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April 07, 2010 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Makaala Perry

Little Jonah “J-Boy” Kalaikai of Wahiawa got the royal treatment at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam last Friday as Pilot for a Day. Now 7, J-Boy has been fighting acute myeloid leukemia since he was 2 years old. But on April 2 he became an honorary Air Force pilot, donned a flight suit, did a simulated bailout, toured a C-17 and the working dog kennel as well as operated a robot at the base’s explosive ordinance disposal facility…

Hanalani fifth-grader Makaala Perry recently won the 2009 Children’s Album of the Year at the Hawaii Music Awards, and she’s currently recording a Hawaiian CD that will feature the Mililani youngster with her vocal teachers Melveen Leed and Glenn Medeiros, as well as Ken Makuakane and O’Brian Eselu ...

New account executive with Hawaii Pacific Entertainment is Valen Ahlo, a Mililani resident with experience in media production, including startup clothing company linked to the TV show So You Think You Can Dance ... Derek Lanter of Waialua Estate Coffee and Cacao will discuss “Keeping an Old Plantation Green with New Farm Crops” at a luncheon of Hawaii Jewish Seniors Thursday at Temple Emanu-El (595-7521) ...


Several Central Oahu residents are performing in Monkey Waterfall’s unique Celebrity Project across the Leeward Community College campus Thursday through Saturday (483-7123). They are Hillary Bardos, Ikaika Cleghorn, Lucy Dorado and Harold Wong of Mililani; and Danielle Boling of Schofield Barracks ...

Donalyn Dela Cruz

Hawaii hospitality for Korea’s new Bagram Hospital continues as the Sagara brothers guide the flow of gifts from Wahiawa to the April 12 opening of the complex in Afghanistan. Sgt. Maj. Cal Sagara just met with a female Afghan-American ob-gyn who wants to volunteer at the new hospital once a week. “This is fantastic,” Cal reports, “since the Korean medical staff is comprised of only male physicians, and the Afghan culture forbids male doctors from treating Afghan female patients” ...

Leilehua graduate DonalynDela Cruz has added a new job to her resume as host of Hawaii Public Radio’s Energy Future, which airs at 5 p.m. Mondays on KIPO. Donalyn also manages government affairs and community relations for Bishop Museum ... Speaking at the Honolulu Pen Women’s writers conference Friday and Saturday at Punahou School are Haleiwa’s Victoria Gail White (print media panelist) and John Wythe White (autobiographical fiction), and Mililani’s Wendy Miyake (Imaginary Friends, the Art of Character Development). It may not be too late to check out all the speakers. Call 254-3271 ...


Primo Brewing & Malting Co. has hired Matty Liu as field marketing rep throughout the state - a perfect job for the former North Shore pro surfer. Matty’s spent 10 years promoting parties and surf brands, fashion shows and movie premieres. “We are stoked to have Matty join the Primo team,” declares its marketing director Kyle Wortham ... Good job by Mililani High Trojans. Their team won $800 in the AlohaCare Healthy Hawaii Teen Video Contest for placing second in the Teen Health category ...

Oregon State University has plenty of student role models from Central Oahu this year. Its winter-term honor roll includes straight-A student Joli Johnson of Haleiwa, and Mililani residents Marissa Arakaki, Dexter Carolino, Nicole Chun, Shawna Fujita and Melanie Inouye

 

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