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August 10, 2011 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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A design by Scott Kaneshiro is on the Spam can on Hawaii store shelves for a limited time as the company once again celebrates the Islands’ love affair with the pink meat. The Mililani artist’s creation has a shaka hand, a Spam musubi, palm trees and “No Ka Oi.” There’s a related video contest on through Aug. 12. Details at hawaiispamcan.com ... New kings of the local jungle: Former state Sen. Ron Menor was installed recently as president of the Mililani Lions Club, and Jim Hatfield now heads the Wahiawa Lions ...
As chairman of the Western Legislative Conference, state Rep. Marcus Oshiro helped bring more than 500 lawmakers and their families from 13 states to Waikiki last week ... William Joseph Richard Stewart (Joe) graduated from U.S. Marine Corps boot camp last month in San Diego. The 2009 Mililani High graduate is on track to complete weapons training this summer at Camp Pendleton and move on to Pensacola to become an aviation electronics technician ...
Further west at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Wahiawa’s Kekaiku’imauloa Nu’uhiwa has entered basic cadet training to get ready for his freshman year there ... Kayla Richie (Mililani 2001, Missouri Valley College 2007) has graduated from Army basic training at Fort Sill, Okla. ...
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Trees need names at Wahiawa Botanical Garden, and volunteers can label them with the park’s computer and special rotary engraver (6215463) ... Evan Kau (Mililani 2006) has graduated from Air National Guard basic training at Lackland AFB,
Texas, and Dylan Maglinti (Mililani 2010) has graduated from basic and advanced Army infantry training at Fort Benning, Ga. ... BYU-Hawaii is very proud to announce that it has digitized 120,000 records of Filipinos coming to and settling in Hawaii during the early 1900s for sugar plantation work. This should make family history searches much easier.
BYUH archivist Matt Kester explains that in 2004 before students and missionary couples had the means to digitize them the records were “freeze-dried” and rehoused in acid-free boxes to preserve them for the huge project ahead. For a look-see now, call 675-3669 for tips on how to get it online
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