Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Family commitment to high quality
Two brothers who graduated from Kahuku High in the mid-70s have seen their Sunset Beach bakery grow dramatically because of a commitment to high quality products, such as their best-selling chilled chocolate haupia [Hawaiian coconut custard] and cream pie. Glenn and Ted Nakamura told BYU-Hawaii business students during the Entrepreneurship Lecture Series on Feb. 3, […]
PCC Hawaiian expert shares culture, hula insights
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published in the BYU–Hawaii electronic “newsroom” on 27 February 2009] Cy M. Bridges [pictured at right], Theater Director for the Polynesian Cultural Center and a noted Hawaiian cultural expert, shared his love, passion and expertise on historical and genealogical aspects of modern hula with Brigham Young University Hawaii […]
Guadalcanal: A veritable WWII ‘museum’
When my wife, Sally Ann, and I were on my East-West Center field trip in 1971, we stopped for a few days on the large, tropical island of Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (usually abbreviated BSIP; the island nation would not gain independence until 1978). The place was particularly fascinating to me because […]
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, […]