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50 years ago — Jan. 26, 1968
The ladies of the St. Anthony Alumnae Association of Wailuku, Maui, will hold their Fifth Annual Fashion Show in the Plantation Room of the Kaanapali Beach Hotel on February 11. The show will begin at 11:30 a.m. Fashions will be from Judges’ Beyond the Reef of Kihei. Mrs. Peggy Judge (left) is the coordinator of the show. She is pictured reviewing the plans with Michael Stevenson of the hotel staff, and Mrs. Barbara Silva (right), chairman of the event. Proceeds from the show will support three tuition grants to deserving girls at St. Anthony’s High School.
25 years ago — Jan. 29, 1993
Ka Hale Ake Ola
In May of 1986, with $26, a dream and the blessing of Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario, Sulpician Father Robert Turner started Maui Catholic Charities. He gathered a group of 20 Mauians to study the problems of the community, uncovering in the process the growing reality of homelessness on Maui.
By the end of that year, Maui Catholic Charities opened the island’s first and only homeless shelter. The unused 50-year-old Holy Family Catholic Church and rectory next to the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar industrial complex in Puunene became the Holy Family Ecumenical Shelter.
But that was only the beginning.
This week, on Jan. 27, the bishop blessed Maui’s new $5.5 million Ka Hale Ake Ola – considered by some one of the finest resource centers for the homeless in the country.
10 years ago — Jan. 25, 2008
Bishop, guest speaker offer message of hope at Red Mass
The impact of the Red Mass begins a half hour before the opening procession, on the expanse of Fort Street Mall in front of the cathedral, as the bishop, priests and deacons mingle with members of Hawaiian royal orders, government officials, leaders of other faiths, diocesan church leaders, the media and members of the faithful. …
Bishop Larry Silva presided at the Mass in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, Thursday morning, Jan. 17, the day after the opening of the state legislature. …
The guest speaker was Immaculee Ilibagiza, an African genocide survivor and author, who had just completed a string of talks in Hawaii. …
About 400 people attended, the overflow settling into the balconies overhead.