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January 10, 2007 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usMililani’s award-winning actress Jo Pruden has a role in Aging Is Not for Sissies with five other talented, “mature” women performers. Psychologist Pratibha Eastwood (595-4673) created the collection of funny and poignant monologues to show that being over 60 does not mean you’re over the hill.
Mydee Agricula
Shows are at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 and 4 p.m. Jan. 28 at Temple EmanuEl on Pali Highway, plus two shows Feb. 4 at Kumu Kahua Theatre ... Student artists Ramil Gonzalez of Mililani Middle School has placed second in the Lions District 50 (statewide) International Peace Poster Contest ... Semeon Timothy of Wahiawa has deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Army. He is trained as the driver for the commander of the 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion at Schofield Barracks ... Coming back: Sgt.
Gerald Orosco
Gerald Orosco of Mililani has returned to Hawaii from duty in Iraq with the U.S. Army Reserve. Gerald is a metal worker assigned to the 203rd Military Intelligence Battalion at Aberdeen, Md. ... Bulletin: Since last month’s column where their regional triumph was mentioned, the Mililani High School science team of Lucia and Philip Mocz went on to win a $50,000 college scholarship from the 2006-2007 national Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. The siblings received their team award Dec. 4 at New York University at the end of the nation’s premiere high school science competition. Their study involved improving the detection of cancer cells ... January is Glaucoma Awareness Month, and Wahiawa ophthalmologist Christopher Tortora has two words of advice: Check ups - especially for people over 50 and African Americans over 40. If you have blurred vision, loss of peripheral vision, difficulty focusing on objects and the presence of halos around lights, arrange for an exam from your eye doctor. (Plus, it will help you read this column better.) Dr. Tortora has also hired Mydee Agricula as patient services representative at his Hawaiian Eye Center in Wahiawa. You might say Mydee is moving up on the human face, as she was previously a dental assistant ...
Edmund Aczon is working to build funding for the Oahu Arts Center as its volunteer president, but the Mililani man’s day job is to recruit qualified workers for Hawaii’s construction boom. Ed is currently manpower specialist for the Hawaii Carpenters Union, which trains young men and women for the field and also helps them perform better on their job entry tests (847-5761) ... While City Councilman Donovan Dela Cruz is changing hats on the City Council, his sister Donalyn Dela Cruz is changing addresses. She has returned to Hawaii to join the marketing and public relations firm of Pacific Management Consultants as a principal associate. Donalyn was previously press secretary to U.S. Sen. Dan Akaka and a former KHON TV reporter. Both siblings are Leilehua High School graduates and akamai marketers ... Mililani resident Miles Sato has been promoted to assistant vice president and information security officer and manager at Central Pacific Bank. Miles has two master’s degrees: one in biostatistics and one is public health administration ... Doing a more relaxed kind of banking this winter were these lucky slot machine pullers in downtown Las Vegas: Ernest Isnec of Wahiawa led the pack with $14,016 in earnings from a keno machine; Lavern Reyes of Wahiawa won $4,500; Analu Josephides of Wahiawa won $4,000; and Janis Anzai of Mililani won $4,000
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