Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
L&L CEO recommends decentralization
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” February 18, 2003] The CEO of Hawaii’s largest plate lunch restaurant chain says decentralization and giving management part-ownership are keys to L&L Drive Inn’s success. Eddie Flores [pictured at right], a Chinese-Filipino who immigrated with his parents to Hawaii in 1963, told […]
Laie Gardening Club gleans from the Nihipalis
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo, April 23, 1998] The Laie Gardening Club gained insights into growing food at home for healthy eating when they toured Ben and Gerry Nihipali‘s home garden on April 18 [pictured at right]. The couple got totally committed to home gardening after Ben experienced angina in […]
Hauula Elementary School centennial:
[Stories by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo on March 9, 2000, and March 23, 2000] It was five or six years before the first automobile, and more than a decade before the first airplane came to Hawaii that Hauula Elementary School started up in its current location. One hundred years later, the school will […]
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 […]