News items from pages past in the Hawaii Catholic Herald

50 years ago – Aug. 5, 1960

J. Ballard Atherton, president of Hawaiian Telephone Company presents to Mrs. Richard Imahiro the 200,000th telephone to be installed in the State by the company. Looking on are Mr. Imahiro and baby Carol Jean. Mr. Imahiro is a vocational rehabilitation counselor with the State government and his wife, Lucille, is secretary to the medical staff at St. Francis Hospital.

25 years ago – Aug. 9. 1985

Isle Economic Action Plan

The Diocese of Honolulu is officially poised and ready to tackle some of Hawaii’s socio-economic problems.

A select group of Church representatives, including at times Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario, have spent much of the past eight months listening to people on six islands air their needs and concerns. Individual island committees have sifted out the most pressing ones and have written them down together …

All the findings have been gathered together into 24 word-processed pages entitled “Hawaii Action Plan for Economic Justice.” Bishop Ferrario’s first response was to immediately establish the Diocesan Task Force on Economic Justice …

10 years ago – Aug. 4, 2000

Young roamin’ Catholics

Fifty-nine Hawaii young people will be making the ultimate youth retreat this month. They are headed for Rome for the jubilee year World Youth Day with Pope John Paul II.

The Hawaii delegates will join an estimated 1.2 million travelers from 163 countries. More than17,000 pilgrims registered from the United States.

Two Big Island parish youth groups and groups from Maui and Oahu have been working for up to two years to raise money to attend the historic Aug. 15-19 event.