Waha Nui
January 03, 2007 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usDr. Cyril Goshima has received the Suzanne Richmond-Crum Award for his “courage, commitment and compassion” and outstanding contribution in providing HIV/AIDS services in Hawaii. Cyril has been doing just that at his Kaimuki office for 25 years and was one of the first Hawaii doctors willing to care for these patients at the beginning of the epidemic. He also directs the AIDS Education Project for Hawaii’s medical school ... Kaimuki resident Michael Chinaka has been named interim president of a little place in Kalihi called Bishop Museum.
Michael is already the museum’s chief financial officer ... Kaimuki CPA Jan Rumi, who is also Hawaii’s Honorary Consul to the Kingdom of Morocco, is co-author with Reynold Feldman of the book WisingUP-A Youth Guide to Good Living, which has become a potent fundraiser for the Hawaii Lions clubs. Mayor Mufi Hannemann‘s comments: “It is noteworthy, if not remarkable, that Mr. Feldman, a retired Jewish-Catholic professor from New York, and Jan Rumi, a Muslim businessman from Bangladesh, would meet in the Hawaiian Islands, strike up a friendship and collaborate on a book that encourages young people to live a life filled with hope, optimism, self-discipline and understanding” ...
Patrick Inouye
Patrick Inouye of Kaimuki has been promoted to assistant vice president and loan officer in Central Pacific Bank’s commercial real estate division. Patrick earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from UH-Manoa ... Former Hawaii Kai resident Randy Stone wrote and directed a film about his neighbors and won the International Press Academy’s award for Best Motion Picture Made for Television. Randy’s neighbors were the notorious mother-son team of Sante and Kenny Kimes. The film is A Little Thing Called Murder ...
Louis McCabe
Air Force Reserve Tech. Sgt. Louis McCabe has served in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait since he joined up in 1969, and now he’s “Uncle Louis” in Turkey, working over the holidays as a shift supervisor to get critical items out to U.S. troops in Iraq via the C-17 cargo planes. Louis usually reports to Hickam AFB, and his sons live in Kaimuki. “I will miss my boys and family and Hawaii,” he admits, “but I am here to do a job. I will celebrate with the squadron here and will make my famous potato and macaroni salad” ... Led by its musician/pastor Andy Kikuta, Hawaii Kai Community Church experienced a Christmas Eve address and music from Grammy award-winning Sherman Andrus Sr. of the famed Gospel quartet, the Imperials. Sherman lives in Honolulu but travels the world spreading the Word ... Veteran Board of Education member Karen Knudsen was unanimously elected chairman of the board in December.
A Kalama Valley resident and East-West Center director of external affairs, Karen lives under the same roof as the DOE’s communications director, Greg Knudsen, who issued the press release about her new status ... Former Hawaii Kai Rep. Bud Stonebraker has received the Friend of the Family award from the Hawaii Family Forum for “outstanding public service leadership in protecting family rights in Hawaii” ... Blossom Lam-Hoffman, a Kaimuki voice instructor, will perform in Aging Is Not for Sissies at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 and 4 p.m. Jan. 28 at Temple Emanu-El. The collection of “funny and poignant” monologues was created by Honolulu psychologist Pratibha Eastwood to show that being over 60 does not mean you’re over the hill (595-4673)
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