NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — Sept. 20, 1968
SOME DAY—Paul Turgeon, a fourth-grader in Los Angeles who intends to join the Notre Dame class of ’81, looks up to George Kunz, co-captain of this year’s N.D. grid team, while at left is N.D.’s basketballer, John Pleick of El Segundo, Calif. Paul’s father hosted a barbecue for Notre Dame students as they left for school. (NC Photos)
Update: Paul Turgeon did indeed go to Notre Dame, graduating in 1981. He is now president of Coatings Incorporated., according to his LinkedIn profile. Kunz went on to play in the NFL and Pleick to play basketball in Europe.
25 years ago — Sept. 24, 1993
Pearl City parish bids fond aloha to pastor of 13 years
Nearly 800 parishioners of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish packed Waiau Elementary School cafeteria in Pearl City Aug. 29 to thank their priest and pastor of 13 years who is leaving for a new position.
Monsignor Alan Nagai left the Pearl City parish this month to be interim director of the diocesan Office of Clergy. …
Father Nagai was twice pastor at Our Lady of Good Counsel, from 1978-1980 and from 1982 to the present.
Update: Msgr. Nagai died in 2014.
10 years ago — Sept. 19, 2008
Quake-damaged Big Island mission church torn down
Fifty-year-old St. Joseph Mission in Paauilo on the Big Island was torn down on Sept. 2, almost two years after the church was severely damaged during a 6.7-magnitude earthquake that hit off the west coast of the island on Oct. 15, 2006.
Because Our Lady of Lourdes Church, seven miles away in Honokaa, is able to accommodate parishioners who attended Mass at St. Joseph, the Diocese of Honolulu has decided not to rebuild the church.