Family Hobby: Make New Dentures For Needy HONOLULU, HI -- Many families share in cooperative hobbies and recreation. Few do it the McElfresh way. In Hawaii, outdoor activities are natural. Hiking. Surfing. Beach. Cookouts. One Pawaa family stays together with a unique, interesting, and useful hobby. Making dentures for the needy and for denture collectors. Ron and Vernelle McElfresh of Union Plaza, along with their twin sons Joshua and Jonathan, make dentures and give them away as gifts to the needy. Their work is financed in part by denture collectors willing to pay enormous sums for McElfresh dentures. The family, shown here modeling their latest creation, Fake Smiles, has made dentures for years using a special vinyl lamination technique brought to Hawaii by Vernelle's ancestors in China. This technique allows the user to keep all their old teeth while wearing the new dentures. The denture craze recently spread to Japan where many people try to copy the latest western craze. Japanese denture collectors reportedly pay up to ten times the normal rate for a set of dentures with the McElfresh logo. NEXT PHOTO PREVIOUS PHOTO PHOTO NOTES OK, I'm halfway through with this round of photographs. Do you know how tough it is to create cute newspaper copy like this? Piece of cake. Send me a photograph and I'll write a story about it. The photo in the story above was taken in the home of our friends, Brian and Shirley Kawano, during the fall of 1992. Their baby boy, Scotty, was edited from the pix.