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50 years ago — Sept. 8, 1972
NEW CLASSROOM — Most Reverend John J. Scanlan, Bishop of Honolulu, will bless the four new classrooms built at St. Joseph’s School in Waipahu this Sunday afternoon. Hicks Homes were the contractors and the total cost together with the rest room facilities was $85,000. The new classrooms were built because of the expanding enrollment that the school is experiencing. The school is staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and nine lay teachers. Father Timothy Jacobs, SS.CC., pastor, is extremely pleased with the growing demand for quality education in the Waipahu area and he plans to continue the school expansion program so that an even greater number of Catholic children may be afforded the opportunity for Catholic education.
25 years ago — Sept. 5, 1997
A feeling of welcome
When was the last time you were greeted with a big smile, a lei and a hearty “welcome”? It may have been a while ago, and chances are you were at the airport, not your parish church when it happened.
But on Aug. 24 at Holy Trinity Church in Kuliouou that’s how everyone was ushered into the packed sanctuary for the final phase of RENEW and the introduction of a new diocesan document called “The Welcoming Parish.”
“RENEW is like the seed and ‘The Welcoming Parish’ the blossom,” said RENEW national coordinator Divine Word Father Jack Farley. “We are glad that the program was able to prepare so many parishes for this (document).”
10 years ago — Aug. 31, 2012
Tanks for the memories
The “water system” at St. Stephen Diocesan Center recently got an upgrade. A new steel water tank, below, was recently completed to replace the damaged, 50-year-old redwood tank that previously held the center’s water supply. At right, Gene Pollock of SSDC — project manager for the water system upgrade — inspects an older tank high in the Koolau range that catches fresh water from several natural springs in the area. Water from this tank is pumped through a filter before being sent to the steel tank, which connects directly to the center.
