Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Te Aroha Nui Maori group returns to PCC
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published in PCC’s Imua Polenesia newsletter, August 2005] In the summer of 1963 the late Wendell B. Mendenhall, president of all LDS labor missionaries in the Pacific, asked 148 New Zealand Maori to help get the Polynesian Cultural Center ready for its opening on October 12th that year. […]
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 […]
A bamboo cannon: New Year’s 2009
First, Happy New Year 2009, or as we say in Hawaii: Hau’oli Makahiki Hou! Those of you who know New Year’s Eves in Hawaii will smile, while those of you who haven’t ever had the pleasure can’t imagine the noise and smoke of the fireworks, plus the enjoyment of the grindz — the food — […]
Beach baptisms in Laie and…
…throughout Hawaii. At the outset, let me say I sustain my Latter-day Saint Church leaders, and will follow their directions, one of the most recent of which I just heard this evening — February 15, 2009, when our Laie Hawaii North Stake President Finau Hafoka announced…