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By The Way Ronald
McDonald House Charities (RMHC) in Oakbrook, Ill., has chosen Ronald
McDonald House Charities of Hawaii as October’s RMHC Chapter of the
Month. The award is given to an RMHC chapter based on its “ability to
deliver top-quality services to children, meet the needs of the community,
and utilize a creative approach to solving problems.” RMHC of Hawaii’s
newest facility is the Ronald McDonald House (RMH) Family Room, a respite
and support center inside Kapiolani Medical Center for Women &
Children. Staffed entirely by volunteers, the RMH Family Room offers moral
support, • • •
Greetings
from Iraq: Members of the U.S. Army’s 193rd Aviation C Company, Hawaii
National Guard on active duty deployment, send island aloha from the
front. Shown left to right are SGT Chad Iwane, SSG Jacob Magarro, SPC
Curtis Erese, SPC Edward Kuroda and
SPC Melchor Bontog. The unit operates the famed CH-47 “Chinook”
assault support and cargo helicopters. Photo courtesy the 193rd Family
Readiness Group. • • • Entries are being accepted for students in grades three
through 12 for the “Star Poets 2005” competition, now in its sixth
year, sponsored by Windward Community College and Starbucks Coffee.
Students may enter as many poems as they wish on any topic as long as each
doesn’t exceed 20 lines. Students with multiple entries will judged on
the body of their work. Entry forms are available at all Starbucks on Oahu
and on the web at www.starbuckshawii.com and www.wwc.hawaii.edu. Deadline
for submissions is Jan. 15, 2005. Cash prizes will be awarded to the
winning first, second and third place poets, and to their respective
schools. • • • James
Puupai Kauahikaua has been named Scientist-in-Charge of the US Geological
Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). Kauahikaua is a native of
Hawaii and graduated from the Kamehameha Schools. He graduated with a B.A.
in geology from Pomona College, and returned home to earn an M.S. degree
in geophysics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His work there focused
on the Hawaii Geothermal Exploration Project, where he first met
scientists at the HVO. Kauahikaua started his career as an USGS intern in
1976 in Denver. After a one year, he returned to the University of Hawaii
and completed his Ph.D. in 1983 on the electrical structure of Kilauea
volcano, with continued support from the USGS. In 1988, he was named the
HVO staff geophysicist. • • • Aloha
Harvest, a non-profit organization that collects donated, leftover
perishable food from food donors and distributes the food to Oahu’s
needy, recently received monetary donations totaling $17,500. Aloha
Harvest received $10,000 from the Friends of Hawaii Charities, Inc., a
portion of the proceeds raised by the 2004 Sony Open golf tournament. This
is the third year in a row that the Friends of Hawaii Charities has
selected Aloha Harvest as one of the event’s beneficiaries. • • •
Maryknoll School Eighth graders are getting a jump start in environmentally responsible behavior, recently collecting and donating several hundred retired phone books in conjunction with Verizon Hawaiiıs recycling project. The project is a contest for public and private schools, which is being coordinated by the state Department of Education and the Island Recycling Center on Sand Island, designed to teach young people the importance of caring for the environment. Maryknoll Eighth grade teacher and alumnus Shana Tong, teacher Margot Adair and their students coordinated the collection, which included donations from Maryknoll School classrooms, offices, and family homes, as well as a number of Waikiki hotels and the State Department of Human Services. All phone books were delivered to Island Recycling Center. |
