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Kohala Snorker Who Drowned June 13–Death Really From Heart Attack

August 22, 2012
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From Hawaii Police Department: An autopsy has determined that 50-year-old Paul S. Tsang of San Francisco died from cardiac arrest not from drowning. Tsang was snorkeling in waters in South Kohala on June 13, when he was found unresponsive. He was taken to North Hawai?i Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Original story from June 13, 2012: Big Island police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old San Francisco man who died Wednesday (June 13) along the Kohala Coast. Paul S. Tsang was snorkeling in waters off Mauna Lani Beach Club at about 12:35…

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Kohala’s David Fuertes Honored for Community Leadership

August 22, 2012
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Kohala’s David Fuertes Honored for Community Leadership

The Hawai‘i Community Foundation, in partnership with Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, announced at a reception last night, the recipients of this year’s annual Ho‘okele Award.  Kohala’s David Fuertes, Executive Director of  Ka Hana No‘eau in Kohala was one of four recipients.  The others:   •       Jud R. Cunningham, chief executive officer, Aloha House, Inc.   •       Connie Mitchell, executive director, The Institute of Human Services   •       Marjorie Ziegler, executive director, Conservation Council for Hawai‘i   The Ho‘okele Award was established in 2002 by the Hawai‘i Community Foundation and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and…

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Larry Ellison Buys Most of Lana’i

June 20, 2012
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Larry Ellison Buys Most of Lana’i

Castle & Cooke has filed a transfer application with the Public Utilities Commission to sell Lana’i.   Castle & Cooke owns approximately ninety-seven percent of the island of Lana‘i.  The reason for the filing with the PUC is because as part of the transfer, the water utilities, which are under PUC regulation, are included.   The buyer is Lawrence Ellison, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation.   Ellison was rumored to be interested, and has spent time on the island.   Ellison owns several spectacular houses, including a traditional Japanese-style estate on several acres in…

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San Francisco Man Drowns Wednesday at Kohala Resort

June 13, 2012
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From Hawaii Police Department: Big Island police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old San Francisco man who died Wednesday (June 13) along the Kohala Coast. Paul S. Tsang was snorkeling in waters off Mauna Lani Beach Club at about 12:35 p.m. when an unidentified person on shore noticed he was floating. An Ogden, Utah, man using a paddle board went to check on Tsang and found him unresponsive. Tsang was brought to shore, where a nurse from Tucson, Arizona, and Hawai?i lifeguard personnel performed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation until Hawai?i Fire Department personnel arrived. Tsang was…

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Hilo Pharmacy College Ranked in Top Five New Schools

May 4, 2012
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Hilo Pharmacy College Ranked in Top Five New Schools

The University of Hawai`i at Hilo College of Pharmacy has earned national ranking as one of the top five new schools of pharmacy in the U.S. News & World Report, according to rankings released March 13, 2012.   In the first year of eligibility since admitting its inaugural class in 2007, CoP ranked 74 out of 135 schools of pharmacy in the United States. Of the 42 new pharmacy programs established in or after 2000, only three programs ranked higher.   “These rankings are based on expert opinions about program excellence, so to garner attention…

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Hawi Man in Jail in Thailand–Reportedly a California Felon

April 25, 2012
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A Hawi man, known throughout the community, owner of a restaurant and hotel, publisher of a local newsletter, has been arrested in Thailand.  And it turns out, he’s been on the run from the law for quite a while. News stories from Thailand’s Chiangri Times say Jim Sargent, 62, was arrested in March.  He was retained in northern Chiang Mai after police found he entered Thailand last October on a tourist visa, then changed it to a retirement visa.  His visa was revoked.  Thai Police Lieutenant Colonel Prasart Khemaprasit is quoted as saying he will…

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UH Hilo Hosting Golf Championship

April 18, 2012
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UH Hilo Hosting Golf Championship

The University of Hawaii at Hilo hosts the 2012 Hawaiian Airlines Pacific West Conference Men’s Golf Championship, April 22-24, on the Waikoloa Kings Course at the Waikoloa Beach Resort.   Participating in the tournament are PacWest members Academy of Art University (San Francisco, Calif.), Brigham Young University-Hawaii, California Baptist University (Riverside), Chaminade University, Dixie Sate College of Utah (St. George), Dominican University (San Rafael, Calif.), Grand Canyon University (Phoenix, Ariz.), Hawaii Hilo, Hawaii Pacific University and Notre Dame de Namur University (Belmont, Calif.).   Five players will represent each school in the best-4-of-5, 54-hole format.…

