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KHNL anchor Lyle
Galdeira leaving
to sell real estate

Anchor and reporter Lyle Galdeira has a real estate license and plans to start using it full time after fulfilling his contract at KHNL-TV in December.

A rumor that he quit the station began flying around Friday afternoon after he met with management. It was a follow-up to a previous meeting he had in July, where he asked to be taken off the morning show, he told TheBuzz.

"I'm tired of waking up in the morning (at 3 a.m.)," he said.

At the Friday meeting, Galdeira received no indication that he would get to work later in the day. Galdeira expects to work through the November "sweeps" rating period and will finish out his contract on vacation through mid-December, he said.

Station management could not be reached for comment.

Galdeira is a charter member of the station's news staff. "I've been there 10 years," he said. "It's been a great run. We did start a newsroom from scratch and that's an opportunity that I'll never live through again."

Of his co-workers Galdeira said, "I'm going to hate leaving them all behind ... but it's time to refresh and do something else."

Try again, and win

The Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii has been selected to receive a pro-bono public service campaign from Ad 2 Honolulu, an annual award historically valued at about $1 million.

Ad 2 Honolulu is a nonprofit organization of advertising industry professionals, no older than 32, that has been creating advertising campaigns for local nonprofits since 1969. The club has won the top award for its efforts at the National Ad 2 Public Service competition for the last four years.

This year was like the last several for Boys & Girls Club's executive director, David Nakada: Another year, another bid to win the Ad 2 campaign. He has been executive director for 27 years and has been applying for the services ever since he heard the campaign was available. This time his group got it, beating more than 60 nonprofit organizations.

"I am thrilled -- and I think that's putting it mildly -- to have these young people come in and work with us," Nakada said.

The Boys & Girls Club wants to reach more kids ages 7 to 17 "to get them into our clubhouses, which is a huge thing for us."

The Boys & Girls Club's mission is to provide a safe place for kids and teens from 2 to 6 p.m. during the school year and all summer long. Nakada estimates the organization will serve more than 11,000 kids this year, a figure "that is steadily going up, and that's really nice, but again we're adding more clubhouses and that usually helps us get more kids involved."

Told of Ad 2's national track record, Nakada uttered an emphatic "Wow!"

He was already excited about "the opportunity to work with such creative minds." Knowing the kind of work they're capable of doing and have done, "and to be a part of that, this is going to be a hell of a year for us," he said.

Not that the four-peat puts any pressure on the campaign co-chairs, Brent Shiratori and Shelly Suzuki.

"Whew -- a little pressure," Shiratori laughed. "But I mean, we're more concerned about developing a great campaign for the client and that's really where our focus is."

The club's national honors were for campaigns prepared for Hawaii Meals on Wheels, Hawaii Literacy, Aloha United Way member organizations that advocate on behalf of people with mental retardation and Hale Kipa Inc.

The Boys & Girls Club was chosen this year because of its long history of providing services to the community and because of the familiar adage that today's youth are our future. Ad 2 members revealed the choice to the recipient club's board of directors Sept. 14.

Before the selection and announcement, Ad 2 did its due diligence.

"They came to interview us and one of the questions was, 'What would happen if you weren't selected?'" Nakada said. He told them: "Well, you guys are going to get another proposal from me because I've been after you folks for years. I'm going to keep trying because I'd be crazy to not keep trying. At some point, you folks will look at us and say, 'give them a shot,'" Nakada laughed.