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September 13, 2006 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usMililani Waena Elementary School’s custodial staff was honored recently by the DOE for its excellence job performance, and Antonina Albios, janitor at Waialua Library for four years, is the library system’s Employee of the Year. Not only is Toni a conscientious worker inside the building, she has a green thumb and has planted and nurtured the library’s new lawn and garden, thus saving the state about $3,500 ... Solomon Elementary School teacher Jan Turner has been elected to represent the HSTA on the National Education Association board of directors ...
Walter Omalza of Wahiawa performed last Saturday night in Orvis Auditorium as one of five winners in Hawaii’s Art Song contest. At the auditions, the judges liked what tenor Walter did with Mozart’s Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte ... Regina Souza, who works for State Farm in its Mililani Technology Park office, has received the insurance company’s national Volunteer of the Year award for her community service efforts. Regina is a helpful parent at Damien Memorial High School - including her involvement in the school’s monumental Project Graduation. She also pitches in for State Farm’s child safety seat checks, bike safety rodeos and more. Regina gets the honor, and Damien gets $500 ... Speaking of good insurance folks, Waipio resident Bob Arensberg, a development manager with New York Life, arranged for his agency to donate furniture to the fire-damaged University Lab School ... Mililani High School graduate Alina Estonactoc has emerged from the SURF at California Institute of Technology. Alina, a CIT student, was there as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF), working for 10 weeks with a mentor on the puzzle of “Dependence of DNA-Protein Crosslinking on Guanine Radical Protonation State” ... Mililani’s Mary Esteban has earned the Top Sales Advisor award from lia sophia, a direct-sales fashion jewelry business ... Registered nurse Cindy Kamikawa will be a key player on Queen’s Medical Center’s recent $1.15 million federal grant to address nursing shortages. For one thing, Cindy, who is Queen’s vice president of nursing and chief nursing officer, aims to expand the new-nurse orientation program “to build support for nurses in those early months” ... Hanalani Schools sophomore Kaimionalani Manner, a contestant in the Miss Hawaii Teen America pageant, was recognized for “doing the most community service” at the recent event, held at Leeward Community College ... Kayumi Vanek, a sophomore at Mililani High School, has 500 more reasons to read books. Kayumi won the second-place prize - a $500 Pearlridge shopping spree - in the state library system’s Young Adults Summer Reading sweepstakes drawing.
She and her mother were picked up in a stretch limousine recently for the big adventure. The program inspired teens to read and keep a running account of the books over the summer ... Mililani students Lindsay and Sean Taguma have received scholarships from Hilton Hawaiian Village, which awards grants to deserving children of employees each year. Their mother, Audrey Taguma,works in human resources at the Waikiki resort ... Lilah Akin of Waialua High, Ruth Gerola of Leilehua, Lori Higashi of Mililani and Jeremy Carino of Hanalani have each won $1,000 scholarships from the Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation (founders of Hawaiian Host chocolates) ... Wahiawa’s Eric Leonard heads the list of winners in downtown Las Vegas with $40,000 on Let It Ride; Bobby Ushijima did OK with $26,000 for a “sequential royal flush”; Waialua’s Leticia Yacapin won $25,000; Mililani’s Kalaya Higa, $8,000; and Wahiawa’s Jane Oda, $6,012 ... Sign of the times: Dove chocolates come with free advice inside their foil wrapper, the latest one being “Write a real letter, not just an e-mail”
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