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‘Every little bit helps’
Maui Food Bank workers Dawn Carpio and her husband, Ian, happily sort Monday morning through the nearly 68,000 pounds of donated foods still being brought in from the successful Stamp Out Hunger drive held by mail carriers Saturday.
The Maui News / AMANDA COWAN photo
May 13, 2008
WAILUKU — While food donations still are coming in, the Maui Food Bank on Monday applauded the community and mail carriers for the 67,947 pounds of food collected in the “Stamp Out Hunger” campaign Saturday.
“It’s so incredible. We’re ecstatic,” said Marlene Rice, development director for the Maui Food Bank.
“There were 74 volunteers who came to sort the food pallets, and everybody was working. Nobody was sitting around. It was great.”
From Maui mail carriers, there was also appreciation to all of the residents who put out bags of food to be picked up Sat
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Hawaiian picks up more passengers
May 13, 2008
After adding flights to accommodate the loss of Aloha Airlines and ATA, Hawaiian Airlines Inc. on Monday reported a 25.5 percent increase in passenger loads on all of its routes.
In reporting that the airline carried 149,453 more passeng
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Trojans shine on big stage
May 13, 2008
WAILUKU — In their first try in national competition, a St. Anthony Junior Senior High School team — the Dirt Club — captured two regional titles last week. Senior Ted Dodson, junior Christopher Fernandez and sophomores Frank DeFeliccia and Ryan Ma
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Harbor Lights gunman faces federal firearms prosecution
May 13, 2008
A man arrested after a standoff at a Kahului condominium complex this year is facing federal prosecution through a program targeting illegal guns and ammunition.
Kadon Zimmerman, 30, was indicted on a federal charge of being a felon in po
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Top Headline Poll
With the shutdown of Aloha Airlines and the fact that the Hawaii Superferry is adding more runs between Maui and Oahu, are you more likely to use the Superferry?
Yes, I will be using the Superferry more often.
31%
No, but I may use the Superferry on occasion if it's convenient for me.
29%
No, I would never use the Superferry.
40%
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That super feeling
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 5:27PM
It’s Robert Downey Jr. who puts on the suit, but it’s Gwyneth Paltrow who makes “Iron Man” fly. As Pepper Potts, she is so dewy, so big-screen gorgeous, so smart, so clever … and yet vulnerable, she makes Downey’s job that much easier. All he really has to do, like everyone watching this surprisingly enjoyable first Really Big Hit of the Summer, is fall in love with her. Not that Downey isn’t up to the other challenges of his role, like saving the world and such. The superhero in “Iron Man,” apparently originally inspired by Howard Hughes, is a brilliant inventor-entrepreneur in a jet-propelled suit of armor. In the hands of a less gifted actor, it would just be a case of clothes make the man. But Downey makes him fascinating … and a whole lot of fun. While not an obvious first choice to play the latest action hero in the Marvel Comics cosmos, the actor’s well-publicized personal battles with his
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Unger added to Rimington list
Tue, May 13, 2008 @ 6:30PM
It was an unbelievable omission when Max Unger, the former Hawaii Preparatory Academy standout who is a rising senior at Oregon, was left off the 2008 Rimington Trophy watch list of 42 released last week. The award is given to the best center in the nation and Unger was first-team All-American (for Sports Illustrated) and first-team All-Pac-10 Conference last season. Anyway, the oversight has been corrected and the list is now 43 (including Unger). Click the link to check out a blog that explains it all pretty well.
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All the cute animals are dying!
Sun, May 11, 2008 @ 11:00AM
Here's another global warming crisis: starving koalas. Well, they're not actually starving. But they might starve if their food fills up with anti-nutrients, whatever those are. Does it strike you that global warming is highly selective? It's always the cute animals that are in danger, the polar bear, the koala, the Edith's checkerspot butterfly that are going to go extinct. Never the mosquito, sandfly, hagfish or aluminum siding salesman.
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"Maui Reviled"
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 2:27AM
I had to happen eventually, I figure. I was at a recent public meeting when someone got up to testify and brought with him a little blue book. Just the sight of it immediately drew murmurs and then quite audible guffaws before this nice man, who has community ties and appears to have lived here for some time, began to actually quote from it -- in what was meant to be a good way. The gentleman was making an argument to keep Honoapiilani Highway close to the highway when it’s realigned mauka to avoid ocean erosion. The little blue book he held with highlighted passages, he said, praised the views of the ocean from the highway, calling such proximity to the water a rarity while driving in Hawaii. But it’s hard to imagine that most people in the room were really listening to him since they were pretty busy talking to each other about either his audacity or ignorance. The book was “Maui Revealed” or “Maui Reviled” as
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Goin' somewhere
Thu, May 8, 2008 @ 5:09PM
Mike Molina saw my story coming a mile away. "So, working on your annual travel story?" he asked when he picked up the line. Yup. Each year we get a copy of the mayor's and council members' travel records and do a roundup of where everyone went and what they spent. There's never been anything jaw-dropping in there -- no $10,000 "research" cruises, no outrageous hotel bills -- just the usual assortment of trips to lobby the Legislature and a smattering of Mainland conferences. So why do we keep doing it? Just to keep tabs, I guess. With nothing else to go on, it's those conferences people usually end up talking about. Some question whether they're an unnecessary waste of time and money, while others say they're a valuable way to keep in touch with how the wider world is addressing common problems of water, development and infrastructure. So I suppose that's the purpose of doing the story every year -- if people care enough to have an opinion ab
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