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November 04, 2009 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Kahala resident Nicole Lim has won the $7,500 Isik Inselbag Scholarship as an outstanding second-year student at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business (following her degree from Yale). Nicole was honored for leadership in academics as well as in the hockey rink with the Wildmen team ... “Surfing professor” Ricky Grigg of Waialae Iki has published his own story about the ups and downs of the waves in his life: Big Surf, Deep Dives and the Islands: My Life in the Ocean. To check it out, call 956-9225 ...
Congratulations to 2009 UH Regents Scholars Jonathan Dang and Gavin Hirokane of Kalani High, Kevin Hu of Kaimuki High and Danielle Cox of Sacred Hearts. As outstanding first-year college students, they won full, four-year tuition grants plus $4,000 yearly stipends and a $2,000 travel grant from the University of Hawaii ... Heald College has honored two of its own, Saint Louis alumni Weiland Tang and Ernest Silva Jr. Weiland was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame, and Ernest received the Outstanding Instructor Award, nominated by his students ...
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The Pu’ukani water feature at Sacred Hearts Academy and the Peace Garden and Hawaiian Garden at Hokulani Elementary School both won 2009 Merit Awards from the local chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects ... East Oahu actors Aubrey Lee Glover, Alex Lanning and Becky Maltby are in the cast of Winter Wonderettes, Manoa Valley Theatre’s sequel to the Broadway hit The Marvelous Wonderettes, on stage Nov. 12-29. It’s all about Christmas nostalgia in a hardware store (988-6131) ...
Holy Nativity fourth-grader Sarah Barron of Hawaii Kai and Callie Shinoda of Waialae Kahala earned spots on the TOPs National A Team this fall at Bela Karolyi‘s women’s national gymnastics training camp in Texas. The girls and two teammates at Hawaiian Island Twisters are now among the top 20 for their age group in the entire country. They go back for more training in December ...
Aleks Akiyama of Kalama Valley, Rhianna-Katherine Farm (Kalani 2008) and Zane Dydasco of Kaimuki have entered basic cadet training at the U.S. Air Force Academy in preparation for their first academic year there ... Toan Tran (Kaimuki 2003) has graduated from Army basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. ... If you rely on a GPS to get around those confusing Mainland cities (what! no mauka or makai?), take a lesson from Waialae Iki residents Roland and Janis Chun. Upon landing in Philadelphia on a vacation, they drove a rental car to their hotel, where hunger pangs took over.
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Quickly and efficiently, hi-tech Roland found some recommended restaurants for dinner and punched in the address of one on their GPS. Off they went from the hotel garage. “Take freeway on-ramp, circle here, turn there, now park.” Hmm, very familiar. The restaurant was in their own hotel, right where they started. On top of that, Janis recalls, “We decided not to eat there anyway” ...
About 150 employees of Queen’s Medical Center arrived Oct. 24 at Lunalilo Home for Make A Difference Day. They rolled up their sleeves for landscaping and painting assignments at the aging nursing home. After all, said Queen’s president Art Ushijima,”King Lunalilo honored our founder Queen Emma by his gracious gift of aloha, allowing her to deliver quality healthcare to all the people of Hawaii” ...
Cindy Adams brought the Hawaii Meth Project message to Niu Valley Middle School students on Oct. 29 during Red Ribbon Week. The aim of HMP’s hard-hitting anti-meth campaign on TV and elsewhere - “Not Even Once” - is to dramatically reduce first-time use of “ice”
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