Posts Tagged ‘ Jim Rizzuto ’

Molly Palmer Catches Kona’s Third Grander This Year

August 19, 2012
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Molly Palmer Catches Kona’s Third Grander This Year

The Charter Desk at Honokohau Harbor reports that a “grander,” or thousand-pound or greater marlin, was brought into Honokohau Harbor Saturday.  Molly Palmer is the angler who caught it.  The marlin weighed 1,022.5 pounds.  Molly was aboard the fishing boat “Anxious” with Captain Neal Isaacs. This is  the third grander of 2012, and the first for “Anxious.”  The big fish was around 15 feet long from nose to tail. The photo is courtesy of The Charter Desk, and the full story will be in Jim Rizzuto’s column in the sports section of West Hawaii Today…

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Earthquake Hits off Kiholo Friday Afternoon

June 16, 2012
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Earthquake Hits off Kiholo Friday Afternoon

An earthquake hit off the Kona Coast Friday afternoon at 2:18.  The United States Geological Survey says it was magnitude 3.8, at a depth of around 25 miles.   It was located 16 miles north of Kailua-Kona, 15 miles west of the summit of Hualalai,  offshore near Kiholo Bay.   Many in the Kohala area felt the quake, but  there were no known reports of damage. Fishing writer Jim Rizzuto, who lives in Waimea,  said it got him up from his desk and he headed towards the door, but then it stopped.  He also said  “a…

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Native Hawaiian Arts Market a Big Hit

May 12, 2012
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Native Hawaiian Arts Market a Big Hit

Poi Pounding The Native Hawaiian Arts Market was held Saturday at Kahili Town Hall in Waimea.  The event featured a wide variety of media, including  fine arts, cultural jewelry, traditional wood and bone carvings, photography, fiber arts, original kapa/tapa cloth and more.  There were Hawaiian cultural demonstrations such as poi pounding, and a display of Native Hawaiian tools including  fish bats (used to disable the big fish before pulling them into the canoe or boat).   There was live music, food, and a keiki corner.   Fishing writer Jim Rizzuto was one of hundreds attending the…

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Marlin Race Results Coming In

October 16, 2011
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The Great Marlin Race started two months ago, and as fishing writing Jim Rizzuto reported in his fishing column in West Hawaii Today a week ago,  some of the results are in. In the last week of July, a 200 pound blue marlin had a close encounter of the bad kind, for a marlin, with a participant in the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament.  But Masaharu Matsushita did not haul in the marlin.  Instead, he attached a pop up satellite tag to the marlin before releasing it. The satellite tag just popped off the marlin—who has…

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“Hiroshima in the Morning” Nominated for Peace Prize

August 23, 2011
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“Hiroshima in the Morning” Nominated for Peace Prize

“Hiroshima in the Morning” by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto has been nominated for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, in the nonfiction category.   There are 40 books nominated in the nonfiction category, in addition to 27 books in the fiction category. Rizzuto was born and raised in Waimea on the Big Island, the daughter of well known West Hawaii fishing writing Jim Rizzuto and his late wife, Shirley.   She is a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program at Goddard College and now lives in Brooklyn.     Her acclaimed first novel, “Why She…

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Kawaihae Canoe Club Car Wash A Definite Success

July 31, 2011
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Kawaihae Canoe Club Car Wash A Definite Success

The Kawaihae Canoe Club had a Bikini Car Wash Fundraiser at the Kawaihae SeaFood Bar and Grill on Sunday.  Our roving reporter friend, Jim Rizzuto (who also writes the fishing column every Monday in West Hawaii Today), all in the pursuit of good news stories and accompanying photos, had his car washed.  Possibly more than once.  We are pretty sure the club made money.

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Canoe Clubs Lose Some, Save Some

March 14, 2011
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Canoe Clubs on the West side of Hawaii Island in general managed to get their canoes out of harms way before Friday morning’s tsunami–but not always.   Kai Ehitu Canoe Club managed to remove its two new canoes and two canoe canoes from Kamakahonu Beach, behind King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel,  early Friday morning.  But they had to leave two canoes there, including one they share with Tui Tonga.  Club members just simply ran out of time before police closed off access to the area around 2 a.m. in anticipation of the tsunami. When club members…

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Tsunami Hits Keauhou Bay Hard

March 13, 2011
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Tsunami Hits Keauhou Bay Hard

  With its wide-open entrance, elevated sides and tapering outline, Keauhou Bay is especially vulnerable to the power of a tsunami.  Friday’s surges swept into the picturesque little South Kona port and trashed it. Capt. Billy Murtagh, skipper of the charterboat Nainoa, heeded the warnings and took his 31-footer offshore to wait it out through the dark and was aghast at the scene he saw at dawn. “I couldn’t believe that I was looking at the same place I go in and out of every day and it was now too dangerous to go back…

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Reiko Rizzuto on “The View” Friday

March 8, 2011
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Reiko Rizzuto on “The View” Friday

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto is scheduled to be a guest on the ABC television program, The View, on Friday, March 11.  Rizzuto, born and raised on Hawaii Island and the daughter of fishing writer Jim Rizzuto and his late wife Shirley, has written two books.   But most likely, the four hosts of the program will be less interested in her books than in recent fallout from her candid comments on motherhood. In the process of writing her most recent book, “Hiroshima in the Morning,” Rizzuto spent six months living in Japan in 2001.  Her purpose was…

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Rizzuto’s Book Named Finalist in Prestigious Award

January 23, 2011
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Rizzuto’s Book Named Finalist in Prestigious Award

An author with local roots has been named a finalist for the  National Book Critics Circle 2010 awards.   Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s “Hiroshima in the Morning” is one of five finalists in the autobiography category.    Rizzuto is the daughter of well known West Hawaii fishing writer Jim Rizzuto and his late wife, Shirley.   Born and raised in Waimea on the Big Island, Rizzuto is a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.  She lives in Brooklyn, New York.   Her acclaimed first novel, “Why She Left Us,” won an American…

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Grander Caught in Kona in December

January 3, 2011
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Grander Caught in Kona in December

Captain Guy Terwilliger caught a 1,011-pound marlin on December 27, only the second time since 1960 that a “grander,” or 1,000-pound (or larger) marlin has been caught off West Hawaii in December.   According to West Hawaii Today columnist Jim Rizzuto, the only other time since records were kept was when Jerome Judd brought in a 1,165 marlin on his Jun Ken Po on December 28, 1994.   Last week’s catch was on the charter boat Game Plan.  Angler Tom Crader and his wife, visiting from Anchorage, Alaska, shared the honors.   (Thanks to Jim Rizzuto and Guy…

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