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October 01, 2008 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Hawaii government departments have turned the spotlight (in a good way) on several Mililani employees lately. The state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs honored its outstanding staff Sept. 23, including its chief budget analyst, Lance Hirano.
He was named Manager of the Year for his leadership and success in monitoring and analyzing the financial health of our domestic insurance companies. And over at the Department of Agriculture, Dexter Cho was named Employee of the Year, and Dean Yoshizu earned a Sustained Superior Performance Award.
Dexter is a pest control technician in the plant industry division, whose support of the staff entomologists is well-known. He also helped identify an insect that has been successful in controlling the glassy-winged sharpshooter. You didn’t know that, did you? Dean is an environmental health specialist in the same division. He manages the grants that pay for safety enforcement of pesticide use, among other achievements ...
John Uson of Mililani has joined the CB Richard Ellis asset services team in Honolulu as a project manager. John previously worked as a design consultant and project manager for an architect firm and was a quality assurance rep for Castle & Cooke Homes ...
We’re not a restaurant review column, but Mililani resident Dennis Bernard tells me he highly recommends Just Tacos in Mililani. “I really enjoy seeing families there having a good meal and enjoying themselves,” says Dennis, who frequents the place with friends for his favorite lunch and dinner choices. Ole! ...
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Kristen StephensonPino of Mililani won the Miss Young International Hawaii crown in a pageant Aug. 27 at Cirque Hawaii Theater in Waikiki. She will represent the state this month in pageants in the Philippines and Taiwan. Kristen also won her photogenic, swimsuit and evening gown categories, and got the Supermodel with Style Award ...
Sponsored by the Locations Foundation, some 37 youngsters with cancer are going on a picnic to Waimea Valley, among other activities this week. The Sunshine Kids came from all over the Mainland for some fun in Hawaii ... The things you learn by reading the Wahiawa-Waialua Rotary newsletter. Such as how Camp Erdman got its name. Walter Dillingham’s nephew, Harold Randolf Erdman, was injured while playing polo in 1931 and later died. Shortly after that, the Dillingham and Erdman family gave the property to the YMCA and asked that it be named after Harold. (Now the camp provides fun and good memories for more than 20,000 people each year) ...
With all the excitement about recycling, Suzanne Jones, the city’s recycling coordinator and a Mililani resident, reminds everyone to remove the plastic caps from your plastic bottles, because they are made of a different type of plastic, and they prevent the crushing of the bottle
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