Mauna Kea Resort raises $4,900 for island nonprofits
Mauna Kea Resort’s 50th anniversary giving campaign, 50 Acts of Aloha, recently netted proceeds of $4,900 resulting in donations of $1,635 to each of three island-based nonprofits.
Receiving donations from the resort’s inaugural Big Island Bites Golf Tournament were the Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Project, Make-a-Wish Hawaii and Kona-Kohala American Culinary Federation‘s “Equip the Kitchens” campaign for Hawaii Community College–Palamanui.
Big Island Bites Golf Tournament was held at Hapuna Golf Course with the assistance of numerous sponsors.
Kailua-Kona Seniors meets Wednesday
Kailua-Kona Seniors will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Hale Halawai. The facility will be open for board games, bingo and pool. A craft project will take place for members who have previously signed up to participate. No formal meeting is planned.
For more information, call Dave at 345-1388 or Pat at 329-2424.
Kona Stories celebrates release of discovered Harper Lee novel
A release party for Harper Lee’s novel “Go Set a Watchman” is planned for Tuesday at Kona Stories in Keauhou Shopping Center.
The book is the newly discovered and earliest known work from Lee, the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Doors open at 10 a.m. where a limited number of first edition hardcover books will be sold. Throughout the day, the 2010 documentary movie, “Hey Boo about Harper Lee” will be shown.
Originally written in the mid-1950s, “Go Set a Watchman” was the novel Lee first submitted to her publishers before “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
“Go Set a Watchman” features many of the characters from “To Kill a Mockingbird” some 20 years later.
For more information, call 324-0350, email ks@konastories.com or visit konastories.com.
June bridge results announced
Results of the American Contract Bridge League at the Kona Bridge Club in June:
June 1: First place went to Lynn Puri and Marlene Sabo; second, Shirley Decker and Gerald Mitchell.
June 3: Virginia Scott and Ann Inaba took first, Chuck Clark and Jim Elstran came in second.
June 5: North/south first went to Liz Holey and Takemi Totes; second, Shirley Decker and Marlene Sabo. First for east/west winner were Virginia Scott and Jim Elstran. Gail Mullen and Sara Ito came in second.
June 8: North/south first place winners were Rose White and Marilyn River. Shirley Decker and Gerald Mitchell took second. East/west first was JoAn Hill and Virginia Scott, second, Dickie Motherwell and Gail Buck.
June 10: North/south first place winners were Shelly Hershberger and Richard Gittleman; second, Dean Jenkins and Craig Ross. East/west first went to Takemi Totes and Chuck Clark; second, Dee Overton Kathy Golitzen. Novice first place winners were Margaret Anderson and Robert Clark; second, Frank Karsznia and Eleanor Ramsey.
June 11: Coming in first were Dean Jenkins and Shelly Hershberger. Shirley Decker and Gail Mullen took second.
June 14: First place winners were Dean Jenkins and Craig Ross. Richard Gittleman and Shelly Hershberger came in second.
June 15: First place winners were Takemi Totes and Chuck Clark; second, Dean Jenkins and Craig Ross. Novice first place winners were Sharon Weber and Natalie Baer; second, Nancy Osako and Bill Lindgren.
June 17: North/south first place winners were Richard Gittleman and Shelly Hershberger. Taking second were Dee Overton and Kathy Golitzen. Tied for east/west first place were Liz Holey and Takemi Totes, Dean Jenkins and Craig Ross. Shirley Decker and JoAn Hill came in second.
June 18: First place winners were Pat Bauman and Sue Brown. Tied for second were Richard Gittleman and Dean Jenkins, Chuck Clark and Craig Ross.
June 22: North/south first place winners were Craig Ross and Dean Jenkins; second, Shirley Decker and Gerald Mitchell. East/west first place winners were Liz Holey and Kathy Golitzen. Butchie Hayward and Jim Elstran took second. In the novice division, Bill Lundgren and Nancy Osaka took first while Jan Engle and Natalie Baer came in second.
June 24: First place winners were Dean Jenkins and Craig Ross; second, Kathy Golitzen and Dee Overton.
June 25: Taking first were Dean Jenkins and Kelly Sandulli, second, Chuck Clark and Craig Ross.
June 29: North/south first place winners were Shirley Decker and Gerald Mitchell. Dan Sabo and Rexanne Ring won second. East/west first place winners were Craig Ross and Dean Jenkins; second, Butchie Hayward and Jim Elstran.
For more information about the Kona Bridge Club and schedule of games, visit the website at konabridge.org.