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Canine Caregivers
Since it first began in 2000, Assistance Dogs of Hawaii has trained more than 200 dogs that go on to support people with physical disabilities, work with children in hospitals and courtrooms, and even...
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Stopping The Elder Scams
Elder abuse can take many forms, but the most common involve finances. Scott Spallina of the City Prosecutor’s Elder Abuse Justice Unit is out to stop it Take a moment to think about your children,...
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Full Circle With Martin
Attorney Ellen Carson receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Peacemaker Award, named for the man who inspired her to take up law with an emphasis on civil rights, which included winning reparations for...
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Dancing With Fire
Everyone knows traditional male fireknife dancing, but Eleni Cameron and friends dance with fire using hula hoops, poi balls and more. This is one hot show My heart pounded in anticipation as the...
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Profile Of A Possibilitarian
Her mother died of stomach cancer. Her husband died of pancreatic cancer. She grieved, but she also got busy raising $50,000 for the UH Cancer Center that today funds research into early detection of...
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Little Girl, Big Voice
Waianae’s Ciana Pelekai has sung on the Radio City Music Hall stage and recently was crowned Miss Hawaii High School America — and she has loftier goals in mind Miss Hawaii High School America Ciana...
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Talk To The Animals
HZS executive director Ted Otaguro and director of volunteers Barbara Thacker with co-workers Shelby Carlos and Sarah Stebbing PHOTO BY BODIE COLLINS Honolulu Zoo Society invites you to join its ohana...
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Leaders Going Global
Jim Wo and Louise Pagotto PHOTO COURTESY MARIKO MIHO, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION The inaugural Group of Wo Global Learning Champions will travel to New Zealand to support UH’s desire to be an...
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Kickin’ It On The Course
Golfers know all about ‘kick-in’ birdies and ‘foot wedges,’ and now you can do just that without bending the rules at two Oahu courses, where FootGolf is taking off using soccer balls and really big...
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Magical Minis
Miniature horses Makakoa and Kamalani bring comfort and smiles to those they visit, demonstrating the powerful effect horses have on humans There’s something magical, almost phantasmal about seeing a...
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Gaming And Giving
Warren Asing at the entrance to the ‘indoor carnival’ in Windward Mall. Since 2003, Fun Factory has awarded nearly $100,000 in scholarships to 75 Native Hawaiian students who want to pursue a career in...
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Let The Flowers Speak
Before creating a floral work of art, ikebana practitioners first listen to the various materials. ‘you never know what is going to happen,’ says one If we could see the miracle of a single flower...
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Liberators And The Lost
As Holocaust Remembrance day nears, two honolulu men recall the day they helped liberate prisoners at the Nazis’ Dachau prison camp As time moves pertinaciously forward, as the Greatest Generation...
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One Tough Keiki
At 12, Taylor Tagatac has beaten leukemia twice, and with uncommon strength and grace. That’s why she’s being honored as Hawaii Miracle Network Champion Child Everyone wants that one-in-a-million...
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To Save The Sexually Exploited
Jessica Munoz first became aware of young girls in Hawaii being sex trafficked in her work as an ER nurse. Appalled, she’s now working to build a facility where they can be made whole again. that’s why...
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King Of The Carpenters
Gilbert Gambalan, Denis Valente and Joel Alverio competing in ‘Hammer Da Nail’. Photo by Lawrence Tabudlo Joel Alveiro once again walks away with the Slim’s Power Tools HeMan competition in the annual...
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Kaimuki To Carnegie
Kaimuki Middle School introduced a music program to increase academic scores. Students became so proficient, one of the school’s bands just wowed ’em in New York When Kaimuki Middle School principal...
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In partnership with Alexander & Baldwin, Waianae Mall established Waianae Coast Hall of fame, instilling a sense of pride in the community February was an exciting month for Waianae Mall, which...
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A bespectacled invertebrate that lives in the earth is the star of an educational kids TV show as well as the symbol of a farm-based curriculum to teach sustainability. Nestled somewhere in a Waimanalo...
View ArticleAn Ode To Keiki Creativity
A poet-in-residency program at Palolo Elementary School awakens young minds Who is an alien? Your best friend? Y our Mom, your Dad? Or even your pet? Do their eyes sparkle like moonlight? Or is their...
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