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North Shore Artist Supports Olympics
Four-time world champion and Team USA Olympic surfer Carissa Moore meets with Robert Wyland on the North Shore to display two surfboards that the artist painted in support of the U.S. Olympic surf team.
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A foundation established by famed marine life artist Robert Wyland, who has a gallery in Haleʻiwa, will take a role in the Olympics.
recently painted two surf- boards for the U.S. Olympic surf team.
Central Oʻahu campuses are among the beneficiaries of the first Alexander & Baldwin Kōkua for Keiki program to raise funds for public elementary schools.
This year, Wyland Foun- dation will support the ef- forts of the first U.S. surfing team at the Tokyo Olympics through fundraising from merchandise and Wyland- painted surfboards that will be auctioned off. The public can bid on the items from now through the summer, leading up to the Tokyo Olympics. Team USA cur- rently has them in its posses- sion.
“I’m proud to be a U.S. Olympic artist. Aloha!” Wy- land adds.
Schools near A&B-owned and -operated centers, in- cluding Gateway at Mililani Mauka and Gateway at Mil- ilani Mauka South, along with Waipio Shopping Center, were invited to participate as a way to substitute for the traditional annual fundraising activities canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Besides Wyland Gallery on the North Shore, the artist also has two other Hawaiʻi locations, in Waikīkī and Maui.
The nonprofit Wyland Foundation is devoted to protecting world’s oceans, waterways and marine life. For more information, visit wylandfoundation.org.
Customers of the shops, restaurants and service provid- ers at A&B shopping centers registered and designated the school of their choice online and then submitted shopping receipts throughout the campaign. Receipts were added up and turned into monetary grants for the schools.
Wyland states that he
“We extend our warmest mahalo to our customers for their support of our neighboring schools,” states A&B ex- ecutive vice president and chief real estate officer Lance Parker.
In a Tweet, Team USA surfing calls the art beauti- ful with a clean ocean and healthy marine life message.
The Wyland Foundation will blend efforts to main- tain healthy waterways and coasts into this year’s Na- tional Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation with an emphasis on the recre- ational role water plays in people’s lives.
Unrestricted grants were distributed to the follow- ing schools in Central Oʻahu: Mililani ʻIke Elementary School ($1,800), Mililani Mauka Elementary School ($1,200) and Kanoelani Elementary School ($500).
Held over two months, Kōkua for Keiki raised funds to assist participating schools.
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