Charles Yadao Oliva, 86, of Mililani, a federal government retiree, former bus driver at Leeward Bus Co. and a Hawaii Army National Guard veteran, passed on July 21, 2015. He was born in Koloa, Kauai.
He is survived by wife Madeline A.; sons Charles A., Gary W., David B. and Randal P.; daughter Bernadette Thompson; brothers John, James and George; 16 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren.
Visitation: 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Services: 6:30 p.m. Aloha attire.
More on CMSgt Robert “Bobby” Choi. Borthwick Mortuary will handle his services and on their website is a collection of photographs. Check out the photographs
In Honolulu magazine’s September issue is an article titled The Zippy’s Senior Club. Writer Martha Cheng interviews senior citizens who frequent Zippy’s on a regular basis. Among those interviewed for the article is Hawaii Air National Guard retiree Clifford Fukuji. Cliff served in the life support section for many years. The article includes a photograph of Cliff and his wife Kathleen. Unfortunately, most of Honolulu magazine digital content is behind a “pay wall”, so you need to get a paper copy to read the article.
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From the This Day in Aviation website
7 September 1965: First flight of the prototype Bell Model 209 attack helicopter. Test pilot William T. “Bill” Quinlan was in command.
The Model 209 was a private venture, built in just seven months and rolled out at Fort Worth, Texas, 2 September 1965. The prototype aircraft combined the drive system, rotors and tail boom of the production UH-1C gunship with a streamlined fuselage which placed the two pilots in tandem.
Taken from the National Weather Service site http://www.weather.gov
Labor Day is an American federal holiday observed on the first Monday of September since 1894 by President Cleveland, that celebrates the economic and social contributions of American workers.
It also symbolizes the end of the summer and start of school after Labor Day, and is celebrated with picnics, barbecues, parties, firework displays, parades, art events, water sports and other athletic events.
Oregon become the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday in 1887, followed by Illinois in 1891.
Check out Aaron Pollick’s Facebook page – Hawaii Army National Guard – Historical.
Aaron continues to do a super job and his recent posts about Hawaiian fighting warriors are great.
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“Start by drinking coffee. It’s one of the biggest sources of antioxidants in the American diet.”
Dan Buettner and I were off to a good start. He approved of coffee.
“It’s one of the biggest sources of antioxidants in the American diet,” he said with chipper confidence, folding up his black Brompton bike.
As we walked through Greenwich Village, looking for a decent shot of joe to fuel an afternoon of shopping and cooking and talking about the enigma of longevity, he pointed out that the men and women of Icaria, a Greek island in the middle of the Aegean Sea, regularly slurp down two or three muddy cups a day.
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work has repeatedly said the scandal over the military’s mistaken shipment of live anthrax spores around the nation and the world would get worse — and he was right.
The number of labs that received live anthrax has more than doubled to 194 since Work and Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s top acquisition official, released a report in July on the shipments of the deadly pathogen from the Army‘s Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah.
The Defense Health Agency is warning TRICARE beneficiaries of an elaborate mail scam designed to steal money from their banks.
Sleep-disordered breathing such as obstructive sleep apnea could add to the fatigue of living with multiple sclerosis.
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Photographs taken from the HIANG 25 published booklet in 1971
Bobby was the last surviving charter member of the Hawaii Air National Guard from 1947. He has the distinction of being the first HIANG member promoted to the rank of Chief Master Sergeant on April 21, 1963.
Services
Date: Friday, September 11, 2015
Time: 0930 visitation, 1030 services
Where: Borthwick Mortuary
1330 Maunakea Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817
Burial with military honors
Date: Friday, September 11, 2015
Time: 1315 1415 corrected time
Where: Diamond Head Memorial Park
529 18th Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816
The Defense Department will start late this month to notify 21.5 million people whose background investigation files were hacked by the Chinese that they can sign up for protections under a $133 million contract announced this week.
The pūpūkahi is the State of Hawaii Department of Defense monthly newsletter. Printed versions of the pūpūkahi have been the “command information” newsletter for decades, however, it was suspended in 2009 due to budget cuts.
Click here to read the August 2015 digital pūpūkahi
