There’s no ignoring a grand jury investigation

After months of speculation, there was finally confirmation last week that a federal grand jury is investigating Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, city Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha.

Corruption allegations stem from a June 2011 incident in which Katherine Kealoha’s uncle, Gerard Puana, was arrested for supposedly entering a neighbor’s screened-in porch. While Puana was at the police station, witnesses said, Katherine Kealoha and police officers entered Puana’s locked home, and Puana alleged items including documents and cash went missing, a federal public defender said.

Guess this means the Honolulu Police Commission can no longer say there isn’t evidence of any investigation into Chief Kealoha.

Oh when the saints go marching in, to Waikiki

Sts. Damien and Marianne Cope might have raised an eyebrow, since their focus was on service to others.

Still, the memory of the famous priest and nun, elevated to sainthood for their ministry to Hansen’s disease patients on Molokai, will be honored in a $25 million museum to be built adjacent to Waikiki’s St. Augustine Catholic Church.

Both are honored in similar institutions in their native countries. But Hawaii surely wants to play its part: Damien, for one, is the only Hawaiian-speaking saint there is.