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Share Aloha Photo Contest Now Open for Entries

Got some great Hawaii photos? You could win up to $250. We're offering four $50 prizes each month (one for each island — Oahu, Maui, Hawaii and Kauai), and four $200 grand prizes at year's end (one for each island). Plus, winning photos will have the honor of being published in one of our HAWAII DRIVE GUIDE magazines.

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Community Support

Honolulu Publishing’s team supports a range of charitable organizations — from the arts to social services. Especially close to the company's chairman, David Pellegrin, is The Compassionate Friends, whose mission is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age. He served on the board of directors of this Chicago-based organization for six years and was its president for three. Read his personal story about how The Compassionate Friends became his lifeline.

Grief and Judgment: A Father's Story

That fall was a good time for my two sons—certainly better than a year earlier when their mother and I had ended our marriage.

But now, George was in great spirits. He had just gotten accepted into the college of his choice, the University of Oregon, where he planned on starting in January. And his younger brother, Adam, had discovered what became the love of his life: football.

Then everything changed. Sometime in the darkness of the early morning hours of Sunday, November 24, my phone rang with a call from The Queen's Medical Center. Is George Pellegrin my son? Could I please come down to the emergency room? He was in a traffic accident, and his condition is grave.

During the short drive to the hospital, I prayed out loud that he would be all right. I remember rocking almost rhythmically into the steering wheel: “Please, God ... Let him be OK ... Please, God ...” Read more ...

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