Honolulu Star - Bulletin back issues from May 1997:
Ward Ave. extension gets funding
May 01, 1997; ... The state Legislature has approved $36 million to extend Ward Avenue through the makai section of Kakaako in an effort to relieve traffic congestion on Ala Moana. The project also will open up the makai area to developers who are expected to provide rental income for the state, which ...
Barbers Point power plant sold for over $40 mil
May 01, 1997; ... A New Jersey company with power plants around the world has joined with an Alabama partner to buy an oil-fired electricity generating plant at Barbers Point. The partnership of a subsidiary of face=+Bold; Public Service Enterprise Groupface=-Bold; of Ridgewood, N.J., and Harbert Power ...
Isle bottlers abuzz over water that packs a jolt
May 01, 1997; ... Nothing gets you hopping like a cup of coffee. But why sip when you can "hydrate?" Caffeinated water, the latest buzz in bottling, is jumping onto store shelves across the country. With names like Java Water, Krank 2-O, and Water Joe, the clear half-liter bottles deliver the kick without ...
A new play recalls the ambience of the old park
May 01, 1997; ... LARRY Fukumoto looked out over the rolling expanse of Aala Park: grass, shade trees, homeless people and the occasional scavenger. It's quiet. "Used to be lots of buildings here, lots of families -- lots of action," he said. "That was Aala Park in the old days." Fukumoto, one of the ...
Pack rat's stash now fashion flash
May 01, 1997 ... Star-Bulletin As luck would have it, designer Joan Andersen is a pack rat. Her stash is now the basis of a fashion show, "Pleasures in Paradise," taking place Saturday at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel. The show, a scholarship benefit hosted by the Associated Chinese University ...
Cinco de Mayo
May 01, 1997 ... Star-Bulletin face=+Bold; Aloha Tower Marketplace:face=-Bold; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 3 and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 4. Activities include live music throughout the weekend; a burrito eating contest, pinata for the children; Hispanic dancers; bazaar; arts and crafts; a display of ...
Maui Council, mayor call for special session
May 01, 1997; ... Maui County Council members and Mayor Linda Crockett Lingle are urging the Legislature to call a special session to deal with a dispute over private contracts for public services. Lingle said state lawmakers have another opportunity to tackle the issue because of a state Supreme Court ...
Kalaheo students decry after-school study loss
May 01, 1997; ... When Toby Allen started the After School Instruction Program at Kalaheo High School last year, he was failing all his courses. This year he's graduating on the honor roll and plans to attend Honolulu Community College. "Without the program, I wouldn't be graduating this year," ...
Employee unions praise lawmakers
May 01, 1997; ... The just-concluded legislative session was productive for organized labor and the state's public employees, say union officials. The leaders of two public employee unions praised lawmakers for taking care of key issues, including the budget, reforming the high-three legislative pension ...
Most of Cayetano's proposals pass
May 01, 1997; ... Gov. Ben Cayetano has lost most of his seven-point tax relief program but won legislative approval for most of his proposals. "All of the governor's major initiatives did very well," Cayetano's legislative coordinator, Pauline Namuo, said yesterday. "He worked hard with the Senate and ...
UH gets OK to increase ticket prices
May 01, 1997; ... The University of Hawaii athletic department can finally scale the house for all its events without a public hearing, thanks to a bill passed by state lawmakers. The two-year pilot project will exempt Hawaii from state public proceeding law and allows it to change ticket prices, rental ...
Kaiser stays alive in OIA East race
May 01, 1997; ... Kaiser rallied for two runs in the sixth inning to defeat host Kailua, 7-6, yesterday and remain in contention for the Oahu Interscholastic Association Eastern Division baseball title. The Cougars improved to 7-1 to keep pace with three-time defending East champion Castle, which is also ...
Tourism rebounds with a 4.3 percent gain
May 02, 1997; ... Hawaii tourism rebounded strongly in March, with total visitor arrivals rising 4.3 percent from March 1996. However, the Hawaii Visitors & Convention Bureau downplayed the positive March results in its monthly visitor arrivals announcement today, saying that totals for the first ...
