The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 24

AM Friday, February 28, 1992 The Honolulu Advortbor MONEY Hawaii avocado shipments halted Blangiardi: 'I got mugged' in Seattle 1 causing soft fruits to remain on trees, and they've gotten picked, Hinsdale said. Hinsdale's office halted shipments and called on the Agriculture Department's Hilo-based Agricultural Research Service to make a study to determine precisely at what stage fruit flies begin successfully depositing eggs in Sharwil avocados. "Our problem is determining at what point is this fruit able to sustain the life cycle of the fruit fly," Hinsdale said. The shipment ban was effec tive Wednesday and is tentatively set for four weeks. If a determination is made earlier, the ban will be lifted, but if it takes longer, it will be extended.

The most recent available from the Hawaii Agricultural Statistics Service indicate that in 1990, Hawaii had 500 acres planted in avocados, of which 325 acres were in Sharwils, which fruit in winter. The statistics service said 250 acres were actually producing fruit, but it was not clear how much of that acreage was Sharwil. Shipments of Hawaii avocados to the Mainland were halted Wednesday after federal quarantine officials located fruits carrying the eggs of oriental flics. It's a big blow to the avocado industry, which had just started shipping to the Mainland after a determination that the Sharwil variety of avocado could be shipped while the fruit was still hard, without danger of fruit fly infestation. Inspectors in Kona in early February noticed some soft fruit among the fruits being prepared for shipment, said Glenn Hinsdale, assistant regional director of the Plant Protection and Quarantine office of the U.S.

Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service. Quarantine officials isolated the fruit, and found oriental fruit flies hatched from them, proving they had been infected. Soft Sharwil fruits normally fall from the tree, so pickers can be assured that if they remove only fruits still on the tree, they'll be okay. The problem seems to be that field conditions, perhaps the drought, is By Don Chapman Advertiser Columnist "This was a case of corporate America at its finest," says Rick Blangiardi of his termination as general manager president of KING-TV in Seattle when Providence Journal Co. bought King Broadcasting, KING'S parent company.

KHNL in Honolulu was also part of the deal consummated earlier this week. "This wasn't about me and it wasn't about my performance. It was about somebody new buying the station and wanting to bring his own guy in here," said Blangiardi, the former KHNL general manager and KGMB sales manager. "They gave me all of three minutes of their time to tell me the news. They said it wasn't personal.

It was a communications thing." Blangiardi worries that Tthey're sending a real bad message to the people I hired and taught that the one thing that matters is performance." Providence Journal, in nam ing Anthony R. Twibell as Blangiardi's replacement, said it needed a manager "who has been known to the company a long, long time." Blangiardi, a former University of Hawaii player and assistant football coach, has interviewed for a position with the Seattle Seahawks. "At this point, I really don't have anything specific in mind. But there's no sense of urgency. I'm not worried.

People in the industry know what I've accomplished," he says. "But I'll tell you, when I was buying my coffee at McDonald's this morning, I saw a lot of other guys who are unemployed and thought 'I'm one of This isn't the first time that Blangiardi has been caught in a change of leadership. He was Larry Price's defensive coordinator at UH in 1977 when Dick Tomey was hired as head coach and brought in his own staff. It turned out well for Blangiardi. He walked out of the UH athletic department SHIP ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES Friday Feb 28 1992 HONOLULU HARBOR Rick Blangiardi "It's been a real experience" and into a career in TV, a subject about which he "knew almost nothing at the time." In retrospect, Blangiardi says leaving KHNL for Seattle in October 1989 "turned out to be a wrong turn down an alley where I got mugged.

I got divorced up here. Then my mother moved out (here) to help with the kids. Then she died after she was in a terrible accident. And then I got fired despite doing a good job. It's been a real experience.

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