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August 09, 2006 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Congratulations to the Kalani and Kaiser complexes: Every school in each complex met the Adequate Yearly Progress goals for No Child Left Behind ... Kanesa Duncan, who will lecture on hammerhead sharks Thursday at Hanauma Bay, knows her stuff (see Highlights on page 19). She’s an award-winning paddleboarder and consummate ocean athlete who favors the waters off of Hanauma Bay and East Oahu - when she’s not studying sharks for her Ph.D. ... When Kaimuki sculptors say “let’s do lunch,” they really mean it.


Sean Browne will discuss the creative process during a free ArtLunch Lecture at noon Aug. 29 at the Hawaii State Art Museum. Sean and Kazu Kauinana also collaborated on the original teen theater show, Art on the Streets, presented recently in that art museum. Kazu did the art lunch talk in July ... After writing nine books for Japanese readers, Hawaii Kai’s Fumiko Mori Halloran has published her first novel in English - Long Nights Alone - about love and intrigue in the imperial court of 10th century Japan.

Carolyn Pace
Carolyn Pace

Fumiko first came to America as a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University. She goes by the pen name Miki Fujita, and you can find the book through BookSurge, a subsidiary of Amazon. And you can find her proud husband, Richard Halloran, right by her side, reading ... Hawaii Kai’s Carolyn Pace, an award-winning kitchen and bathroom designer, has opened her own studio at Gentry Pacific Design Center ... Youth Challenge Academy graduate Roy Shimabuku (out of Kaimuki High) has received a $2,000 Merrill Lynch scholarship for college ... Look for Waialae Elementary student Claire Shigeta‘s art in the 2006-2007 Hawaiian Telcom yellow pages, along with selected works by 100 Oahu keiki. Claire also won $100 plus $400 for her school in the contest ... For his Eagle Scout rank, Kaimuki Scout Michael Hann coordinated a painting and bench-building brigade at the USS Bowfin Memorial ...


Nanny Jo Frost of the TV reality show Supernanny is scouting for new keiki to tame from Hawaii. Be at Kahala Mall from 3 to 7 p.m. Sept. 2 for your chance (732-7736) ... Ah, school days. Hawaii Kai residents Marge Choy and Mayette Zane reminisced recently with 240 of their “sisters” at a Waikiki luncheon celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Te Chih Sheh sorority at UH-Manoa ... Yida Wang of East Oahu has won a 2006 Individual Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts ...

Michael Hann
Michael Hann

Congratulations (along with more worries)

Ben Dowling
Ben Dowling

to Ben Dowling of Kahala, who has become part owner of Nick’s Fishmarket after working there and managing the Waikiki restaurant for years ... East Oahu photographer Laurie Breeden Callies of Baby Face Productions has an exhibit with Lisa Uesugi, My Voice, opening Aug. 17 at Aloha Tower Marketplace. It portrays the young people of Ohana Ola Kahumana in Waianae ... Lauren Kawana of Hawaii Kai (and a Kaiser alum) has earned her bach-elor’s from Bates College in Maine, where she also joined Phi Beta Kappa ... The Honolulu chapter of Executive Women International has given scholarships to Saint Louis School student Jordan Gines ($5,000) and Sacred Hearts student Lisa Fong ($1,000), among others ... Kalani High and UH-Manoa-trained engineer Craig Nishimura is the new deputy director of the city Department of Design and Construction. He’s worked for the city’s wastewater operations since 1991

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