School Spirit
May 02, 1997; ... Hawaii schools have been reaping the benefits of a valuable lesson learned by Mike McKenna when he was a teenager. This year, the Kailua auto dealer plans to continue his tradition of giving away cars to four Windward Oahu high schools to be raffled away at "Project Grad Night" ...
Fly to Mexico for dental work? And save money? ¡Si!
May 02, 1997; ... When Kaneohe resident Helen Eckert began having serious problems with her teeth, she went to a dentist. In Mexico. Eckert flew to Los Angeles, met a sister who also needed dental work, rented a car, drove to San Diego, spent a night in a hotel and crossed the border to get ...
Lei Day celebration filled with flowers
May 02, 1997; ... Across the state, flowers and pageantry filled the air yesterday and this morning as the state traditionally celebrated May first as Lei Day, instead of the continental "May Day." Elementary schools held celebrations crowning Lei Day kings, queens and princesses. Leis and aloha were ...
Socializing your orchids
May 02, 1997; ... ORCHIDS are like pizza. You can buy them in the store or you can do-it-yourself. The store-bought orchids are cut flowers, the garden variety grow in pots. As with pizza, you expect compliments only on the latter. Nobody suggests that you were intensely clever and a superb cook to serve ...
Army's Cannon Club will close on June 1
May 02, 1997; ... The Cannon Club, once considered the gem of the Army's club system, will be closing June 1. The Army, however, hopes that will be only temporary while it tries to find a private contractor to run the food-and-beverage operations on Diamond Head. Neighbors and others alarmed at ...
Unresolved issue looms over 1997 legislature
May 02, 1997; ... The 1997 legislative session is over, but the dispute over private contracts for public services lingers. Lawmakers adjourned yesterday, having approved legislation on several key issues, including auto-insurance reform, same-sex marriage, increasing prison bed space and eliminating the ...
State changes focus in gay marriage case
May 02, 1997; ... The state has dropped its focus on children as a compelling reason to ban same-sex marriage in its appeal to the state Supreme Court. In its opening brief, it cites tradition, moral values, propagation and recognition of the state's marriage law by other governments as reasons to limit ...
City Bank-Int'l Savings merger delayed
May 01, 1997; ... face=+Bold; CB Bancshares Incface=-Bold; . today said it was delaying its merger of City Bank and International Savings & Loan up to a year. The company also elected local attorney James Kamo as its new chairman, replacing CB Bancshares' co-founder James Morita who ...
Voters knock quarrelers off neighborhood board
May 01, 1997; ... Two members of the contentious Waikiki Neighborhood Board who had accused other members of sending voters smear-type leaflets have been voted out. The two are Briana Poilon and Duke Sturgeon. Poilon estimates that the anonymous fliers were sent to thousands of voters in her ...
Poi & Laulau
May 01, 1997; ... "No more plen'y poi, no more poi for you." These refrains sneak into the speech of Rachel Ching Haili, 79-year-old matriarch of the Haili's Hawaiian Foods clan. The words echo from her early struggles in the Hawaiian food business while raising six young daughters. And they ...
Poi & Laulau
May 01, 1997; ... "No more plen'y poi, no more poi for you." These refrains sneak into the speech of Rachel Ching Haili, 79-year-old matriarch of the Haili's Hawaiian Foods clan. The words echo from her early struggles in the Hawaiian food business while raising six young daughters. And they ...
Tam says BOE should fire Kane
May 02, 1997; ... Ditch the private book-buying contract for state libraries and the state librarian who signed it, state Sen. Rod Tam told the state Board of Education last night. "If I were in position ... I would fire the state librarian," said Tam, co-chairman of the Senate Education Committee. "In ...
Ex-state Sen. Matsuura dies of cancer at 64
May 02, 1997; ... Former Democratic state Sen. Richard Matsuura, who led a controversial special investigation into state procurement practices that was tantamount to challenging his own party's establishment, died of cancer early today in Hilo. He was 64. Services are tentatively set for Thursday at New ...
