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Ready to take a relaxing
dip in the Ala WaiIF UH grad student Marisa Toma has her way, isle water lovers may soon be able to don their favorite bathing suit and enjoy the water playground which is -- Ala Wai Canal? Yep. You see, while most folks have a favorite water spot, the Ala Wai is rarely, if ever, mentioned. But to Toma, it's No. 1. The U.S. EPA has awarded a $19,400 grant to UH researcher Tracy Sylva and Toma is involved with workshops to educate everyone about new technologies benefiting the Canal watershed. As for Sylva, she's researching bioremediation to break down Canal sediment contaminants and make them less toxic before removal. Who knows, the two may help turn the dreaded Ala Wai Canal into a new water playground ...
YOU don't think Hawaii-based bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman uses unconventional methods? What other bounty hunter puts out a press release telling where he's heading to catch an alleged sexual predator and kidnapper such as Andrew Garner. If he were smart, Garner would head for Mexico which still would like to find Chapman and stick him behind bars for his role in capturing Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in that country ...
Lee's genes
WHEN Bill Lee retired as Dean of Students at Iolani School after 40 years there, more than 800 turned out at a dinner in his honor at the Hilton's Coral Ballroom. Lee was a member of Iolani's Class of '53, the last class to graduate from the school's former campus in Nuuanu. Emcee of the program was Hollywood film producer Chris Lee (Class of '75) and included a roast by Lee's Iolani classmate in '53, Clarence Lee. The retiring dean's son, Paul Lee (Class of '83) was a roaster, but not everyone there was named Lee. Also roasting away were former headmaster David Coon, current headmaster Val Iwashita, teacher John Kay and business exec Alan Gin ...AUDITIONS for August Wilson's "Two Trains Running," will be held Saturday and Sunday from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the Yellow Brick Studio on Keawe Street, home of The Actors' Group. Guest director for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play is Leonard Piggee, founder of the Honolulu African American Repertory Theater, which is producing the work ...
THE Hawaii State Art Museum celebrates its first birthday tomorrow with an open house 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the building once known as the Hemmeter Building and, before that, the Armed Forces YMCA. There'll be lots of music from Hawaiian slack key to classical for those enjoying the artwork on display ...
Fore heaven's sake
SOME people play golf as if they were in the dark, and now everyone taking part in the John Saul Harvest Moon Golf Tournament can do just that. Everyone has to play in the dark, which for once would seem to favor the person who doesn't hit the ball far off the tee, so he can find it. The tourney is part of the Maui Writers' Conference and is scheduled for Nov. 8 at the Elleair Maui Golf Club in Kihei ...
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Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. The Week That Was runs Sundays and recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns. Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com
