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Tanaka said Wilson
was the man years agoCastle High grad and PGA tour rookie Dean Wilson certainly got a big boost in his career by being in the threesome with Annika Sorenstam when she was the talk of every town playing against top male pros in the Colonial Open last month. Several years ago, Roots and Relics owner Keith Tanaka introduced me to Dean when he stopped by Keith's golf shop and was fooling around with an unusual putter. Back then, Keith told me that Dean had the best chance of any Hawaii golfer to make the PGA tour. Keith knew what he was talking about ... Flipped on CNN Tuesday morning and there was Hawaii's own Michelle Wie, 13, being praised for qualifying for the U.S. Women's Open, scheduled July 3 to 6. Go Michelle! The Punahou girl's golf future appears limitless ... Corky Trinidad has fired three holes in one, not two as I reported earlier...
Chewing on
It's a dining extravaganza for Don and Mary Robertson of Indian Wells, Calif., this week. Now on one of their many trips to Hawaii, this time to celebrate three of the family's big events, they marked their 50th wedding anniversary Thursday night at the Halekulani's La Mer where chef Yves Garnier prepared a royal feast on a perfect Hawaiian moonlit night. On Monday they were at the 13th birthday party for their isle grandson, Taylor Medeiros, and tomorrow they will be at Morton's for Don's Father's Day dinner. Oh yeah, there were also dinners at Orchids and Michel's. The diet comes next ... Honorary Sri Lankan Consul Kusuma Cooray, Sri Lankan ambassador to the U.S. and Mexico Devinda R. Subasinghe and other Sri Lankans, including the country's top admiral, Daya Sandagiri, dined at La Mer on Wednesday. Cooray is a professor at Kapiolani Community College who specializes in continental cuisine ...Bishop Museum is celebrating a Summer of Mars. This August, Mars will be closer to Earth than it ever has been in 50,000 years and the museum is holding a number of activities to commemorate the planet starting today through Sept. 2. Offerings include a special planetarium show, Red Planet Mars, which demonstrates how to locate Mars way up there and tells about this summer's Mars Exploration Rover Missions. Call 847-3511 for info ...
The Hawaii Restaurant Association's progressive dinner will be held June 23, starting at 5 p.m. at Kapono's at Aloha Tower with a performance by Kapono, no-host cocktails, pupus and a silent auction. Guests will then board buses and be taken to a restaurant for an appetizer. Then it's off to another eatery for dinner and then back to Kapono's for dessert and a prize drawing. Participants include Aaron's, Buca Di Beppo, Ciao Mein, Chai's, Compadres, Duc's, Gyhotaku, Marbella, Kincaid's, Oahu Country Club, Morton's, Palomino, Ryan's Grill, Sarento's and Singha Thai. Tickets are $75 and $100 ...
GQ looks at aloha shirts
This month's Gentlemen's Quarterly displays Elvis Presley wearing an aloha shirt, lei and strumming the uke. The page-long story is about how popular aloha shirts have become on the mainland and gives a history on the development of the shirts. Don Ho is mentioned twice in the story ...
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Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets
of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of
people, places and things every Saturday.
E-mail him at bwood@starbulletin.com