Big Island Press Club

By Rod Thompson

     Who would have predicted that announcing BIPC’s July 31 annual Scholarship Dinner, with Mayor Billy Kenoi as speaker, would result in revelation of some of the club’s darkest secrets? Yet that‘s what happened when member Tiffany Edwards Hunt posted the Scholarship-Kenoi announcement on her bigislandchronicle.com July 15..

     Without any particularly coherent train of thought leading up to the statement, counter-blogger Damon Tucker posted on Tiffany’s blog, “Our Press Club Controls the Politics of this Island.” ( http://www.bigislandchronicle.com/?p=6851#comments )

     Gasp! Damon outed us!

     Of course, Tiffany tried a quick “coverup.”

     “That’s a ludicrous supposition on your part,” she told Tucker. “You’ve never even been to a BIPC board of directors meeting, or any BIPC function, really.”

     But the floodgates were already open. Member Peter Sur confessed, “Yes, it’s true, and I engineered the council reorganization from the saddle of my unicorn.”

     Member Dave Smith next revealed that he has a half-eagle,   

half-lion pet called a griffin, and suggested he has a unicorn too.    

Dave Smith's pet

Dave wrote, “Peter, where did you get your unicorn saddle? I

tried to adapt the one from my griffin but it was a lousy fit.”

     These revelations (previously concealed from club members

by the inner cabal of the club) may be too heady for some

members to digest. But they are a roundabout reminder that

your last chance to sign up for the Scholarship Dinner is close at hand. Read the box.