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Alo-Ha! Friday Charles Memminger |
Here’s a cheap source
of laborA windward community action group plans to tap into what it thinks is an unexploited vein of tourism: People who will pay to come to Hawaii and do manual labor for free.
On the first blush, it seems insane to think visitors from other states would spend two weeks cleaning OUR roadways or clearing OUR hiking trails. In fact, on the second, third and fourth blush it seems insane. It's not until you get to the 15th blush that the idea starts to make any sense at all.
Shannon Wood, from the Windward Ahupua'a Alliance, thinks that some tourists would be willing to work four hours a day on community improvement and cultural projects in return for meals and recreational activities. If you have a community project that needs some manpower, contact the Alliance at 263-6001 and put some of these traveling serfs to work.
And now the news:
Golfer deserves a hand
VENICE, Fla. (AP) >> A Florida golfer defied the odds, racking up three holes in one in the past six months, all while swinging one-handed.According to the National Golf Foundation, the odds of an amateur golfer hitting a hole in one are 12,600 to 1. The odds of what 68-year-old Bill Hilsheimer accomplished would short-circuit a calculator. He sunk three holes in one despite having lost most of his right hand 59 years ago after being run over by a train.
(Surprisingly, no one asks him what his handicap is anymore.)
Dirty diaper does dad
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) >> A father facing drug charges claims a trooper made an unconstitutional search by changing his son's soiled diaper and finding a bag of crack cocaine hidden inside.The trooper pulled Walter Martin over for speeding and then noticed the baby's diaper was "loaded." He found the drugs while attending to the nasty nappy.
(Talk about dumping on poor, old dad.)
Sea lion learns lesson
SAUSALITO, Calf. (AP) >> A sea lion found last month more than 60 miles from the Pacific Ocean with a bullet in its head has been released back into the ocean after the bullet was removed.Authorities still do not know how the animal managed to get so far inland and why and how he came to be shot.
(After being returned to the ocean, the seal lion mumbled something about "never hitchhiking again.")
Honolulu Lite on Sunday
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"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." -- Will Rogers
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