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Upfront NewsMarch 21, 2012 | 12:25 PMby Jen RussoMaui athlete Jonathan You started his 2012 season off right by earning gold at the USA Gymnastics Men's "Pot O Gold" meet in Honolulu on March 12. You is a 13-year-old Level 6 gymnast from Valley Isle Gymnastics in Kahului. He was the only Maui athlete at the Oahu meet and took the gold medal in vault and silver medal on the rings. You also placed fourth on floor and horizontal bar at the Pot-O-Gold meet. |
Coconut WirelessMarch 21, 2012 | 01:05 PMby Anthony PignataroTHE LC PUNTS!
If you're one of those adults who likes to imbibe an alcoholic beverage now and then, then last week's Maui County Liquor Commission hearing was about the biggest story of the year. About a hundred people appeared on the morning of Wednesday, Mar. 14 in the little courtyard of the Trask Building in Wailuku, headquarters of the county's Liquor Control department.
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Upfront News 2March 21, 2012 | 01:02 PMby Jen RussoImua Family Services came from a humble beginning, helping children with polio in 1947. Now 65 years later, their services are different, but just as critical: their infant and child development programs reach more than 2,000 children on the island. |
Upfront News 3March 21, 2012 | 01:04 PMby Jen RussoWomen and children who have been the victims of violence in the home: Women Helping Women. To ensure that the non-profit will have an amazing year, consider supporting their annual fundraiser–an Elegant Afternoon Tea. |
News of the WeirdMarch 21, 2012 | 01:10 PMby Chuck ShepherdHOT AG RITUAL
An annual spring fertility festival in Vietnam's Phu Tho province is capped by a symbolic X-rated ceremony rendered G-rated by wooden stand-ins. At midnight on the 12th day of the lunar new year, a man holding a wooden phallus-like object stands in total darkness alongside a woman holding a wooden plank with a hole in it, and the act is attempted. As the tradition goes, if the man is successful at penetration, then there will be good crops. Following the ceremony, villagers are ordered to "go and be free," which, according to a February report by Thanh Nien News Service, means uninhibited friskiness during the lights-out period. [Thanh Nien News (Ho Chi Minh City), 2-9-2012] |
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“I’m from Seattle. It’s great there—it’s really cool and the sky is always gray…”
-Guy at Fred’s Mexican Cantina in Kihei, June 10 |
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“A shell crashed ashore. In the dun-colored houses along Kahului’s waterfront, stevedores and their women heard the gun again, like a door slamming, and again the crash of the shell. The Jap fired ten rounds in all. Then the submarine disappeared in the night. Announcing this attack on an undefended, unimportant cane-&-pineapple port, the U.S. Navy reported: no casualties, negligible damage.”
-From “Dusk in Kahului,” Time Magazine, Dec. 28, 1941 |
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