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Insurance industry
spotlights Alana Dung’s
mom, Adelia
Hawaii's Adelia C. Chung, president of the insurance industry's Million Dollar Round Table, is the cover story of the organization's September-October issue of The Round Table. The group will hold its Top of the Table annual meeting next year in Kapalua. Adelia and her father, Tai Yau Chung, operate Chung Insurance and Investment Group. Adelia and husband Stephen Dung lost their 3-year-old daughter, Alana, to leukemia in 1997. But in their efforts to find a bone marrow donor, more than 30,000 people registered, making the Hawaii registry the largest Asian and South Pacific registry bone marrow donor program in the United States. The Alana Dung Research Foundation's Dreams and Dragonflies benefit dinner Nov. 6 at the Hilton Village will support the UH med school's research efforts. Adelia's brother, Dr. Alvin Chung, is overseeing the event and Dean Christopher is design consultant. Brendon Jackson is creating hand-blown glass centerpieces. Reiko Ho of La Pietra is directing the entertainment, which includes selections from Lisa Matsumoto's "On Dragonfly Wings." Performers include singers Mary Chestnut and Kevin Yamada. Tickets are $125. Call 945-2988 for more info ...
Halekulani Palate team has years of experience
The 12 chefs and two sommeliers taking part in the Halekulani's Masters of the Palate on Oct. 15, a reunion of the resort's past and present chefs, have a combined total of 135 years of service at the resort. Halekulani chefs Darryl Fujita, Yves Garnier, Shawn Smith, Keith Hirata, Franz Schaier and Rick Chang and wine manager Randy Ching will be joined by chefs Philippe Padovani, Edwin Goto, Goran Streng, Ian Riseley, Khamtan Tanhchaleun, Linda Yamada and master sommelier Chuck Furuya. The event will start with cocktails in the courtyard at 7 p.m. and move up to the ballroom where the chefs will prepare gourmet dishes at cooking stations. Call 931-5040 for $100 tickets. The event will benefit culinary programs at Leeward and Kapiolani Community Colleges and the Cullinary Institute of the Pacific.Tuesday's glorious orange sunset that lit up the sky was incredibly beautiful. That's another reason we're so lucky to be living in Hawaii. People talked about the wonderful sunset in the office Wednesday morning and many people that I ran into on the street were speaking about it, too ...