Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
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 […]
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 […]
Scholarly panel shares perspectives with Korean journalists
[By Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, May 27, 2003] A group of South Korean journalists accompanied by two Latter-day Saint authorities from that country recently met with compatriots on campus and heard a scholarly panel discuss the history and status of the Korean Peninsula. The panel, which met in the McKay […]
China Journal: Contrasts between old and new
Blog entry and photos by Mike Foley (containing excerpts from my previously published China journal, July 2009]: When our BYU-Hawaii study group was there in July 2006, Shanghai — and I understand many of the other major urban areas of China — were (and presumably still are) undergoing a tremendous building boom. There were immense construction […]