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Carol Chang
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January 02, 2008 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Dawn Hirano
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Kaiser High School 2002 graduate Darin Brooks, aka race-car driver Max Brady on the NBC soap Days of Our Lives - was spotted racing on a surfboard in Waikiki recently. Brooks is 23, girls ... Guitarist and Palolo valley native Stephen Inglis will perform with piano great Shawn Moseley at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Hawaii Public Radio’s Atherton Studio for fans with acoustic and classical sensibilities (955-8821). Stephen is also a familiar face at Cha Cha Cha Salsaria and Roy’s Restaurant (Jan. 12 and 26) in Hawaii Kai. His new CD is Mahina O Waialae ...

Speaking of cool stuff at the Atherton (on Kaheka Street across from Holiday Mart, oops Don Quijote) Kaimuki cellist Karen Bechtel, who normally performs with the Galliard String Quartet, will play with other pros on the period instrument, viola da gamba, at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12 during a “Baroque Celebration” at the Atherton ... Kahala resident Shirleyanne Hee Chew has established the Chew Jay Family Endowed Scholarship Fund of $100,000 (which includes matching funds) at the University of Hawaii business school “to help local high school students with full-time working parents.” And this isn’t her first such gift to her alma mater. Shirleyanne earned her master’s of business administration at UH in 1972 ...


Jonathan Langdon (Kalani ‘99) got an early promotion to senior airman after meeting U.S. Air Force standards for exceptional performance. Jonathan is an integrated avionics systems journeyman at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. ... Students from the UH Pacific New Media photography workshops will showcase their work in Vision and Discovery at Canon Photo Gallery Friday through Jan. 30 in Ward Plaza (956-8244). Among the exhibitors is Jeanne-Marie Viggiano of Hawaii Kai ... Hawaii’s list of public school semifinalists for the National Merit Scholarship Program includes three Kaiser High School students: Alexandra Boland, Dylan Howard and John Pyun ...

Speaking of public school, the state Board of Education is now headed up by two East Oahu women - Donna Ikeda was recently elected chairwoman and Karen Knudsen first vice chair ... Island Insurance has promoted Dawn Hirano to the new position of human resources manager. Dawn, a Hawaii Kai resident, also has worked in the human resources field for PriceBusters and has her bachelor of science degree from Santa Clara University ...


Laurieann Seus’ special ed students at Kalani High did their Santa Shoebox Project for the eighth straight year, serving as elves who prepared and presented Christmas gifts to people with mental illnesses. Gayle Ozawa started it at the school with 36 shoeboxes full of presents in 1999. Last month the Falcon teens prepared 200 boxes for consumers of Mental Health Kokua ... Congratulations to Hawaii Self-Storage in Kaimuki, which was named 2007 Facility of the Year (in the new facility category) by the Mini-Storage Messenger

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