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youth villageSAY you were the editor of Island Business magazine, and the magazine folded. Would you turn to a similar position elsewhere? Not if you were Lucy Jokiel, apparently. When her magazine closed up shop, she left town. I mean she really left town. She even left the country, signing on with the China Daily in Beijing. Recently, Jokiel has been spotted downtown with longtime friend Cathy Brogan, CEO of Summit Lending. Brogan, who's been working for three years to establish Summit, strongly believes small business owners have a responsibility to serve the community. With that in mind, she's hired Jokiel to oversee the company's own non-profit foundation to establish a children's village on Oahu. Four years ago, Brogan and Jokiel attended a women's retreat together at St. Anthony's in Kalihi Valley. Some 50 years ago it was an orphanage for disadvantaged kids, including those whose parents had leprosy and were sent to Kalaupapa. Said Jokiel, "Cathy was so touched by the photos of children playing in the stream and seeing hundreds of perfectly made beds upstairs, she vowed to some day open a youth facility." Thanks to a chance meeting with a generous man with a big heart who grew up in Kalihi, Brogan is bringing her dream to fruition. "I knew Cathy would be true to her word," said Jokiel, "but I never expected it would happen so fast and that I would be actively involved." ...
Dream on
It was "dream time" at the Hawaii Convention Center at the opening of the 2003 First Hawaiian International Auto Show. Several legislators mingled with the crowd and, like them, dreamed of new car ownership. Sen. Kalani English fell in love with the new Hummer, envisioning it hugging the curves on the Hana Highway. Sen. Willy Espero seated himself behind the wheel of a new Jaguar, but bragged that his 1977 model had the ultimate classic lines. Other legislators at the auto show included Sen. Norman Sakamoto, Sen. Brian Kanno and Rep. Barbara Marumoto. Also at the fete was Gov. Linda Lingle, who made reference to her family's many ties to the auto dealership business ...YESTERDAY was the 30th birthday of KITV's Mahealani Richardson, and a birthday bash was thrown for her at Meritage in Restaurant Row. Her mother, Helen Richardson, reminded me I'd written about the island beauty when she was 3 years old ...
Corky goes international
In case you missed it, Star-Bulletin cartoonist extraordinaire Corky has gone international. Seems Jeanne Moss of CNN did a five-minute report on editorial cartoons about the war from papers throughout the world. She showed Corky's Tuesday cartoon, which showed U.S. soldiers entering Iraq and being greeted by a group of "elated" cable news execs. It was the second one mentioned by Moss in that episode and shown to viewers around the world. And Wolf Blitzer even mentioned the Star-Bulletin in his report. Then yesterday, another Corky cartoon was shown on CNN, which featured an aide of Saddam at their TV station telling him that all the makeup artists had been executed ...
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