What’s Up in Windward Oahu
Wednesday March 12 Breast-feeding Castle Medical Center leads breast-feeding classes at 5:30 p.m. today and March 19 at the hospital. Fee is $25 (or free with any childbirth class). Call 263-5400 or go...
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Focus on Windward Oahu
Catholic Schools Week brought Saint Louis School students and faculty out in force to improve the community at various Oahu sites. Here, two sixth-grade Crusaders give graves a vigorous washing Jan....
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Waha Nui – 3/19/14
WCC is nurturing special moms who’ve won three of eight Women’s Opportunity awards from Soroptimist International’s Oahu clubs. They were chosen for rising above economic, substance abuse and/or...
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Windward Club Filling King Gym With Orchids
As veteran orchid growers and great fans of the dendrobium Violet Yamaji ‘Nalo’ (pictured), Emily and Walter Yamada have plenty to share with the crowds at the annual Windward Orchid Society show this...
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Kualoa Ranch Cultivating New Kind Of Herd, No Cowboys Needed
Kualoa Ranch president John Morgan (left) and his brother David, the ranch’s agricultural director, show off a batch of freshly harvested oysters. Photo from Becker Communications. By PAIGE TAKEYA...
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Phyllis Ida: Nurturing Young Minds Via Grants, Laws, Lessons
By PAIGE TAKEYA Not everyone knows that preschool is among the most important years in a child’s life. That’s a fact that Phyllis Ida, Windward P-3 grant coordinator, is hoping to change. “Research...
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Shoeboxes Fill Up Fast In Annual Kaneohe Collection Drive
Waiahole Elementary School students demonstrate the can-do attitude that helped their school earn first place in the 2014 Shoeboxes for the Homeless competition. Together, Castle Complex schools filled...
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Making Sense Of Isle Economics Over Lunch
KBG guest speaker Howard Dicus Kaneohe Business Group will get an update on island economics from the “Resident Explainer” Howard Dicus during its March 26 luncheon at Pohai Nani. The Hawaii News Now...
View ArticleOIA Singles Out Windward Teams For Basketball Honors
When the bulk of Kalaheo’s 2013 state basketball title team graduated last May, returnee Kupaa Harrison’s leadership and scoring grew more critical than ever before. The junior responded in a big way...
View ArticleObamacare Help In Waimanalo
Waimanalo Health Center will conduct its final information session on the Affordable Care Act at 6 p.m. Thursday in its Goebert Training Center. All interested and/or eligible residents are welcome to...
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Wednesday March 19 Caregiver support Ohana Caregiver Support Group meets at 9 a.m. at Queen Liliuokalani Children’s Center on Haiku Road. Call 234-2207. Auditions Lanikai Mortgage Players hold...
View ArticleFun For All Ford Fans Sunday At McKenna’s
Hawaii’s largest and oldest all-Ford car show comes to Kailua this Sunday with a display of 60 vehicles at Mike McKenna’s Windward Ford. The 22nd annual Mustang Madness show is open from 9 a.m. to 4...
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Focus on Windward Oahu
Annie Cusick Woods, a director and writer for children's theaters, performed her story, 'Auntie Martha and the Nene,' in observance of Read Across America Day March 3 at Le Jardin Academy. Photo by...
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Coaching Roster Has Major Change At Kahuku High School
Kahuku coach Lee Leslie It’s official. Kahuku High School confirmed last week that Lee Leslie is the school’s new head football coach. Leslie’s hiring, which was originally reported by MidWeek‘s sister...
View ArticleNo Shhh! April 2 At WCC Library
Hawaiian slack-key guitar, freestyle rap, poetical wordplay and Kenyan-centered fiction all can be found in one place on April 2 when Windward Community College hosts “Out Loud in the Library!” from 6...
View ArticleBay Council bill flawed
Editor: House Bill 2441 and its companion, Senate Bill 2330, which are moving their way through the Legislature, were written to amend the Kaneohe Bay Regional Council. KBRC was set up by the Kaneohe...
View ArticleWindward Sleuths To Share Fat, Wind, Plant Projects
Editor’s Note: Windward District communications specialist Jorene Barut contributed to this report. The Hawaii State Science & Engineering Fair is open March 31-April 2 at Hawaii Convention Center,...
View ArticleNoodles To Comfort Hungry Mall Shoppers
Piping hot bowls of noodles are comfort food for many, and once June rolls around, Windward Mall shoppers will get a chance to see how Ramen Man-Ichi stacks up to the competition. Ramen Man-Ichi will...
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Digging Into Honest Abe’s Early Life And All Those Womenfolk
Rachelle Gesselman (front, left), Jim Tharp, Hailey Farah, (back) Beth E. Barry, Rasa Fournier and Melinda Maltby star in ‘Heritage’ at HPU’s Paul and Vi Loo Theatre. Photo by Nathalie Walker,...
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Plant Sale Aids Prison Program
More than 400 plants, including many in decorative pots like these (made last year by Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle member Annetta Kinnicutt), will be available Saturday at the LKOC spring plant sale....
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