Waha Nui

Rick Smith

Colton Truitt landed the title role in Central Theatre Arts Academy’s musical Bye Bye Birdie, which will feature more than 60 area singers and dancers April 27-May 5 at Mililani High School (627-4356) … Takeisha Davis (Leilehua 2003) has graduated from Army Reserve basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C …

Rick Smith and the blues band Trailer Park Romeos performed in concert at Honolulu Public Radio’s Atherton Studio on Saturday. Smith, a Wahiawa resident, doubles as a recording engineer and producer who worked with artists like Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, George Harrison and Tom Watts before moving to Hawaii. He was the original founding member of Slim Mango and at 62 still loves riding the big waves on his body board at the North Shore. If that’s not enough, he taught his black Labrador, Savannah Banana, to sing …

Odalis Antonio Marte of Mililani has earned his master of arts from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, collecting it in ceremonies at the end of fall semester … Victor Nobello (Waialua 2011) has completed Army basic training and a combat construction course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. …

Scott Ono

Scott Ono of Mililani has been appointed director of Asset Services in Hawaii for CBRE Group, a Fortune 500 commercial real estate company, which he is returning to after eight years in other investment banking work. Scott most recently was vice president of Trust Real Estate Services for First Hawaiian Bank …

State Sen. Michelle Kidani (Mililani, Waipio) puts on her other hat (Japanese Women’s Society Foundation member) to urge folks to stop by Hanafuda Fun Day, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Jikoen Hongwanji Mission, 1731 N. School St. in Honolulu, where Helen Nakano will be back with more stories and lessons in how to play the traditional Japanese card game of plantation days …

Christine C. Siquig (Leilehua 2010) has graduated from Air Force Reserve basic combat training at Lackland AFB in Texas