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May 16, 2007 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Haleiwa’s Barbara Ritchie has earned the Paralegal of the Year Award from her peers - and she’s self-employed ... Opening her Applause! Performance Academy in Wahiawa just two short months ago, Kristi Kashimoto is still pinching herself. The phone is ringing every day, and she already has more than 70 students. Combine that with her job as Oahu Arts Center artistic director (see story on this page), and the Mililani graduate decided that her dreams have indeed come true. A Broadway professional returned home, she also has a way with words: “It sounds really crazed and so ‘Tom jumping on the couch,’ but it’s quite true,” she e-mails me at midnight. “I have a true passion for the arts, and I want to teach all the knowledge I have to the youths from my hometown area” ...

Look for Tera Dela Cruz‘s art in the 2008 Board of Water Supply conservation calendar. The Mililani Mauka fourth-grader placed second in her age group in the BWS annual contest. Theme is Conserving Water Starts with Me ... Speaking of conservation, Tera’s school won the large-school category in the Nike Reuse-A-Shoe recycling contest. Mililani Mauka collected 984 pairs of used athletic shoes (“post-consumer,” they call it) for the cause ...

Christina Sears

Melvin Lee

Christina Sears (Mililani ‘06) has won a three-year Navy ROTC scholarship from University of San Diego, where she is a freshman midshipman ... Just in time for summer, Mililani’s Melvin Lee has moved up from service supervisor to service manager at the air-conditioning firm, Heide & Cook ... Mililani Waena’s Na Leo O Menehune Choir is set to sing at Aloha Tower Marketplace at 11:30 a.m. May 29 (566-2337) ... Not only do Jack and Kim Johnson put on a good concert, the North Shore couple and their volunteer crew also were praised for the spic-n-span cleanup afterward.

More importantly - the EPA issued their Kokua Hawaii Foundation a Region 9 award for its work to preserve and protect Hawaii’s environment ... Also saving planet Earth is Mililani High senior Tina Grandinetti. She leads the Trojans’ World Awareness Club, and her latest work was with the Hawaii Coalition for Darfur at its April 29 candlelight vigil and concert at the state Capitol ... Joining Hawaii’s Puerto Rican All-Star Musicians for a Honolulu Mother’s Day bash last Saturday was Mililani singer/guitarist Angel Franco and Haleiwa songstress Julita de Puerto Rico ...

Tara Hopewell

Jolene Alaipalelei

Tara Hopewell and Jolene Alaipelelei have joined Hawaiian Eye Center in Wahiawa, where Dr. Christopher Tortora stands ready to make you see the light - in the best possible way. Tara, an RN, directs nursing services, and Jolene (formerly of Wahiawa Blockbuster) is a patient services rep ... High fives to Mililani High’s team No. 1 for winning $400 worth of dairy products (read: ice cream) and a second-place trophy among high school boats in the Meadow Gold milk carton regatta May 5 at Ala Moana Beach. They also won the “Most Creative Boat” award ... Mililani artist and teacher Helen Iaea‘s paintings are up through May 24 at the Gallery at Ward Centre ... For its May Day pageant Friday, Mililani Ike principal Steve Nakasato has hired help from HPD and set up a special kupuna seating area. He expects 2,000 adult fans

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