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May 05, 2010 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Aina Haina resident Pearl Whittaker is the 2009 Employee of the Year at Queen’s Medical Center. An active volunteer for the American Heart Association, Pearl works as senior cardiovascular sonographer of Queen’s Heart and has been with the hospital since 1981. Among her many awards, she gets $2,000 in travel vouchers or savings bonds and free parking for a year ...
Kaimuki ballerina Erica Wong, 18, took first place in a recent American Ballet competition in Austin, Texas. Her teacher, John Landovsky of Hawaii State Ballet, says she is the first classically trained dancer from Hawaii to achieve such an honor.
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Erica has graced stages from Mississippi to New York to Bulgaria in her young career ... Walter Dods Jr. of Aina Haina has a friend (and Fulbright scholar) with a great film out in local theaters. “It’s Formosa Betrayed by Will Tiao,” he says, ” a controversial, $8 million film about Taiwanese relations, based on actual events. Everyone ought to see it” ...
Hawaii Kai bassist Ernie Provencher performs with jazz singer Ginai and pianist Pierre Grill at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at HPR’s Atherton studio to kick off a summer concert series. Then at 7:30 p.m. May 22, prolific and talented East Oahu musician Stephen Inglis will be “Slackin’ on Dylan,” playing 14 Bob Dylan songs (955-8821) ...
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Broadway actor/ singer and film star (now retired and living back home in Kaimuki) Ernest Harada is guest artist May 3 at the “Gift of Love” music scholarship concert at 7 p.m. at Church of the Crossroads (949-2220) ... Sarah Epstein of Kaiser and Kalene Rodgers of Kaimuki were named most valuable co-editor and journalist, respectively, at the state high school journalism awards.
Sacred Hearts’Caitlin Mori won for most valuable editor ... Hawaii Kai Toastmaster Neil Tepper is in the state speech contest finals May 15 for his talk, “The Most Important Person in Your Life.” Neil’s a versatile and positive fellow who should do well.
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He’s a business and personal coach, photographer, lecturer, songwriter, blogger, radio show host and author of Prescriptions for Living a Creative Life ...
Behind Kalani High’s award-winning robotics team is its dedicated Kahala Nui mentor Jack Harmon, helping with months of preparation ... East Oahu math whiz Nikolai Chen of Iolani is in Orlando this week on Hawaii’s MATH-COUNTS team for the national finals for middle school students ...
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Kalani senior Cassie Sumimoto wears her Miss Teen United States-World crown into the state pageant Sunday at Hawaii Convention Center.
She’s also great-granddaughter of philanthropist Clarence T.C. Ching
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