NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago —July 9, 1971
PROJECT HAS WHEELS — Above, Sr. Maureen (Kelleher), Administrator of St. Francis Hospital; Reinhard Mohr, Director of Key Project; and Fr. Edwin J. Duffy, Director of Campaign for Human Development, pose before the new Volkswagen purchased by the Campaign for Human Development and a friend of St. Francis Hospital. Its purpose is to help Key Project transport people to and from the medical center sponsored by the Campaign and St. Francis Hospital.
The new 9-passenger car will be also used to bring young boys and girls from Kahaluu to the beach as well as on picnics and camping trips. The Project had no transportation whatsoever.
25 years ago — June 28, 1996
A parish ministry not for everyone
After pausing to play with his son in the sunny, sparkling morning rain, Iosefo Tuiteleapaga clips the hedges at St. John the Baptist church cemetery in Kalihi and chats casually about his work first as a volunteer, then as a paid employee.
“My family and I used to come out to help take care of the cemetery and church and then Father (Edgar) Saguinsin asked me if I wanted the job. I like working outdoors and it’s a good way to serve the Lord, so I took it,” Tuiteleapaga said.
He’s still at it after six years. … Of the 30 island parishes with cemeteries, about half of them are maintained by paid parish groundskeepers like Tuiteleapaga.
10 years ago — June 24, 2011
Vatican medical board approves 2nd Blessed Marianne miracle
Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai made a significant step toward sainthood this month when a Vatican medical board ruled in favor of a “miracle” attributed to her intercession.
According to a news release from Blessed Marianne’s religious community, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities in Syracuse, N.Y., the seven physicians at the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints declared on June 16 that there is no medical explanation for the cure of a woman who had been suffering from an allegedly irreversible fatal condition.
