HECO fixin’ to turn out the lights

Nightlife in some areas of Kakaako, Ala Moana and Iwilei will burn a bit less brightly for three weeks next month so that Hawaiian Electric Co. can repair a faulty part in underground cabling. Some 400 businesses and 2,500 residential customers, including several condominium towers, will be affected by power outages while work is underway, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., Mondays through Thursdays, starting on July 16.

While residents and popular sites, such as Ward Village, Ala Moana Center and SALT city block, will see the lights go out, HECO plans to stagger the outages so that no customer is left in the dark during every night of repairs.

Major changes at St. Francis School

How does the “Prayer of St. Francis” go? Something about “make me a channel of your peace”? St. Francis School, after 94 years of history, still seems a tranquil oasis to a Manoa passer-by. Beneath that, though, it’s been pretty stormy.

The once all-girl school now is co-ed; then there was that uproar over the plan, later abandoned, to make the retired nuns move off campus. And now its long-time head of school and principal, Sister Joan of Arc Souza, has been shown the door.

Rather than try to peer too deeply into that tempest, let’s send aloha to the school community. Change is hard.