Hawaii Garrison Wins Excellence Award As Army’s Best
By KAYLA OVERTON U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii Public Affairs Office U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii has received the 2014 Army Community of Excellence Award as the top installation in the Army. Established in...
View ArticleCentral Video Teams Vying For ‘Olelo Prize
Video production teams from Central Oahu schools are looking good for the 2014 statewide ‘Olelo Youth Xchange Student Video Competition, with nine of their entries selected as finalists. The awards...
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Mililani Artist Bringing Interactive Japanese Art To Museum
A graphic representation of Andrew Binkley’s exhibit in its completed stage. Graphic from Honolulu Museum of Art. A Mililani resident is the next artist-in-residence at Honolulu Museum of Art. Andrew...
View ArticleMauka Wins Bottle Cap Contest
The Golden Eagles rose to the challenge, collecting the most bottle caps overall of any school in the state. For its immediate reward, Mililani Mauka Elementary School got a surprise lunchtime concert...
View ArticleDole, HSFCU Merge
Dole Wahiawa Federal Credit Union has merged with Hawaii State Federal Credit Union. The majority of its nearly 900 credit union members are employees of Dole Plantation, Mililani Group Inc., Dole...
View ArticleTrojans, Mules In Fine Form For OIA Red Baseball Tournament
If neither Leilehua nor Mililani wins this week’s OIA Red tournament, they will likely have a huge say in who does emerge as champion. Both teams enter the post-season playing their best baseball....
View ArticleMililani Looks To Take Top Spot In High School Water Polo
There are 17 OIA teams currently competing in water polo, and 16 of them entered the 2014 season with the same goal: to beat Kahuku. That goal was still in sight for Mililani – arguably the team with...
View ArticleCentral Oahu Highlights
Email Central Oahu items to cchang@midweek.com by May 7 for the May 14 edition. * GLOBETROTTERS The renowned Harlem Globetrotters perform at 7 p.m. April 28 at BYU-Hawaii’s Cannon Activities Center....
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Focus On Central Oahu
The community turned out March 9 to help Mililani Lions Club at its annual benefit breakfast at Mililani High School. Preparing the tasty meal for customers are (front, from left) Risa Askerooth,...
View ArticleGolf Tourney Will Benefit Lunalilo Folk
The Lunalilo Home golf tournament is set for July 18 at Hawaii Kai Golf Course, with an unforgettable deadline for golfer signups – July 4. The 23rd annual tourney benefits the home’s residents who...
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Waha Nui – 5/7/14
Kapahulu’s Brittany Amano accepted the Running Start Emerging Young Leader A-ward this spring in Washington, D.C., and also Honolulu Soroptimists’ $500 Violet Richardson Ward Award – the latest of many...
View ArticleLand Transfer Preserves Heiau Complex, Keawawa Wetlands
Things have not gone so well for a thrice-cancelled Hawaii Kai luxury condo project, but its neighbor – which is a treasure trove of wildlife habitat and cultural history – is doing fine. Supporters of...
View ArticleKeiki Camps At Sea Life Park
Sea Life Park and Kama’aina Kids will offer summer programs for grades K-6 that open the whole of the park and all its marine-life offerings to eager campers. Six one-week camps are planned for June...
View ArticleChaminade, Med School To Partner On Obesity, Health Studies
Give Chaminade University three months, and it will show you $360,000 in grants earned – including $75,000 from HMSA Foundation to create research opportunities for its medical students with UH’s John...
View ArticleCIP Grant Aids Palolo Home Plan
Palolo Chinese Home moved a step closer April 9 to finishing its proposed Progressive Care Complex with a $750,000 CIP grant from the state. The infusion of capital improvement funds supports the $7.5...
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Steakhouse Plants Its Stake In Future Of KCC Culinary Program
At the $10,000 check presentation from Hy’s Steak House were (from left) UH Foundation development director Linh Hoang, KCC culinary chairman Ron Takahashi, Hy’s managing director Wakana Tabata, KCC...
View ArticleKupuna Care Training At KCC
Recognizing the need to prepare families for serious caregiving duties – and perhaps to recruit a few workers to the growing industry – Kupuna Care Center will launch a course May 31 in Kupuna@Home...
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Band Sparks Memories In Song
Amy Fukunaga and Barry Jay of Ebb Tides perform before their audience of kupuna during a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at Manoa Cottage Kaimuki. Photo from Calvin Hara. A longtime island band is...
View ArticleCalifornia, Montenegro Talents Freshen Up Chaminade Team
Women’s volleyball fans will see a Chaminade team largely made up of fresh faces in the fall. That much was assured last week when head coach Kahala Kabalis revealed her seven-member recruiting class,...
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Offensive Coordinator Moves Up To Cougars’ Head Coach
Coach Cameron Higgins Cameron Higgins has been tapped to take over the Cougar football program, the school revealed last week. Higgins was a huge contributor to Kaiser’s success over the last two...
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