Hawaii
They say it’s all
happening downtownA LOTOF things are going on downtown and uptown and tonight. To wit, there's "A Tailgate for Nate," one of Don Murphy's patented fund-raisers for the UH football team, in this case the medical fund of gridiron standout Nate Jackson, suffering a heart ailment. It'll take place at Murphy's Bar & Grill. Entertainment for the 5:30 p.m. event will be by Jake Shimabukuro and others, including the group Ten Feet. There'll be a showing of a video called "Nate's Greatest Hits," a Gaspro tailgate feed and beverages, all for a $50 donation ...
UP Nuuanu Avenue from Murphy's, a party will watch as an armored car from Loomis, Fargo & Company pulls up to Indigo with a load of the 2002 Beaujolais Nouveau. Delivery will be made around 6:45 p.m. to go with French hors d'oeuvres prepared by Chef Glenn Chu ... Today is the 60th birthday of crossword puzzle creator Cindy Joy Higgins, but the first time she's had a party. Friends learned she'd grown up with parents who didn't believe of such things, and got her permission to hold a party tonight at the Elk's Club. Higgins, whose puzzles have run in the N.Y. Times, among other publications, is a dancer in the halau of Leimomi Ho, so you know her musical pals, like Keith & Carmen Haugen will be on hand to help her celebrate ...
Wild, not woolly
The E! network spent six weeks in Asia shooting "Wild On..." shows, and were supposed to have finished up on Bali. Yeah, things got a little too "Wild" for real on Bali with a devastating bombing of a disco, so "Wild on Hawaii," which had been slated for next February, was moved up. Localite Mona Wood helped hostess Cindy Taylor and local co-host Cindy Palaracio of KHNL, who became known as Cindy T. and Cindy P., in lining up their Hawaii exploits. This included the skydiving episodes written about earlier, a steamy swimsuit shoot at Diamond Head Beach with photog Russell Tanoue and ADR models Juliet Lighter, Jennifer Abreu and Sondra Barker. The two Cindys met up at Mandara Spa at the Hilton Hawaiian for chocolate and coffee body scrubs and massages. Palaracio even started eating the scrub mixture after the therapist okayed it ... At about the same time a tourist was bitten by a shark on Maui, Taylor was wrapping up her Valley Isle shoot by swimming with sharks herself. Her swim, however, was in the controlled environment of the Maui Ocean Center in Maalaea ...
On the road again
WHEN the original "Chaplain of Waikiki Beach," Bob Turnbull and wife Yvonne, decided to cut short their national speaking and marriage consulting tour to settle in Washington, D.C., I wondered how long it would last. Not long, apparently, despite the considerable marriage problems in the nation's capital. Now the Turnbulls have elected to return to their traveling the country and Canada and go "On the Road Again." They'll be speaking and holding family conferences for the foreseeable future, and will present a communication conference at New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu in February ...
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