Grants, awards
Advertiser Staff
KEY Project receives grant
KEY Project has been awarded a grant of $10,000 from First Hawaiian Foundation, the charitable arm of First Hawaiian Bank, for its capital improvement campaign.
"We are very grateful to the First Hawaiian Foundation for their generosity to KEY Project," said Robert Nakata, executive director of KEY Project. "This grant will enable us to nearly triple the size of the KEY HOLE, our drop-in center for the children and youth we serve in the Kualoa-He'eia community.
"It will also help provide a community development room where this active community can hold planning sessions to map its future. These additions to our facility will be a great asset."
KEY Project is a nonprofit, multiservice, grassroots community services center in Kualoa-He'eia that was recently designated as a community treasure by the Hawaii Community Services Council upon the recommendation of Aloha United Way.
Vocational trainee honored
Gill M. Giltner has been named an Outstanding Rehabilitant of the Year for 2001 by the Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Blind Division of the Department of Human Services.
Giltner completed the groundskeeping training program at Lanakila Rehabilitation Center, finishing early. Afterward, he was hired by Lanakila as a project crew trainer.
Dentists named masters, fellows
The Academy of General Dentistry recently honored its 2002 Fellows and Masters. They are: Dr. Candice McMullan-Vogel, Dr. Marc Ken Nakamura, Dr. Michael Nishime, Dr. James Oshiro, Dr. Wayne Masao Tamashiro, Dr. Irwin Tamura and Dr. Gary Umeda.
To earn a fellowship, dentists must be academy members for five consecutive years, earn a minimum of 500 approved continuing education credits, pass a comprehensive, 400-question examination and attend a convocation ceremony.
To attain mastership, members must be fellows in the academy who have earned an additional 600 approved continuing education credits, meeting the minimum requirements in each of the dental disciplines. In addition, 400 of the required credits must be in participation courses, where skills are learned through manipulation of dental materials. The final requirement for mastership is to attend a convocation ceremony.
