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100 Years Ago
1919 -- Mlle. Cecyl Holiday has composed a poem especially for the Maui High School, beginning "We have come, dear Maui High School/In our days of youth/Here to find our joy and pleasure/In the search for truth."
75 Years Ago
1944 -- Approximately 200 photographs of the men in the Armed Forces from the West Maui district are being displayed in the show window of the Lahaina Store in conjunction with the present Fifth War Loan Drive to raise $60,000 for the district.
50 Years Ago
1969 -- Absentee ownership of Wailuku business district lands hinders revitalization of the shopping area, the president of the Wailuku Businessmen's Association told the Maui Chamber of Commerce. He said that 72.5 percent of those land owners do not live on Maui.
25 Years Ago
1994 -- A humpback whale sanctuary could beef up the enforcement of existing marine mammal protection laws as well as add new rules regulating discharges of tainted water from land, federal officials said.
10 Years Ago
2009 -- Ground was broken on the "cornerstone" and final phase of the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center's "living memorial" in Wailuku on Monday afternoon.
* "Looking Back Through The Maui News" is a weekly feature compiled by Jill Engledow.