Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Kupuna tales: Tautua Tuala Tanoa’i
[By the late Vaita’i Tanoa’i Reed…about her father, originally published in Kaleo, December 17, 1998: He is pictured at right at the Mormon Hukilau in Laie in 1950] When Tautua Tanoa’i and his wife, Felita Savea Satele, were Mormon missionaries in Samoa, they traveled with four other missionaries along with their five small children who […]
Origins of Laie street names
[Originally published in KALEO on April 3, 1997] A recent proposal to rename one of the streets in Laie caused Kaleo to investigate how the streets came to be named as they are. Kupuna said talk to retired art professor and longtime Laie resident Wylie Swapp. Typical of his high degree of organization and sense […]
Kahuku claims ’98 OIA football championship
[Story by Mike Foley, photo by Barry Markowitz, originally published in Kaleo, November 19, 1998] Kahuku’s D-men didn’t let pouring rain stop them from keeping Waianae scoreless during the OIA title match at Aloha Stadium Kahuku High School’s unstoppable, nationally-ranked varsity Red Raiders finished out a perfect 1998 12–0 football season during a downpour at […]
One glorious, golden morning…
[Blog entry by Mike Foley: Originally published May 24, 2009] After a church meeting today, a friend who has been teaching early-morning Laie North Stake Seminary told me how he still got up early this past week, even though class is over for the school year, and went for a walk on Hukilau Beach — […]