Honolulu Star - Bulletin back issues from January 2000:
Hawaii embraces the dawn of a new century
Jan 01, 2000; ... IT was the most anticipated New Year's ever, a millennial turning point that captured our imaginations and stirred our emotions: anxiety, fear, joy and hope. And like all things human -- in Hawaii and globally -- the reality was different from the expectation. The anxiety came ...
'All out for millennium'
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; ALOHA TOWERface=-2; A sound system glitch temporarily interrupted the music and dancing at Aloha Tower Marketplace last night, but it didn't interrupt the festivities as thousands greeted the new year with kisses, cheers and bottles of bubbly. Security seized one such ...
On Waikiki streets, smiles outlast smoke
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; WAIKIKIface=-2; THE scariest thing about the streets of Waikiki on the cusp of 2000 is how quiet it is. At 11 p.m., it could be a Friday night anytime during the year. Easy parking, wide open on the sidewalks. "Oh, it'll pick up at midnight," assures Ropi Tialavea, ...
MADDness sounds note of sobriety
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; ALA MOANA / WATERFRONTface=-2; They danced in their seats and on the stage: arms waving, bodies swaying, all to the pulsing beat of "The Macarena." New Year's Eve wildness in Waikiki? Hardly. The scene was Starlight MADDness, the nonalcoholic event at Ala Moana Beach ...
Two countdowns, two parties
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; CELEBRATING TWICEface=-2; ONCE was not enough for Rodney and Karen Brooks of Washington, D.C., not when it comes to celebrating the passing of a millennium. The couple celebrated the end of 1999 twice -- first in an Auckland, New Zealand hotel ballroom, then on the ...
Some greet new era with quiet reverence
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; RELIGIONface=-2; Reyn Tsuru hopes the Year of the Dragon will give members of his temple a smooth ride after a rough year of millennium anxiety. Tsuru, president of the Shingon Shu Hawaii Betsuin Buddhist temple on Sheridan Street, said he had no wishes for himself as ...
The last and first babies are born at Queen's
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; BIRTHS, WEDDINGSface=-2; After 27 hours in labor, 41-year-old Lydia Agno gave birth to her first child -- and Hawaii's first baby of the new millennium. Edwin Agno Jr., 7 pounds, 2 ounces, arrived two seconds after midnight at Queen's Hospital, ahead of a baby girl born ...
2 men shot, one fatally at Kapalama party site
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; POLICE, EMERGENCIESface=-2; POLICE arrested three men this morning after a shooting in Kapalama last night that left one man dead and another in critical condition. The shooting, in front of the R&P Music Store at Wolter Lane and North King Street, was the most ...
Y2K bug a no-show: 'We feel like the Maytag repairman tonight'
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; Y2K BUG, PREPAREDNESSface=-2; COMPUTER trouble-shooters were left feeling like lonely Maytag repairmen as Hawaii entered the Year 2000 with nary a "millennium bug" computer glitch. But none were complaining. "It's been duller than dull over here and that's just great," ...
Hardware Hawaii's Lundquist dies at 83
Jan 01, 2000; ... He was the hard-working son of Swedish immigrants whose old-fashioned values were the hallmark of his success. R. Dana Lundquist, founder of Hardware Hawaii and 1999 Retailer of the Year, passed away Wednesday in Honolulu after a brief illness. He was 83. "He was a person of ...
As UH wins, attendance shows a steady rise
Jan 01, 2000; ... It took Hawaii fans a long time to warm up to the 1999-2000 UH men's basketball team. Turnstile counts averaged just over 3,000 until the Rainbows played and beat previously unbeaten Creighton on Dec. 22. That's when the Rainbows' following began to swell. There were 3,338 for ...
Men and women of UH sweep swim meets
Jan 01, 2000 ... Star-Bulletin staff The University of Hawaii became the first college ever to win every men's and women's event in the Ed Kennedy Meet yesterday at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the annual College Swimming Coaches Forum. Each UH squad won seven events at the International Swimming ...
