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Manoa Valley Theatre
honors Dave Donnelly
at fund-raiserStar-Bulletin columnist Dave Donnelly was honored by Manoa Valley Theatre for his years of support at the theater's fund-raiser Saturday at the Hilton. Brendan Donnelly accepted the award for his dad, who died Jan. 24. Don Robbs did a fine job as emcee of a highly entertaining program of song and dance put on by Dave's friends and the Motor City Angels show band. Among the guests were Dave's sister, Dorothy White, and niece, Diana Busst. Jimmy Borges did a parody on Dave to the song "How Are Things in Gloccamora?" He changed the title to "How Are Things With David Donnelly?" The quartet of Katie Doyle, Sheri Chock Wong, Joey Caldarone and Guy Merola sang and danced smartly. The duo of pianist Don Conover and bass player Keith Hiraoka were right on. The hot Angels band was made up of leader Dennis McClees, Rodrick Esteban, Jonny Kamai, Michael Grande, Jurgen Krischke, Joseph Kuhn, Steve Ware and David Choy and singers Pauline Wilson McClees, Venetia Mendoza and Sunwae Chong. Their dance routines were excellent as was their music that packed the dance floor ...
On Jin serves top food, karaoke at Easter party
Restaurant owner-chef On Jin Kim and husband Kwang Chai invited friends to their Waialae Iki home for Easter dinner. When I asked On Jin who cooked the outstanding food, she hit me. It was a friendly whack. Since On Jin is quite a singer, karaoke was also on the menu. Among guests were Dr. Frank Oda and his wife of 40 years, the former Anna Wall. Anna said she was in Boston College's Class of 1956, the very first BC class that had women graduates. Incredible! Anna was also BC's first homecoming queen in '54. Besides the hosts, karaoke singers included Iris Kim, Don Searce, Joyce Kim, Richard Parfundi, Bernard and Julie Lee and Jennifer Kim. Kims were in abundance ...HERE'S A toast to Margaret Murchie and Frank "Steiny" Steinmiller who have birthdays today. They were born many years apart but they are so similar in some ways ... Dave Sayre returned home on his 40th birthday March 30 and found a letter from AARP inviting him to join up. The entry age is 50 ...
The Rock was featured on A&E's "Biography" last week. Besides his family, others in the show included Gus Hannemann, actress Kelly Hu and former model Sri Maiava Rusden. Gus, wearing coat and tie, looked like he was running for mayor instead of his brother, Mufi ...
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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 Wednesday and Saturday. E-mail him at bwood@starbulletin.com