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'nil if- The Honolulu Advertiser Coffee Break E2 Hawai'i Gardens E3 Home Handyman E3 TV il Comics E6 5 The mom of NBA guard Terrell Brandon heads a group staging a fund-raiser tonight for the Girt Scout Council of Hawaii. See story, E4 LfULiU SECTION HonoIuluAdvertiser.comislandlife FRIDAY August 8, 2003 Features editor: Elizabeth Kieszkowski 525-8034 tip Dancers celebrate choreographer's life, work Crafts-fair calendar Yikes. It's time to send in those listings for The Advertiser's annual crafts-fair calendar. By Liz Howell Special to The Advertiser A dance program tomorrow presented by members of Queen Emma Ballet and the Hawai'i dance community is designed to honor well-known Honolulu dancer and dance teacher Michael Sanders, who died of a heart attack last month. The commemorative program will celebrate his life and his lifelong love of dance.

Performers include Rachel Berman, former soloist with the Paul taylor Dance Company, Peter Rockford Espiritu of Tau Dance Theater, hula dancer Kanoe Miller, dancers Paul Maley and Marie Takazawa and singer Loretta Abies Sayer. "This is how Michael would have wanted it to be," says Betsy Fisher, a University of yVAYV I i i 'IS- i awards sions is Sept 15. 5 I ivitiu ueuuis, muuu- yi- ing the name of the J' a fair, date, time, Dlace and tvnes of fl merchandise l) (and include a daytime 1 i Iviritn Pmftc Calendar, Island Life. i iw Mfivnn er P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802; or to islandlife honolulu advertiser.com; or fax 525-8055.

Chicken soup for FBS PBS Hawai'i enlists the help of several "Chicken Soup From the Soul of Hawai'i" personalities when it launches its August mem bership drive Sunday. Host Becky Dunning will be in the PBS Hawai'i studios on Dole Street, with book contributors John Lake, Nalani Olds, Danny Kaleiki-ni, Robert Cazimero and more. Viewers can receive auto Don Ho graphed copies of books from a selection of contributors, ranging from Kelly Preston to Don Ho. Among the Sunday programs: The Concert for World Children's Day" at 6:30 p.m., with performances by Josh Groban, Celine Dion, Enriques Iglesias and Peter Cetera, and "The Beach Boys, Good Timin': Live at Knebworth, England, 1980," at 8:30 p.m. Fort Street fling Fresh produce! Plants! Music! More stuff to do down town! Some props, please, for a Fort Street Mall Business Improve ment District effort to "create an open-air sense of culture and vitality in the downtown workplace." From 8 a.m.

to 2 p.m. today (and on Tuesdays and Fridays thereafter), a Fort Street Promenade will feature an open market with locally-grown produce, plants and fresh flowers near Wilcox Park, at Fort and King streets. A neighboring Noon O'Clock FortFest will offer live music during the lunch hour each Tuesday, featuring string quartets, bagpipers and (hey!) madrigal singers, for starters. Kudos for 'E(? ho'akrV "Ki ho'alu: Keola Beamer," an island-made slack-key guitar documentary directed by Ken K. Martinez Burgmaier of Maui, has earned two more laurels: the Aurora Awards 2003 for Platinum Best of Show for directing and the Gold Award in the musical-variety category.

The Auroras recognize achievement in film and video "that generates sparks in creativity and fosters audience response." Burgmaier said he hopes the attention "will perpetuate this beautiful style of music I and Hawaiian culture around the world." Advertiser staff and news services 1 Tribes to ItinVtiittawl A commemorative dance performance: memorial presentation, 1 p.m. tomorrow; dance program, 2-4 p.m. UH-MSnoa Campus Center Ballroom Information: Queen Emma Ballet, 736553 Michael Sanders and his wife, Eve Walstrum, perform with the Netherlands Dans Theater. Queen Emma Ballet Taking By Zenaida Serrano Espanol Advertiser Staff Writer In nine months, Don and Rowena Homer's East Honolulu master suite was transformed into a cozy at-home retreat, complete with a new Jacuzzi tub and loft office. Don Hornerworked closely with his contractor to maximize every inch of the 500-square-foot suite, adding a walk-in closet with built-in dressers, a fold-down ironing board and laundry chute, a separate toilet room and corner lounging area in the master bedroom.

