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March 31, 2010 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Haleiwa women Melissa Shipman and Kaimalie Colabello have launched ecohashi - small bags used to carry reusable chopsticks. You’ll find them at North Shore shops and in the eco-village at the Kokua Festival April 23-24 at Kapiolani Park. The women point out that 63 billion disposable chopsticks are made yearly, using up 25 million trees. See it at http://www.ecohashi.net, but brush up on your Japanese first ...
Dr. Steven Rhee has joined the ophthalmology team at Hawaiian Eye Center in Wahiawa, specializing in cornea and external disease. Steven has advanced training in corneal transplantation and surgery techniques (621-8488) ... Kristen Shay Ashpole of Wahiawa must have good eyesight - she won a spot on the fall dean’s list at Seattle Pacific University ...
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Further along is Nora Sanford of Haleiwa, who has earned her master of science in educational leadership from Western Governors University (Hurry back, Nora, we need you!). WGU is an online, nonprofit university based in Salt Lake City ... Calling herself the “house whisperer,” Mililani Mauka Realtor Yuki Takenaka can add another name now - TV celebrity. Yuki made her debut March 26 on the Home and Garden show Bang for your Buck, in which she evaluated three home-renovation projects. The show airs locally on Oceanic channel 59, and should repeat later on. She’s with Re/MAX Honolulu ...
Paintings by North Shore artist Shana Squier might look good in Yuki’s TV homes. You can see them during First Friday on April 2 at the Mendonca Building Courtyard downtown. Shana also has tie-dyed bandannas and sarongs (262-5930) ... The things adults will do to get children to read! Guess who came dressed as a farmer to read Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type to keiki recently at Wheeler Elementary School? Army Brig. Gen. James Nixon, deputy commanding general of operations for the 25th Infantry Division ...
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Bernadette Obregon and her dog Kikou wait once again in Mililani while her husband, Army Sgt. Juan Obregon, serves out his second Iraq tour in five years.
Normally at Wheeler Army Airfield, he’s now a combat medic at Base Speicher near Tikrit on a personnel recovery team. Stay safe, Juan. He should - he’s part of Team Arch Angel ... Speaking of military lingo, Mililani Middle School student Brysen Pasion won the state spelling bee March 14 with the word “commissary.” He’ll go to the national bee in June in D.C. ...
Susanna Cheung has accepted a $5,000 grant from Hawaiian Telcom for ORI at Helemano Plantation, a home and resource for the elderly and developmentally disabled adults. “Our participants come to us with abilities, not disabilities,” she says. “Through their own determination and hard work, along with supportive professional guidance, we enable their positive growth”
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