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May 31, 2006 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usWahiawa native Lee Hiromoto has won a Hawaii Rotary 5000 District ambassadorial scholarship that will take him to Hebrew University of Jerusalem to study Arabic next fall. Lee just graduated from Yale and is its first student to major in Portuguese ... Momilani Elementary student Keri Teramae‘s painting Waikiki Beach is not just taped to a refrigerator door. It’s been picked for display at the Hawaii Convention Center for one year. You can find Keri’s art, along with 95 other keiki creations, in the center’s third-floor courtyard. Her teacher is Sheree Tamura ... Waipahu actors
Don Richards
Don Richards and Michelle Matias are in Diamond Head Theatre’s Tony award-winning musical La Cage aux Folles (The Birdcage), which is held over to June 11. Offstage, Michelle teaches kindergarten.
Michelle Matias
Don, an award-winning performer, has danced or taught at Leeward YMCA, the LCC Dance Ensemble and much more. So what is he studying at UH West Oahu? Business administration, of course ...
Mililani Lions Club earned the Best Division II Club Award at the state Lions convention this month on Kauai ... Kanoelani Elementary student Traci Aiwohi was a semifinalist in literature for the Hawaii PTSA Reflections Art Program ... Former Waipahu High coach Masa Yonamine received the Hawaii Coaches Award for “his lifelong service to high school football” from the Hawaii chapter of the National Football Foundation in Waikiki. Local scholar athletes getting scholarships from the chapter are Mililani High’s Micah Kia and Waipahu High’s Joseph Batangan ... Mililani residents weren’t surprised when HPD officer Josie Kaanehe and Det. Randall Gratz were honored this month by the 200 Club. Josie (2006 Police Officer of the Year) is a former Mililani Trojan, a D.A.R.E. officer for classrooms all over the Central District, and a member of Mililani’s neighborhood board and high school PTSO. Randy (Police Parent of the Year) is a Leilehua graduate who led Mililani Boy Scout Troop 164 on a rigorous Big Island hike and helped at the 2005 National Jamboree ...
Andrew Ramos
High school freshman Andrew Ramos of Waipahu took third place in the 2006 Music Teachers National Association Junior Piano Performance Competition. Andrew also plays cello in the Hawaii Youth Symphony string orchestra and was featured on NPR’s From the Top Hawaii broadcast ... Waipio Center’s Mother’s Day essay contest winners (among 200 entries) were Traci Aiwohi of Kanoelani Elementary, Gia Duque of Kanoelani and Kellie Kawamoto of Mililani Middle School, in their age groups) ...
Miles Ichinose
HECO’s Kaiulani de Silva has a gentle reminder for well-wishers at graduations this weekend: “Helium-filled metallic balloons accounted for 22 power service interruptions in 2005” ... Hamburger king Miles Ichinose, who operates five McDonald’s restaurants including Waipahu, Waipio and Wal-Mart Kunia, has received the chain’s Golden Arch Award - the first Hawaii franchise owner to earn it for “consistently achieving the highest level of excellence.” Miles’ first venture was in Waipahu in 1983 ... Waipahu volunteer Narzal Concepcion, 79, earned the Bronze Akamai Living Award for devoting 13,500 hours of volunteer service to the Filipino community
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