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• Former KGMB news anchor/reporter, SANDRA SAGISI, has joined public relations firm Stryker Weiner & Yokota as an account executive. She will service a number of corporate accounts, including the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, James Campbell Estate, AT&T Hawai'i and Grace Pacific Corp. Sagisi was most recently director of student activities and training development at Brigham Young University-Hawai'i. She has also been news anchor/reporter in Panama City, Fla., and was nominated for two Emmy awards in news writing.

• Two local chapters of the American Business Women's Association (ABWA) have announced awards: GEORGINA M. YUEN, city deputy director of emergency services, has been named the Business Associate of the Year 2002 for the ABWA Punahele Chapter. The Na Kilohana O Wahine Chapter has chosen CORDELIA FUKUHARA, associate manager with AT&T government markets, as its Woman of the Year.

• New officers have been announced for the Hale'iwa main Street Business Association: president, KALANI FRONDA, The Kamehameha Schools, land assets division, real estate asset manager; vice president, ANTYA MILLER; treasurer, AMBER DOIG, Financial Management Solutions financial adviser; secretary, BOB LEINAU, Waimea Valley Park compliance, safety, property, community and government affairs manager.

• VICTOR CASTRO, designer of the Obun Hawai'i Group's logo, has been named the commercial printing company's creative director. Castro's logo design was recognized recently with a Hawai'i Advertising Federation Pele Award. Most recently, the 20-year graphic design veteran was Obun's senior graphic designer.

• NOLAN N. KAWANO, a former executive director of the state Hurricane Relief Fund, has joined locally owned Island Insurance Companies as vice president/chief financial officer. He is past vice president and treasurer of First Insurance Co. of Hawai'i; and former chief financial officer, treasurer and a director of HIH America.

• TRUDY BURNS STONE has been named managing member of the Honolulu law firm of Chun, Kerr, Dodd, beaman & Wong. Stone, who specializes in real estate law, including commercial real estate transactions, development and commercial leasing, is a current Hawai'i State Bar Association (HSBA) board member, and immediate past chair of the HSBA Real Property and Financial Services Section

• Eighteen-year Marriott International veteran STEVE ZIDEK has been named Honolulu-based area director of finance for the company's Pacific Islands area, providing financial oversight for a number of hotels: Waikiki Beach marriott Resort, JW Marriott 'Ihilani Resort and Spa, Kaua'i Marriott Resort and Beach Club, Maui Marriott and Ocean Club, Renaissance Wailea Beach Resort and Guam Marriott Resort.

• TORRANCE "TERRY" TOLZMANN, former Aloha Airlines customer service manager of the Kona, Big Island, station, has been named director of the Maui station, overseeing passenger service and freight and ramp service, as well as coordination with such entities as the state Airports Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Customs and airport security services.

• Two Hawai'i resident have been named to Mainland posts:

• RICHARD A. KERSENBROCK JR. has been named vice president and county manager of First American Title Insurance Co.'s Ventura County, Calif., operations. He joined the company's subsidiary, First American Long & Melone Title Co., in Honolulu in 1998, and relocated to California this year.
• SAL VALADEZ has been named executive director of the Language Access to Healthcare program at the Provena Mercy Center and Compañeros en Salud (Partners in Health). Valadez will oversee the program, which trains and provides medical healthcare interpreters for organizations, agencies and individuals in Fox Valley, Ill., including interpreter training, writing funding grants and increasing numbers of subscribers.

• THOMAS DOAN has been named state manager, Hawai'i marketing area, for the Woodmen of the World/Omaha Woodmen Life Insurance Society. Woodmen of the World, founded in 1890 and licensed in all 50 states is one of the largest, nonsectarian, fraternal benefit societies in the country.

• BRIAN LYNX, a 20-year veteran of hospitality and hotel operations in England, the Mainland and Hawai'i, has been named director of sales and marketing for The Westin Maui, following the resort's recent multimillion dollar renovation. He has also served as purser on the Royal Caribbean M/S Sovereign of the Seas, and at Hawai'i properties, including the Grand Wailea Resort and Kea Lani Hotel and Spa, Maui; and director of sales and marketing for the Big Island's Mauna Kea Resort, overseeing both Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel and the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel.

• CHRIS DEBONE has been promoted from prepress assistant manager at Hagadone Printing Co., to production manager.

• STACIE C. SASAGAWA has been named human resources manager for traffic and engineering consultants Austin, Tsutsumi & Associates Inc. The more than 10-year human resource management veteran was previously operations manager at Itoen (USA) Inc.

• JASON LODER has been named marketing representative for Xerox Hawai'i, responsible for commercial accounts in the Ward/Kapi'olani/Ala Moana areas.

• Civil/transportation engineer SUSAN M. UEJO has joined the planning, engineering, landscape architecture and environmental consulting firm, Belt Collins Hawai'i Ltd. Uejo has more than 24 years of public and private transportation engineering and traffic studies experience, including traffic impact studies, environmental impact statements and transportation master planning. Her projects have included studies on H-3 traffic, traffic congestion and Kaua'i long-range transportation. She is a past civil engineer with the state Department of Transportation, Planning Branch, Highway Planning Survey Section.

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