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50 years ago — Sept. 25, 1964
Mixing Up Trouble – It is hoped that these students know what they are doing as they begin to use the new laboratory at Damien. Trying out the new equipment are students Thomas Texeira, Bruce Graham, and Abel Lew (left to right).
25 years ago — Sept. 29, 1989
St. Vincent de Paul Society opens central referral center
It’s not as easy to remember as 911, and it won’t be a 24-hour service to start, but 236-7352 will be a lifesaver nevertheless. It is the number of the new information and referral service of Hawaii’s St. Vincent de Paul Society which goes into operation Oct. 2.
The service, called the Ozanam Center after the society’s founder, Frederick Ozanam, will be located at Bethany House, the Sacred Hearts Congregation’s Center on Likelike Highway just above Kaneohe.
A pilot program, the Ozanam Center will help provide emergency information to individuals and church outreach workers in need of food, clothing, household items and financial assistance.
10 years ago — Sept. 24, 2004
Kailua lay minister offers ‘Scrub Bucket Gospel’
It sounds like a mid-20th century female imitation of Jesus’ discipleship call to St. Peter to become a fisher of men. But Kailua resident Maxine Pollock says it really happened.
One day several decades ago, when this housewife, young mother and hairdresser by trade was hanging clothes on the clothesline, Pollock heard a voice tell her that she was destined to be not a “dresser of heads,” but a “dresser of hearts.” …
As the founder and president of the newly formed Scrub Bucket Gospel Ministries, she is bringing the Gospel message back to the clothesline and the kitchen. …
Today Scrub Bucket Ministries, perhaps Hawaii’s only lay-run spiritual direction program, has a schedule of fall retreats. The first, a women’s retreat set for the first weekend of October, was quickly filled to capacity through word of mouth.