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Students win shopping sprees
Kaila Mercado, an incoming seventh-grader at Kauai Christian Academy, is the $1,000 grand prize winner of the 2002 Hawaii Pizza Hut and Hawaii State Public Library System Young Adult Summer Reading Shopping Spree Sweepstakes. Before family and friends at Princeville Public Library on Kaua'i, Mercado was presented with a pizza delivery box containing a congratulatory letter and $1,000 check for a shopping spree at Pearlridge Center.
Stuart Ooka, an incoming seventh-grader at Le Jardin Academy and the entrant from Kailua Public Library, was the second-place winner of a $500 shopping spree.
The third-place winner is Vanshj Seth, a seventh-grade home schooler, who entered the contest at Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library.
The three winners will be picked up in a stretch limousine Friday and taken to Pearlridge Center for their shopping sprees. Mercado and her mother will be flown to Honolulu courtesy of Hawaii Pizza Hut.
Transportation workers noted
The State Department of Transportation has awarded certificates of recognition to: Frank Abreu, Emilio Barroga Jr., Llewellyn Honda, Curtis Matsuda, Michele Nascimento, Dean Takiguchi and John Williams of the Highways Division; Dale Suzuki, Joyce Toy, Dean Yanagisawa and Dean Yogi of O'ahu District Highways; Leo Garcia Jr., Chris Harris, Theodore Miller and William Puou III of Hawai'i District Highways; Ana Marie Aiu of Hawai'i District Harbors; Marshall Ando, June Au, Herbert Y.C. Ching Carter, W.S. Luke and Jennifer Moses of the Harbors Division; Maximino Del Rosario, Dean Ibana, Clayton Niibu and Kathy Miyahira of Harbors O'ahu District; Gaylene Chun, Martinez Jacobs and Julita Laygui of the Airports Division; Robert Peru of Oahu District Airport; Susan Takamura of Kaua'i District Airport; and Bert Nishimura and Steve Takahashi of O'ahu Business Management Office and Visitors Information Program-Hilo Section and the Honolulu International Airport Maintenance Unit.
New officers named for CSI
The following officers were elected to the board of directors of CSI: president, Mari Naito of Janell A. Israel and Associates; vice president, Gloria Zane, retired; secretary, Alice Vinton of Vinton Realty; and treasurer, Rebecca Parker of M. Dyer & Sons Inc.
Appointed to the board of directors were: Sue Cornish of Eldercare Resources; Claus Hansen of Affordable Caskets and Moanalua Mortuary; Kari Jo Hawkinson of AssistGuide; Lorraine Kunita of American Savings Bank, branch sales, Financial Plaza branch; Sandra Pohl, the Louis Pohl Gallery; Laura Steelquist of Hawaiian Islands Medical; Ruth Stepulis of Central Union Church; Sara Tompkison of the Veterans Administration, Center for Aging; Lori Wells of Palolo Chinese Home; Suzanne White of Arcadia Retirement Residence; and Shelley Wilson of Wilson-In-Home.
CSI is a private, nonprofit organization providing assistance and daily money management to Hawai'i's older adults and the disabled who need help in maintaining or achieving a comfortable, secure and independent lifestyle.
Housekeeping grant for IHS
The Chamber of Commerce has awarded $10,000 to IHS, O'ahu's emergency homeless shelter. The grant comes from the chamber's Public Health Fund Committee and will be used for sanitation of the shelters.
"Many of our guests suffer from mental illness and substance-abuse problems," said Lynn Maunakea, IHS executive director. "It is one of the agency's primary objectives to keep the shelter clean and safe for guests and staff alike."
