Not The Best Time For An Interview

I’d just finished editing the CrimeStoppers feature last Wednesday afternoon, including a profile on a fugitive named Osias Kamelo, then turned to finish reading the day’s Star-Advertiser. Picking up section B, I started reading a story on the first page about the homeless encampment along Kapalama Canal, and one of the people mentioned in the first paragraph was … Osias Kamelo … who also was in a photo on Page B-3. I quickly shot CrimeStoppers coordinator Sgt. Kim Buffett an email. As MidWeek went to press last Friday, she says officers were actively seeking Kamelo, who was last arrested when packets of a drug were seen in his wallet, one of his four arrests …

The month of May means the arrival of shower tree season in Hawaii, one of my favorites. Japan’s sakura (cherry blos- som) season is sweetly dramatic because the blossoms are so ephemeral. But I love our shower tree season more because the multi-hued blossoms linger into August …

So what do you think the over-under is for the number of Tennessee Titans games (out of 16 in the regular season) local TV stations will broadcast this fall if Marcus Mariota is the starting quarterback? Call it Hawaii’s must-see Tennessee TV …

Why Marcus is the perfect Duck: Everything you see is calm, but beneath the surface the webbed wheels are churning …

BTW, football is more than football at Oregon. At the recent spring intrasquad game, the price of admission per person was three non-perishable food items for the local food bank. Nearly 37,000 people attended. And Nike comes up with special uniform designs for the military-themed spring game, and at game’s end players gift members of the military from Oregon with their jerseys. Nice …

Especially for those of us who recall when the Aloha Stadium parking lot filled up early on game days, it makes you wonder what a winning football team at UH might accomplish in our community …

Oh, yes, Pacquiao vs. Mayweather: That was pretty decent sparring, wasn’t it? …