Mike Foley's blog
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MPHS tours small, old cemeteries in Laie
MPHS members at the small cemetery on the Hau‘ula side of Temple Hill About three dozen people, including kupuna, gained new appreciation for the aloha of families and volunteers during the Mormon Pacific Historical Society’s (MPHS) November 24, 2007, tour of five small and previously completely overgrown cemeteries in Laie. In fact, many community residents […]
Thinking about ‘ulu
I was picking a couple of ‘ulu [breadfruit] the other day from my neighbor’s tree that hangs over into our yard . . . and it got me thinking about the bright green little ‘ulu tree that President Eric Shumway and a number of others planted during the Church College of Hawaii/Brigham Young University–Hawaii jubilee […]
This just in: Watch out for third-hand smoke!
I’ve blogged before about my feelings and experiences on first- and second-hand tobacco smoke . . . but I have to admit I was kinda’ surprised this past week to learn there’s such a thing as third-hand smoke — tobacco smoke contamination that lingers in the environment after a cigarette has been extinguished. A quick […]
Wow! $2 gas again…
The other day in Honolulu (12/2008) I was so surprised to see gas at Costco — the one by Honolulu Community College — only cost about $2 a gallon for 87-octane; and that for the first time in a long time I sprang for premium grade. It only cost about $35 to fill up. This […]