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November 26, 2008 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Honored recently for his outstanding safe driving performance is Mililani trucker Wayne Koga, who has achieved 15 years of driving without a preventable accident. Wayne works for FedEx Ground out of the company’s Honolulu facility ... A Class A certified PGA golf pro, Ron Huffman, has joined Mililani Golf Club as general manager, moving over from Waialae Country Club. Ron has also been director of golf at Coral Creek and head pro at Turtle Bay ...
Andrew Garrett is the youngest member of the Mililani-Waipio-Melemanu Neighborhood Board. But now you can also call him account supervisor for Communications Pacific. Andrew also champions Read Aloud America and Special Olympics ... Willie Ganiko wants Leilehua sports fans to know that the school also stocks women’s tank tops for $14. Go Mules! ...
Speaking of animals, the rabbit show this Friday at Wahiawa Library (see Highlights) will feature a 14-pound rabbit - and this is before its heavy holiday eating time ... The late John Vollrath of Haleiwa has received a posthumous award from the National Weather Service for faithfully monitoring rain gauges in Pupukea Heights for 30 years. His son Doug accepted the John Campanius Holm Award for outstanding service in the Cooperative Weather Observer Program, which assists in a variety of climate studies. John died in February ...
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Young Brothers has hired Nalani Say, a Mililani High grad who still lives in Mililani, to head its documentation and customer service department. Nalani previously worked in the same field for Aloha Airlines. She helped the airline wrap up operations and was recruited by Young Brothers two weeks later. They say they are confident she will take care of her new customers “effectively and with aloha” ...
Warren Aoki and Mililani Project Grad volunteers invite you to eat a Papa John’s Dec. 3, when a portion of the night’s receipts will go to the cause ... Atlas Insurance has appointed Mililani resident Sharon Hodson as vice president, commercial lines. Sharon has three decades of experience in the industry ...
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Mililani’s Dr. John Corboy, retired from Hawaiian Eye Center in Wahiawa, is busy these days coordinating humanitarian missions overseas with the Hawaiian Eye Foundation. For 25 years, the foundation (which he leads) has operated out of his Mililani office (627-0824), sending volunteer doctors and mentors to the South Pacific and Asia. The latest effort in June saw 30 eye specialists from five countries meet in Vietnam to train surgeons there in modern techniques. Dr. Corboy was there at his own expense to lecture and conduct lab training. “The Vietnamese eye doctors are very smart and eager,” he says, hampered only by lack of equipment and instructors. “I am honored to have led this remarkable international faculty.” He’s already planning a return in two years ...
Monthly tip from Capt. Terry Seelig at the Honolulu Fire Dept.: Consider putting up a fire-resistant artificial Christmas tree this year, use noncombustible materials to decorate it, approved lights and extension cords that aren’t overloaded ... When Honolulu Theatre for Youth’s A Christmas Carol opens Dec. 5 at Tenney Theatre, Central Oahu will be well-represented with Mililani actors Jeremy and Matthew Oh in the cast (457-4254) ... Latest license plate sighting. Think about it now: GA2SRF
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