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Mililani Agricultural Park manager Wayne Ogasawara will be honored May 3 by Mental Health America of Hawaii as its 2007 Outstanding Business Leader for supporting people with mental illness. Wayne has hired many members of the Waipahu Aloha Clubhouse for jobs at the ag park, where they repot plants, weed and water plants ... Nestle USA tapped Mililani High senior Kyle Monette as one of 27 to receive the Nestle Very Best in Youth Award. Kyle can claim his $1,000 prize during a free trip to the L.A. ceremony in July. He was cited for his amazing promotion of the Juvenile Diabetes walkathon here, in which he organized nearly 1,000 walkers who generated $30,000 in research money. Ronald McDonald House also gave him a Heroes Award ... Leilehua High student Marilyn Banach‘s entry, Tree of Life, is one of three Oahu finalists in the 2007 Kaha Ki’i 2nd Congressional Art Contest. U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono was to name the overall winner April 14 at Aloha Tower Marketplace where their works have been on display. Marilyn’s art teacher is Larry Taguba ... It’s official: Ricky Price is now king of the fast lube. At a national industry convention this month the Wahiawa businessman will accept the 2006 Operator of the Year award from the National Oil & Lube News. A Navy veteran from Texas and active Rotarian, Ricky owns three Flagship FastLube and Flagship Auto Service centers on Oahu (including 961 Center St. in Wahiawa). He runs them with the help of sons Christopher and Brandon, and about 40 employees ... Marian’s Catering has a good gig this Saturday, serving up tasty things to go with a wine-tasting MDASoiree at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel (593-4454) ... The smiling face of our favorite Mililani Idol, Jasmine Trias, made the pages of last week’s People magazine (singing with the SOS) in a spread about where the TV singing idols are now ... Welcome to little Thalia-Jo Titcomb, born April 3 right after a wild half-hour ride from Mililani to Kapiolani hospital in pau hana traffic. While dad Marc Titcomb was flying home from work on Maui, mom Kiana had some untimely contractions at their new Mililani townhouse, but she kept her legs firmly crossed in Uncle Gary‘s Wahiawa car all the way through town ... Wahiawa inventor Ruben Tabion has created a prototype he calls the Nebur, a simple and effective way to tailor your golf swing to your stance and ground surface conditions. Now in development for all those Dean Wilson wannabes out there ... Amy Chun of Mililani placed third in Canon USA Hawaii’s amateur photo contest with her Ice Flow on Mauna Kea. She won - a camera! See her photo this month at Canon’s Ward Avenue gallery ... John Yanagida of Mililani won the Ka Pouhana (Mentor) Award from the UH College of Tropical Ag and Human Resources. John works in Natural Resources and Environmental management for the department ... Wahiawa students Tiffany Lawson, Michael Noye and Jose Ortiz-Sanchez earned their MS in business administration in December at Central Michigan University ... The Morning Music Club of Honolulu honored Mililani High senior Todd Kawamoto (French horn) and 14 others with $1,000 music scholarships and the Mozart House stage to perform on last month ... Mililani’s Alvin Park, 15, won an Outstanding Activist award from PETA for “his unrelenting fight to get KFC to stop its suppliers’ worst abuses of chickens and for his protests of the cruel fur industry” ... After the legislative session ends, state Rep. Marilyn Lee and her husband (former Mililani state Rep.) Sam Lee are off on a 12-day trip to China. One special stop on their tour: A sacred mountain in Guangzhou and a museum with the preserved body of a 2,000-year-old woman. “We try to go off the beaten track,” Marilyn says ... If you’re at Mililani Wal-Mart on Saturday, be particularly careful around 2 p.m. Da Braddahs are due to arrive then for autographs and general mayhem ... The slots have been hot for Central Oahu gamblers in downtown Las Vegas casinos. Wahiawa’s Jane Oda won $16,187, Wahiawa’s William Pang won $14,336, Wahiawa’s Jorell Nacapuy won $8,045, Mililani’s Marissa Yago won $8,000, and Mililani’s Rey Prado won only $4,402