NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — Feb. 14, 1969
At left, ANNUAL SUNDAY – Catholic Scouts and Cubs from the various troops throughout Oahu gathered at St. Anthony’s Church in Kailua for the annual awards presentation. A parade through Kailua preceded the affair in the church and the scouts pensively wait.
25 years ago — Feb. 11, 1994
Welcoming the refugee
Catholic Immigration Center gives newcomers to America a new lease on life
Even when it seemed pretty hopeless, the six of them crammed with relatives in a one-room apartment in Vietnam, the Huynh family dreamed that one day they would make it to America.
Two years ago, after eight years of waiting, with the help of Catholic Immigration Center, an agency of Catholic Charities, that dream turned into reality. They arrived in Hawaii.
10 years ago — Feb. 6, 2009
National Park Service beginning to plan for Kalaupapa’s future
The National Park Service has begun a process that will determine the future of Kalaupapa as the most important chapter in its history slowly comes to an end.
As a home for Hansen’s disease patients, its designation for more than 140 years, Kalaupapa will close when the last patient dies. But as the U.S. national park it has been since 1980, it will continue. The question is: What kind of place will it be then?
