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Carol Chang UH grad student Larry Martin of Kailua has won the top national award for an electrical engineering student from Eta Kappa Nu, based on his UH undergrad work managing the school's...

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Carol Chang Polynesian Cultural Center has hired Lara Leimana Fonoimoana as its new Hawaii sales manager. Lara knows the park well as the former lead dancer in Ha: Breath of Life and member of the PCC...

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Carol Chang You never know where a somersault and cartwheel lesson might lead you. National champion gymnast Kiralee Hayashi of Kailua was stunt double for Kristen Stewart in the Twilight: Breaking...

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Carol Chang Kaneohe native Jessica Reid plays in the 80-member, all-female band, Batala DC, which delivered plenty of robust Afro-Brazilian samba-reggae rhythms last month when it opened for the...

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Carol Chang Windward artists have won prestigious $20,000 awards from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation: Waimanalo's Cyril Pahinui (now of Waipahu) won a music fellowship from the group, which...

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Carol ChangMaunawili farmers Michele and Dean Wilhelm got the opportunity to compare their 7-acre Kapalai Farms with colleagues from throughout the world when they attended the Slow Food international...

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Carol Chang Congratulations to Le Jardin Academy middle school science teachers Kim Strong and Andrea McDonald and their students who took first place Jan. 19 at the Regional Science Olympiad...

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MidWeek Staff Newly retired HFD chief Kenneth Silva of Kaneohe has gotten right up off the couch to join the Hawaii Red Cross as chief operating officer, selected for the job by Coralie Chun Matayoshi...

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Carol Chang Congratulations to Craig Wagnild, my Ahuimanu Hills neighbor, who will lead the nonprofit Hawaii State Bar Association and its 7,000 members in 2013. Craig works with Bays Lung Rose &...

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Carol Chang Kaneohe's Steisha Sheather, 22, won the 2013 Miss Latina Hawaii crown Feb. 9 on a platform of "Dream Big." The Kamehameha grad and LCC alumna, who also shared the Popularity Award, now aims...

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Carol Chang Kaneohe's Kepa Maly, a renowned cultural historian, has been hired by Lanai's new owner, Larry Ellison, to be his vice president of culture and historic preservation - a very good sign for...

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Carol Chang Two Kaneohe writers, Waimea Williams (Aloha Mozart) and Courtnie Chang (Kolohe Iole) will be honored guests Thursday at Waialua Library's annual Authors Night (637-8286). Waimea, a former...

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Carol Chang Former CPAC standout and So You Think You Can Dance finalist Cole Horibe has landed the lead role of Bruce Lee in the off-Broadway play Kung Fu next fall in NYC ... If it's not too late,...

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Carol Chang Afirst-ever for Muumuu Heaven is the father-son photography exhibit featuring pro surfer Buzzy Kerbox and his son Kasey, who is an award-winning artist at Kalaheo High (where his photos are...

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Aidan Millar Kailua’s Donna Festa, a volunteer with Hawaiian Monk Seal Response Team Oahu, has some good news. A seal just gave birth on Rabbit Island after much worry on the part of her human...

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Kailua’s Nadia Busekrus has won a 2013 Junior Travel Award ($3,000-plus) for her skills and high scores on the National Spanish Examination. A junior at Sacred Hearts Academy, Nadia will join 11 other...

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Art Gladstone Kaneohe’s Art Gladstone began his career with Hawaii Pacific Health in 1990 as an RN at Pali Momi. Now he’s been appointed CEO for Straub Clinic & Hospital as part of HPH executive...

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Two good and skilled Kailua Catholics have opened a koa path to the Vatican, after Pam Pochinski Aqui was asked by the White House to make a rosary for the new pope, and her neighbor and master...

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WCC natural sciences prof Floyd McCoy has won the UH Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching. The Harvard-trained Kailua man has inspired his geology and oceanography classes in Kaneohe for two...

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Sponsored by Kailua Elks Lodge No. 2230, Kailua Intermediate student Deborah Beatty placed third for grades 7-8 in a national Elks Americanism essay contest on “What Does the National Anthem Mean to...

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