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Philly Flower Show Honors Hawaii’s Flowers

March 3, 2012
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Philly Flower Show Honors Hawaii’s Flowers

The prestigious Philadelphia Flower Show’s theme this year is Hawaii, Islands of Aloha.  Congresswoman Mazie Hirono made an appearance on opening day, Saturday, March 4, and visited with vendors from the state–including some from Hawaii Island. The annual event runs this year from March 4 through March 11.  It’s the largest indoor flower show in the United States, according to the show’s web site, and definitely one of the oldest–since 1829.   Guests  enter  the show, which this year is highlighting Hawaii’s flowers and the state,  through dynamic projections of crashing waves and one of…

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Top Amateur Golfers at Kings Course This Week

February 2, 2012
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The top three World Golf Amateurs highlight this year’s field at the 22nd Annual Amer Ari at the Waikoloa Beach Resort, through Friday,  February 3, on the Waikoloa Kings’ Course. UCLA’s Patrick Cantlay, Texas’ Jordan Spieth and Stanford’s Patrick Rodgers, ranked 1-3, will be leading their respective schools in the 20-team competition.   The tournament field includes eight of the top 14 NCAA Division I teams. The list includes host University of Hawaii at Hilo, top-ranked Texas, 2nd-ranked Oregon, 4th-ranked UCLA, 5th-ranked Washington,, 8th-ranked Stanford, 11th-ranked Georgia Tech, 12th-ranked USC and 14th-ranked Oklahoma State. The…

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Big Island Carbon Gets EPA OK

October 3, 2011
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) District 9 in San Francisco recently reviewed and approved Big Island Carbon’s Clean Air Permit  application prepared by Hawaii’s State Department of Health. The permit has now been issued.   The Big Island Carbon plant has been operating on a non-covered source permit while working through the State and Federal processes for the Covered Source Clean Air Permit which will allow the company’s Power Plant to be installed. “The EPA’s issuance of our Clean Air Permit means two important things,” explained Big Island Carbon CEO Rick Vidgen. “First, it means we…

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Huggo’s Names Schloss as Executive Chef

September 8, 2011
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Huggo’s Names Schloss as Executive Chef

Huggo’s has appointed a new Executive Chef.  Ken Schloss comes to the position from the Norwegian Cruise Lines’ Hawaii interisland cruise ship, Pride of America, where he oversaw the five restaurants aboard the ship.  Schloss is from the San Francisco Bay Area and the California wine country.  He worked in Napa Valley and has 20 years experience in the culinary arts.  He also served as the Executive Chef at Inn of the Tides in Bodega Bay, California and also at Chalk Hill Estates Vineyards in Healdsburg. Huggo’s, owned by Eric von Platen Luder, was started…

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Big Dog Joseph Pays Tribute to Ailing HPA Coach

September 6, 2011
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One thing that we all have in common, no matter rich or poor, in good health or bad, is that everyone will eventually die. “Life is never predictable and dealing with the difficult times takes emotional strength and courage to nurture and expand relationships,” Stan Shutes said. Shutes believes that he is in perfect health, despite having Stage IV melanoma. Shutes was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 1979 when he learned for the first time that he had a serious illness as compared to the few basal cell skin cancers he had removed in the…

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Kahumoku Brings Blue Grass to the Island (audio)

August 29, 2011
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Kahumoku Brings Blue Grass to the Island (audio)

Award winning slack key artist Keoki Kahumoku was in Kealakehe over the weekend conducting a music workshop–a blue grass workshop.   Kahumoku, son of George Kahumoku Jr. and nephew of Moses Kahumoku, is best known for his work in perpetuating Hawaiian music.   Kahumoku says blue grass has origins not so different from kiho’alu, or slack key.  Both are early forms of music–slack key being one of the earliest forms of Hawaiian music, and blue grass being old style fiddle, mandolin and stand up bass music with Irish, Scottish, and Welch influences, among others.   Both forms of…

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