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Carol Chang
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March 04, 2009 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Kaimana Kaapana

Bassist Ernie Provencher will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at HPR’s Atherton studio with Partners in Time, which plays folk music of the Balkans and Middle East (955-8821). A Hawaii Kai resident, Ernie has played jazz and much more in venues from New York to Hong Kong, and currently teaches band and orchestra at private schools here ...

U.S. Rep.Mazie Hirono has announced her nominees for the military academies, and they include Kalani High School graduate Rhianna Farm to the U.S. Air Force Academy ... East Oahu seems to be a good breeding ground for organists, and five of them will perform in a free organ music marathon at 2:30 p.m. March 22 at Lutheran Church of Honolulu (which has the largest mechanical action pipe organ in Hawaii). Playing Bach‘s greatest hits will be Nyle Hallman and Miki Yamamoto of Hawaii Kai, Samuel Lam and Ina Young of Kaimuki, Mary Wang of Kahala and five others not lucky enough to live in the area (941-2566) ...


 

Kaimana Kaapana of Hawaii Kai is Rookie of the Year for the Honolulu office of New York Life Insurance for “outstanding sales achievement and exemplary client service and professionalism” - after less than a year with the company ... Swift Blur of Passing Vehicles, a new story by Lisa Linn Kanae of St. Louis Heights, will be read during an Aloha Shorts taping at 7 p.m. March 1 in HPR’s Atherton Studio (955-8821). Yet another gem of hers, The Steersman, will also be in the spotlight that night ...

Stephen Schatz

Andrew Hirai of Waialae Iki is a candidate for the 2009 Presidential Scholars Program, based on his college board test scores. Ultimately, two high school students from each state will be invited to Washington, D.C., for official honors. So far, Andrew, who attends Punahou, is one of 3,000 students who made the initial cut from 2.8 million nationwide in the class of 2009 ...

Christine Brammer wants folks to know about the Ocean Awareness training she’s planned in Waikiki for March 7-28. When it was held at Maunalua Bay last year, they had a wait list of 150. To find out more, call her at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary office, 397-2651, ext. 252 ... Palolo resident Stephen Schatz (yes, he’s the twin brother of Brian) has been appointed complex area superintendent for Kaimuki, McKinley and Roosevelt by public schools chief Patricia Hamamoto ...

KCC award-winning culinary finalists will be slaving away Saturday to earn more scholarship money, with support from Chef Roy Yamaguchi, at a benefit cooking demonstration (10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. at Sub-Zero/Wolf, $30 admission, 597-1647). Tate Nakano-Edwards will fix butternut squash soup, Rena Suzuki has a Nalo Farm curly cress salad, and Keaka Lee will do the entree: Hawaiian chili pepper vierge crusted roasted Colorado lamb. Phew! (The names are actually longer) ...


The Cancer Research Center’s free community conference from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 21 is loaded with East Oahu experts on the disease, starting with CRC interim director Dr. Michele Carbone of Black Point, who organized it. Speaking at the Japanese Cultural Center event (275-3010) are, among others, Drs. Cheryl Lynn Albright of Waialae Iki, Jared Acoba of Niu Valley, Laurence Kolonel of Kahala and Robert Wilkinson of Waialae Iki ... The Jan. 19 Sports Illustrated featured Kalani High senior Dara Ajimine in its “Faces in the Crowd” column for her outstanding achievement in bowling for the Falcons ...

Personal license plates I spotted recently (from behind, but I wasn’t texting - honest, Councilman Djou) on Oahu streets are: GA2SRF, LDYVIP, MZBHVN, NTEMGK and GIZ-BIG

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