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50 years ago — May 7, 1971
WINNERS – St. Anthony High School of Maui qualified three students, pictured left, for the State Speech Finals to be held in Honolulu, (left-right) Guy Thomas (Senior) in humorous interpretation, Elizabeth Domenden (Freshman) in Poetry and Roy Parananda (Senior) in humorous interpretation. Of St. Anthony’s seventeen representatives in the County Speech Tournament, eight reached the final round. Their coaches are: Sr. Sheila Sullivan, C.S.J. and Mr. Albert Hee.
25 years ago — May 17, 1996
Maui’s miracle of the loaves
In a crazy act of faith, the Holy Ghost Bread Ladies of Kula make dough out of bread
There’s one quick way you can tell if that Portuguese sweetbread you just bit into was made by the loving hands of the famous Holy Ghost Bread Ladies on Maui: Each crown-shaped loaf will taste like pure dough.
“Without this bread, we could not survive,” says Betty Ventura, her hands powdered with flour as she mixes up another batch big enough to feed the multitudes. “We call this dough making dough.”
The historic Holy Ghost Catholic Church, which looks down over the central Maui plains from its humble home on the slopes of Haleakala, does not live by bread alone, but without the weekly baking sessions of its dedicated women, the bills accumulated for the recent $1 million restoration would be going unpaid.
10 years ago – May 13, 2011
Maui’s St. Anthony School proud of Medal of Honor graduate
President Barack Obama gave the Medal of Honor on May 2 to Anthony T. Kahoohanohano, the St. Anthony Junior-Senior High School, Wailuku, graduate who died in 1951 defending his comrades during a fierce battle in the Korean War.
The president made the presentation to Kahoohanohano’s family at a White House ceremony attended by Michelle Obama, Secretary of Defense Roberts Gates, Secretary of Veterans Affairs General Eric Shinseki, members of Hawaii’s congressional delegation, and others. Nearly 30 members of Kahoohanohano’s family were present, including his sister Elaine and brother Eugene.
