Page 1 - MidWeek Windward - July 13, 2022

FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 13, 2022
PROTECTING THE ‘ĀINA
A Hau‘ula resident joins Hawai‘i Land Trust.
SEE PAGE 2
RAISING AWARENESS
Community leaders emphasize the need to respect Ahu a Laka. SEE PAGE 3
Kailua Student Has All The ‘Write’ Stuff
A PUBLICATION OF
AN EDITION OF
THE DRIVE FOR SUPPLIES
Participating in the recent second annual Castle Complex School Supplies drive at Windward Mall to help area keiki are (front row, from left)
Lisa Yrizarry, Michael Hee, Craig Yamada, (back) state Rep. Scot Matayoshi, Joy Nishida, state Rep. Lisa Kitagawa and Neil Yamamoto.
PHOTO COURTESY THE OFFICE OF STATE REP. LISA KITAGAWA
WBY KYLE GALDEIRA
don’t spend enough time learning the art of penmanship, Apollina Recupero is on a mission to flip the script when it comes to cursive writing. Apollina, a student at St. Anthony School in Kailua, was selected as a 2022 Grand National Champion in the fourth-grade category for cursive writing in the 31st annual Zaner-Bloser Nation- al Handwriting Contest. Regarded as the longest-running handwriting competition in the country, the overall list of winners includes 20 students from 15 states selected from tens of thousands of entries.
hile representatives of older generations often lament the fact that keiki in school today
“I was shocked!” exclaims Apollina. “Happy and a bit embarrassed because everyone was looking at me as it was an- nounced on the school’s intercom.”
Participating public and private schools hold their own handwriting competitions and choose a winner in each grade. School grade-level winners then compete against
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