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Leading Junior Achievement
Joining the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Hawai'i are:
Greg Cabanting, director of marketing, Anheuser-Busch Sales of Hawaii Inc.; Robert Cundiff, general manager, Weyerhaeuser; Norman Doi, vice president and branch manager, First Hawaiian Bank; Carolyn Fujioka, director of Public Affairs Hawaii, State Farm Insurance Cos.; Patrick Kozuma, manager, Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel; Ann Mahi, director, Instructional Services Branch, Hawaii Department of Education; Corlis Nihei, sales and service manager, Hawaii State Federal Credit Union; Cheryl Takitani-Smith, vice president for financial affairs, Hawaii Dental Service.
Recently elected board officers are: Cid Inouye, partner in Reinwald O57 and of Connor & Playdon as chair; Peter Kashiwa, partner, Goodsill Anderson Quinn Stifel, as vice chair for board development; Craig Matsuda, assistant vice president for operations, AIG Hawaii Insurance Co., as vice chair for education; Robert Schuster, manager, The Orchid at Mauna Lani, as vice chair for resource development; Willis Sanburn, secretary; and Marcia Wolff, senior tax manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, treasurer.
Junior Achievement of Hawaii is headquartered in Honolulu with district operations on Maui and Hawai'i. Alan Okinaka of Hilo serves as president of the district board on the Big Island; and Jeannie Wenger, vice president of Old Republic Title in Kihei, serves as president of the Maui district board.
Junior Achievement of Hawaii has educated and inspired thousands of young people to value free-enterprise education and practical guidance since 1957. Today, Junior Achievement's trained volunteers teach business, economics, personal finance and success skills to students in grades K-12 right in the classroom.
More than 13,000 students will participate in the program this year.
To volunteer, call 545-1777 on O'ahu, 877-ASK-JAHI on the Neighbor Islands, or visit www.jahawaii.com.
Justice center anniversary
The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii's Center for Equal Justice is celebrating its third anniversary this month. Legal Aid concentrates its efforts on assisting low-income and disadvantaged individuals and families with their noncriminal legal matters.
Since opening in November 1999, the center has helped more than 3,100 people with civil legal needs. A "one-stop shop" for self-help legal services, the center was created to improve access to information and legal resources for all members of the community.
"Not everyone has access to a computer or can afford an attorney," said Katie Dzombar, legal advocate. "The center provides a variety of free services to help overcome these obstacles. We look forward to expanding these services by using new video-conference technology."
Visitors to the center can access the Internet through five computer workstations, draft correspondence or do research with the help of easy-to-follow brochures, browse through the center's law library and take advantage of free notary services. The center also offers free or low-cost advice from legal staff in the areas of consumer, family, housing, and public-benefits law to eligible low-income individuals.
The Center for Equal Justice is in Legal Aid's Honolulu office at 924 Bethel St. For more information, contact Legal Aid at 536-4302.
