Waha Nui
May 02, 2007 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usThe Hawaii Ecotourism Association has honored two Kaimuki businesses for “promoting responsible travel and educational programs.” Andrew and Karen Lockwood‘s Pacific Islands Institute is the 2007 Ecotour Operator of the Year; and Michael Shapiro, editor of Hawaiian Airlines’ Hana Hou magazine, is Travel Writer of the Year for his compelling stories about Hawaii’s flora and fauna - especially the birds. (For more on birds, see bottom of this column) ... The Honolulu Filipino Jaycees have awarded a $1,500 scholarship to Courtney Kandler of Kaiser High School, one of five deserving Oahu seniors for 2007 ... Congratulations to another Kaiser High School product. Melissa Fujimoto was selected by the judges as First Princess of the 55th Cherry Blossom Festival Court at the festival ball March 31 ... BluWater Grill at Hawaii Kai Shopping Center is busy dishing up the goodies at charity events this spring, one of them being the recent MDA Soiree at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, where I hear that my cousin Tricia Ching Lyons was a hit bidder with the silent auction committee ...
Kaimuki Christian School eighth-grader Danny Olson took first place among middle schoolers, and Sacred Hearts student Kathleen De Lara was first for upper grades in the Kai Ola Oceans Alive Poetry contest sponsored in part by the Star-Bulletin. They each won a trip for four passengers aboard the Hawaii Superferry. Katya Cessaro of Honolulu Waldorf School took second place to Kathleen ... Aina Haina Elementary School fifth-grader Jenna Bleu Forti is a budding writer. She read her award-winning essay (worth a $150 prize) April 28 in the lobby of the state library as part of the Letters about Literature contest. Jenna wrote to Gail Carson Levine about her Ella Enchanted book, admitting that the book “helped me realize that I am not the only one out there” with problems ...
Kent Iboshi
Kent Iboshi of Wilhelmina Rise is the new vice president and manager of strategic analytics for Central Pacific Bank, topping a 20-year career in banking ... Star of the Sea is putting two dozen really cute preschoolers on the Ala Moana Center stage at 4 p.m. May 12 in a song-and-dance Mothers Day show by its “Li’l Stars.” And at 6 p.m. May 14, the Kaimuki High concert band will take the stage there, followed by its Vocalz Choir at noon May 20 ... Waialae Iki’s Stafford Kiguchi, senior vice president and spokesman for Bank of Hawaii, has won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the local chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators ...
Jeffrey Reed
Jeffrey Reed (Kalani ‘97) has completed Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas ... Dr. Alan Tice and his hepatitis prevention team are on a mission to conquer the “silent epidemic.” The Niu Valley physician says, for example, that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have the highest prevalence of hepatitis B in the nation. To get your low-cost or free screening (for types B and C) this month in Honolulu, call 373-3488 ... If you like Grease, then shake the hands of Maunalani Heights residents Fred and Mary Weyand. The retired Army general and his wife are helping to underwrite Army Community Theatre’s production of the enduring musical, which runs May 10-26 in Fort Shafter’s Richardson Theatre (438-4480) ... By now all kolea must have gotten the word to take off for Alaska, including the birds that party nightly on the roof of the old Kahala Star Market, and a straggler on West Hind Drive by Kalanianaole Highway. Pacific golden plover expert Wally Johnson says they’ll start drifting back to Hawaii on Aug. 15
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