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April 21, 2010 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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The UH Art Gallery’s exhibition catalogue won a Pele Award for book design this month, and Mililani resident Kelli Ann Harada designed it. A recent UH graduate, she’s an intern under the Watumull Grant for Museum Studies in the Arts. The title is Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities, and you can order your copy for $50 plus shipping from the gallery ...
Baskin-Robbins marks its fourth annual 31 Cent Scoop Night from 5 to 10 p.m. April 28 across the nation and at Omar Dy‘s Mililani Town Center ice cream parlor, where he’ll serve 2.5-ounce ice cream scoops for that low price, plus tax. The promotion supports the chain’s $100,000 donation to National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Customers are limited to three scoops, by the way. Franchisee Omar says he and his staff are excited because “it gives us a wonderful opportunity to show our appreciation to loyal customers and to honor local heroes ...
Reyn Tao, 11, of Mililani Mauka Elementary has begun training as an ambassador to Fukuoka, Japan. Reyn will spend 11 days in July there, meeting with 220 students like himself from 44 countries and cities at the Asian Pacific Children’s Convention, followed by home stays, hula performances and cultural tours. Only six Hawaii students were picked this year by the Japan-American Society of Hawaii for the free experience - and it’s without their parents! ...
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Iliahi Elementary School’s after-school ukulele and hula group, Na Kamali’i o Iliahi, was a big hit Feb. 26 in the Hilton Hawaiian Village Tapa Ballroom. The keiki entertained for Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties’ awards banquet and were rewarded with a $1,000 donation from CBPP president Chason Ishii. The next day they performed at the school Ohana fair - and you can see them May 8 during the Wahiawa
Pineapple Festival ... Mililani man Paul Apuna has been promoted to station manager of ground operations for Aloha Air Cargo, bringing 30 years of travel and air-freight industry experience into the job. Paul started his career as a cargo agent for Aloha Airlines ... Mililani Girl Scouts and the Easter Bunny hosted an Easter party for homeless keiki at Family Promise of Hawaii’s Honolulu center on April 3, conducting an egg hunt, bean bag toss and arts and craft activities, reports a very grateful FPH executive director Kent Anderson ...
Mililani High School senior Melissa Monette is a semifinalist in the 2010 search for Huggable Heroes, a Build-A-Bear Workshop program honoring young leaders for helping their communities. Stay tuned for more on this rising star. I’m sure there’s plenty ahead for this helpful teenager (see page 7 for her tennis prowess) ... North Shore Jetski lifeguard Mark Dombroski has autographed Eddie Aikau posters for “Nate and his brother Kai.” Nate interviewed Mark for a class project months ago about the Big Wave rider, but never returned for his posters, and Mark doesn’t know how to locate them. Their dad’s name is Brian. Are you reading this, Nate? Call 623-3718
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