Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Electrifying!
The first sign on Friday evening, December 26, was a little flicker of the lights. I remember saying to my wife, Sally, I wonder if someone hit a telephone pole somewhere down the highway. Then a few minutes later the lights went out — then soon enough all over Oahu. Yup, for the second time […]
PCC Promo dancer reigns as ‘Miss South Pacific’
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in the PCC Imua Polenesia newsletter, January 2008] PCC Promo Team dancer and Laie resident Tessie Toluta’u [pictured at right during the 2007 PCC Moanikeala Hula Festival] recently swept all categories to win the title of Miss South Pacific in Apia, Samoa. For her talent she performed Tongan […]
The Samata ‘fly-test’: A Miracle?
When I was a Mormon missionary in Samoa in the early months of 1967, my companion and I were assigned to live in Samata, Savaii, in the Falelima district…where we experienced what some have called a miracle. Now, I experienced a number of miracles during my missionary days in Samoa, some of them even humorous, […]
Entrepreneurial attorney advises students to change the world
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 14, 2006] One of Hawaii’s leading corporate attorneys shared some of the learnings and business philosophies he has incorporated into his own and other ventures in the March 14 entrepreneurship lecture series. Gregory R. Kim, Esq. [pictured at right] worked at […]