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FHB golf tournament
raises $217,000 for
Rehab Hospital

A record $217,000 was raised for Rehab Hospital in Wednesday's 11th First Hawaiian Bank Rehab Golf Challenge and Barry Lai fired the first hole-in-one in the tourney's history. Barry aced the 168-yard third hole on the Hawaii Prince A Course to win two business-class tickets worth about $16,000 to wherever he wants to go on Delta Airlines. Nate Smith won the Wilson long-drive contest, driving 260 yards. Don Horner, who succeeded Walter Dods as FHB chief, was chair of the tourney and Walter was honorary chair. They did good work as the event drew 288 entries. FHB's Tony Guerrero presented the big check to Rehab Foundation's Ko Miyataki and Michael W. Perry, and Rehab Hospital's Stuart Ho at the awards party ...

More than $100,000 was raised at the Gourmet Affair to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters last Saturday at the Hilton. The theme was "A bite of the Big Apple." Host chef Sam Choy was joined by celeb restaurateur Drew Nieporent, owner of Nobu New York, and chefs from Nobu, Tribeca Grill and San Francisco's Rubicon. The talented Shooting Stars from Diamond Head Theatre entertained ... Tito Berinobis marks 15 years at the Chart House tonight. His wife, Shari, says the party will start at 7:30 ... Uke whiz Jake Shimabukuro's music is played in "Rikon Bengoshi," ("Handsome Woman"), Japan's second-rated TV drama. The Nippon Golden Network series will be shown here starting Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on channel 677. Jake's music is also played on a program similar to "Sesame Street" in Japan ...

Frank Damon logs 50 years of practicing law

Cheers to Frank Damon who started practicing law here 50 years ago. In 1963, he and Henry Shigekane founded Damon and Shigekane, one of the first, if not the first, Caucasian-Japanese law firm in the islands. They attended Yale together. I was one of Frank's clients in 1966. He went on to build the small firm into Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert, a large law corporation. Henry was a success in other ventures. Frank handled my original will and updated it with me over the years. Almost 79, Frank says he's retired, but he sat in as his firm's Doug Smith updated my will last week. Frank doesn't forget old friends ...

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