{"id":21224,"date":"2013-03-27T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T01:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=21224"},"modified":"2013-03-27T15:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T01:33:18","slug":"waha-nui-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/waha-nui-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Waha Nui"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21225\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/wahanui2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21225\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/wahanui2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wahanui\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/wahanui2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/wahanui2.jpg?resize=322,450 322w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/03\/wahanui2.jpg?resize=335,468 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aidan Millar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kailua&#8217;s <B>Donna Festa<\/B>, a volunteer with Hawaiian Monk Seal Response Team Oahu, has some good news. A seal just gave birth on Rabbit Island after much worry on the part of her human monitors. &#8220;We had an all-points bulletin about a pregnant seal in the Mokes,&#8221; she reports, &#8220;and we didn&#8217;t know what she would do, since it was her first time. It&#8217;s a huge relief to all of us that she went back to her birthplace for it. Seals do what they want to do.&#8221; For more on Donna&#8217;s work, see Page 11 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> All four Windward Hawaiian civic clubs were part of the <B>Prince Kuhio <\/B>Day Parade and Ho&#8217;ike last weekend, including Kailua club vice president <B>Mina Elison <\/B>and member <B>Ryan Kalama<\/B>, who emceed both events &#8230; Central Pacific Bank promoted Kaneohe&#8217;s <B>Aidan Millar <\/B>to senior vice president and director of strategy and project delivery. Aidan comes with London and Hong Kong banking experience &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>You can get all you need to know about the Merrie Monarch Festival (March 31-April 6) from a new iPhone app, Ke Ao Hula, created by Kaneohe resident and WCC student <B>Gabe Spencer <\/B>and girlfriend <B>Kim Shibata <\/B>for $2.99 by going to iTunes, emailing info@keaohula.com or visiting keaohula.com. They are dedicating this huge labor of love to &#8220;connecting everyone passionate about hula and Hawaiian culture&#8221; &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Community Helping Schools&#8217; <B>Kathie Wells <\/B>says <B>Dr. Seuss <\/B>books are in high demand for Windward special ed second- and third-graders; also a beanbag chair is welcome, and Kailua High art teacher <B>Noni Floyd <\/B>needs potters&#8217; wheels and art canvas. Visit communityhelpingschools.org or call 263-6703. Meanwhile, here&#8217;s the response from readers to Kaaawa El. needs: Retired Kalaheo teacher <B>Kathy Campbell <\/B>donated several soccer balls, and Kailua swim school instructor <B>Pat Lancaster <\/B>wrote a check for sports equipment &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Think you had busy holidays? <B>Julie Dugan <\/B>reports that, among other things, students at the Waimanalo-based Job Corps Center cut out 500 Christmas trees for Life Foundation clients, baked 1,800 pieces of gingerbread for 350 &#8220;houses&#8221; for city parks, served drinks to 2,500 at Salvation Army&#8217;s Thanksgiving lunch, served appetizers to 400 at Honolulu Firefighters Foundation gala, catered pupus for 400 at a Kailua United Methodist Church party, raised $1,500 for breast cancer research, and marched 50 strong in the Waimanalo Christmas parade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kailua&#8217;s Donna Festa, a volunteer with Hawaiian Monk Seal Response Team Oahu, has some good news. 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