Hawaii team leaving for Olympic boxing qualification bouts
Jan 01, 2000 ... Star-Bulletin staff The 2000 Hawaii Boxing Team, headed by undefeated Samson Guillermo from Waianae, will leave next Friday for the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The 11-member team will compete from Jan. 10-15 with the top two medalists in each division ...
All that hoopla, but 'nothing happened' Kauai rings in spectacularly ordinary New Year
Jan 01, 2000 ... face=+2; NEIGHBOR ISLANDSface=-2; face=+2; HILOface=-2; Star-Bulletin staff HILO -- On the Big Island, assistant Civil Defense chief Bruce Butts summed up the situation:"Nothing happened. ... Everything went smoothly." The Hilo Hospital emergency room reported ...
Whale watchers are golden for tourist industry
Jan 03, 2000; ... Humpback whales do more than mate and splash around in Hawaii. The endangered species earned $19 million to $27 million for the state in 1999, according to the first study done to measure the species' economic power. Humpback whales also play a growing role in Hawaii's ocean tour-boat ...
Women's retirement to be focus of workshop
Jan 03, 2000; ... Some women may think it takes a lot of money to start a retirement plan but that's not so, the Hawaii Women's Business Center says. Simply investing the amount it takes to buy a cup of coffee everyday, at 8 percent interest, could add up to $27,000 in 20 years -- the start of a ...
'Peanuts' ends but rest assured, a retrospective begins
Jan 03, 2000 ... Corky on Charlie Brown's retirement Staff and wire reports TODAY'S "Peanuts" strip will be the last penned by its creator Charles M. Schultz. The cartoonist announced Dec. 14 that he would be retiring at the end of 1999 due to a diagnosis of colon cancer. Beginning tomorrow in ...
Stirring passage to 'New World'
Jan 03, 2000; ... SLOW is always risky in this caffeine-driven society: we don't have time for depth. Honolulu Symphony maestro Samuel Wong took that risk in the opening concert of the new millennium by taking the second movement of Dvorák's "New World" symphony markedly slower than usual. Wong gave those ...
Hee takes over as OHA leader
Jan 03, 2000; ... The Office of Hawaiian Affairs board of trustees elected Clayton Hee as its new chairman today. Hee, who was ousted as chairman in 1997, replaces Rowena Akana. Trustee Colette Machado was expected to become the new vice chairwoman. The trustees that formed the new majority and ...
Y2K bugsquashed
Jan 03, 2000 ... face=+2; No major glitches in islesface=-2; Star-Bulletin staff "No, no Y2K problems as of now," state Y2K Coordinator Mary Pat Waterhouse said morning. Richard Shimomura, state Y2K project coordinator, said that while he has received some reports from the executive ...
Kingdom supporters take case to world body
Jan 03, 2000; ... For most Hawaii residents, the notion is absolutely ludicrous. To them, claiming that the Hawaiian kingdom still exists -- and that kingdom law, not U.S. law, applies here -- is about as ridiculous as saying America still is a British holding. The courts in Hawaii have just about ...
Police, fire chiefs want import ban on aerial fireworks
Jan 03, 2000; ... Honolulu's police and fire chiefs are seeking a ban on the importation of the type of aerial fireworks that lit up Oahu skies last week. The madness, however, goes beyond fireworks. Police made numerous arrests during the New Year's Day weekend for reckless endangering related to ...
Visitor Aloha Society's founder is moving on
Jan 03, 2000; ... For the past four years, Darrell Large has taught Hawaii tourists victimized by crime about the aloha spirit. Now he hopes to take aloha international. Large started the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawaii in 1996 when he realized there was no other organization to follow up on people who ...
'Need goes on' for Hawaii's desperate
Jan 03, 2000; ... The only gift Jeanne Marn wanted for Christmas was to make a donation to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Good Neighbor Fund. On the other hand, while E.N. Motooka says she's lived without the basic necessities of life, now that she has all she needs, she wants to share. Motooka, 78, gave $25 ...
Walking away from a Pali accident
Jan 03, 2000
Early birds get the fish as shoreline sites open; Some state income tax forms revised
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; NEW RULES TAKE EFFECTface=-2; Fishermen Robert Mielke and Jay Ohashi were at the water's edge off San Souci Beach at 5:59 this morning with underwater flashlights, single pronged spears and catch bags, waiting for the 6 a.m. opening of the Waikiki-Diamond Head Shoreline ...
