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May 21, 2008 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Leilehua High School student Susi Pearson and Katherine Moody from Ho’ala School are cast in the Hawaii Young Actors Ensemble for The Tempest at Hawaii Theatre. The curtain goes up at 7 p.m May 29 and 30 (528-0506). Student apprentices include Kahuku High’s Nicolette Tevenen in stage management ... Mililani High student Philip Mocz has won a $2,500 National Merit Scholarship, one of 11 high school seniors in the state judged to have the best college potential ...
In the last Waha Nui column, I promised you more details about my visit to a Clark County dog park near Las Vegas. While we were there with our daughter Erin Wells and her tiny Maltese pooch, Pono, we saw that all the dogs, big and small, had a grand time and got along just fine. Some humans, however, couldn’t get their act together. In the parking lot we witnessed two macho guys ramming each other head-on with their SUVs, then fuming off in a cloud of desert dust ...
Mililani residents Allen Quijano and Renee Pascual have created a gadget that could save surfers from a shark attack. Their secret design for Shark Bite “will render it unobtrusive to the surfer while still remaining very effective in its purpose,” according to Invention Technologies Inc. Next challenge for the pair, product development and getting it into the local surf shops ... Congratulations to Honolulu Police Officer of the Year Gerald Scoville, a long-time Wahiawa lawman who is always trying to make things better. One of his interests is graffiti eradication, so he asked mural-ist Ron Artis to help out (see story on page 8). After painting a vivid North Shore scene on the side and back wall next to Sunny Side bakery, Ron and a few of his children may have gained a little weight. “They fed us every day,” Ron recalls, “and believe me, we tore up some pies there” ...
Mililani resident Aaron Gorospe, a UH-West Oahu senior, won second place in a recent student talent contest on the college’s Leeward campus. Aaron dazzled the audience with a piano and vocal performance of His Eye is on the Sparrow ... You have one more chance to see Army Community Theatre’s reading of The Great God Brown at 2 p.m. Sunday at Fort Shafter. Mililani’s veteran actress Jo Pruden plays two roles in the special Readers Theatre offering (438-4480) ...
There must be some drama dust in the Mililani air because Mililani Mauka actress Loretta Ables Sayre is also busy on stage and doing very, very well. Loretta, who plays Bloody Mary in the Broadway revival of South Pacific, has just landed a Tony nomination for best performance by a featured actress in a musical ... More Mililani art talent: Chanel Hebaru of Mililani High School won first place among high school artists in the city’s Sew a Lei for Memorial Day poster contest. Mayor Mufi Hannemann presented her with a two-night stay at a Waikiki hotel, a $50 gift card and other prizes. You can see her work at Honolulu Hale through May 29 ...
Ten-year-old Jordikai Inouye of Wahiawa was honored May 19 at the Hawaii Convention Center by the American Society of Safety Engineers for placing second in her age group in its “Safety on the Job” poster contest. Her entry (“Person Protective Equipment”) also was viewed worldwide as part of a Occupational Safety and Health Week campaign. Plus she got a savings bond ... When Keri Wheelwright told co-workers at Oils of Aloha about her husband’s drive to help an Iraqi school near Camp Taji, the Waialua company came through with school supplies, which it bought and shipped with profits from its February online sales. Capt. Shaun Wheelwright (1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment Wolfhounds out of Schofield) and his soldiers delivered the goods April 26 to the excitement of the kids. And to think it all started when he gave a pen to one thrilled little boy
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