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June 25, 2008 - MidWeek The Central Waha Nui
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Mrs. North Shore, Lehua Sandbo Nahina, won the Mrs. Hawaii-USA pageant June 6 and will compete for the national crown in Las Vegas. She and her carpenter/pro surfer husband Kapono have a little girl and live in Haleiwa while Lehua studies to be a nurse ... Leilehua High School 2008 graduate and award-winning artist Tabitha Taraya has won another prize for her work - the $500 Tadashi Sato Living Art Scholarship for Death Paint, her portrait of a girl looking in a mirror. It’s said to exemplify Sato’s belief “that emotional and spiritual influences flow through the artist, creating a living work of art” ...
Stephanie Kong of Mililani will read from Bill Teter‘s Riding the Koi, at 7 p.m. July 6 for the next taping of Aloha Shorts at HPR’s Atherton Studio ... Mililani High graduate Aleina Hammonds is now an intern for the Art in Public Paces Program of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Aleina is studying art history (surprise!) at UH-Manoa ... One brave area talent enters “a castle of mad science and mass seduction” June 25-July 27 as a cast member of Manoa Valley Theatre’s Rocky Horror Show (988-6131). ‘Tis Cassie Favreau-Chung of Mililani Mauka ...
Instead of relaxing, Wahiawa Elementary teachers Henry Kitagawa and Karen Shimomura are attending workshops this week with Research Experiences for Teachers at UH-Manoa. Participation boosts their own knowledge and supports curriculum, computer laptops and lab equipment for their students’ lessons in science, technology, engineering and math ... Kay Nagata of Mililani has joined the UH West Oahu staff as a student services clerk, moving over from a position at the medical school ... Leilehua High’s Jason Austria has won a $3,000 scholarship from the Honolulu chapter of Executive Women International. The group selected seven high school juniors for its 2008 grants ...
Sylvia Van Velzer of Mililani has her digital art work, Camera to Canvas, on view starting this Friday at the Elks Club in Waikiki ... Honolulu Fire Department Tip of the Month: During these dry summer days, be careful with fireworks, matches and lighters when you’re around wildland vegetation. And go to the Schofield fireworks show instead of creating your own pyrotechnic display at home ... Five Central Oahu students made the President’s Honor Roll for spring semester at Washington State University in Pullman. They are Andrea Brizee, Kimberly Ching and Irene Shimabukuro of Mililani; Mapuana Antonio of Wahiawa, and Cassie Chun of Haleiwa ...
Lita Endaya of Mililani and Heather O’Malley of Haleiwa are among five First Hawaiian Fellows selected recently by the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation. The honor comes with funds to pay for their further study anywhere in the world. Lita is a physical therapist at Rehab’s Aiea clinic, and Heather is a PT at its Mililani clinic ... Which came first, the chicken or the worm? Those hungry wigglers that Mindy Jaffe uses in her composting business, Waikiki Worm, come from Peterson‘s Upland Farm in Wahiawa. It took Mindy months to locate a good source for the little critters, also known as Perionyx excavatus, but all that rich chicken manure has proven to be a winner ...
Mililani’s Eugene Son earned an honorable mention (for ages 6-8) in the Aloha International Piano Festival June 14 at the Convention Center ... Wahiawa native Julie Moon has won praise from radio personality Sweetie Pacarro for her caring personality and the “feeling of comfort” at her Moon Physical Therapy “endless” aqua pool on Ward Avenue (597-1005)
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