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MONEY FRIDAY 3615 B3 BOB SIGALL REARVIEW MIRROR Cook named isles after his patron, Earl of Sandwich between governments, it fell into disuse after 1844. But let's finish everything on our plate, so to speak. Was the sandwich invented by the famous earl? Clearly, the answer is no. Records of bread and meat or cheese being eaten together go back centuries, and it is certain the Earl of Sandwich did not invent such dinner fare. One source has him asking his valet for meat tucked between two pieces of bread so that he could work at his desk or play cards without making a mess.

Historians aren't sure what is true and what is legend about the Earl of Sandwich. We might never know, but his name has been permanently associated with that portable meal of infinite possible combinations, including bread, meat, cheese, vegetables and condiments. Vanuatu "Sandwich Island." Forty years later, in 1818, when Russian Vasily Golov-nin visited the islands, he wrote that King Kameha-meha I was unhappy with the name Sandwich Islands. Kamehameha said each island had its own name and that the chain should be called the "Islands of the King of Hawaii." I wondered about the name "Hawaii" and where it came from. Available sources say that it is Polynesian, but its meaning is no longer known.

Hawaii had a close relationship with Great Britain, and many of our royalty visited those other, distant islands. It's not known whether they discussed their preference for the name of our kingdom. It may not have helped that the first English-language newspaper in Hawaii called itself the Sandwich Island Gazette and Journal of Commerce. It began publication in 1836. The term "Sandwich Islands" continues to occasionally be used to this day.

It's generally accepted that in official communications My friend Jim Reed asked me some time ago how Hawaii came to be called the Sandwich Islands. I didn't know but it got me thinking. Did Native Hawaiians eat sandwiches when Capt. James Cook arrived in 1778? Surely not. Did the islands look like some sort of submarine sandwich to the Brits? I couldn't see how, so I decided to sink my teeth into the subject.

It was a lot to put on my plate, but it gave me the unusual opportunity to offer my readers some awful puns. Sorry. Here's what I found. It was common for explorers, such as Cook, to create maps of their journeys and name the places they found, even if they already had native names. Cook did that for his benefactor, John Montagu (1718-1792), the fourth Earl of Sandwich.

The town of Sandwich is about 50 miles east of London, on the coast facing the French town of Calais 30 miles away. Canterbury is 10 miles to its west. Montagu was a great supporter of Cook's Pacific exploration. He helped fund the purchase and outfitting of Cook's ships: Adventure, Resolution and Discovery. So it was natural for Cook to name the islands of Hawaii after his patron.

We might have been called the Montagu Islands, but Cook used that for an island in Alaska. He chose the Sandwich Islands as the name for his 1778 "discovery." Hawaii was not the only COURTESY NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM This is the official portrait of Capt. James Cook by Nathaniel Dance-Holland from the National Maritime Museum in the United Kingdom. BobSigall, author of the "Companies We Keep" books, looks through his collection of old photos to tell stories each Friday of Hawaii people, places and companies. Email him at SigallYahoo.com.

place Cook named for his benefactor. In 1775 he named a group of islands 1,500 miles east of Argentina in the Atlantic the South Sandwich Islands. One of them is Montagu Island. Confused? It gets worse. He also named an island in the Cook chain and another in HOMES: Big Island records mixed bag in February's prices compared with 2014 14 percent from 51 sales in the same month last year.

The median price slipped 1 percent to $223,500 from $225,000. Hawaii Island Realtors and the Kauai Board of Realtors produced the statistics, which were released by Hawaii Information Service. Continued from El $602,000 a year earlier. Kauai's condominium market had a smaller median price gain 16 percent to $353,500 last month from $304,500 a year earlier based on 22 sales in both periods. On Hawaii island the number of single-family house sales dipped 6 percent to 140 last month from 149 a year earlier.

