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View ArticleBig Concert For Art At Ahuimanu
A one-night concert could pay for a year of music instruction for children at Ahuimanu Elementary School. That’s why seven artists will convene for a special fundraiser “Under the Ko‘olau Moon” from...
View ArticleInterns Needed At Fishpond
Aspiring stewards, champions and caretakers of Hawaii still have time to try for Paepae o He‘eia’s 2015 Ma Ka Hana Ka ‘Ike Intern- ships. Postmark deadline for applications is May 18. Participants...
View ArticleHoops Skills Clinic To Help Girls Team
Beginning this Saturday, Kahuku High & Intermediate School will host a weekly basketball skills clinic for ages 8 to 18, led by Red Raider girls basketball head coach Marlene Zeug with Dennis...
View ArticleBYUH Partners With Hawaiian Islands Land Trust
BYU-Hawaii’s International Cultural Studies department is partnering with Hawaiian Islands Land Trust to infuse youth into its land protection efforts. Brigham Young University-Hawaii students enjoy...
View ArticleTurtle Bay’s Major Benefit Golf Tourney
Turtle Bay Foundation will sponsor its third annual golf tournament May 22, and interested participants still have a week to register. The three-person scramble tourney takes place at Turtle Bay...
View ArticleBasketball Turned Cravens Into Water Polo Standout
Less than 18 months ago, it would have been hard to imagine Noa Cravens as a starter for the Kahuku water polo team this spring. As a newcomer to the sport, she didn’t quite envision it for herself,...
View ArticleLanikai School Zero Heroes Worm Into Composting
“I like learning about thermophilic bacteria,” proclaimed a Zero Heroes student from Lanikai Elementary Public Charter School. It’s true that the group’s fifth-graders not only tell you what these...
View ArticleTalk Story May 12 In Kailua
Area lawmakers will host a talk-story community meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. May 12 in Kailua Intermediate School cafeteria. On the agenda are bills passed during the 2015 legislative session. State Reps....
View ArticleWCC’s Journalism Treasure Libby Young Is Retiring
The pending retirement of Windward Community College journalism professor Libby Young has unlocked a floodgate of words from her current and former students, all of them inspired by her “affable and...
View ArticleFootball Hall Of Fame Adds Six To New PCC Exhibit
Polynesian Cultural Center recently opened its Polynesian Football Hall of Fame exhibit gallery honoring 13 outstanding players, including six 2015 inductees. Located in the Laie attraction’s new...
View ArticleWindward Oahu Highlights
CASTLE BIRTHS Castle Medical Center offers classes in pregnancy, newborn care, breastfeeding, infant safety and a coaches’ clinic throughout May. For fees, details and to register, call 263-5400 or...
View ArticleWaha Nui – 5/06/15
Film festival fans are taking notice of Kailua student filmmaker John Taschner‘s latest effort, Gen RX, recently picked as a Cannes Film Festival Short Film. It’s a fictional call to action to help...
View ArticleHanauma Talks On Marsh, Opihi, Reef
Hanauma Bay Education Program offers free public lectures by local experts and research affiliates this month on a variety of topics to get the community involved. Each Sunday talk begins at 3 p.m. in...
View ArticleKaneohe Couple Goes With The ‘Flow’ For Cambodia
Kaneohe’s Sam Cox and Barbara Grace ‘Babs’ Ripple with their Cambodian foster grandchildren Sophearak (left) and Sreyleap. PHOTO FROM COX AND RIPPLE. Retired Windward ministers Samuel Cox and Barbara...
View ArticleSurfriders A Good Prospect At State Baseball Tourney
Kailua set the tone early this spring for another stellar season on the baseball diamond, winning its first six games to start 2015. Not much has undermined the momentum since, as the Surfriders placed...
View ArticleWaha Nui – 5/13/15
Laie Elementary sixth-grader Laura Lukov has won the Hyatt Regency Waikiki’s Best for Kids by Kids Healthy Snack Contest with her Bean-Avocado Brownies, which offer low sugar, high protein and other...
View ArticleFocus on Windward Oahu
Musicians (from left) George Kuo, Haywood Kalima and Cyril Pahinui take a break together April 25 during the eighth annual Gabby Pahinui Waimanalo Kanikapila at Waimanalo Beach Park. PHOTO BY LAWRENCE...
View ArticleLanikai Theater Tackling Those Wall Street Evil-doers
The cast of (from left) Roger Tansley, Debbie Lamb, Carol Nichols, Melissa Garcia, Courtney Nichols, Jeff Griswold and Lew Lappert are all dressed up for Fri-day’s opening of ‘Filthy Riches, or You...
View ArticleGas Fillups Support Lessons
Chevron U.S.A.’s latest “Fuel Your School” promotion generated $350,000 for 120 Hawaii public schools, including nearly $20,000 for Windward ones. Of the 247 classroom projects the corporate energy...
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