Grants and honors
Advertiser Staff
Long-time Special Olympic volunteer recognized
Stephanie Zane has been recognized as an Outstanding Rehabilitant of the Year by the Department of Human Services, Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Blind Division.
Zane is a 14-year employee of the Hawai'i Kai McDonald's and long-time volunteer with the Special Olympics.
Correction: Stephanie Zane has worked at the Hawai'i Kai McDonald's for 14 years. A headline on a previous version of this column was incorrect.
HPU man leads Fulbright unit
Hawai'i Pacific University political science associate professor Dr. Carlos Ju‡rez has been elected president of the Fulbright Association, Hawai'i Chapter.
Ju‡rez, also program chair in the College of International Studies at HPU, was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico in 2000 and is a peer review specialist in helping select senior Fulbright awards in political science.
The Fulbright Association, a part of the prestigious Fulbright Program, is a flagstaff international education program financed by the U.S. Department of State established to increase understanding between the United States and other countries.
Ju‡rez teaches graduate and undergraduate classes on conflict and peacemaking, global governance, and politics in developing countries.
USA Funds scholarships
USA Funds has awarded each of 111 high school seniors from across the nation, including Hawai'i, a $1,500 college scholarship. Winners from Hawai'i: Erin Kimura (Castle High); Rowena A.R. Rivera (Campbell); Erin Jones (Leilehua); LeiAnn Yocom (Nanakuli); Chase Sy-Fuu-Lee (McKinley); Sheila Esquerra (Radford); Lina Siu (Wai'anae); and LeiAnn Cadiz (Waipahu).
USA Funds is a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind.
Independent Living executive
Patricia Lockwood, executive of the Hawai'i Centers for Independent Living, has been appointed to the board of the Statewide Independent Living Council of Hawai'i, a private, nonprofit organization mandated by the federal government to oversee independent living services in Hawai'i.
The council serves clients with independent living skills training, peer counseling, individual and systems advocacy, housing referral, personal assistance services, and transportation for medical appointments.
Grant goes to arts company
Aloha Performing Arts Company of Kealakekua, Hawai'i, has received a $20,000 "Mo' Bettah Together" grant from the Black Fund, Robert Emens Fund of the Hawai'i Community Foundation, to support the creation of a dramatic presentation exploring the issue of domestic violence, which will tour Big Island intermediate and high schools in November and December.
The company, formed in the 1980s, toured Big Island schools with "Breaking Ice" — a play about ice addiction using real people and real stories — last year, reaching about 12,000 students ages 12 through 18. Previous educational shows have addressed issues such as child abuse, alcoholism, sexual abuse, drug abuse and the importance of education.
The Hawai'i Community Foundation is a nonprofit, statewide, charitable services and grantmaking organization supported by donor contributions for the benefit of Hawai'i's people. The foundation gives nearly $10 million in grants each year.
Tar Wars poster winners named
The winners of the 2003 Hawai'i State Tar Wars Poster Contest, sponsored by the Hawaiian Waters Adventure Parks, are: First, Cheyenne Macadangdang of Barbers Point Elementary; second, Darian Tolentino of Iliahi Elementary; and third, Ashlen Hanakoka of He'eia Elementary.
Macadangdang receives a trip for two to Washington, D.C., in July to compete in the National Tar Wars poster contest.
Tar Wars is a nationwide pro-health, tobacco-free education program for fifth-graders. Tar Wars Hawai'i is made possible in part by a grant from the Hawai'i Community Foundation.
Read Aloud wins $5,000 grant
The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation awarded Read Aloud America a $5,000 grant to support the Read Aloud Program in Hawai'i.
RAP, a family literacy program designed to create communities of lifelong readers, brings families together twice a month during one school semester to share the pleasures and enrichment of reading. Since 1999, RAP has served more than 57,000 participants through 28 programs in Hawai'i's public schools.
