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An area where a 150-year-old tree crashed down Monday at the Queen’s Medical Center was slowly being cleaned up by workmen Friday afternoon.

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Juto Matsumoto, 10, right, played a pair of congas as his father, La Dean Westbrooks, drummed on a picnic table behind him. The father-and-son duo was out practicing at Kapiolani Regional Park on Friday. “He’s learning the beats,” said Westbrooks, who then danced and added, “The thing that makes everybody do this.”

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Volunteers served Thanksgiving meals to some of Honolulu’s 2,000 needy, elderly and homeless residents and guests at the Salvation Army’s 45th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner at the Neal Blaisdell Exhibition Hall. Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Maj. John Chamness, leader of the Salvation Army’s Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division, Salvation Army personnel and about 800 volunteers prepared the meals and cleaned up after the event. About 900 pounds of turkey (approximately 100 20-pound turkeys), 300 pounds of stuffing, 35 gallons of gravy, 350 pounds of rice, 125 cases of fresh pineapples, 165 dozen dinner rolls, 100 gallons of fruit punch, 250 pies and 30 pounds of coffee were served.