I thought we heard a weather forecast last night predicting sunny weather for today. But there wasn’t much sun to be found in Kaaawa this morning. A few minutes after I took this picture, that rain reached us and it was umbrellas most of the way home. You can click on the photo for a [...]
Hawaii was still under martial law in 1944 when my father and other members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce staged a Kamehameha Day celebration on Waikiki Beach. Thousands of servicemen and some local residents jammed the beach for the event, which included canoe and surfboard paddling competitions, although it looks like the beauty contest [...]
Tags: Hawaii·Kamehameha Day·martial law·Outrigger Canoe Club·Waikiki
I suspect my dad knew his memory and health were failing well before he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and moved to a nursing home at the end of 2008. Over several years prior to that time, he sat at an old electric typewriter and pecked away, recording recollections from his long life. Here’s another snippet [...]
Tags: Hawaii·John M. Lind
The students at Kaaawa Elementary School hold regular tsunami drills where they walk from the school to the upper part of Kaaawa up by our house, safely out of the tsunami inundation zone. Many Kaaawa residents did the same thing today, driving up and setting up camp along Olohu Road with their kids, dogs, cats, [...]
Thanks to Keone Downing (DowningSurf.com) for identifying the man in these photos posted here earlier as Harry Robello. Robello was one of Waikiki’s famous beachboys during the post-WWII period. A Google search turns up quite a bit of information, including the photo (below) with Duke Kahanamoku from a 1963 recording session. Robello is behind Duke’s [...]
I went looking for testimony this morning on SB2533, which I had read earlier in the week. I couldn’t remember the bill number, so instead did a text search for relevant terms. Nothing turned up. Finally I took word that would have to be found: “hawaii” Here’s the system’s response: Conclusion: The text search function [...]
Tags: grant-in-aid·Hawaii
Someone suggested I wander over to Ala Moana Center and check out Fun Works. You enter on street level next to McDonald’s, and it looks like a typical video arcade featuring late model games, but the real action is in a section way in the back of the store. That’s where a dozen or more [...]
Tags: Fun Works·Hawaii·Island Fruit
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle made the following remarks during a December 21, 2009 press conference to discuss the supplemental budget she has submitted to the 2010 Legislature. It refers to an AP story that appeared in the NY Times and many other newspapers. It will be interesting to see how her comparisons to budget priorities [...]
Tags: Associated Press·Hawaii·linda lingle·State budget priorities
