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Upfront NewsAugust 15, 2012 | 07:26 AMby Anthony PignataroDON S. GUZMAN
Running for: Maui County Council (Kahului)
Running against: Alan (Al) Fukuyama
Birthplace: Manila, the Philippines
Profession: Attorney |
Coconut WirelessAugust 15, 2012 | 07:38 AMby Anthony PignataroELECTION? WHAT ELECTION?
For most of you around Maui (and Hawaii), that indeed is the question. After all, just 290,724 people voted in the Aug. 11 Hawaii Primary Election (roughly 21 percent of the state's population). Worries that holding this year's election in August rather than September would catch voters off guard proved baseless–turnout in the 2010 Primary stood at a miserable 42.8 percent, compared to this year's similarly anemic 42.3 percent. |
Upfront News 2August 15, 2012 | 07:30 AMby Jen RussoThe normally happy goats of Kula's Surfing Goat Dairy probably aren't that happy these days. Drought conditions have hit the dairy so hard that they're importing curds from other, like-minded goat farms to keep up with the demand for their local goat cheese. Owner Thomas Kafsack says that even with constant irrigation, the pasture is breaking up. Their water bills are out of the park and their grain bills are increasing due to the bad drought situation on the mainland. "We have to buy much more fresh grass, hay and grains," says Kafsack. "Our expenses are up 45 percent this year." |
August 15, 2012 | 07:36 AMby Jen RussoCos Bar is throwing a red carpet party to commemorate a decade in business at the Shops at Wailea. Lily Garfield started Cos Bar in Aspen, Colorado after find that many travelers lack access to their cosmetics, skin and hair care products. This issue is exacerbated by Transportation Security Agency (TSA) rules for flying, and the cost of checking baggage with airlines. Garfield created the beauty boutique to provide high-end products in places where travelers might not initially have an accessible Nordstrom or Neiman Marcus counter. |
Upfront News 3August 15, 2012 | 07:32 AMby Jen RussoKen Dawson is streamlining the shipping industry in Hawaii, offering a unique way to keep your products moving throughout the state. His new business, called Delivery Hawaii, offers a services ranging from warehousing your inventory to delivering it to your clients. |
News of the WeirdAugust 15, 2012 | 07:42 AMby Chuck ShepherdEYE-OPENING SURGERY
Fern Cooper, 65, and 13 other cataract-surgery patients arrived at Ontario's Oakville Trafalgar Hospital on June 25 to learn that they would not receive the usual anesthesia because the hospital had decided to schedule an "experimental day" to evaluate how unsedated patients responded. (The Ontario Health Insurance Plan had recently cut anesthesiologists' fee.) A topical numbing gel, plus doctors' reassurances were provided, but Cooper, previously diagnosed with severe anxiety, told the Toronto Star of the terror she felt when, fully awake, she watched the surgeon's scalpel approaching, and then cutting, her eyeball. |
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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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