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August 19, 2009 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usThe Kahuku-based company of Alan Akina, called 101 Financial, made the top 500 list of the “fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.” in Inc. magazine. The former BYU-Hawaii basketball star has also helped coach the Mililani Trojans team - and he has five kids. Good enough reason to be akamai about money ... Army ROTC cadet Kevin Allen (Leilehua 2007) has completed a leader’s training course at Fort Knox where he and fellow cadets spent four weeks learning how to lead soldiers in combat through team building, battle tactics and a variety of field maneuvers. Kevin is enrolled at Chaminade University ...
Mililani farmer Daniel Anthony recently brought his taro-pounding skills to the Haleiwa Farmers Market. His booth also offered mixed poi and organic Hawaiian awa. Must have had a few relaxed customers ... Good news for coffee and music fans at Schofield Barracks. Julie Loo opened a Muddy Waters Cafe at Kalakaua Community Center on post. Julie already runs the popular Muddy Waters in Aikahi Park and at Bellows Air Station, so she knows what military customers like ...
Congratulations to Wahiawa Lions Club $500 scholarship winners from Leilehua High School Zachary Akagi-Bustin, Maika Kunioka, Anthony Malabanan and Bret Watanuki. A $600 award was presented to LHS senior Ji-Yun Arakawa in memory of Lion Sheri Bentley, who died earlier this year ... You can watch chef and restaurateur Elmer Guzman in action at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Made in Hawaii Festival at Blaisdell Arena, where he will whip up some dishes to support shopping and eating locally. Elmer does a good job of that every day at his Poke Stop eateries in Mililani Mauka and Waipahu ...
Wheeler Middle School student Gabrielle Fagan was the grand-prize winner (out of 300 inspired young poets) for Oahu in the 10th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Poetry Contest for her entry, Take Action. Her prize? An original portrait of The Beatles by Davo, a Maui artist ... Children from New Beginning homeless shelter in Kalaeloa spent time with Kahu Rennie Mau and Liliuokalani Protestant Church members recently to help prepare for the Haleiwa congregation’s annual luau. Together they stacked kiawe wood, set up chairs, smashed banana stumps and watched the imu process in awe ...
All four - count ‘em, four - graduates of Ho’ala School’s Class of 2009 are about to pursue different college goals. Tyler Asato is set on computer animation at Kapiolani Community College; Joey Nacario will study marine biology at Windward Community College; Annie Hoadley intends on going into pre-nursing at University of Nevada-Las Vegas; and Brent White will pursue graphic design courses in Australia. Just keeps the record going on how 100 percent of the Wahiawa’s school’s graduates go on to higher education ... One of the North Shore’s veteran and still-active big-wave surfers, Peter Cole, 76, was honored last month during his second annual surfboard polo tournament at Waimea Bay. Entry fees for the event were donated to the Oahu chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, which Peter helps lead ...
OK, folks, remember: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors’ Winnings. A recent run of luck on the downtown Las Vegas slots produced smiles from the following Central Oahu gamblers: From Wahiawa, Jane Oda ($18,319), Regina Gagalac ($12,250), Josephine Chargualaf ($9,409), Blas Tugaoen ($7,200), Malbun Higuchi ($4,500); from Haleiwa, Katherine Kawaguchi ($3,234); and from Mililani, Janis Anzai, $17,600) ...
State Rep. Gene Ward and his Shark Task Force will convene a town hall meeting at 7 p.m. Aug. 18 at Hahaione Elementary School to help craft legislation related to protecting Maunalua Bay from shark tours. Speakers from Hawaii Shark Encounters of Haleiwa and Carl Meyer, author of a research paper on Haleiwa sharks (see above story on Pupukea), are among those invited to swim in to the turbulent Hawaii Kai waters and discuss this issue (586-6420)
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