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7th-graders win shopping spree
Kaila Mercado, a seventh-grader at Kaua'i Christian Academy, won the $1,000 grand prize of the 2002 Hawai'i Pizza Hut and Hawai'i State Public Library System Young Adult Summer Reading Shopping Spree Sweepstakes.
Mercado was surprised at the Princeville Public Library yesterday when she found out her name had been drawn from among 50 entries submitted by Hawai'i's 50 public libraries.
Mercado will receive a $1,000 shopping spree at Pearlridge Center.
Stuart Ooka, a seventh-grader at Le Jardin Academy and the contest entrant from the Kailua Public Library, was the second-place winner with a $500 shopping spree.
Vanshj Seth, a seventh-grade homeschool student who entered the contest at the Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library, was the third-place winner with a $250 shopping spree.
The winners, each with a parent, guardian or family member, will be picked up in a stretch limousine Aug. 16 and taken to Pearlridge Center for the shopping spree. Mercado and her mother will be flown to Honolulu to participate in the shopping spree.
The annual reading campaign is free and open to teens in seventh through 12th grades.
As corporate sponsor, Hawai'i Pizza Hut provided the shopping sprees, as well as giving each branch library Pizza Hut gift certificates and book store gift certificates for additional prize drawings.
Lahaina school participates in 3Rs
King Kamehameha III Elementary School in Lahaina this week used $26,500 in grant money from the Hawaii 3Rs Project for painting, recarpeting and renovation work on the school.
The mission of Hawaii 3Rs (Repair, Remodel and Restore Hawai'i's public schools) is to get the community help tackle the approximately $640 million repair and maintenance backlog.
Grants are awarded to public schools that step forward with private contributions or the sweat equity of volunteers of equal or greater value to the requested grant amount.
The projects are selected from the state Department of Accounting and General Services backlog repair and maintenance list from each school.
DOE site informs about child act
The Hawai'i Department of Education has put documents on its Web site to help parents understand the federal No Child Left Behind Act and details on how the school choice and supplemental education services will work.
The federal law allows parents in about 85 public schools statewide to apply to transfer their children to a better performing campus.
The documents are available at doe.k12.hi.us under the news section.
Hawai'i Kai schools welcome parents
Haha'ione Elementary School and Koko Head Elementary School will welcome parents to their schools today.
Koko Head will hold a coffee hour at 9 a.m. to orient new and interested parents. The visitation will be at the school's cafeteria. For details call 397-5811.
Haha'ione will hold an open house at 6:30 p.m. for parents of children in first through third grade to meet classroom teachers. For details call 397-5822.
