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FOCUS ON FOOD
Mililani’s Gene Caliwag becomes a vice president at Hawai‘i Foodbank. SEE PAGE 2
GROWING THE BIZ
A Waipi‘o-based company announces its expansion. SEE PAGE 6
Wahiawā Keiki Get Help With Sports
FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 4, 2022
A PUBLICATION OF
AN EDITION OF
FUN IN THE SUN
Chass Sakamoto, Awa Detillion, Diana Foronda with Phoebe, and Alison Kobayashi get together for some recent recreation at Hale‘iwa Beach Park. ANTHONY CONSILLIO PHOTO
BWY JACKIE PERREIRA
ahiawā native Aulani Fanene grew up on ‘Ōhai Street, right off the main road leading down Olive Av-
enue. She didn’t really have much growing up, and she also wasn’t really interested in team sports; her one passion was boxing.
It wasn’t until she had her own kids that she started to realize how expensive it is to partic- ipate in organized sports, and how quickly all of the fees and gear add up. To put just one kid through a season of football, parents spend up- wards of $250 to make it happen, and more if they have multiple children.
As a mother of four, Fanene knew she had to figure out a way to give her kids the oppor- tunity to participate. Her sons joined a football team and some of the parents were faces that Fanene recognized — she went to school with them. She and her friends then began to orga- nize Self-Sponsored Sports, a nonprofit organi- zation spearheaded by Fanene that allows keiki to sponsor their own sport career.
“Wahiawā just hit home for me. We became the team-moms, and it just developed from SEE PAGE 4
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