Waha Nui – 11/5/14
Star of the Sea school faculty and staff honored longtime volunteer Kay Botelho, 93, on her “retirement” in September, grateful for her 19 years of indispensable full-time, unpaid help. The crowd also sang Maui Girl to honor Kay’s roots … These area students have won four-year, full-tuition UH Regents Scholarships, which include a $4,000 yearly stipend and a $2,000 travel grant for being all-around “remarkable”: Maria Cashdollar and Katie Lee of Sacred Hearts Academy; Kimberly Chun of Kalani and Jeffrey Zheng of Kaiser …
Meanwhile, retired Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justice Simeon Acoba Jr. of East Oahu will fill a Honolulu seat on UH’s board of regents … Tamra Honan (Kaimuki 2007) has graduated from Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas … Anuenue School’s lo’i coordinator Christopher “Kumu Baba” Yim was named a 2014 Outstanding Educator by Oceanic Time Warner Cable and Hawaii Pizza Hut, along with Kaiser High teacher Joshua Collins, Kaimuki’s Clint Onigama and Kalani’s Mark Shanahan … Kaiser alumna Robin Kobayashi has been promoted to associate general counsel for Hawaiian Airlines, where she will continue to focus on labor and employment matters. She graduated from UH Manoa and University of Washington law school …
Hawaii Kai filmmaker Ann Marie Kirk is co-organizer of the ‘Oiwi Film Festival, underway this week and next at Doris Duke Theatre (honolulumuseum.org). The festival offers performances and panel discussions along with film screenings, including the latest cut of Ann Marie’s The Hawaiian Room … Congratulations to Rep. Gene Ward, who placed third for his age group at the Oct. 5 Ka Iwi Run …
Kaimuki’s Roy Huff, a science teacher at Castle High School, is doing well in science fiction downloads and has landed a publishing deal (Kindle and paperback) for his three-book series Everville, including The Rise of Mallory, dedicated to Castle, with some profits to libraries and keiki literacy & & & cchang@midweek.com
