http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium RSS Feed for Lee Cataluna Premium en-us Sun, 20 May 2012 11:30:00 GMT http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120520_Flower_shortage_is_another_troubling_sign_of_change.html It's always been tricky getting flowers in May because of the triple whammy of May Day celebrations, Mother's Day and graduation. This year seems to be the worst ever. http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120513__Website_aimed_at_Cayetano_is_not_being_very_nice_itself.html First off, a website that starts a petition to wag a scolding finger at a former governor, admonishing him to "be nice," is by its own definition of the term, not very nice. http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120506_Writer_Margie_Dukore_led__a_vibrant_friendfilled_life.html The facts of her life make for an impressive biography: She grew up on the campus of Kamehameha Schools, the daughter of a beloved scholar of Hawaiian history and granddaughter of a four-star admiral. http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120429_Landfill_site_error_is_only_one_part_of_trash_dilemma.html It's true that everybody makes mistakes, but messing up the ranking of potential dump sites is right up there with miscounting on election night or calling a mole a tumor. http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120422__Aunty_Nonas_grace_spirit_captured_in_documentary.html There were times while working on the film that the director felt she was with him. He'd somehow come upon just the right footage lost among the hundreds of hours of source material or he'd sense her presence in the wind. http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120415__Rite_of_rural_life_drifts_away_with_backyard_burning_ban.html Oh, the bad old days when every Saturday morning indulgent plans for sleeping in would be ruined by acrid clouds of smoke billowing from the neighbor's relentless burning of mango leaves. http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120408_Alleged_peepers_photo_shows_mark_of_Hilo_justice.html A picture may be worth a thousand words, but that mug shot told a singularly succinct story. http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120401__Drink_drive_get_arrested_and_bear_the_mark_forever.html When a local politician gets arrested for DUI, doesn't your mind instantly go down the list of all the others in that category, all the other lawmakers who have DUI arrests in their past? Human nature does a head count and an instant compare/contrast of who was drunker, who was dumber, who did more damage. http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120325__Beloved_isle_pediatrician_lives_on_in_Kapiolani_fund.html On weekends, pediatrician Dr. James L. Mertz, father of nine, would go to Kapiolani hospital to visit his newborn patients. His wife, Elizabeth, recalls he "took along any assorted Mertz children who wanted to go with Dad and see the babies!" http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/leecatalunapremium/20120318_Best_Buddies_pairings_build_friendship_understanding.html First off, Best Buddies is not a service club. Everyone who talks about the program that pairs up high school students who have intellectual or developmental disabilities with peers who do not says that the relationships that form are amazingly, beautifully, mutually beneficial.