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July 13, 2011 - MidWeek The Islander

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Kailua’s Penisoni Tuifua and Kaneohe’s Jordan Kamae made the spring dean’s list at University of Montana Western in Dillon ... Kailua’s Brandee Goo made the list at University of Evansville in Indiana ... Shannon Sweet of Kaneohe has graduated from Ithaca College’s School of Humanities and Sciences in New York. The school also had Kailua music student Dana Arbaugh on its spring dean’s list ... Nearby at Cornell University, Kailua’s Bryce Yahata graduated with a BS in engineering ...

Micah Mumper of Kailua made the spring dean’s list at Macalester College in Minnesota ... Kailua’s Allison Stitham made the spring dean’s list at Colby College in Waterville, Maine ... Earning their master’s degrees at Baylor U. in Waco, Texas, were Kailua’s Tiffany Laine Davis (public health) and Kaneohe’s Chatel Marie Buccat Garrett (social work) ... Leah Rumsey of Kailua has become an independent consultant for Tastefully Simple Inc., a company selling more than 60 easy-to-prepare foods (763-516-1108) ...

Lucky gamblers this spring at Sam Boyd’s Las Vegas casinos include Kailua’s Joan O’Connell $22,704, Kaneohe’s Fred Kono $14,000, Kailua’s Yvonne McDermott $8,050, Kaneohe’s Arthur Teruya $8,000, Kaneohe’s Wesley Miyasaki $6,804, Kaneohe’s Arnold Miyasaki $6,802, Kaneohe’s Yolanda Munoz $6,203, Kaneohe’s Geraldine Lee $6,126, Kailua’s Charles Gauthe Jr. $4,700, Kailua’s Rona Chung and Calvin Werner $4,000 each, Kaneohe’s Dorinda Lum, Barbara Yee and Verna Haili, $4,000 each ...

Ready for some summer reading? Hawaii State Public Library System lists the top 10 best-sellers borrowed from Hawaii’s public libraries so far this year:

1) 10th Anniversary by James Patterson,

2) The Sixth Man by David Balducci,

3) The Fifth Witness: a Novel by Michael Connelly,

4) Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts,

5) Sixkill by Robert B. Parker

6) The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel,

7) Bel Air Dead: a Stone Barrington novel by Stuart Woods,

8) Live Wire by Harlan Coben,

9) A Turn in the Road by Debbie Macomber and

10) Love You More: a novel by Lisa Gardner ...

And the top 10 DVDs are Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella Man, The Closer: The Complete Second Season, Picture Bride, AEon Flux, The Bourne Supremacy, The Scorpion King, A Beautiful Mind, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Six Feet Under: The Complete First Season