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Upfront NewsSeptember 12, 2012 | 11:38 AMby Anthony PignataroMELE CARROLL
Running for: State Representative, District 13 (East Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai)
Running against: Simon S. Russell
Birthplace: Honolulu |
Upfront News 2September 12, 2012 | 11:42 AMby Jen RussoThe A&B Foundation recently awarded $20,000 to the Kaunoa Senior Center. Kaunoa's congregate and home delivered meals program served more than 95,000 meals last year to 1,400 seniors and continues strong. |
Coconut WirelessSeptember 12, 2012 | 11:34 AMby Anthony PignataroOCCUPY WALL STREET MAUI CELEBRATES FIRST BIRTHDAY
The birth of Occupy Wall Street–the loose, mostly grassroots uprising that argues against the influence of multinational corporations in our government–has been well-covered in the press. But I recently learned that its local cousin–Occupy Wall Street Maui, which is just about one year old now–owes its existence (at least partially) to the paper you're reading right now.
"Here on Maui, Occupy really began–after a couple |
September 12, 2012 | 11:46 AMby Jen RussoIn the first clinic of its kind, Edventure at UH Maui College will be offering a running clinic offered by Colorado jogging experts Douglas Wisoff and Art Ives. The clinic will be held Oct. 12-14 from Friday to Sunday. For these three days, the rubber hits the road and you will become familiar with phrases like "releasing muscle tension into the ground" and "engaging your fire-band." |
Upfront News 3September 12, 2012 | 11:44 AMby Jen RussoThe fifth annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day will happen Saturday, Sept. 29, but Kaiser Permanente has already beat the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to the punch. They've collected more than 100 pounds of prescription drugs on Maui, Hawaii Island and Oahu at their clinics this past spring. This was the first time Kaiser executed a take-back campaign. |
News of the WeirdSeptember 12, 2012 | 11:30 AMby Chuck ShepherdCHALLENGING BUSINESS MODEL
Short-stay "love hotels" proliferate in Brazil, but in July in the city of Belo Horizonte, Fabiano Lourdes and his sister Daniela were about to open Animalle Mundo Pet, which they described as a love hotel for dogs. Owners would bring their mating-ready canines to rooms that feature the dim lighting and heart-shaped ceiling mirrors traditional in love hotels (to appeal to the party paying the bill, of course). |
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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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