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TheBuzz Erika Engle |
Serving the servers
and repeating a
television resignationA concierge can be the unsung hero of a visitor's vacation. Now their bosses are being asked to croon a tune on their behalf.
A call for nominations has gone out to hotel management, marketing executives and concierges for Guest Informant's annual Aloha Spirit Awards, to honor the best of the best concierges on Oahu, the Big Island and Kauai. Nomination forms are available from the hard-cover visitor guide publisher at 949-8036 and due by May 30.
Awards will be presented for Oahu's Best, Big Island's Best, Kauai's Best, Most Knowledgeable, Most Creative Solution, Greatest Length of Service and the overall award for Most Aloha Spirit.
The Oahu awards ceremony will be June 18 at the newly opened Longhi's at Ala Moana Center. Awards for the other islands will be later this year.
Aloha, again
News 8 Today morning anchor Barbara Wallace will be leaving the station -- for a second time."I couldn't do it the first time," she chuckled. She had included a similar phrase in a note to John Fink, vice president and general manager of KHNL and KFVE.
Wallace was among the charter hires when KHNL launched local news coverage in April 1995. In 2001 she took leave and later resigned, but rejoined the station as morning news anchor April 1 of last year.
Now after 23 years in the news business it's time for "normal hours," she said.
She won't miss the 3 a.m. wake-ups but she will miss her crack-of-dawn-colleagues.
"The hardest thing about leaving was feeling like I was leaving the team," referring to "the people you don't see ... they're all like a big family."
Family business and the business of her family will occupy Wallace's normal hours.
"My husband and I have a consulting business that involves sales and marketing and is tourism-related and I'm going to devote full time to that," she said.
She'll also continue an indulgence she's gotten used to as a morning anchor.
"I have the time to go pick up my daughter from school every day after school without rushing around, and I really don't want to have to give that up."
Wallace will work on special projects such as the stations' annual Toys for Tots campaign.
The decision on who will occupy the a.m. anchor chair is pending.
"We have some strong internal candidates," Fink said.
Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
Call 529-4302, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle,
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