Waha Nui
April 18, 2007 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usThe president of Creations in Catering, Mike Rabe of Wilhelmina Rise, has learned that his executive chef Koji Oishi and team won the “Best Themed Buffet” award in the buffet capital (Las Vegas) from the International Caterers Association. His team’s entry? The Essence of Zen ... Now and Then. One dish was Grilled Tamari Gingered Tofu Pot ...
Award-winning motivational speaker Annabel Chotzen, who has roots in Portlock, addresses the Network of Volunteer Leaders Thursday at ‘Iolani Palace (638-9199) ... Sean Mattimoe (Kaiser ‘89, U. of Phoenix ‘03) has graduated for a third time - from the Air National Guard Academy of Military Science at McGhee Tyson ANG base in Tennessee. Sean is a computer switching and crypto systems specialist at Hickam ... Kaimuki tale-teller Jeff Gere is proud to announce that his Talk Story radio shows can now be downloaded. Kaiser High graduate Kelli Heath and Candy Diaz Yasuda (both of The Girlas band) are the technically astute ones who helped make it possible. Go to iTunes or http://feeds.feed-burner.com/TalkStoryRadio ... Kahala resident Wendy Nagaishi, head of guest services for Royal Hawaiian Hotel, is now brushing up on tutu services. She has a brand-new grandson Joseph, courtesy of her daughter Jamie ...
David Kimura
Christopher Frost
Central Pacific Bank promoted Hawaii Kai’s David Kimura to vice president and investment consultant, and hired Kaimuki’s Christopher Frost as a business banking officer for small businesses ... Hawaii Kai’s Lenny Yajima Andrew is the new president and executive director of the Japanese Cultural Center. It doesn’t hurt that she majored in Japanese and economics at Harvard ... Meanwhile, at Boston University four East Oahu students made the fall dean’s list: Tiffany Dare, Darragh O’Carroll, Jerry Wang and Shauna Zane ... Yes, Virginia, there are still children who like to play the organ - and they’ll do a benefit concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at Lutheran Church of Honolulu (734-8117). All winners of scholarships from the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists, they include Christopher Lindsay, 8, of Kahala; Joey Fala of Hawaii Kai, and Kaimuki’s Naomi and Joshua Yuen-Schat and Adam Simon. Proceeds support the Donald Conover Organ Scholarship Fund. (Don is currently battling cancer.)
C. Lindsay
Barry Kimokeo
Also getting into the act are more Lindsay talents: mom Holly on organ and sister Melody on harp. Melody was on NPR’s From the Top and performs with the World Harp Congress ... Kaimuki musician Barry Kimokeo will play with the Makaha Sons April 27 at Hawaii Theatre (528-0506) ... Hawaii Kai’s Peter Gorham, a UH physics and astronomy professor, led a successful effort to “listen” to neutrinos during a monthlong balloon flight around Antarctica at 120,000 feet. (The scientists didn’t fly in the stadium-sized balloon, just a payload of radio antennas did.) Peter calls the energy-rich neutrinos “almost mystical” subatomic particles. Yet they may unlock secrets to the universe ... Liholiho Elementary first-grade teacher Lynn Sakata is a Sam’s Club Teacher of the Year, and she’ll collect a $1,000 grant at the May Day program ... Happy Birthday to retired Hawaii Kai exec Harry Cooper, who celebrated his 90th at Gedatsu Church in Kuliouou last week
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