Stanford, UCLAto battle for NCAAvolleyball title
May 02, 1997 ... face=+2; Freshmen lead the Bruins past Penn State; Lambert is the main man for Cardinalface=-2; From staff and wire reports COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Rarely are freshmen named All-Americans, but UCLA's Adam Naeve and Brandon Taliaferro earned second-team honors Wednesday. Last night, ...
Rainbows thump BYUto stay alive inWAC race
May 02, 1997 ... face=+2; Hawaii's 18-11 victory moves them to within 2-1/2 games of sixth-seeded San Diego Stateface=-2; Star Bulletin staff PROVO, Utah -- The University of Hawaii baseball team continued its traveling salvation show with an 18-11 victory yesterday over Brigham Young University ...
Estefan show a sizzler, even with slight rain
May 05, 1997; ... A late start and intermittent rain didn't dampen the enthusiasm as Gloria Estefan ended her world tour with a high-energy marathon performance at the Aloha Stadium. Appearing Saturday, first in a cloth-and-metal sphere above the stage, Estefan was lowered into a frenetic fiesta of energy ...
Hawaii kids better off
May 05, 1997; ... Hawaii's kids are better off than those of most other states, a national study indicates. The state's overall ranking rose a notch -- from 11th last year to 10th in the 1997 Kids Count Data Book, noted Marcia Hartsock of the University of Hawaii Center on the Family. Hawaii ...
WWII Japanese-American linguists honored
May 05, 1997; ... Edwin Kawahara remembers studying the Japanese language in Minnesota more than a half century ago, when the cold winter chill was broken by the heat from a coal-burning pot-bellied stove. Kawahara was going through training at Camp Savage, learning to be a soldier linguist for the U.S ....
Scientists develop oceanic software
May 05, 1997; ... Honolulu scientists have developed a way to track elusive fish in the ocean around the Hawaiian archipelago. The information could lead fishermen to bigger catches and help fishery managers preserve and build up resources. "Maybe someday we'll put it on a Web page," said Jeff ...
Child-abuse cases encouraged judge to speed adoption
May 05, 1997; ... When Family Court Judge John Charles Bryant Jr. began handling child-abuse cases in January, he felt adoptions of displaced children were taking too long. He started ordering the state Department of Human Services to file adoption papers within 90 days for certain cases, unless it had a ...
Chang making fast tracks
May 05, 1997; ... Punahou freshman Victoria Chang has no illusions about her value as a middle-distance runner. The 15-year-old has recorded personal bests this season at 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meters that are much better than the winning times at last year's state meet. Her 5-minute, 6.5-second ...
Kaiwi Records Fall
May 05, 1997
'Bows playing for pride in season finale
May 05, 1997; ... If you would have told Les Murakami seven weeks ago that his University of Hawaii baseball team wouldn't be eliminated from postseason play until this past weekend, he probably would have looked at you a little funny. At the time, Hawaii was 5-22 overall and coming off a 19-10 loss to ...
Land-price slump knocks Amfac for loss
May 06, 1997; ... Amfac/JMB Hawaii Inc. recorded a $34.2 million net loss in 1996, largely due to lower land values. The loss compares with a net income of $12.7 million in 1995. The company's 1995 results benefited from a one-time, $32.5 million gain from paying down its debt. Amfac reported ...
Lower prices boosted Oahu home sales 13 percent
May 06, 1997; ... Lower prices boosted Oahu home sales in April but the Honolulu Board of Realtors said it expects prices to come up later this year as the inventory of unsold homes decreases. Last month, 156 single-family homes changed hands on Oahu, a 13 percent increase in sales from the April 1996 ...
So much to do, so little time
May 06, 1997; ... Before planning the length of your stay at The Great Molokai Ranch Trail, be advised that you'll only be able to get in two major activities a day. Each activity requires between two and three hours. Morning activities generally start at 9 a.m., afternoon ones at 1 p.m., so unless you ...
