skills at the conclusion of the "Today" show yesterday ...
Cold blast from past
FROZEN assets were everywhere at American Savings Bank the other day, and more than 1,600 people laid out some cold, hard cash to get hold of them. To raise bread for the Aloha United Way, the cool cats at American Savings turned the second floor of the bank's tower into a '50s style malt shop, complete with an employee doo-wop band, roller skating waitresses, dreamy greasers and knockout pompon girls. Chief ice cream scooper Connie Lau wore a poodle skirt, saddle shoes and cats-eye peepers, leading her team in dishing out ice-cream sundaes, banana splits, floats and shakes. They raised more than $7,500 for Aloha United Way ...
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