Posted on: Thursday, July 29, 2004
Maui event to honor Wriston
By Christie Wilson
Advertiser Neighbor Island Editor
KA'ANAPALI, Maui — Maui friends and associates of Ka'anapali Development Corp. executive A. James "Jim" Wriston III are planning a celebration of his life at 5 p.m. Monday at Kahekili Park on Kai Ala Drive in Ka'anapali.
As vice president/director of real estate for Ka'anapali Development Corp., Wriston was involved in the community-based Ka'anapali 2020 development planned for 1,154 acres of former canefields, and the Waine'e affordable housing project in Lahaina.
Native Hawaiian advocate Ed Lindsey, president of the nonprofit Maui Cultural Lands Inc. land trust, worked with Wriston on both projects. He said Wriston gave the company, whose parent firm is Amfac, "a soul and a heart."
"He was a person who brought trust back to Amfac. He set it up so the community had input from the beginning, rather than shoving it down our throats," Lindsey said.
Wriston, a graduate of Punahou School and the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, also was co-owner of Kahua Nurseries on O'ahu and Hawaiian Earth Products, which sells compost under the Menehune Magic brand.
Honolulu services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Thurston Chapel on the Punahou campus.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Maui Cultural Lands Inc., 1087A Pookela Road, Makawao, HI 96768, for the Honokowai Valley Reforestation Project, or to Academy of the Pacific, 913 Alewa Drive, Honolulu, HI 96817.
Wriston died Sunday of a brain aneurysm. He was 48.
A. James Wriston III