What a blast! Fireworks big bang
Jan 01, 2000; ... face=+2; FIREWORKSface=-2; One legislator calls it ammunition on his position -- a ban on fireworks 'The more red paper, the better,' says an Ewa woman Across Oahu, they whistled, popped, whizzed, sparkled, burned, boomed, soared and smoked. And at the home of ...
'Phuture 2000' goes off despite bomb threat
Jan 01, 2000; ... It took more than a bomb threat to keep the show from going on at Kakaako Waterfront Park. Local bands ground out hip-hop, rap, funk, hot licks and whatever last night -- accentuated by psychedelic lighting --except for punk rock. Twelve of the bands hyped by "Phuture 2000" ...
Wedding bridges 2 centuries
Jan 01, 2000; ... Gov. Ben Cayetano honored the couple with a proclamation declaring Jan. 1 Peter Thielen and Shannon Congdon Day, Congdon said. The bride and groom, 42, have known each other for more than eight years. About four years ago, they opened the Island Hemp Wear clothing business, which they ...
Save Haven respiratory project receives good response
Jan 01, 2000; ... Some headed to the hills, some flocked to rural beaches, some got hotel rooms, and some took refuge at the movies. They were all trying to escape the smoke from the New Year's Eve fireworks, which started building early last night and lingered hours after midnight. Joann Cross of ...
Stars and Stripes unbeaten
Jan 03, 2000 ... Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- Dennis Conner's Stars and Stripes beat Italy's Prada by 1 minute, 7 seconds today to improve to 2-0 in the America's Cup challenger semifinal series. Stars and Stripes, which opened the semifinals yesterday with a 55-second victory over ...
Puttin' on the USA
Jan 03, 2000; ... HARMONY and balance. It's the perfect state of mind and body sought by those who train in the sport of judo. It's been a difficult balance for Amy Tong to maintain as she juggles being a student at San Jose State and an international-caliber judoka. But the hard work has paid off -- as ...
Airlines slash faresas much as 30%
Jan 04, 2000 ... face=+2; The deep price cuts include the Hawaii marketface=-2; Bloomberg News CHICAGO -- United Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier, cut U.S. and international leisure fares as much as 30 percent today, building on a sale started by Trans World Airlines Inc. to spur slow seasonal ...
Businesses not bugged by Y2K
Jan 04, 2000; ... The turning of the millennium clock was a "ho-hum" experience for businesses large and small in Hawaii, apparently unfazed by the "Y2K" bug that cost the country $100 billion in consultants fees and new computer equipment. "It was uneventful," said Stephanie Ackerman, spokesman at Aloha ...
Expansion seen for Hawaii economy
Jan 04, 2000; ... Several of the state's top economists are telling lawmakers the same story: Hawaii's economy is improving. In fact, Paul Brewbaker of Bank of Hawaii said yesterday, the economic recovery from nearly a decade of stagnation has ended and the economy is now poised to enter an expansion ...
Capital Investments opts for private status
Jan 04, 2000; ... face=+Bold; Capital Investment of Hawaii Inc.face=-Bold; , a 55-year-old local real estate investor, property manager and business owner, is going private. It has chosen to buy out minority shareholders to save the expense and complication that a small public company lives with to ...
State to fight high tuberculosis rate
Jan 04, 2000; ... With some of the highest tuberculosis rates in the nation, the state TB program hopes to increase local and federal funding this year for new screening equipment and more education and outreach programs among target populations. But experts here say Hawaii, where TB rates reflect the ...
Common thread
Jan 04, 2000; ... SHIHO Nunes and Sara Nunes-Atabaki began their project as a catalog of images created by Shiho's father. Instead, mother and daughter collected a colorful tapestry of human stories all joined in the art of shishu. Shishu is a form of embroidery that embellished the rich fabric of ...
Polluted air spurs health chief to urge total fireworks ban
Jan 04, 2000; ... The heavy smoke from fireworks in Pearl City exceeded federal and state safety standards for particles in the air for a 24-hour period, according to the state health department. The findings prompted Health Director Bruce Anderson to urge legislators to ban fireworks in ...
