Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Last Kahuku bon dance slated
target=”_blank”> By Mike Foley, April 15, 2009 The Kahuku Bon Dance, an annual summer tradition for decades, is coming to an end with its final celebration this year on Saturday, July 25, 2009. An aging and dwindling church membership with no younger replacements is the cause for the decision to shut down the temple. The […]
Laie Hawaii Temple…undergoing renovations
The Laie Hawaii Temple on March 6, 2009, stripped of its gleaming white paint while construction workers totally overhaul the 90-year-old edifice. [Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo, April 2009] While we’re happy that the Laie Hawaii Temple is undergoing renovations (for approximately the next 16 months) that will enhance and improve the […]
Wow! $2 gas again…
The other day in Honolulu (12/2008) I was so surprised to see gas at Costco — the one by Honolulu Community College — only cost about $2 a gallon for 87-octane; and that for the first time in a long time I sprang for premium grade. It only cost about $35 to fill up. This […]
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 […]