Awards
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• Junior Achievement of Hawai'i has announced six new laureates who have been inducted into the Hawai'i Business Hall of Fame. They are:
Jeffrey Bloom, executive director of the Computer Training Academy/Network Rescue Center; Lloyd Jones and Jon Martin, chief executive officer and president, respectively, of Martin & McArthur; and Kitty Lagareta, chairman and chief executive officer of Communications-Pacific Inc.
The Legacy Laureates are the late Richard Miyashiro, founder of Cafe 100 Inc. and the late Roswell Towill, founder and chairman of the Board Emeritus, R.M. Towill Corp.
• Gov. Ben Cayetano honored 63 O'ahu volunteers recently for their acts of kindness. The 2002 Kilohana Awards for Outstanding Volunteerism were presented during a ceremony at Washington Place.
"These caring and selfless individuals and groups give of their time and effort to help improve the lives of others in the community," Cayetano said. "They often work tirelessly without ever desiring or receiving recognition, so it is a tremendous pleasure for me to be able to honor them for all that they do to make Hawai'i a better place."
The volunteers were nominated by their peers in one of five categories. A member of each will represent volunteers in the respective categories at a statewide ceremony. They are:
- Youth — Shentell Crews, Hale Mohalu and Hawai'i Foster Youth Coalition.
- Adult — Les Murata, Hawai'i Youth Symphony.
- Senior — Duy-Chanh Tran, Free Vietnam Organization/Hawai'i.
- Business — Hawaiian Airlines.
- Community Project — Friends of Foster Kids.
• The Protect Keopuka 'Ohana is being presented with a donation of $11,000 by Yumi Kikuchi and Gen Morita, who coordinated more than 150 volunteers in six Japanese cities for a Hula Kahiko tour by three generations of Hawaiians.
"Everyone, with special thanks to children of the halau, gave their time so that we could give more money for the 'Ohana," Kikuchi said. "So many people in Japan were willing to volunteer and attend this tour when they heard of how the Hokuli'a development was being built on the graves of the Hawaiians. The Japanese culture reveres and honors its ancestors. ..."
Local historian "Aunty" Lily Kong, who narrated the program, said, "...these developers come in here and destroy our ancient sacred historic sites and pollute and poison our sea life and the shoreline."
The performances were in honor of the goddesses Pele, the fiery creator of land, and Laka, the goddess of dance and the forests.
Surprisingly, at the end of the first performance in Osaka, the audience, tears running down their faces, spontaneously sang "Hurusato" or "My Homeland," a song about the natural beauty of Japan that is disappearing forever.
The money will help pay for legal actions against the 1250 Oceanside Partners, the state and the county of Hawai'i.
