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February 23, 2011 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Carly Button of Waialua is one of two Hawaii youth volunteers to be honored with a $1,000 Prudential Spirit of Community Award for 2011. She will attend ceremonies in May in Washington, D.C., where the nation’s top volunteer will be announced. An eighth-grader at Hawaii Technology Academy, Carly co-founded the nonprofit Dream of a Better World that has raised more than $35,000 to help disadvantaged children worldwide.
She started with garage sales and lemonade stands with her siblings, after they helped their mom go through a battle with breast cancer. “We wanted to help people who were going through a tough time,” she explained. So far, the group gave a scholarship to a child whose mother died of cancer, bought school supplies for homeless Hawaii kids, paid for riding lessons for children of deployed parents, bought a van for a Ugandan orphanage, and donated books and a solar water heating system to a Mexican orphanage ...
Matthew Pollard (Mililani 2007) is an honor graduate of Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas ...
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Mililani High freshman Viola Mocz, who attended the Pacific Symposium for Science and Sustainability in December, is one of five students picked to attend the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in April in San Diego. Her paper: “A Fossil-Fish Model for Robotic Fish: Learning from Evolutionary Hydrodynamics to Design Better Underwater Vehicles” ...
The granddaughter of Samoan High Chief Tuanaitau Tuia has joined Coldwell Banker as branch operations administrator. Qwilan Tuia of Mililani took the job last month, following work with the U.S. Census Bureau ... A busy mother and community volunteer, Mililani’s Sandra Yoro also is executive director of Special Education Center of Hawaii, which recently rebranded itself, launching it with a party at Kemoo Farm (check out secoh.org). The nonprofit agency has several service centers, including adult day care at 634 Kilani Ave. #2 in Wahiawa ...
State library patrons checked out David Baldacci‘s bestseller Hell’s Corner more than any other book in January. Ditto for the DVD Iris
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