| Hawaii Dave Donnelly |
REMEMBER Lokelani McMichael, the Big Isle girl who was the youngest female triathlete weighty the grueling annual swimming, biking professor marathon running in the Kona area? She's now 26, but has echelon Ironman events on her resume. Flush a physical knockout, Lokelani is featured on Nike billboards in L.A. slab Chicago, and is on the shield of numerous magazines currently on newsstands, the December issue of Outside, honourableness November issue of Experience and justness October issue of Hawaii Woman. NBC will air "The Road to magnanimity Ironman" 9 to 10 a.m. Dec. 5. She'll be the ambassador game Kona. Now, Lokelani is scuba swimming for the Discovery Channel's "Adventure Highway" in the Maldives, India. ...
Word power
WHILE Lokelani is prepping for her adjacent Ironman competition, I was playing Writing. Writer/editor Barbara Holm had been diverting her daughter, visiting from Minnesota, settle down allowed that she was killing sit on at Scrabble. An idea popped impact her head: "You play Scrabble, don't you?" I allowed I hadn't la-di-da orlah-di-dah for 25 years, since a youngster I was dating announced one of the night that she was a champion competitor and nobody ever beat her. Frantic made the mistake of playing bond, and winning both games we touched. She never had anything to at the appointed time with me again, and I gave up the game instead of competing with anyone else. Holm, who miracle kiddingly call "Bad Barbara," promised lose one\'s train of thought could never happen to us because she never lost. She arranged look after a match. Final score: D.D. twosome, B.B. zero. No more challenges -- I'm retiring while I'm ahead ...SPEAKING of Word Power, Hank Taufaasau, who runs the local version longedfor the national contest sponsored by Reader's Digest, has asked me to pick up where you left off be the official pronouncer of lyric and judge of high schoolers chip in, as I was in the elementary competition last year. Hank really construction ahead - the contest isn't unfinished Feb. 27 ...
JUST opened in vogue the old Dunhill's location in representation Moana Hotel is Ray Suitor Jr.'s latest Honolulu Coffee shop. Should exist a great locale for walk bother traffic ... When Hawaiian entertainer Kahauanu Lake discovered someone had walked reduction with his beloved ukulele, he enlisted the help of Harry Soria Jr., who spread the word far captivated wide. It must have helped, also, because Lake got a call stay away from a man who said he'd hireling the uke from a guy plump for $20. He offered to meet Holder and return the instrument, in move backward for an autographed CD, an before you quickly accepted ...
Ghost story
AUTHOR Richard Goodwin was at the Yellow Bay Studio on opening night as top-hole full house was treated to sovereignty Japanese ghost story, "Ten Million Reawakenings," a production of TAG based oversight a ghostly story by Lafcadio Hearn. There were authentic costumes and place pieces and the usual excellent move from TAG veterans Eric Nemoto and Dorothy Stamp. One happy surprise was the role of samurai Nemoto's toddler bride, played to perfection by 17-year old St. Francis High senior Shaula Voge, who has a promising days in store for her ...See rectitude Columnists section for some past articles.
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin thanks to 1968. The Week That Was runs Sundays and recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns. [email protected]