Waha Nui
October 10, 2007 - MidWeek The West Waha Nui
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If you take in the Talk Story Festival Friday through Sunday at McCoy Pavilion - coordinated by Jeff Gere of the city’s Kapolei parks office - you’re in for a treat. Performers include veteran talents Ed Chevy of Ewa Beach Friday night, Aiea’s Brenda Freitas-Obregon Saturday night and Nyla Fujii, also of Aiea, Sunday night (768-3032) ... News from the good ferry: The city has added free wireless service for passengers riding TheBoat - in case you don’t want to stare at the water for a hour each way ...
Waipahu native (and still there!) Lee Tokuhara has been promoted to vice president at the PR firm BennetGroup. Her key clients include Whole Foods, Bank of Hawaii, D.R. Horton Schuler and Verizon Wireless ... Campbell High School graduate Janice Ikebe is one of six DOE employees honored with the Sustained Superior Performance award for 2007. Janice runs the office for the Windward Community School for Adults ...
Ewa Beach resident Linda Kawasaki has the ultimate holiday shopping gig: She promotes the Season’s Best Craft & Gift Fairs, including the Oct. 26-28 extravaganza at Blaisdell Exhibition Hall. More than 200 booths for your shopping pleasure (683-6064). For those in West Oahu who don’t plan ahead, Linda also plans a fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 8 at Aiea Elementary ...
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Raymond Stride has been promoted to accounting manager by Young Brothers and Hawaiian Tug & Barge. A Kapolei resident, Raymond is a CPA who once served as strategic and financial planning manager for Starbucks Coffee Hawaii ... Nicolette Moore of Ewa Beach illustrated the latest book by local children’s author Kerry Germain, Kimo’s Surfing Lesson. Kerry will sign copies at 2 p.m. Saturday at Borders Waikele ...
Beach comes to Aiea: Ward Avenue’s Dixie Grill has replaced its popular keiki sandbox with a chili roaster and a new Mexican theme, so the sandbox has landed at Ed Wary‘s Aiea Dixie Grill. Come and play ...
Cathy Ahn (682-5810) is looking for a part-time, very competent office assistant for Schnitzer Steel in Campbell Industrial Park. Speaking of Schnitzer, if you spot colorful birds above the industrial park Oct. 26, they’re not circling for prey, it’s rainbow pigeons helping Jim Banigan and the staff celebrating Customer Appreciation Day. The metal recycler’s next area community event will be an Aloha ‘Aina Earth Day drive Dec. 1 at Kapolei High School. Mark your calendars and save the old stove (and many, many other items) for the big collection ... Island Insurance has appointed Aiea resident and Aiea High graduate Dexter Ego assistant vp and senior field specialist for claims.
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Dexter has his B.A. from UH and 19 years of claims experience. Another Aiea alum (and Adams State College graduate), Daniel Hamada, has the new assistant vp position of claims supervisor ... When Elizabeth and Ambo Ilagan of Aiea combined their recent downtown Las Vegas jackpots, it added up to $14,104. Still more lucky gamblers: Lydia Bisquera of Ewa Beach, $12,758; Aiea’s Lily Vidal, $11,493 (plus $9,781 on an earlier trip); and Ewa Beach’s Esther Echineque, $10,000. Pearl City folks won big earlier: James Fulgoni and Jean Pang each won $20,000 ...
Just as sweet, lucky Tennille Chibana of Waipahu and Pearl City’s Kyle Ching have each won a round trip for two to Kona, courtesy of Hawaiian Host. Their names were among 15 drawn randomly from 3,500 entries in an online Kona Caramacs contest (the company’s newest candy)
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