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CONTRIBUTORS for our local seniors and their families. We are grateful for their contributions. G EDITORIAL 10 Hawaii Seniors’ Fair: The Good Life Expo FARAH DOIGUCHI, Emeritus College coordinator at Honolulu Community College, oversees the Emeritus College Program, which promotes lifelong learning in the area of electronic computer- 12 Senior Clubs Take Over Leeward Bowl ized education for seniors 55 and over. Emeritus College, with support from Honolulu Community 14 Chef Wong: A Passion for Giving College and the Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training, offers a wide range of continu- 16 Sharing Values ing education workshops and provides facilities, state-of-the-art equipment and technical support 18 A Triple Force for Hawai‘i’s Seniors services to welcome our ku¯puna to the digital age. RESOURCE GUIDE KAREN LOCKWOOD has been part of Hawai‘i’s travel industry for over 20 years and received 26 Generations Partners her MBA from the University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa. With Pacific Islands Institute since 2004, she is the general manager of this niche travel company, working with senior and nonprofit groups LIVING LIFE including Road Scholar, Smithsonian Journeys, The Nature Conservancy and local organizations 28 How to Write Your Memoir such as Ka¯hala Nui and Historic Hawaii Foundation, customizing travel programs and specialty tours in Hawai‘i and throughout Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. 29 Adopt a Family Program Lifts Holiday Spirits 30 Keeping History Alive: Maui Plantation Camps CAROLE MANDRYK’S professional life has spanned academic, public and political spheres. She 31 Memoir of a Hawai‘i Cowboy Doctor has taught and conducted research at Harvard University, George Mason University, Grant MacE- 32 Expand Your Horizons Through Travel wan University in Canada and the University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa. She is delighted to be return- 33 90th Lei Day Celebration: a May Day Tradition ing to UH Ma¯noa to serve in a different capacity and play a role in OLLI-UHM’s innovative approach to lifelong learning, where she can combine her passions for multidisciplinary approaches 34 Make the Most of Your Real Estate Assets to knowledge, service and community engagement. 35 Words, Tone, Compassion... Harmony 36 Film Confronts End-of-Life Issues STANLEY MICHAELS started career number three with the state Department of Health in 2004, after 22 years in the entertainment industry, and another 24 years in marketing and manage- SPECIAL FEATURE ment in both the corporate and nonprofit worlds. In his words, he has spent “13 wonderful years 38 Be Proactive to Prevent Falls creating information that can help our deserving populations live better lives.” Stan is most thankful for his wife of 27 years and his work partnerships with dedicated colleagues, and corpo- HEALTH rate/agency friends. 40 Exercise for Better Body Functionality 42 The Link Between Diabetes & Hearing Loss DORIAN NAKAMICHI dabbles in a bit of everything at Helping Hands Hawai‘i, including communications, content creation, social media, grant writing and donor relations. She enjoys travel- 43 Prevent Injury When Caring for Kids ing and backpacked for three years in Southeast Asia, Europe and Oceania. While in Australia, 44 ‘You Are What You Drink’ she volunteered as a wildlife carer and hand-raised injured and orphaned joeys. Dorian is also the author of a local children’s book, Kaimana Big and Strong, which received honorable mention GIVING CARE at the Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards. 46 A Legacy of Caring for Aging Parents 48 Senior Wellness Centers: Caregiver Option LYNN WONG joined Live Well at Iwilei by Ka¯hala Nui as director in September 2015. She has held numerous positions in the healthcare industry. Most recently, she served as administrator of PROGRAMS & SERVICES Aiea Heights Senior Living, an adult residential care home. Prior to that, she was a home care RN 50 Missions of Help and Hope with Maluhia Hospital. Lynn also held nursing positions with Ka Punawai Ola, PACE Hawaii at 51 Social Security is Here to Stay Maluhia Hospital and Kuakini Medical Center. 