Waha Nui
April 19, 2006 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usKaimuki resident Raymond Burghardt is not your ordinary neighbor. The former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam directs seminars for the East-West Center and recently was named chairman of the board for the American Institute in Taiwan. His foreign service career has taken him to posts in Shanghai, Manila, Seoul, Honduras, Guatemala, Beijing and Hong Kong as well as Saigon ...
Palolo resident Jeff Gere, the city’s Talk Story Festival maestro, will do what he does best - tell stories in the improv format - at Fingers ‘n Tongues, tale telling and piano music Sunday and Monday at the rRed Elephant in downtown Honolulu (550-8457). Jeff’s on
Jeff Gere
Sunday.“I’m so EXCITED by (these) improving concerts, and the PLACE,” he says via e-mailed exclamation points ... Soap opera hunk Shamar Moore has moved up to be an FBI profiler on the nighttime TV hit, Criminal Minds. Shamar’s father Sherrod Moore was a colorful figure in Hawaii Kai for many years before moving on himself ... Hawaii Women Lawyers has honored East Oahu attorney Thalia Murphy with its 2005 Outstanding Woman Lawyer award for her zealous prosecution of sex abuse cases, having tried more of them than any other attorney in the state, according to HWL. She has been a city deputy prosecuting attorney for 21 years ... East Oahu’s Lori McCarney is the new marketing VP for Rehab Hospital. Her career included several West Coast positions before moving to the Islands to work in travel and bank posts -
Lori McCarney
like Bank of Hawaii’s “Tell Mike” campaign ... Dorothy Mulkern, a University of Redlands student from Kuliouou, spent spring break in Slidell, La., helping Katrina victims. According to her dad, Kevin, Dorothy and other UR students rolled up their sleeves, put on masks and gave their week over to “mucking out houses and assisting with the cleanup” ... City engineer Laverne
Grant Murakami
Higa Nance knows her andagi. The Hawaii Kai woman now doubles as the Hawaii United Okinawa Association president. Laverne is also a certified handwriting analyst ... Grant Murakami, also of Hawaii Kai, was promoted to principal planner at PBR Hawaii, where he’s worked since 1994. Grant has also led a local chapter of planners with distinction. He’s currently working on the UH-West Oahu campus master plan and several Neighbor Island projects ... In Kaiser High’s Jesus Christ Superstar this weekend and next, Bill Ogilvie finds himself directing two brothers in the classic struggle: Mark Brians plays Judas and Beau Brians is Jesus. To find out who wins, get tickets at 394-1219 ... Richard Parry of Waialae Nui was a passenger on the infamous shark dive tour in December that met up with an 18-foot Great White. Lucky. Me? The closest I’ve gotten to that adventure was the Haleiwa boat harbor parking lot - twice. The tour was cancelled because of something just as scary: the weather ...
Dr. Jonathan Leong, son of former East Oahu legislator Bertha Leong, has returned to Vicenza, Italy, and the Southern European Task Force (Airborne) after working in Afghanistan as a surgeon liaison with Operation Enduring Freedom. Jonathan is an Army lieutenant colonel with four years of service ... Harvey Ouchi was honored recently for mentoring three boys over the past 10 years with the Big Brothers Big Sisters group. BB/BS president Dennis Brown presented the milestone award to Harvey at Kaimuki Middle School, where he is an education specialist in the DOE’s special ed division. Harvey has been many things to many people over his career, including teacher, counselor, vice principal and principal. And now mentor
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