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March 03, 2010 - MidWeek The Islander
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In Chaminade’s Furlough Friday workshop March 5 at the State Capitol, high school students will tour the building, meet lawmakers, conduct a mock session on issues, see the real thing, and hear from keynote speaker Brian Kajiyama (via a computer-assisted device). A Kailua resident, Brian is a graduate student at UH, where he assisted June Jones with the football program and has broken barrier after barrier for people with cerebral palsy ...
Keline Yoshimura of Kaneohe made the fall dean’s list at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisc., where she’s studying for her BS in human biology ... Talk about multi-tasking: Eden-Lee Murray of Ahuimanu has got it nailed (as they said over and over again at the Olympics). She plays the title role (evil, boo, hiss!) in The Snow Queen Saturday and Sunday at Hawaii Theatre (528-0506). The award-winning actress also portrays the kindly grandmother and serves as director of the Hans Christian Andersen musical. Kaneohe’s Cameron Hughes and Jesse McMillin are in the production, and brother Aengus McMillin runs the lights. Did I mention that Eden-Lee is the theater’s education director, too? ...
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Kaneohe resident Norma Gorst‘s poem Wooden Box earned honorable mention in the HPU-sponsored James Vaughn Poetry Contest. It’s about a music box, and judges said it was singled out for its evocation of the origins of the box as a “surrogate human voice.” Norma alludes to famous woodworkers such as Stradivari and imagines what those masters must have thought as they came to work with the wood ... Castle High’s French and Spanish classes raised $800 for Haiti via the Red Cross and Fam-America ...
Marcus Ofoia-Stevens (Castle 2008) has graduated from Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas ... Also from CHS, Kiana Ringuette‘s “Radar: Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe” is one of three projects picked from Windward History Day to compete at the state fair in April ... At Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., Kailua freshman Micah Mumper made the fall dean’s list ...
Kailua Historical Society’s Paul Brennan says they’re already planning to reprint the book Kailua. “Half of our first 3,000 were gone in one month’s time,” he declares. The large, homegrown volume also is in stock (as of last week) at Kalapawai Market and Under a Hula Moon ...
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Bruce Bolos of Kailua plays with Koolau Breeze at 1 p.m Sunday on the Ward Warehouse Amphitheater stage (596-8885) ... Kaneohe Sen. Jill Tokuda does it all. She gave birth to her second child, Aden Kenjiro Michibata, Feb. 11 and was back at the State Capitol a week later. Fighting for a better future for two little boys, no doubt ...
Waimanalo Intermediate’s Kiana Ahovelo releases her CD Angel of the Islands at a Friday night party at Ramsey Museum in Chinatown. The young Tongan-Irish singer has recorded a blend of Celtic and sacred tracks with help from Pierre Grill (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
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