52 Grandparents Provide ‘Roots & Wings’ 53 Technology and You And a continuing mahalo to our ever-present contributing partners (in alphabetical order): 54 Keeping the Mind Engaged for Life DIANE CADINHA | EAST OAHU REALTY | LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION | SCOTT MAKUAKANE WISDOMS ALAN MATSUSHIMA | JULIE MOON | ANNETTE PANG | EILEEN PHILLIPS | KEN REVELL 56 Navigating Your First Year in Retirement TERRY SHINTANI | JEFFREY SISEMOORE | SCOTT SPALLINA | HOWARD TAMASHIRO 57 Keeping Peace in the Family JANE YAMAMOTO-BURIGSAY | MICHAEL W. YEE | STEPHEN B. 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he City & County of Honolulu Department Too much fun! And of Parks and Recreation held its annual lots of helping hands Troops for Fitness Senior Bowling event on were available to T ensure that. Haruye Oct. 12 at Leeward Bowl in Pearl City. With 100 bowlers from 11 city and county senior clubs on Katakaru assisted by Joann Yatogo. O‘ahu, this annual event used almost every lane. Everyone bowled two games and prizes were bowler who made awarded throughout the day. a strike in the first Fun challenges had winners running to collect frame, the bowler “chips” that were drawn from bags filled with who scored exactly a variety of prizes. Prizes were awarded to the seven pins in the seventh frame and the bowler with a score of three or less in the third frame. Socialization, fun and competition brought club members together. Leeward Bowl was filled with laughter, applause, fist pumps and most of all, friendship among all bowlers. For more information about participating with a senior club in your area, contact your city or county parks and recreation department. n

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COLUMN 18 21 COVER STORY with her parents and five siblings. with her parents Mitsue “Shirley” Sonoda is the youngest (far left) is the youngest (far Mitsue “Shirley” Sonoda Shirley favors her pretty mother. Shirley Shirley mother. her pretty favors Shirley Kumamoto both came from parents Shirley’s American of Les is also Nisei (a first-generation and vegetables and lots to do. “As the youngest, the youngest, and lots to do. “As and vegetables she said. spoiled,” I was Support and Encouragement Family but one day Mitsue, name is really “My giggles. Shirley like a lady said, ‘that child looks just called always I was then on, and from Temple,’ and Hilda, doted on me, oldest sister, My Shirley. me, one up from was who Kiyoshi, brother, my friend,” said Shirley. and best protector my was encouraged but was She had a lot of boyfriends, During college. to focus on her studies and go to her junior and senior years before the summers on the worked at Baldwin High School, Shirley cannery line at the Maui Pineapple Company in Kahului. in the southern part of on the island of Kyushu Wars to Maui first. immigrated Her father Japan. peo- on the Japanese hard very with China were wanted maternal grandparents ple and Shirley’s her allowed so they a better life, her mom to have bride.” to become a “picture “I had children. and ninth of 11 descent) Japanese older the a lot of attention and supervision from of one supportive all very were but we siblings, “I think it is important to allow said Les. another,” to do want really what they the kids to pursue need.” they them the encouragement and give from the left with his parents. from Like many Hawai‘i residents, husband and residents, Hawai‘i many Like their stories, share to agreed graciously They born in Kahului, Maui, Sonoda was Shirley Les Ihara is ninth of 11 children and appears second appears and children 11 is ninth of Les Ihara wife Les and Shirley Ihara of Ka¯ne‘ohe came from came from of Ka¯ne‘ohe Ihara wife Les and Shirley Their families were families. immigrant Japanese Depression the Great able to manage through War them an education. After World and provide and Les’ Army family, their own began II, they the United States and them all over took career find them- they in their late 80s, Now abroad. of a four-gen- and matriarch patriarch the selves are There togetherness. that practices clan eration simple recipe lessons for all of us in the Iharas’ do what life: be patient, be tolerant, for a happy are. you fun wherever brings happiness and have their parents learned from they and the values to pass on. There important felt were that they for all of us. some lessons here are Culture of Family The Roots up in an She grew of six children. the youngest (HC&S) & Sugar Company Commercial Hawaiian Camp, Pu‘une¯ne¯. plantation home in McGerrow and led families to honorable was work Hard in husbandry at father worked Shirley’s success. tak- and Haleakala Dairies, Pu‘une¯ne¯ Waihe‘e, Her mom and calves. of birthing cows ing care the pint- plant, washing in the dairy’s worked used at the time. sized glass milk bottles that were childhood in an describes a “wonderful,” Shirley fruits fresh by community surrounded agricultural ough famines, ough famines, by Brian Suda Cover & feature photography photography Cover & feature by Katherine Kama‘ema‘e Smith Smith Kama‘ema‘e by Katherine surviving and thriving thr

