NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — Oct. 23, 1970
BEST DRESSED — This is what the well-dressed young man is wearing today, Gail Brown, left, of Sacred Hearts Academy, and Heidi Kirsten of Star of the Sea seem to be telling young John Hedlund, also of Star of the Sea. The three are among the 25 student models appearing in St. Louis High School’s fourth annual fall fashion extravaganza slated for the Hilton Hawaiian Village Ballroom Saturday, October 24. The affair … will feature models from St. Louis, Sacred Hearts Academy, St. Francis Convent and Star of the Sea. (SUNAO HIRONAKA PHOTO)
25 years ago — Oct. 20, 1995
Two Maui parishes to share one pastor in one solution to the priest shortage
Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo announced this past weekend that the planned sharing of one pastor by two Maui parishes will be one way the diocese will begin to address a looming clergy shortage.
In letters read at St. Rita Parish in Haiku and Holy Rosary Parish in Paia, the bishop said that Father Gary Colton will be the pastor of both parishes starting in January of next year.
Editor’s Note: The two parishes no longer share one pastor.
10 years ago – Oct. 15, 2010
Service to homeless expands in new directions
The Diocese of Honolulu’s decades-old commitment to the homeless has taken several bold new steps this month. The diocese has established a new non-profit agency exclusively for homeless services, and has hired two men whose jobs will be to motivate and mobilize Catholics to do more to solve this problem.
On Oct. 1 Bishop Larry Silva named Brandee Menino as the executive director of HOPE Services Hawaii, a new corporation that absorbs the dozen or so homeless assistance programs previously created under the Office for Social Ministry. Menino had run those programs under the old setup. …
The diocese has also hired Blessed Sacrament Father Robert Stark, most recently of Chicago, as a “resource developer/community organizer.” His job will be to recruit organize and train Hawaii parishioners to support the diocese’s housing and homeless ministries. Joining the diocese is Kent Anderson as its “housing development director.”
