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Hawaii journalists’ group
honors Star-Bulletin’s Corky

Congratulations to Corky Trinidad, the Star-Bulletin's editorial cartoonist since 1969, who will be installed in the Society of Professional Journalists' Hall of Fame, Hawaii Chapter, Feb. 25, at the Ala Moana Hotel. Tickets for the SPJ's silent auction dinner are $40, or $37 for members. Call 275-3004 for reservations ... Frances Wong, Royal Hawaiian Hotel's gracious catering director, is retiring Jan. 20. Frances has been a familiar figure in the Royal's Monarch Room for years ... Duke's Waikiki celebrates its 12th anniversary Friday ... Kimo Sutton, at Cheesecake Factory Sunday afternoon, said he and Christine Stepheny Kruchen will marry April 16 in Caesars Palace Chapel in Las Vegas. After a champagne toast in a private suite, dinner and dancing will be at Ristorante Zeffirino in the Venetian Hotel ...

Former islander Richard Dean, a master sommelier now employed by the Mark Hotel in New York, is featured in a story on the hotel's successful wine program that ran in last November's Food Arts magazine. Richard and former Mark G.M. Ray Bickson, originally of Hawaii, developed the wine program as a marketing tool for the uptown hotel and it has paid good dividends. Wine festivals, dinners, tastings and weekend packages at the hotel are all part of the program. Ray is now CEO of Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces in India ...

Local boy works Golden Globes arrivals for E!

Punahou grad Carter Evans worked the Golden Globes arrivals Sunday for E! Entertainment Television. He was with KGMB before moving to the mainland. His mom is Elaine Evans, Hawaii Theatre Center development director ... Scoop: Five hundred scoops of Maui's Roselani ice cream were given away Sunday at Bank of Hawaii Free Sunday event at the Academy of Arts ... New Bank of Hawaii President and CEO Al Landon is going for Hawaiian handcrafted koa wood furniture by Martin & MacArthur for his office ...

Star-Bulletin Reporter Sally Apgar had a blond ponytail that ran more than a foot down her back. She decided she wanted a new 'do with shorter hair. When the hairdresser pulled out the big scissors and lopped off sally's long tail with one cut, everyone in the beauty shop "yiped in unison," Sal said. Yiped??? ...

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