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Carol Chang
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August 04, 2010 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Joel Hijirida

Where is Julian Juarez this month, you ask? The Punahou student from East Oahu is in South Korea Aug. 7-21 with 100 high schoolers from the U.S. to learn all he can and foster understanding and diplomacy between the divided nations. Julian won a grant from the Council on International Education Exchange for the program ...

Aliiolani Elementary third-grader Brianne Lee is the only East Oahu public school student featured in the 2010 Hawaii Convention Center Student Art Exhibition, on view through next April. Her painting is “Family Surf,” and her teacher is Carol Toda ...

What do state library patrons think are hot for July (based on a borrowers’ survey)? Stieg Larsson‘s book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Alice in Wonderland DVD and Taylor Swift‘s Fearless CD ... Pipefitter Joel Hijirida of Hawaii Kai is one of three Pearl Harbor shipyard trades workers to win an Apprentice to Engineer scholarship.


 

It will pay his salary as well as tuition, books and expenses at UH Manoa as he studies for his engineering degree - and they’ll hire him when he’s through. Get the message? Study engineering! ...

Joey Fala

Fukunaga Scholarship Foundation awarded Kaimuki High’s Starla Takara a four-year, $16,000 grant to study business administration. Starla plans to do so at HPU. She and Kalani High’s Shawn Tahata also each won $1,000 scholarships from Hawaii Self Storage, which gives grants yearly to worthy seniors in communities served by the company ...

Joey Fala of Hawaii Kai plays his senior organ recital at 5 p.m. Saturday at Central Union Church (722-0261). He heard his first organ music while at Holy Nativity preschool. Joey will study this fall at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in NY ... Army Spec. Dominic Del Mar of Palolo, cavalry scout, has returned to Fort Richardson, Alaska, after a year in Afghanistan with the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team ...

East Oahu artist Suzie Anderson has a show on through Aug. 26 at the Gallery at Ward Center. Look for In Bloom, a Fresh Pick of Impressionistic Florals (597-8034) ...


Lt. Col. John Edwards (Kaiser 1990) is chief of plans for U.S. Air Forces Central at Shaw AFB, S.C. and he’s been picked to command a squadron this month ... Bishop Museum Press has an updated, full-color edition out of Hawaii Kai author Van JamesAncient Sites of O’ahu

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