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June 29, 2011 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Mililani High School teacher and Waipio kumu hula Kaha’i Topolinski was honored for his cultural leadership recently by the state Senate as well as the Halau ‘o Po’omaikelani chapter of a royal benevolent society (Hale o Na Ali’i o Hawai’i) ... Mililani actress Addie Gibson plays Marina in the interactive comedy/dinner play Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, on stage (with the audience) through July 17 at Manoa Valley Theatre (988-6131) ...
Even in retirement, Susie Peterson (of Peterson Upland Farm) can’t get away from her feathered friends. When she resigned from the Wahiawa school board of directors last semester, they presented her with a chicken banner in her honor for supporting Ho’ala for 20 years. Ho’ala also points out that she’s grandmother to our new Miss Hawaii, Lauren Cheape. Please, no more chicken jokes! ...
Central schools are masters of the ‘bots again this year. Hanalani’s team took first May 7 at Hawaii Botball Regional Robotics with Wahiawa Middle as a runner up.
Hanalani competes in July at the Global Conference on Educational Robotics in California ... Marine Cpl. Ricardo Chavez of Wahiawa was an assistant platoon leader for African Lion, a recent joint exercise between the U.S. and the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces in the Moroccan desert ...
Mililani Mauka’s distinguished performer Loretta Ables Sayre will reprise her Bloody Mary role on the London stage come Aug. 15, getting even farther away from the real South Pacific ... Equally familiar, Mililani High graduate Maggie Q recently starred as a warrior priestess in Priest with Paul Bettany ... President David Seeholzer, Rose Baysa and Betty Akiyoshi and the gang from the Rainbow Seniors Club sure know how to turn out leis for special events. Facing a flower shortage, they made 1,094 ti leaf leis for Schofield cemetery graves, 80 leis for an “aloha” to military couples at Kaala School plus hundreds more Memorial Day floral leis and sprays ...
A dozen Wheeler Army Airfield soldiers recently deployed to Laniakea Beach for a cleanup mission. “Most of the beach wasn’t too bad,” Staff Sgt. Keith Mobley told Hawaii Army Weekly, “except for the smokers. There were a lot of cigarette butts” ...
Most popular with Hawaii library borrowers in May were James Patterson‘s 10th Anniversary and the Korean drama DVD (again!) Iris
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