Borges, Wilcox to catch up on PBS’ ‘Long Story Short’

By Ben Wood

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 02, 2011

~~PBS HAWAII chief Leslie Wilcox has landed singer Jimmy Borges for her “Long Story Short” program. No doubt Jimmy will have much to say as he recently had a huge cancerous tumor removed from his liver. He came through the surgery with flying colors and is continuing to do fine, he said this week. Leslie didn’t have much trouble landing Jimmy for the program as he is a member of PBS Hawaii’s board of directors. The program will be taped on Sept. 26 and shown about a month later …
CONGRATS to Leslie for being honored Monday night as one of four 2011 Hookele Award winners by the Hawaii Community Foundation and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation. The other award winners are Lea Hong, Hawaiian Islands program director for The Trust for Public Land; Tony Krieg, chief exec for Hale Makua; and Robert G. Peters, head of school at Hanahauoli. The awards celebrate Hawaii’s nonprofit leaders and provide $10,000 to each to be used for “professional or personal development.” The awards were presented at a reception at the Community Foundation office …
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PBS HAWAII chief Leslie Wilcox has landed singer Jimmy Borges for her “Long Story Short” program. No doubt Jimmy will have much to say as he recently had a huge cancerous tumor removed from his liver. He came through the surgery with flying colors and is continuing to do fine, he said this week. Leslie didn’t have much trouble landing Jimmy for the program as he is a member of PBS Hawaii’s board of directors. The program will be taped on Sept. 26 and shown about a month later …

CONGRATS to Leslie for being honored Monday night as one of four 2011 Hookele Award winners by the Hawaii Community Foundation and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation. The other award winners are Lea Hong, Hawaiian Islands program director for The Trust for Public Land; Tony Krieg, chief exec for Hale Makua; and Robert G. Peters, head of school at Hanahauoli. The awards celebrate Hawaii’s nonprofit leaders and provide $10,000 to each to be used for “professional or personal development.” The awards were presented at a reception at the Community Foundation office … Login for more...