Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Laie man bikes across the U.S. mainland
Mike Weber in California [Story by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo, June 2010; photos courtesy of Mike Weber] So, what are you going to do this summer? If you’re looking for adventure, you’ll have to go a long way to top Mike Weber, an associate professor of physics at Brigham Young University–Hawaii, who recently […]
BYUH presents service honors to labor missionaries
[Story by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 17, 2005] BYU-Hawaii honored 26 labor missionaries during its Koolauloa Community Service Awards Program on March 17. The twenty-six represented several hundred volunteer laborers and supervisors who built the university campus, additions to the Hawaii Temple and Visitors Center, housing, chapels, and the […]
Kahana family shares taro patch
[Originally published in KALEO on October 31, 1996] Almost 200 people turned out early Saturday morning, Nov. 2nd, before the sun climbed over the Ko’olau ridges of Kahana Valley to squish their toes in the mud and help Ron Johnson plant huli or taro tops in his family patch alongside Kamehameha Highway. It had been […]
Samoa factoids: Did you know?
In the wake of news from the September 29, 2009, earthquake and tsunami damage in Samoa, I was recently reading some Samoa history, and the following few factoids caught my interest enough to share them: