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July 28, 2010 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Mahalo, sailors. USS Bonhomme Richard’s crew took time from RIMPAC exercises to do restoration work at Waimea Valley and other Oahu sites… Speaking of ships, Mililani machinist Porsche Yogi is one of three Pearl Harbor shipyard trades workers to win an Apprentice to Engineer scholarship. It pays her salary as well as tuition, books and expenses at UH Manoa as she pursues her mechanical engineering degree - and will hire her when she graduates. Get the message? Study engineering! ...
Cody Sullivan of Mililani has entered six weeks of basic cadet training at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs to prepare for his freshman year there ... Mililani High’s Marissa Okazaki received the $300 Eddie Tangen Award at a June 8 forum at the East-West Center, sponsored by Pacific and Asian Affairs Council. The scholarship honors the pioneer of Hawaii’s labor movement and champion of social justice ...
Mitchel Camille Dumbrique, who works at McDonald’s in Mililani Mauka, has won a $2,500 grant from the chain’s employee scholarship fund. She was picked for her on-thejob performance as well as academics and community service. Mitchel plans to attend San Francisco State ... This spring Washington State graduated Mililani’s Liana Moore (hospitality business management) and Wahiawa’s Mapuana Antonio (psychology) and Ruth Gerola (nursing, cum laude).
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Ruth also made the spring dean’s list, along with Ryan Kim, Maxine Koyanagi and Janelle Ohtani of Mililani and Lauren Daima of Wahiawa ... Mililani goes literate at 7 p.m. Sunday for the Aloha Shorts taping at HPR’s Atherton Studio (955-8821). Stephanie Kong is a reader (Lois-Ann Yamanaka‘s Momi’s Kitchen), and author Eric Chock‘s Working Construction is featured ...
On Oregon State’s spring dean’s list: Joli Johnston of Haleiwa and Mililani’s Shawna Fujita, Marissa Arakaki, Nicole Chun, Brett Kakugawa and Wendi Kobayashi ... Wahiawa-born Rev. Danette Kong is currently serving as chaplain at Pohai Nani Retirement Community in Kaneohe ...
Field artillery specialist Chase Acohido (Leilehua 2009) has graduated from Army National Guard Fire Support Specialist training at Fort Sill, Okla., where he learned skills to help set up and operate radio and wire communications equipment in a war zone
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