Peter Fong, left, talked with Cha Thompson and the Rev. Bulla Eastman, afternoon deejay at 95.5 FM The Fish, as the evening wound down at the Pacific Rim Christian University dinner gala April 17 at New Hope Oahu Sand Island. Thompson entertained the audience with a hula performed to a song sung by her son, Afatia Thompson. Eastman combined fundraising finesse and self-deprecating comedy as the energetic auctioneer of the live-auction part of the program.

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