Waha Nui – 4/23/14
An active member of KEY Project’s board of directors, Jeaney Garcia is leaving her job as Punahou athletic director to rejoin Positive Coaching Alliance Hawaii as executive director, which fits with her other job as liaison to Hawaii High School Athletics Association. An athlete all her life, Jeaney played semi-pro basketball and was on Nike’s elite running team, The Janes. Where is she this week? Running April 21 in the Boston Marathon with 36,000 others. (Yes, she was there last year.) Look for more of PCA’s good sportsmanship lessons coming to Windward soon …
Kailua’s Ed Kemper, attorney and car guy, has a new time slot for his radio show, Ohana Road, which he co-hosts with Bill Maloney: 9 a.m. Saturdays on KHKA-AM 1500 … Speaking of cars, Don Johnston reports that loyal Mustang owners marked the car’s 50th anniversary on Easter Sunday at Mike McKenna Ford in Kailua, then cruised around to the Aiea dealership for display, lunch and birthday cake with their beloved Ponies …
Anthology Marketing Group has hired Kailua’s Vance Martin as vice president, client solutions (especially using Microsoft). Vance has more than 30 years of creative, production and design experience in Seattle and Los Angeles … … Guy Fieri and crew from Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: Hawaii filmed March 22 at Mike Fuse‘s huli-huli chicken truck across from Kahaluu’s Hygienic Store, so look for the show to come up soon on Food Network …
Shelly Brown says Kailua Library’s new book club is reading Kaui Hart Hemmings‘ The Descendants. Call her at 266-9911 to sign up … Feeling like you should join something? Lea Domingo says the Friends of Kahuku Library need new members “desperately” (293-8935) … In case you hadn’t noticed, the old rusty pavilion fronting Heeia State Park is now gone. Kamaaina Kids’ Ray Sanborn reports that state workers dismantled it after recent wind storms sent a 90-foot Norfolk pine through its roof …
Alexcia Niumatalolo proudly plays on the Laie Parkside Lions rugby team, pictured April 9 in the Islander, but alas, she missed the photo shoot … Kaneohe Library reports its last screening of Frozen had a turnaway crowd, so they’re doing an encore at 6 p.m. April 30 … Picture Kane, a pragmatic architect in a very bleak future. Lanikai resident and former Lost actor Henry Ian Cusick plays him in the new CW series The 100