On this trip, you can 'rough it' in comfort
May 06, 1997; ... Molokai Ranch, the island's largest landowner and the second largest ranch in Hawaii, has opened what is arguably the state's only complete eco-visitor destination, as well as Hawaii's first "full-service" dude ranch. Called "The Great Molokai Ranch Trail Adventure," it has been quietly ...
Cayetano, bride met during workout
May 06, 1997; ... Several hours before her wedding yesterday, the state's new first lady, Vicky Liu, laughed as she recalled how she met Gov. Ben Cayetano 11/2 years ago. It was about 4:30 a.m. at the Honolulu Club. She was going through an early morning workout before starting another day as head of ...
Union contract concealed for 17 years
May 06, 1997; ... One of the state's largest refuse disposal firms signed a labor contract making it a "union shop" but didn't tell its workers for more than 17 years, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court. The labor contract between Honolulu Disposal Service, Inc. and the Laborers' International ...
Smoking ban to include pool parlors, bowling
May 06, 1997; ... Rey Limos leaned over the pool table and eyed the billiard balls, peering through the smoke from the cigarette dangling from his lip. Limos, a 43-year-old Liliha accountant, doesn't want the City Council telling him he can't smoke while shooting pool at Hawaiian Brian's. "They ...
Molokai trail talk
May 06, 1997; ... Hano Naehu cups his hand over his heart as he explains his love for Molokai, its people and the life it provides him. "The people here are very special," the Molokai Ranch employee says with a passion that seems too intense for someone just 20 years old. "We believe in each other, we ...
Elite class runners spurning H-3 race
May 06, 1997; ... They said, "Show me the money." But the Great Trans Koolau Trek could not confirm a $100,000 prize purse it advertised and that has caused almost every elite runner to back away from Sunday's race. "It was a hoax," said Karen Locke, agent for Eric Polonski, America's top 10-miler ...
Ko'olau Trek timing system questioned
May 06, 1997; ... Dr. Jack Scaff calls it a widely popular and accurate timing system. He said it could clock up to 1 million runners, although the H-3 race had 17,419 entries, as of yesterday, according to race officials. But the official timer for Ironman Triathlon said this week that the timing ...
Boyd Gaming to buy Jackie's Travel
May 07, 1997; ... Jackie's Travel Inc., the popular Las Vegas tour packager, plans to sell most of its operations to face=+Bold; Boyd Gaming Corpface=-Bold; . In a notice filed this week with the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Jackie's Travel said it plans to sell most of its assets ...
Chuck Holiber
May 05, 1997 ... NEW YORK -- Chuck Holiber, a 54-year-old social worker in New York City, has been a sports junkie all his life. A high school basketball star who went on to play on the same University of Miami team as Hall-of-Famer Rick Barry, Holiber still participates in local basketball leagues, ...
The new high completes its recovery from a recent 700-point slide
May 05, 1997 ... NEW YORK -- The Dow Jones industrial average shot above 7,200 for the first time today, soaring more than 140 points on a late buying frenzy to complete a speedy recovery from the market's recent tumbles. Broader stock measures also rallied, boosting several to record highs along with ...
Charlotte is just about finished with her web
May 06, 1997 ... It's been tough going for the hard-working cane spider. The trade winds are howling and Charlotte -- the name I've given my only companion at Paniolo Camp for my visit to The Great Molokai Ranch Trail -- has chosen a wide space between a Norfolk pine and the redwood deck railing of my quarters ...
Mana converged
May 05, 1997; ... WHEN outsiders began Christianizing and colonizing Hawaii, one of the first things they dismantled, says artist Herman Pi'ikea Clark, "was our art, our visual expression." Now, Hawaiian artists are still trying to recover what was lost. Clark is one of 20 contemporary native Hawaiian ...
Stanford digs deep for national title
May 05, 1997 ... face=+2; Lambert gets MVP in Cardinal's first championshipface=-2; Staff and wire reports COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It took an hour longer than it had a week earlier, but the end result was the same for the Stanford men's volleyball team. And even more satisfying. The Cardinal ...
