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October 04, 2006 - MidWeek The East Waha Nui
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Del.icio.usKaimuki High science teacher Jami Muranaka is Honolulu School District’s nominee for 2006 Hawaii Teacher of the Year. The winner (out of seven districts) will be announced at the Board of Education’s Oct. 19 meeting ... Exchange students Luis from Ecuador and Kemal from Turkey have recently arrived in Hawaii and are eager to find permanent host homes through Intercultural AFS Programs. Luis is at Roosevelt High, and Kemal is at Kaiser High. To find out more about these fine young men, call Maria at 554-9156 ...
Kent Coarsey
Kaimuki’s C. Kent Coarsey is the first full-time executive director of the local chapter of the International Dyslexia Association. Kent also helped establish Hawaii’s Family Promise, which links churches in a helping network for the homeless. “Kent’s leadership experience and knowledge of dyslexia along with his fundraising skills and passion for our cause are exactly what we were looking for in a candidate,” declares HIDA president Sue Voit ... East Oahu drummer Michael Wall joins four colleagues at 7 p.m. Oct. 19 to share their experience as teaching artists at Third Thursday at Mark’s Garage ... Tune into ‘Olelo cable channel 56 at 5 p.m. Tuesdays, 4 p.m. Thursdays and 9 a.m. Saturdays in October for Hawaii Student Digital Showcase. Among the worthy productions on view are Sacred Hearts Academy’s My Grandmother and Kalani High’s Woodchipper PSA and Words Hurt PSA ...
Natalie Khiem
East Oahu’s Natalie Khiem has joined A&B Properties as vice president of development, which means she’ll take charge of its Waiawa joint venture right away. That’s near previous projects she’s worked on for Castle & Cooke Homes. A CPA, Natalie has also monitored housing work with HEI’s Malama Pacific Corp., Waikaloa Land Co and Blackfield Hawaii ... Kaimuki’s Gayle Arakaki and Kahala resident Katherine Johnson, both RNs, have won the Queen Emma Leadership Award from Queen’s hospital. Gayle was honored for her excellent care and work ethic with patients and staff; Katherine plays a critical role with patients who have severe traumatic brain injuries ... KCC speech professor Keith Kashiwada has won the UH Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching ... Jonathan Langdon (Kalani ‘99, BYU ‘05) has reported for duty as a bomber avionics systems apprentice at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. ...
Amanda Ezra
Amanda Ezra of Waialae Nui Ridge has been elevated to assistant account executive at Bright Light Marketing Group ... East Oahu Yida Wang has won the 2006 Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts. She is assistant art and art history professor at UH-Manoa ... Among Hawaii’s 73 semi-finalists for 2007 National Merit Scholarships are Tony Fujii and Taoran Li of Kalani High, Virginia Lenander and Cara Smith of Sacred Hearts Academy and Matthew Choy of Saint Louis ... Qinglan Wang of Kuliouou picked a school that’s as far away as you can get. She’s going to Bates College in Maine (which is likely very cool ee oh-oh). Sorry, I had to say it ... Blyth Hirata can cure you of that pun. She has been promoted to nurse manager for Labor and Delivery at Queen’s hospital. The Hawaii Kai RN has 14 years experience in the field and is working on her master’s in nursing as well. Meanwhile, Niu Valley physician Luigi Terminella has returned to Queen’s intensive care unit after three years on fellowship (pulmonary and critical care medicine) at the University of Texas-Galveston
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