Waha Nui – 12/10/14
Hawaii Kai’s Roxanne Cassidy (Punahou 2009, Boston College 2013) has reported to Baham, Cameroon, her Peace Corps station for 27 months, where she’ll help the villagers via health and nutrition education. The daughter of David Cassidy and Anne Namba, she’s already started a weekly Zumba class for about 50 kids — something she used to do at home …
Palolo Valley resident Catherine Caine recently was named Hawaii State Teacher of the Year for 2015. A nationally board-certified teacher at Waikiki Elementary, Catherine “brings out the best in her students” with real-life lessons and hands-on learning. She wins $500 (for being a candidate) from Polynesian Cultural Center, an additional $1,000 as state winner, and a one-year lease of a new car from Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association …
Tim Leong, who grew up in Kuliouou, has entered his first season of playing water polo for USC, where he also studies business and cinema. A 2014 Iolani graduate, Tim’s following a Leong family tradition: His late dad Thomas and uncle Keona played water polo for the Trojans, too. And his late grandfather Tom earned a master’s degree at the school …
Kaimuki Business and Professional Association honored the life’s work of former state Rep. Barbara Marumoto by choosing her to be grand marshal of the Kaimuki Christmas Parade last week … Hawaii Kai 10-year-old Julian Ibarra was selected from 200 applicants to be a Scholastic News Kid Reporter last month, based on his original community news reports. (Hey, Julian! Come help me out at MidWeek.) As part of a team of 32 young writers, Julian will be filing stories for Scholastic News Online and its selected classroom magazines. He also wants to be an astronaut and fly to Mars. Can’t make deadline from there, or can he? …
When the Kahala Ross Dress for Less store officially opened Oct. 10 at Kahala Mall, it presented $1,000 each to Kalani Falcons Band Boosters and Boys & Girls Club Spalding Clubhouse & & & cchang@midweek.com
