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It was a job he agreed to take for six months in 1983 for <strong>Lex Brodie<\/strong>. Succeeding him is <strong>Tyler Roukema<\/strong>, owner of Outback Steakhouse Hawaii Kai &#x2026; <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not exactly a shopaholic, but still, <strong>Stephanie England <\/strong>spends a lot of time at malls. She&#8217;s the new general manager of Kahala Mall, Kapolei Shopping Center, Hunakai Office Building and Hawaii Opera Place; previously managed Kamehameha Shopping Center, and belongs to International Council of Shopping Centers &#x2026; <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>St. Louis Heights&#8217; <strong>David <\/strong>and <strong>Susan Chandler <\/strong>gave $14,000 to UH Foundation for a public policy\/conflict studies fellowship. &#8220;Our hope is this fellowship will help nurture a community of well-educated citizens,&#8221; David explains, &#8220;committed to building a more equitable world&#8221; &#x2014; something the two UH sociology profs already are. Now retired, David is a dedicated mediator, and Susan founded and directs UH College of Social Sciences Public Policy Center &#x2026; <\/p>\n<p>Chaminade gave an honorary degree to Niu Valley&#8217;s <strong>Mitch D&#8217;Olier<\/strong>, recognizing his &#8220;remarkable professional career&#8221; with Victoria Ward, Kaneohe Ranch and Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, which he still chairs, and other nonprofits like Malama Maunalua. Castle also helped fund CU&#8217;s Wesselkamper Science Center and other facilities &#x2026; <\/p>\n<p>KCC chef instructor <strong>Grant Sato <\/strong>shares his Kaimuki grandma <strong>Jeanette Setsuko Akamine<\/strong>&#8216;s best Okinawan recipes in Mutual Publishing&#8217;s <em>An Okinawan Kitchen<\/em>. Eat up, and thank his inspiration &#x2026; Palolo&#8217;s pride, <strong>Carissa Moore<\/strong>, won the North Shore&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Pipe Invitationals earlier this month<\/p>\n<p><em>cchang@midweek.com <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good luck to East Oahu&#8217;s Jeffery Kissel, the new, permanent executive director of Hawaii Health Connector. 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