New coalition puts Hee back in OHA's driver seat
Jan 04, 2000; ... Clayton Hee, newly elected chairman of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, says the agency should not be "stuck in neutral" worrying about the pending Rice vs. Cayetano case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. high court is expected to issue an opinion this spring on the appeal by Big ...
Woman urges isle moms to march for gun control
Jan 04, 2000; ... As moms across the country began organizing the Million Mom March for tighter gun control, an ailing grandmother agreed to take up the call here. Bev Kai, on disability, has chronic fatigue syndrome. She becomes ill easily, feels weak and sleeps 16 to 18 hours a day. But she is even more ...
Fingers pointed after smoke obstructs laser light show
Jan 04, 2000 ... Star-Bulletin staff As far as the Hawaii Millennium Commission is concerned, the laser light countdown did go on Friday. But because of the dense fireworks smoke at Diamond Head, some are questioning the wisdom of spending money for the show. "We just received a videotape ...
Cruise ship repair work will boost isle economy
Jan 04, 2000; ... The 1,021-passenger cruise ship SS Independence will enter the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard tomorrow for about two weeks of repairs estimated at nearly $5 million -- adding a boost to the island's ailing ship repair industry. It will be the first time a civilian vessel will be dry docked ...
Conservation group files lawsuit to protect Hawaiian forest bird
Jan 04, 2000; ... A nonprofit conservation group with more than 800 Hawaii members is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to add the Oahu elepaio to the list of endangered species. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court yesterday comes two months after the Conservation Council for ...
VonAppen passes on job as Idaho assistant
Jan 04, 2000; ... Former University of Hawaii head coach Fred vonAppen turned down a recent offer from the University of Idaho to be a defensive assistant. VonAppen's wife, Thea, said she didn't believe her husband was interested in coaching at the collegiate level again. "But you never know," she ...
Cox Radio buying 3 isle stations for $17.8 mil
Jan 05, 2000; ... Three Hawaii radio stations will be sold to face=+Bold; Cox Radio Inc.face=-Bold; for $17.8 million but will retain their local-style programming and current management and staff, the seller said. "I don't think our listening audience is going to know" that anything has changed, said ...
State to provide public access to agencies via 'Net
Jan 05, 2000; ... Hawaii will soon join 10 other states allowing residents to pay taxes, renew licenses, apply for jobs, or just wander the halls of government from the comfort of cyberspace. The Office of the Governor last week signed a contract with Kansas-based face=+Bold; National Information ...
Taste testers rank Eden most sassy soy
Jan 05, 2000 ... "When it is good, its flavor should resonate the way sound does from a gong struck by a padded hammer." What are we talking about here? A rare truffle oil, a fine champagne, a smooth, rich chocolate? Soy sauce. , the bimonthly publication that examines cooking as both ...
Survey: 'Road rage' in isles is widespread
Jan 05, 2000; ... "Road rage" is so common that three out of every four Hawaii drivers have witnessed an incident within the past month, according to a new survey. And nearly one in three drivers has been consumed with rage while driving. The statewide survey, commissioned in October by the state ...
Thieves hit Campbell High 3 times, grab 31 new computers
Jan 05, 2000; ... Thirty-one new computers valued at nearly $50,000 were stolen from Campbell High School during three weekends from November through New Year's. It's an unconscionable crime, said Campbell Vice Principal Robert Elliott, because of its effect on students. "What they stole from our ...
Cayetano considers Tulsa for new prison
Jan 05, 2000; ... Gov. Ben Cayetano said his administration is studying how much money the state would save if it housed prisoners on an Indian reservation in Tulsa, Okla. The state would have to pay up to $180 million to build a new prison in Hawaii. Cayetano -- after a pre-session meeting ...
Stender blames trust woes on state
Jan 05, 2000; ... The attorney general's office failed to protect the interests of the beneficiaries of the Kamehameha Schools prior to 1997 by refusing to investigate the affairs of the $6 billion trust, former trustee Oswald Stender has charged. But the state attorney general's office said Stender ...
