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April 20, 2011 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Mililani High 1999 graduate Robin Crisostomo has earned the Air Force Commendation Medal for meritorious service while assigned to the 352nd Special Operations Maintenance Squadron in the United Kingdom. It appears that Staff Sgt. Robin’s talent as a mechanic and troubleshooter has saved the day many times: He replaced a faulty engine generator on a cargo plane to get the U.S. ambassador and 96 civilians out of war-torn Chad. He fixed a switch on another aircraft to complete the rescue of an injured sailor off the coast of Ireland.
And much much more. Maybe we’ll all see Robin’s story in a movie someday ... Top picks among land-locked civilian library patrons in Hawaii during March: Tick Tock by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge, and that popular Korean drama Iris on DVD ...
Kahuku Library offers a doubleheader at 6:30 p.m. April 19. The tireless Suzanne Frazer of Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii will brief North Shore residents on how they can help her and B.E.A.C.H. free area beaches of plastic and other debris. (Suzanne also talked to Mililani Girl Scouts, Haleiwa Farmers Market shoppers and Sunset Beach Elementary students this month.) And in another room state Rep. Gil Riviere and Junior Primacio promote buying local produce (293-8935) ...
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Raised on the North Shore, Tanoa’i Reed took his muscles and tattoos to the big screen as the stunt double for his cousin Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and others in dozens of films, then as Toa on TV’s American Gladiators and more recently in a guest role on the
Hawaii Five-O episode, “Ko’olauloa” ... Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties has tapped Tonya Coutsourakis for its new team for its Leeward office. Tonya, a Waialua resident, specializes in the North Shore and Hawaii Kai areas. She also studied at LCC and HPU. When not working as a Realtor associate, she gardens, spends time at the beach and on the water, and loves her dogs ...
E kale mai. Omitted from the winners’ list of Central Oahu students in the April 6 column was Hale Kula fifth-grader Madelyn Wiggins, tops for her grade in the digital media contest associated with the recent Nene Awards
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