MidWeek Central - Oct 5, 2022

FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 5, 2022
MOVING UP
Scott Ishikawa of Mililani advances his career at a communications firm. SEE PAGE 2
FOCUSED ON HEALTH
Mililani Straub Medical Center Clinic will serve the community. SEE PAGE 5
Hanalani Schools Celebrates 70th
A PUBLICATION OF
AN EDITION OF
Applied engineering teacher Chris Salter oversees a student’s use of a miter saw in Hanalani Schools’ Makerspace classroom.
PHOTO COURTESY HANALANI SCHOOLS
TBY ELLISE KAKAZU
he willingness to grow and change with the times served Hanalani Schools well, as the Christian school
is now celebrating its 70th anniversary. Starting out as a small church-based pre- school in Wahiawā, the institution has come a long way. Head of school Mark Sugimoto explained the preschool initially opened in 1952 and was called King’s School, named after King’s Bible Church. Eventually, the school’s reach expanded to include elementa- ry and high school students, and was renamed
Hanalani Schools.
“As the school continued to grow to have
an elementary and high school, they needed more space for the high school and rented the old YMCA in Wahiawā, so the school was a split campus,” says Sugimoto.
The need for a larger facility was evident, so when the opportunity to purchase land in Mililani presented itself, the school took it. And the rest is history.
Hanalani Schools made the move in 1982 and developed the Mililani property to meet SEE PAGE 4
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