"We made a comfortable space for (my wife)," said Horner, president of First Hawaiian Bank. "This is the first time we really designed a master bedroom that she wanted, so it was a fun project, and she's extremely happy with it." The retreat was among 22 statewide winners of the Building Industry Association of Hawaii's 18th annual Renaissance Building Remodeling Awards, which honor quality construction and design 1 1 Jiman Giniiand Hawai'i-Manoa professor of dance and theater. "He had a great, joyous attitude about life we'll miss him," Monday night, Queen Emma dancers ranging in age from 15 to 17 met to rehearse and reminisce about their teacher, saying he always pushed and Michael Sanders encouraged them to be their best Nicole Yoshikane, who has studied at Queen Emma Ballet since she was 8, said Sanders, who taught and choreographed for the organization, "was always encour- See SANDERS, E4 Surfer film dips its toe in Honolulu Advertiser Staff "Step Into Liquid," the latest documentary from the makers of "The Endless Summer," is being put to the test with an opening in Honolulu, where audiences know their surfing. The film also opens today in New York and Los Angeles, but at a Tuesday premiere here, filmmaker Dana Brown said Honolulu was key. "In New York, if they don't like it, I don't care," he said jokingly.

"You guys make me nervous." Surfers and fans filled a 400-seat theater at the Art House at Restaurant Row for the premiere, giving Brown a good receptioa Among the guests: Mark Martinson, a 1960s surf champ who was in "Endless Brian Keaulana, a Hawai'i surfer, water safety specialist and Hollywood film consultant; Ben Aipa, an old-school Hawaiian surfer, coach and surfboard shaper; Jock Sutherland, Sunset stylist from the '60s and '70s; '60s surf champ Joey Cabell owner of the Chart House; big-wave pioneer Peter Cole; monster-wave rider Ken Bradshaw, Don King, a surf photographer and cinematographer who shot footage for "Blue Crush" and the latest James Bond film; up-and-coming Hawai'i surfer Keone Watson; and bodysurfer Mark Cunningham, subject of black-and-white photos by Wayne Levin on display at the theater. Jesse Billauer, a pro surfer paralyzed in a surf accident who is featured in the film, attended and helped introduce the film. "Step Into liquid" shows Billauer catching waves with the help of fellow surfers. (Find more about Billauer at www.liferollsoaorg.) Dana Brown's father, Bruce Brown, directed the prototypical surf film "The Endless Summer." Top Secret Productions LLC Australia-born surfer Layne Beachley is featured in "Step Into Liquid." walk somewhere, the braves will roll out the mat, and he will walk in comfort" The women were pleased to hear this solution, for they too worried about their chief. And so they set to work, weaving a mat of reeds and feathers, a mat so strong, it would last forever.

The chief was overjoyed when he saw the mat, and that very day he called his four sons to his side. "Wherever I walk, you shall roll this mat before me, and I will walk in comfort," he said. The tribe rejoiced. Alas, one day the young braves, distracted by a thunderbird swooping overhead, failed to check the ground over which they rolled See LEGEND, E3 I 4 It 1 I home top I in remodeling and new construction projects. CO-HA Builders Inc.

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Light Marketing Group photos Tell r.Ie A Story Folk tales far families from around the world AAA him upon a travois, an A-shaped frame made of long poles and a deerskin platform. The shaman knew he must find a cure for his chief. He had never known a man with feet so tender, and he was determined to solve the problem. Day and night he mulled it over. He prayed to the Great Spirit for guidance, and then one day an idea came to him.

The shaman called the women of the tribe together. "You shall weave a mat of reeds," he explained to them. "Whenever the chief must Adapted by Amy Friedman XMef Tenderfeet" a Plains Indian tale. Once upon a time, somewhere in North America, there lived a tribe whose chief was a sensitive man. The people loved him for his kind nature, and they admired him for his bravery.

But the chief had one problem. It was not just his heart that was tender. His feet were, too. The chief could not walk upon the earth the way me other warriors did, for when he tried to do this, he would quiver in pain. For a long time the chief ignored this problem.

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