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May 20, 2009 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Working in the burger trade can be beneficial to your academic health. Merry Collado of the Mililani Walmart McDonald’s and Kayla Kawamato of the Mililani McDonald’s have each received a $2,500 scholarship from the restaurant chain. They are among 10 of McDonalds’ top student employees in Hawaii who are planning to attend college next fall. Kayla also is a senior at Mililani High ...
Wahiawa’s own “chanteuse extraordinaire,” Ginai, will join the Hot Club of Hulaville at 7:30 p.m. June 5 and for two more shows June 6 at HPR’s Atherton Studio in Honolulu for an All Hapa-Haole Experience (955-8821). Fasten your seat belts ... Oahu Arts Center’s artistic director Kristi Kashimoto-Rowbottom - that busy lady with the long name (see page 4) - took on one more chore last week. In under 15 hours she gathers 272 statements of support for the OAC to meet a federal application deadline for that scarce, coveted commodity: grant money. Quick, it might not be too late to add your name. E-mail her at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) ...
Here’s another idea, Kristi. I just got back from a week in Chino, California’s fading dairy capitol east of L.A., where a school band boosters staged their second annual fundraiser, Cow Chip Bingo. It could work here, if you’ve got a large-enough flat field. People bet on the first, second and third plops. Then they let the cows out on numbered grid and let the chips drop where they may. Instant “green” money for a good cause ...
Former Mililani High student Christopher Petersen gets his high school diploma this week from the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. The boarding school gave him a “very generous scholarship,” according to his dad, MHS vice principal James Petersen.
Chris studied cello there as well as college prep courses and plans to pursue music performance studies at UH next fall ... The Wahiawa Lions Club saluted its favorite local heroes May 6 at Dot’s for keeping the town safe: firefighter Simeon Pihana and police officer Troy Richards. Both men were named the best in 2009 by their city departments ...
Schoolteacher Kelley Sumner‘s second-graders at Furry Elementary School in Ohio are eager to get postcards from Hawaii for their “Picture America” project. Send ‘em to her at 310 Douglas Drive, Sandusky, Ohio 44870 ... So you think Lei Day in Hawaii is colorful, did you know that it will take a minimum of half a billion lei to repair the parliament and presidential office in the nation of Moldove?! Actually, that’s what Moldovans call their monetary unit, according to James Hargreaves, a family friend now a consultant to the government there. He says the exchange rate is $1 = 11 Lei ...
Gail Cabalce, store supervisor at Waimea Valley, sets aside the first Thursday morning of each month to review arts and crafts by local producers for possible display and sales. If you’ve got some good stuff, call her at 683-7766 ... Wenhao Harold Sun has a good product that you can eat, and it’s good for you, too. He’s growing sea asparagus in North Shore salt ponds for fine restaurants in town - and for humble everyday folks. You can get Marine AgriFuture’s tender tips at farmers markets, Times Supermarkets and other outlets ...
Spotted recently in a slick magazine aimed at Kahala readers: an ad for North Shore beachfront lots in “peaceful Mokuleia.” Eight acres for $8 million
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