NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — Nov. 8, 1968
Sweet Project
St. Louis High School alumnus Mayor Neal S. Blaisdell receives a complimentary box of candy from Kelvin Kaneshiro, left, and Paul Nishijima, right, chairman and assistant chairman, respectively of St. Louis High School’s annual fund-raising candy drive. Aim of the drive, which runs from November 8-18, is to raise $17,500 for a closed circuit television room and equipment at St. Louis. Mathematics department chairman Newton Nakamoto is faculty moderator for the project. (Sunao Hironaka Photo)
25 years ago — Oct. 22, 1993
A shepherd retires
Bishop Ferrario says the decision to leave his office of 11 years for health reasons is ‘good for me, good for the diocese’
“I will miss working with you,” Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario told the 50 or so diocesan employees gathered for a noon lunch Oct. 12 at St. Stephen Diocesan Center, “but rest assured, what I am doing is good for me, good for the diocese, good for everybody.”
The luncheon was the bishop’s first meeting with church workers after announcing his retirement three hours earlier at a news conference in the downtown chancery building.
10 years ago — Oct. 31, 2008
In Kalaupapa, Bishop Silva finds two links to his past
Kalaupapa, Molokai, sometimes reveals its secrets. It was there, on Oct. 19, that Bishop Larry Silva saw for the first time a couple pieces of his past that had eluded him for years.
Shortly after landing to participate in an ecumenical service honoring those buried in the settlement, he was driven to one of its bigger cemeteries two minutes down the road from the airport, and shown the headstone of John Santos, 1865-1921.
Joao (John) Santos was his great-grandfather on his mother’s side. He was sent to Kalaupapa in 1918.
Joao Santo’s daughter, Minnie Santos Aruda, was also sent to Kalaupapa. Her gravesite has yet to be located, but her home still stands.