About 12 years ago, Karen and Edwin Hosaka grew a mango that hit almost 8 pounds — the weight of the average newborn baby.

This year, the biggest mango of the season wasn't quite that heavy, but it was still bigger than 6-year-old Carlson Ogata's head, as he discovered when he went to visit his Grandpa and Grandma Hosaka in Pearl City.

This Shibata mango, the last one of the season, tips the scales at almost 7 pounds and is 91/2 inches tall.

— Treena Shapiro

HAPPENING

BUY IT, WEAR IT

A show of handwoven wearable items made by members of the Hawaii Handweavers' Hui opens with a reception from 5 to 9 tonight at the Louis Pohl Gallery, 1111 Nu'uanu Ave.

The hui will have scarves, hats, bags, accessories and other wearables of cotton, linen, silk, wool and other fibers on sale and on view through Oct. 18.

— Advertiser Staff

FINAL WORD

" 'The Right Stuff' is about people who make it their rofession to risk their lives. I don't know of anybody (who does that) other than people in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever else."

Tom Wolfe, author, in Time