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August 08, 2007 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usWahiawa inventor Ruben Tabion has created Nebur, a “simple and effective way” to tailor one’s golf swing to stance and ground surface conditions by helping folks visualize where they should hit the ball ... Speaking of the game, Mililani Golf Club pro Matt Pakkala earned $300 as his share for placing 10th in the Aloha Section Pro-Pro tourney at Kaanapali last month. Jeff Ferry of the Mililani Golf Academy took home $187.50 for a 15th-place finish with his partner ... Main Street casino in downtown Vegas was the right place at the right time for two Mililani slot machine fans this past spring. Janis Anzai won $25,000, and George Makio won $6,000 ... Believe it or not, Hawaii Student Television is actually recruiting adults for its next film. They need a male and female to play young parents and a woman of about 50 to play a grandmother. Filming dates are Aug. 11, 12 or 18 and 19.
Mua-Lavea Jennings
Email photo and brief biography to www.HawaiiStudentTV.org ... Mua-Lavea Jennings, who excelled in track & field and wrestling at Leilehua High School (and even played football for the Mules!), stepped into some new roles this summer.
Mua was a contestant in the Miss Le Lalelei O Samoa Pageant in Honolulu, and she’s enrolled at Honolulu Community College as the first in her family to attend college ...
Iwalani School of Dance (from Mililani) performs at 2 p.m. Aug. 26 on the Ala Moana Center stage ... Many may remember Gen. William “Kip” Ward from his time heading the 25th Infantry at Schofield. Kip, the active military’s only four-star African American general, has been tapped to lead the U.S. Africa Command ... Storyteller Jeff Gere (former Our Lady of Sorrows teacher) spent some time in his old stomping grounds Aug. 4 when he led a workshop on “How to Make Stories Come
Britney Cambridge
Alive” at Waialua Library ... 2007 Mililani High graduate Britney Cambridge has won a $2,000 HMSA scholarship for student athletes who excel in academics and community service as well as their sport. Her classmate, Kyle Monette, was also honored by HMSA (See story on page 18) ... Ryan Ozawa of Mililani has embraced “life casting” with other local tekkies. On a recent picnic at Haleiwa Beach Park, the Ozawas shared the evening with friends from here to North Carolina - via a mobile online video system that streams live over the web. Ryan says it offers “an immediate, unfiltered glimpse into someone’s life.” He also filmed his son’s school awards ceremony for the grandparents, who couldn’t be there in person. “They actually got bored half way through and clicked it off,” Ryan says, “but my neighbor watched the whole thing!” ... Clothing from Beige Cubed, a fashion line by North Shore designer Marina Crawford, are in the fashion show lineup for Young Artists Helping Young Artists Aug. 15, an annual benefit for Rehab Hospital (566-3457) ... Better late than never: Travis Kim of Mililani Ike won first place for grade 4 in the 2007 Nene Awards poster contest in May ... Also in May, Marchelle Rubio graduated with honors from Honolulu Community College.
Marina Crawford
The Mililani wife and mother is in a metals inspector apprenticeship program at the Pearl Harbor Shipyard, which includes the HCC program. For two years, she shuffled between Pearl Harbor, HCC, and taking her son to and from school at Iolani. With homework and mom work done, she could sometimes grab three hours of sleep before starting all over again at 4 a.m. “I had a full plate,” she admits. “I’m glad it’s over” ... Kristi Kashimoto has begun rehearsals at her Applause! Performance Academy in Wahiawa for Oahu Arts Center’s fall musical The Wizard of Oz. Shows are in October (848-7632) .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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