Feds forcing a decision on Kauai auto junkyard
May 05, 1997; ... LIHUE -- Kauai County's effort to maintain an emergency auto junkyard near the Wailua Golf Course is meeting with opposition from federal wildlife officials. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service says the site is too close to a coastal wetlands area that was created by the county and is ...
Local products manage Hawaii's hotels
May 06, 1997; ... FOR many years after Hawaii's hotel industry expanded explosively our new hotels were pretty thin on locally raised top executives. There hadn't been time to train them. The situation is better now. The Hawaii Hotel Association was formed 50 years ago, well before two events in ...
Feds forcing a decision on Kauai auto junkyard
May 05, 1997; ... LIHUE -- Kauai County's effort to maintain an emergency auto junkyard near the Wailua Golf Course is meeting with opposition from federal wildlife officials. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service says the site is too close to a coastal wetlands area that was created by the county and is ...
Local products manage Hawaii's hotels
May 06, 1997; ... FOR many years after Hawaii's hotel industry expanded explosively our new hotels were pretty thin on locally raised top executives. There hadn't been time to train them. The situation is better now. The Hawaii Hotel Association was formed 50 years ago, well before two events in ...
State consultant wants help setting isle telecom policy
May 07, 1997; ... Lani Wright wants to hear from you. Via computer. Wright, a consultant, is helping the state develop a policy that spells out how Hawaii's telecommunications needs can best be served. A draft of the policy is posted on the Internet so people can comment on all or part of ...
Strike loomsat theater chain
May 07, 1997 ... face=+2; Consolidated's workers authorize their union to call a strike in dispute over pay and benefitsface=-2; From staff and wire reports Consolidated Amusement Co. has canceled the union contract covering 500 employees at its movie theaters and warned today that it has the ...
Try tortes, tarts, mousse cakes or-- if that's too hard-- just make cookies
May 07, 1997; ... Don't cry over fallen souffles, cakes that implode or breads that pop out of the oven flat, not fluffy. Behind every baking disaster is a lesson that can lead to fame, fortune, or at the least, praise from those who get to nibble on your confections. That all baking careers are bound to ...
Hollywood film crews will be busy in Hawaii
May 07, 1997; ... Harrison Ford and Anne Heche will be spending six weeks on Kauai this summer filming "Six Days/Seven Nights," a romantic comedy about a woman who proposes to her boyfriend while they're stuck on a tropical island. The production, directed by Ivan Reitman, also will require six weeks of ...
Jury can't reach Norton verdict
May 07, 1997; ... A 57-year-old former Mokapu Elementary School teacher wants to live a quiet life at home after his scheduled release next week from jail for sexually assaulting a student in 1995, his attorney says. But Lawrence J. Norton faces another trial, after jurors yesterday said they couldn't ...
Vicky surprised the governor with flowers
May 07, 1997; ... Vicky Liu Cayetano's first lunch date with the governor 1-1/2 years ago was unforgettable. What stood out when they met at the Hawaii Prince Hotel wasn't so much what they ate, what they said or what they wore. It's just that she handed him a bouquet of spring flowers. She recalls, "He ...
Finding the road to recovery
May 07, 1997; ... MAUNALOA, Molokai -- Former cowboy William Starkey sometimes misses the crackling campfire and the quiet nights under a thousand stars. But the life of a cowboy is a young man's game, Starkey says, and doesn't hold much of a future. At age 52, after surviving a horse falling on him, ...
Final exam time at UH the ultimate stress test
May 07, 1997; ... Today's the last day of classes at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, and students are gearing up for final exams. The libraries have been filled, students have desperately sought answers to professor-made study guides, and counselors have waited by the telephones. Educational ...
Losing top local talent has hit UH baseball, too
May 07, 1997; ... Not keeping the elite local talent from setting sail for the mainland isn't only a problem for the University of Hawaii football staff. There hasn't been a better crop of local high school talent in baseball this decade, but not one of the top four prep recruits will be wearing a ...