{"id":18615,"date":"2013-01-30T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T02:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=18615"},"modified":"2013-01-30T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T02:25:50","slug":"waha-nui-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/waha-nui-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Waha Nui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/01\/wahanui.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/01\/wahanui.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wahanui\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18616\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Le Jardin Academy middle school science teachers <B>Kim Strong <\/B>and <B>Andrea McDonald <\/B>and their students who took first place Jan. 19 at the Regional Science Olympiad Tournament at Windward Community College. &#8220;I am so proud of our team,&#8221; Kim said. &#8220;It is a pleasure to coach such a wonderful, dedicated group of kids.&#8221; Next up for the brainy group is the state competition March 2 at Leeward Community College &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Laie&#8217;s <B>Katrell Plunkett<\/B>, a Kahuku Intermediate student, will represent Hawaii as a national youth correspondent to the 2013 Washington Journalism and Media Conference at George Mason University in July in Washington, D.C. Ahead of her is an intensive week of hands-on media work and learning the &#8220;ethical tensions&#8221; of the job &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><B>Richard Dickens <\/B>(Kalaheo 2009) has graduated with distinction from Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas &#8230; Polynesian Cultural Center has chosen its new president, <B>Alfred Grace <\/B>&#8211; its second leader of Polynesian descent &#8211; to mark its golden anniversary. Alfred started at the park as a sound operator and dancer in the evening show, and over more than 20 years worked his way up through sales to COO. For good measure, as a PCC employee in 1999, he won the BYU-Hawaii Distinguished Alumni Award &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 17, the Honolulu Fire Department presented a Certificate of Commendation to <B>Johnny Antonio <\/B>and <B>Samuel Hultz<\/B>, who rescued an unresponsive kite boarder last summer off Kailua beach, brought the victim to shore and called 911 &#8230; Kaneohe&#8217;s popular music group <B>Kapena <\/B>performed last Friday for the Global Peace Concert, along with <B>Anuhea<\/B>, at the Hawaii Convention Center for Rotary International&#8217;s global peace forum for 900 delegates. Local Rotarians, said spokeswoman <B>Linda Coble<\/B>, are &#8220;extremely proud that they lent their talents to inspire us all to promote world peace and understanding&#8221; &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><B>Santa <\/B>has come and gone, and public school wish lists still remain unfilled. If you have items to spare, call wish-granter <B>Kathie Wells <\/B>in Kailua (263-6703), or go to her group&#8217;s website communityhelpingschools.org. Latest needs: CD players for Kahuku El., DVD players for Kainalu El.; pots, pans and a big toaster oven for Kailua High; 8-by-10-foot rug, large zabuton-type pillows and one baby gate for Mokapu El. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Le Jardin Academy middle school science teachers Kim Strong and Andrea McDonald and their students who took first..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hawaii-community-news","category-windward","category-windward-oahu-waha-nui"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Waha Nui - MidWeek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/waha-nui-81\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Waha Nui - 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