A former Department of Defense police officer at Kaneohe Marine base, Derek Hinkley <\/B>of Kaneohe, has graduated from Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I. as a Navy ensign. Derek also has degrees from New Mexico State and will now report with wife Tehani <\/B>to Pensacola for flight training. On a more earth-centered mission, he helped coach the Kalaheo football team in 2011 and 2012 …<\/p>\n
Inspired by living close to the dramatic Koolau Pali, Windward artist Eric Cyganik Morgan <\/B>has his landscape paintings on view in the show “Laughing Lost Island” now through Sept. 21 at thirtyninehotel (599-2552) … Inspired by yummy, homegrown poi from the Kako’o ‘Oiwi lo’i in Heeia, volunteer “Kuhio<\/B>” recommends eating it this way: “Bite off the corner and suck ‘um straight from the bag” … <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n
Kaneohe’s Sarah Souza <\/B>received her degree in computer engineering technology from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York this spring … Lanikai’s William Bowers <\/B>has joined the Class of 2017 at West Point after successfully completing basic training, and his new cadet company earned top honors at a pass-and-review this month … <\/p>\n
Kailua’s Gabrielle Whitworth <\/B>got her B.A. in May from University of Albany in New York … 2013 Castle grad Christian Kapeliela <\/B>now is playing for the Hawaii Island Movers, sharing his baseball talent and experience earned with the Castle Knights on Japan ballfields … Windward resident and DOE psychologist Marilyn Kim <\/B>will speak on “Caregiving for COPD Patients” Sept. 7 in Queen’s Conference Center at the annual Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease seminar, and it’s free to the public from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (699-9839) … <\/p>\n
Look out for the documentary film Hawaii Sons of the Civil War<\/I>, now in production by two Kailua natives, Todd Ocvirk <\/B>and Nanette Napoleon<\/B>. Nanette still lives in the area … UH Sea Grant professor E. Gorden Grau <\/B>has been named interim director of the Water Resources Research Center at UH-Manoa. The Kaneohe man has the right outlook: “Water is life,” he says. “It is the basis for all living systems on earth, and yet something we take for granted”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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