The median price edged up 3 percent to $322,750 from $312,000. There were 58 Big Island condo sales in February, up parintsand Children Together Da CRAIG T. KOJIMA CKOJIMASTARADVERTISER.COM Gov. David Ige, center, and Ed Kobel, president and COO of DeBartolo Development, shared a laugh before the groundbreaking ceremony Thursday. The Ka Makana Ali'i mall will become the largest job center in the Kapolei area.

Writing and Art Contest MALL: Lease will provide significant income for agency Your student or keiki could WIN a prize package! Published: May 6, 2015 Deadline: 5 p.m., Thursday, April 2, 2015 tvi By comparison, Ala Moana Center is 2.2 million square feet excluding a addition under construction, and Pearlridge Center is 1.2 million square feet. Ka Makana will be 1.4 million square feet, but that includes two hotels and about 200,000 square feet of office space. Ka Makana also could become the largest job center in the Kapolei area, with 6,500 jobs created by businesses at the complex after it opens. Building the mall is projected to provide 3,000 construction jobs. Caldwell said the new job base will be a sorely needed addition to the "Second City" of Oahu where many more people live than work.

Kobel said the vision for Ka Makana is that it will become a town center for the greater Kapolei region. For DHHL, lease rent stands to become the biggest single source of income for the agency, which is backlogged in its mission to provide homes for Native Hawaiians. The lease starts at about $3 million to $4 million in annual base rent and grows to total $400 million over 65 years. Additional rent based on a percentage of tenant sales could generate another $400 million over the same period. An option to extend the lease to 85 years could give DHHL more than $1 billion.

"That's thousands and thousands of homes for Hawaiian people," Kobel said. "That is just really super, and we're just honored and happy to be part of that." Continued from El whether Ka Makana would become reality. Opening the mall on 67 acres leased from the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands was originally projected for 2009 after DHHL selected DeBartolo through competitive bidding. However, tough negotiations over a potential $1 billion lease, permitting issues and the economic recession hampered progress. Some retail industry analysts also questioned whether enough demand from shoppers and tenants existed to make the deal happen.

Mayor Kirk Caldwell attended Thursday's ceremony with some perhaps half -feigned amazement. "Wow," he said, "I can't believe I'm out here actually celebrating the groundbreaking of this project." Caldwell recalled having discussions about the project while he was a member of the state House, then city managing director and now mayor. "I just kept thinking, Is this for real or what?" he said. Jobie Masagatani, DHHL's director, recalled what she termed arm-twisting of DeBartolo over the lease, which at times seemed in doubt until it was signed in December. "It has been a journey, truly," she said.

Gov. David Ige called Ka Makana a long time coming and expressed congratula tions to all involved. In January 2014, DeBartolo and a similar contingent of government officials had a celebratory blessing on the site that included prayers, untying a maile lei and a special appearance by football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, who was in town for the Pro Bowl and passed out signed footballs. Yet at that time DeBartolo had not signed a lease. This time it's clear that Ka Makana is on its way to being built.

Grading work actually began about six weeks ago, and heavy earth-moving machines were at work during Thursday's event. "It's just so exciting for this day to come," said Geza Henni, president of DeBartolo Holdings LLC, the parent of Ka Makana's developer. "It's just amazing." The mall is being built in two phases. An initial phase with 750,000 square feet of space for Macy's, Forever 21, Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, Consolidated Theatres, Hawaii's first Hampton Inn Suites and other tenants is scheduled to open in the fall of 2016. A second phase would add another almost 700,000 square feet including retail, a second hotel and office space.

If both phases are built, Ka Makana would become the third-largest shopping center in Hawaii and the first regional mall built on Oahu in more than 30 years. Parents And Children Together (PACT), along with The Honolulu StarAdvertiser, invites Oahu students in grades 1-12 to be a part of Parents And Children Together Keiki Day. Submit your original art or written work on the theme, "Our Kupuna" Winning entries will be published in a special Parents And Children Together Keiki Day edition of The Honolulu StarAdvertiser on Wednesday, May 6, 201 5. Each winner receives over $100 in cash and prizes! All entries become the property of Parents And Children Together. Submission of an entry implies consent to have the work published.

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