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Upfront NewsAugust 22, 2012 | 12:16 PMby Anthony PignataroALAN (AL) FUKUYAMA
Running for: Maui County Council (Kahului)
Running against: Don S. Guzman
Birthplace: Honolulu, HI. |
Upfront News 2August 22, 2012 | 12:20 PMby Jen RussoNeed some scratch for your community project? FundaGeek (FundaGeek.com) wants to be your source for crowd-sourcing funds on the Internet. Sites like Indie Go Go and Kickstarter are getting more familiar every day with successful crowd-funding of projects and creative products from idea to fruition linking clicks, credit cards and PayPal accounts. FundaGeek was launched with the same basic idea, but its goal is to help community ventures, research projects and inventions. |
Coconut WirelessAugust 22, 2012 | 12:17 PMby Anthony PignataroNO PARKING IN WAILUKU?
It's been on, then off, then back on again and now it seems it's off again, though it may come back on... again... sometime... maybe. It's the proposed Wailuku Municipal Parking Structure, people, and though county planners were touting it as a done-deal barely a year ago, that project is now deader than former South Maui state Representative |
August 22, 2012 | 12:26 PMby Jen RussoThe Maui Fair is looking for businesses that want to showcase their products and services at the 90th county fair. The Maui Fair has been an island tradition since 1916 as an alcohol-free, family-oriented event. Entertainment includes multicultural |
Upfront News 3August 22, 2012 | 12:22 PMby Jen RussoEvery high school in our state could use some extra money, and Mobi PCS is capitalizing on this idea with a new "Gear Up and Give Back" campaign designed to get students in the store voting for their schools. The school with the most votes by 9pm on Aug. 31 will win $10,000. Second and third place winners will get $5,000 each. The big surprise is that as of now, outer island schools are winning: Maui High School is at the top, joined by Hilo Intermediate next and Waikea Elementary. Castle High School from Oahu is fourth. |
News of the WeirdAugust 22, 2012 | 12:30 PMby Chuck ShepherdFIRST AMENDMENT BLUES
A bar in Horry County, S.C., named the Suck Bang Blow filed a lawsuit in May challenging the county's new ordinance prohibiting motorcyclists' "burnouts" (engine-revving with back-tire-spinning, creating smoke–and enormous noise). The bar claims that burnouts are important expressions of its cust |
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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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