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COVER STORY 20 23 COVER STORY The Korean War start- War The Korean 1950, and landed a job in and landed 1950, social worker Hilo as a On months later. a few they birthday, Shirley’s married in the were on Niumalu Hotel garden Sept. 4, the afternoon of That night, Les and 1950. to Hilo and flew Shirley Les began day, the next job. his first after Les grad- ed a week Les college. uated from months defer- got a few ment, but in early 1951, and took drafted he was They could hardly wait to be married, but Les’ but Les’ married, to be wait could hardly They commissioned a second lieutenant in Les was family would not allow it until he graduated and until he graduated it allow not family would June 14, on degree his He received had a job. on O‘ahu and at Schofield Barracks basic training basic training, California. After Ord, later at Fort basic training he had a choice to finish advanced or to enroll as an infantryman, and go to Korea he Of course, in Officer Candidate School (OCS). Shirley, Texas. Bliss in El Paso, chose OCS at Fort with her child, stayed carrying their first who was him later. oldest sister on O‘ahu and joined Be Tolerant Be Patient; near assigned to Camp Roberts and was 1952 May an all-Caucasian San Miguel, California, where in ac- Alabama was outfit from National Guard the He was War. for the Korean duty training tive but battalion only non-white officer in the entire In late discrimination. he said he didn’t feel any Les was to integrate. ordered was 1953, the Army then a platoon leader and when black soldiers the firsthand, joined the unit, he experienced, soldiers that time, effects of discrimination. At At carried half a field tent in their backpacks. “I men piched their tents together. night, two trying were that all those guys could not believe them to put I ordered in half-tents. to bed down carried never was but the order the tents together, back never would superiors my out and I knew his values Les stood by me up.” Nevertheless, “One time in college, and kindness. of tolerance I got punched me. sucker a gang of tough guys that

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ounger ones. ounger ones. eat,” reminisced Les. “Shirley is all the “Shirley Les. eat,” reminisced At the same time Les was at UH, Shirley was was at UH, Shirley the same time Les was At to go to a dance with me “She agreed All Japanese-Amer- They sent their boys their boys sent They Insti- to Mid-Pacific tute for high school This high kids. and paid college tuition for all six to on education has been extended placed value four created too. The tradition the grandchildren, one professional independent business owners, educator and one state Senator. Love and Marriage attending business college in Honolulu and living Village the Hilton Hawaiian in a beach hut where babysitting studying hard, was She stands. now book- Surf Hotel and doing part-time at Queen’s Hand- for the Niumalu Hotel Restaurant. keeping at happened to be bussing tables some Les Ihara Niumalu and fell for beautiful, upbeat Shirley. gr was things I am not. She is outgoing, thrifty and and still love appreciative laughs a lot. I am very My goal is to spoil her and her. to be around her happy.” make Later, he would join the All Army Tennis Team in Team Tennis the All Army join he would Later, Singles Senior Forces and win the Armed the ’60s addition in 1980, in Championship and Doubles He still plays trophies. others to numerous him tennis keeps and says a week days three and mentally healthy, He aims to physically. as long as he can. play for Education Respect a deep icans share for education. respect im- The Issei (Japanese assimilated migrants) but American culture insisted that their attend both children public school and also school. Les Japanese also were and Shirley their by encouraged families to pursue higher degrees siblings paid tuition for the y w I started lauea Avenue lauea Avenue ¯ that’s ho that’s

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