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December 03, 2008 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Johnna Ehmke

Qinglan Wang of Kuliouou has been selected for studies in Germany by Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. First she has intense language training at the Goethe Institute in Marburg, then the program moves to Berlin for home-stays and classes. Qinglan is a junior on the dean’s list majoring in East Asian studies ...

St. Louis Heights resident Kara Moran has joined Honolulu Theatre for Youth as a development associate. Kara, who has a law degree from Stanford and a degree in French from the Sorbonne, will manage grants and corporate donations ... The Battleship Missouri Memorial’s promotions manager, Johnna Ehmke of Kaimuki, has stepped into a new role there as grants management program officer.

Barbara Kim-Yamashita

The job of securing funds is vital to keep the aging battleship in top shape for years to come. Wanna help right now? Call Johnna at 455-1600, ext. 244 ... A retired state DOE educator and former Aina Haina resident now living in Las Vegas, Barbara Kim-Yamashita was raised in Wahiawa by her Korean immigrant mother, who had plenty to say and teach her young daughter. Now Barbara, who became Leilehua

High’s first female student body president, has written a book in tribute to her hard-working seamstress/mom, which you can order through the Hawaii Education Association. It’s called Mama & Me, Words to Uplift (949-6657) ... Speaking of books, Hawaii Kai’s John Clark will autograph his Guardian of the Sea: Jizo in Hawaii during a book fair from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Japanese Cultural Center ...

Nathan Mark

Nathan Mark of Kaimuki stars as Scrooge in Honolulu Theatre for Youth’s production of Charles DickensA Christmas Carol, playing Dec. 5-21 at Tenney Theater (457-4254) ... Some of your neighbors are now out on DVD in the local award-winning film, All for Melissa, including Jane Beeny of Kahala, Mark Morgan of Aina Haina and Rich Keating of St. Louis Heights ...

Robert Hayashida wants all former Hawaii boxers (like himself) in East Oahu to know that the Old Timers Club will meet from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the Oahu Veterans Center by Radford High School to talk story about the glory days. Cost is $10, and you can call him at 677-4501.

Suzie Setzler

Then there’s my grandfather-in-law, Chang Kau, a colorful figure who invented the portable boxing ring in the 1930s ... Suzie Setzler must be doing something right. As general manager of Koko Marina Center, she saw the center through to being a finalist for the Retail Merchants of Hawaii’s 2008 Shopping Center of the Year award. The competition was nothing to sneeze at, however. Outrigger’s Beachwalk project took the top prize ...

The latest license plate sightings should give you something to think about. Good thing you’re not driving right now - are you? They are: GA2SRF, AYYOLE and ISK8R

 

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