Exploring the Islands

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horse-back, car, submarine,
kayak or just take the shuttle
to Hilo Hattie’s.

The shore excursions
offered on board have to be
among the most extensive
afloat, and a well-run opera-
tion it is too.

New cruisers and older
passengers could go along
with escorted groups while
in Maui, where we had two
days, experienced travellers
rented cars and took off
for remote Hana or drove
to the 10,000-ft. rim of
the dormant volcano
Haleakala.

Descending from
Haleakala | turned off to
the little town of Makawao,
which is like Kaslo with
palm trees, then had a deli-

. cious lunch at Haliimaile’s
General Store.

At Hilo on Big Island I
took a ship excursion to the
botanical garden, which was
simply glorious, then had an
amusing joyride in the
Sampan, a local shuttle
using a 1949 Plymouth,

The ship has a golf pack-
age and I couldn’r resist
playing Kicle on Kauai with
its epic oceanside holes, the
formidable King’s course at
Waikoloa and Wailea
Emerald, one of the world’s
great golfing experiences
combining a fine course,
stunning water vistas and
the fragrance of plumeria
everywhere.

Flowers such as Birds of
Paradise were everywhere.

Highlight was 10:30 pm
on Thursday night when, en
route from Hilo to Kona,
we sailed close to the Big
Island where Kilauea was
erupting in a rim of fire.

Two tracks of lava
scorched their way down
the volcano and poured i into
the sea barely 200 yards
away from where we stood
at the ship’s rial, mesmer-
ized.

The searing lava explod-
ed like Roman candles as it
hit the ocean and sent
clouds of vapor into the sky.

Cary Grant might have
had more fun, bue for us it
was a night to remember.

on brave face

AT the Vatican’s request,
Brazil's leading — religious
artist, Claudio Pastro, is at

work giving the image of

Jesus Christ) a makeover
designed to update it for the
third millennium.

According to a recent
Knight-Ridder news service
report, the new image will be
of a serene and victorious
Jesus (rather than a suffering

one) and will have traces of

Asian, lack and Indian fea-
tures in his face.

Detroit, Michigan —
Coach Robert L. Wiggins Jr.,
whose teenage Pony League
baseball team was eliminated
in a playoff game, filed in fed-
eral court for a temporary
restraining order and $75,000
in damages, claiming his team
should have won and thus
remained in the tournament.

Wiggins offered to present
testimony from parents and
spectators that several of the
umpires’ calls in the third
inning were wrong and that
his team should thus have
won 12-8 instead of losing
10-9.

Kalamazoo, Michigan —
Heart surgeon Charles Butter,
54, won a $3.96 million jury
verdict in his lawsuir against
Wal-Mart for injuries he suf-
fered in a store parking lot.

Butler cripped over a trail-
er hitch while walking to his
car, hurting his spine so badly
that he now suffers trembling
hands, ending his career.

Wal-Mart pointed out
unsuccessfully that the trailer
itself was 18 feet fong and 6
feet high and contained a
large commercial barbecue
grill, and that a person so
unobservant as to not notice
that must surely be facin
waning career as a surgeon.

Greenup, Kentucky —
Edward Caudill, 32, filed a

lawsuit against Our Lady of

Bellefonte Hospital, claiming
its personnel hastened his
father’s death from an auto
accident in 1996 by not giv-
ing him blood, allegedly
because the man’s wite said
not to on religious grounds.

The wife herself died from
her injuries about four hours
atter the husband.

Healing
a nation

MICHAEI. Cassidy and

Rev. Edward Muhima will

‘akon the role of the

ch in the healing of a

an Nov. 26 at che North
Shore Conference Centre.

NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

Caudill’s father
dicd first, his estate was inher-
ired by the wife (and on her
death, by her family) and not
by Caudill. Caudill pointed
out that his father had never
signed any document declin-
ing life-saving procedures and
whus thar the hospital was
legally required to try to save
him.

Because

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