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June 11, 2008 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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McDonald’s of Hawaii has distributed $2,500 scholarships to 10 of its top student employees, and that includes recent Waialua High graduate Chelsea Marie Balon, who works at the Mililani restaurant. Chelsea plans to attend Hawaii Pacific University ... Congratulations to Leilehua students who competed in the Samoa High School Cultural Arts Festival at Polynesian Cultural Center. They placed first in four events: banana peeling (both girls’ and boys’ teams), basket weaving (girls) and coconut husking (boys) ...
Gov. Linda Lingle gave the keynote speech at the North Shore Chamber of Commerce’s installation banquet last week at Waimea Valley’s Pikake Pavilion. The new board includes Marianne Abrigo, Bob Boyle, Karen Campbell, Ed D’Ascoli, Jane Duncan, Kalani Fronda, Norman Fujioka, Josh
Heimowitz, Susan Lau, Mike Lyons, Susan Matsushima, Michael Moon, Johnny Moore, Chet Naylor and Paul Saccoccio ... Mililani Middle School had its hula on display last month at the Hawaii Secondary Schools Hula Kahiko Competition, which attracted 14 schools May 17, and the wahine placed third in the intermediate division ...
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Donalyn Dela Cruz has worked in a variety of interesting jobs since her days at Leilehua and UH - U.S. Sen. Dan Inouye‘s press secretary, spokeswoman for Hawaii Democrats, TV reporter, public relations associate. Now Bishop Museum has claimed her for its manager of government affairs and community relations ... Island Insurance awarded $1,000 to Mililani High principal John Brummel as one of 11 nominees for its 2008 Masayuki Tokioka Excellence in School Leadership Award ...
Mililani resident Todd Jackson has been promoted to senior vice president and executive loan officer of Central Pacific Bank’s real estate loan division ... North Shore resident Rory Tani has his artwork on display in the show Now & Then in June and July at Rehab hospital’s Louis Vuitton Creative Art Program gallery ... Hale Kula Elementary School’s Hawaiian kupuna Stanford Alika Bajo is one of seven winners statewide in the first Na Mo’olelo Kulaiwi Writing Contest, which showcased stories of life experiences in Hawaii. Winners were announced at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival. Stanford wrote Kelii and the Secret of the Magic Poi Pounder, topping the fiction category ...
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Library manager Fran Corcoran has some new “icky” books to lure young readers into the Kahuku branch, including Pam Rosenberg‘s Eek! Ick, Sticky, Gross Stuff in Your Food ... Jasmine Trias has landed a solid summer gig with the Society of Seven LV, June 20 to July 31 at the Outrigger Waikiki. “The seven-man band now will have a wonderful diva connection,” declared the show’s producer, Fran Kirk, of Mililani’s rising star ...
Biologist John Wang has been conducting shark research from the cage of Hawaii Shark Adventures, which operates out of Haleiwa harbor. John and his NOAA colleagues are discovering that the sharks have different reactions to various types of metal bait poles. Hmm ... ... Raised on the North Shore, Linda Furuto has risen high in the field of math. The assistant professor of mathematics at UH-West Oahu was recently elected to the board of directors for the Hawaii Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Linda also assisted in opening the UHWO Math Center, which offers tutoring and real-world math applications
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