State auditor study looks at marriages, health care
Jan 05, 2000; ... Healthy marriages might mess up health care, so couples seeking help are better off on their own, according to the state auditor. Auditor Marion Higa's study is in response to a pending Senate bill seeking to include marriage and family therapists among mental health and alcohol- and ...
Women's group sets legislative goals
Jan 05, 2000; ... Welfare reform, pay equity and long-term care. These are some issues being pushed by the Hawaii Women's Coalition as part of its 2000 legislative package. "We believe there is no single organization that will speak on these issues, these issues of women," said coalition Co-Chairwoman ...
Unions challenge pay freeze
Jan 05, 2000; ... A two-year pay freeze passed by the 1999 Legislature violates public employees' statutorily protected rights to engage in collective bargaining, union attorneys say. The United Public Workers, Hawaii Government Employees Association, Hawaii Teachers Association and Firefighters ...
ACLU backs fan in race bias case against UH
Jan 05, 2000; ... The American Civil Liberties Union is urging the Hawaii Supreme Court to find the University of Hawaii liable for racially discriminating speech by its agents. The ACLU made its remarks in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Dec. 30 in the case of State vs. Hoshijo, in which the university ...
Maui Council's Kane quits over beach-park lot issue
Jan 05, 2000; ... WAILUKU -- The vice chairman of the Maui County Council has stepped down after disagreeing with other members about their decision to buy two lots at a proposed beach park. Dain Kane, who wanted the council to buy three lots, said he was asked to resign by an organized majority including ...
Castle's LaBatte has a lot going for her
Jan 05, 2000; ...Where does the inspiration come from, to keep training when there is no competition other than yourself? And that inner drive ... when you're alone are at the steering wheel ... how do you know when you're on the right road? Some people are just born with the right sense of ...
The Search for Signs of Hawaiian Life in the Universe [Derived headline]
Jan 03, 2000 ... face=+2; The Search for Signs of Hawaiian Life in the Universeface=-2; face=+2; Catching a Waikiki waveface=-2; face=+Italic; The Search for Signs of Hawaiian Life in the Universe is just that -- we're ...
Bus program to bring enhancements; Streetwise
Jan 03, 2000; ... Honolulu is one of 10 U.S. cities chosen by the Federal Transit Administration for a Bus Rapid Transit program for streamlined service -- and a joint meeting on the topic takes place next month at Hilton Hawaiian Village. "We have a small grant, a $50,000 grant, that allows us to travel ...
Overly depressed? Get help, speaker says
Jan 04, 2000; ... Red flags If mental illness were a headache, most people wouldn't take aspirin. So says Bud Bowles, who speaks to public groups about why people depressed beyond two weeks should get help -- but don't. "Abraham Lincoln had it, Napoleon had it, Winston Churchill had it ....
'Bows set a high goal
Jan 04, 2000; ... Schedule The chalkboard says it all. Even ahead of the daily workout regimen, before the list of drills, at the top of the board two words are written: NCAA Champions. It's the first thing the University of Hawaii men's volleyball team members read when coming into the ...
Woods, Duval ready to go at it again; Callaway will have a ball at Kapalua
Jan 05, 2000; ... They top the field of 1999 PGA Tour champions for the Mercedes Championships Callaway will have a ball at Kapalua Hawaii has the honors again as the PGA Tour tees off its first season of the new millennium tomorrow with the Mercedes Championships at Kapalua, Maui. And ...
Okinawans celebrate 100 years in Hawaii; Okinawa gives memorial rock
Jan 05, 2000; ... The yearlong fete will honor the 26 issei who paved the way on Jan. 8, 1900, for the 18,600 who followed Schedule of events Chinzen Kinjo was on the first of many boatloads of Okinawans to arrive in Hawaii 100 years ago. He was seeking a better livelihood than the harsh poverty ...
Key figure in Ewa Villages scandal dies
Jan 05, 2000; ... More obituaries Norman Tam, one of the key figures in the city's Ewa Villages scandal, died of an apparent heart attack on New Year's Eve. He was 56. A secretary at the First Chinese Church of Christ, where Tam was a longtime member, confirmed the death. She said services are set ...