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Aloha & Welcome

...to Mike Foley's blog featuring a selection of archival materials I've done in our community newspaper, Kaleo, which is no longer online, articles I've written for various Latter-day Saint media, and other work that doesn't fit into the first two categories. ENJOY! (Please note, over time, I've somehow lost a few of the images original images (gremlins?) . . . and I'm in the process of restoring them.)
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Here are a couple of samples:

Aloha, baby Gavin Norton…

Aloha, baby Gavin Norton…

[Story by Mike Foley] People from all over the world have been praying for and following the story of Gavin David Bruce Norton, the eight-week old son of Richie Norton and his wife, Natalie Link Norton, who was born in Hawaii on October 24, 2009 and died in Salt Lake City, Utah, on January 7, […]

Congratulations, Steelers’ Chris Kemoeatu

Congratulations to Pittsburg Steeler OL Chris Kemoeatu of Kahuku — all-state defensive lineman and Kahuku Red Raider who went on to play for the University of Utah before the NFL drafted him. It was very satisfying to watch him start and play most of the game which the whole world now knows Pittsburg won in […]

Taga ‘two-seater’

Taga ‘two-seater’

In the days I served in Samoa as a Mormon missionary in the mid-1960s, there were still lots of fale or Samoan houses, just like at the Polynesian Cultural Center . . . and falevao or outhouses were everywhere, usually rickety things hanging over a beach. At high tide fish would come under them. Ebb […]

Samoan vs. Hawaiian names

In my last entry, I went on-and-on about the Samoan language, and made a few comparisons with other Polynesian languages, which reminded me of a brief incident years ago that demonstrates the difference between many Samoan and Hawaiian names:

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