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Civic club installs officers
Tony Ho has been installed as president of the Prince Kuhio Civic Club, which provides financial aid to Hawaiian scholars.
Harriet N. Roxburgh was named first vice president. Other officers are: Kina'u Boyd Kamali'i, second vice president; Wendy Peters Maher, corresponding secretary; Alma P. Cirino, recording secretary; Leinani Keppeler-Bortles, treasurer; and Pua Hinano Campton, immediate past president.
Cancer group names president
The Hawai'i Children's Cancer Foundation has announced that Mina Humphreys has been elected its president.
Diane T. Ono was selected as president-elect.
The new board also includes John L. Lederer, secretary; Aileen Utterdyke, treasurer; and Dr. Robert W. Wilkinson, president emeritus.
Mo'ili'ili center gets new leaders
Mo'ili'ili Community Center has announced the election of officers: Gerard Sakamoto, president; Koki Akamine, first vice president; Walter Ozawa, second vice president; Adrian Kwock, treasurer; and Donna Hashimoto, secretary.
Newly elected board members include Glen Grant, Celia Oh, Reese Nakamura, Nadine Nishioka, Julie Okamoto and Sojiro Takamura.
In other news, the center has received a $5,000 grant from the Atherton Family Foundation, a $6,500 grant from the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities for the Mo'ili'ili Oral History Project, a $250 grant from Pearl Harbor Performing Arts Association for the senior program, and $850 from Foodland's "Give Aloha" campaign.
Foodland awards $432 to Lanakila
Lanakila has been awarded $432.51 from "Give Aloha," Foodland supermarket's annual community matching gifts program.
Jenai S. Wall, Foodland chairwoman and chief executive officer, thanked Lanakila for its support and participation in the program.
"Through donations and grants, we were able to give support to Hawai'i's communities," Wall said.
Maui Food Bank to receive grant
M. "Chubby" Vicens, board chairperson of the Maui Food Bank, has announced that the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has renewed its grant for $100,000.
In the aftermath of 9/11, the foundation responded by making an unrestricted grant available to the Maui Food Bank to help the local nonprofits' response to the growing need for hunger relief.
