Salutes
Advertiser Staff
Police chief delivers awards
Police Chief Lee Donohue presented awards to the following people:
• Sgt. Michael Lyons and Officer Phil Camero each received an award as the 2003 Employee of the First Quarter. Lyons oversees officers working from the 'ewa side of River Street through the Mapunapuna area.
During the first quarter of this year, Lyons and his officers made 46 felony and 70 misdemeanor arrests and more than 350 arrests for status offenses. Among the more notable cases were the arrest of a man who robbed the Liliha branch of First Hawaiian Bank.
Camero is assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division's Missing Persons Detail. He is also a member of the department's Crisis Negotiation Team and the Civil Affairs Unit and serves as a Peer Support Counselor. During 2002, he investigated about 450 missing-person cases and successfully closed 95 percent of them.
• Members of the Narcotics/Vice Division's Covert Detail were named the 2003 Unit of the First Quarter. The Covert Detail conducts long-term narcotics investigations focusing on middle-to-upper-level drug distributors and drug trafficking organizations as well as developing intelligence and leads related to maritime drug smuggling.
• Darrell Kaneshiro received the Certificate of Merit. He followed a bank robbery suspect and provided the police with information that led to the man's capture in San Francisco.
• Officers Theodore Merrill and Gary Masiglat, assigned to District 2 (Wahiawa), received Certificates of Merit for preventing a man from jumping from the Leilehua Golf Course Road Overpass onto H-2 Freeway.
Officers Jonathan Jimenez and John Torres, assigned to District 6 (Waikiki) received Certificates of Merit for apprehending an escapee from Halawa Correctional Facility.
HCC student wins award
Renee Bell is the 2003 recipient of the Masaki and Momoe Kunimoto Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Career and Technical Education. Bell is a second-year student in the food services program at Hawai'i Community College. Although physically challenged, Bell runs her own restaurant.
Filipino group honors parents
Fred and Rosita Camero were recently nominated as Parents of the Year by the Philippines Cultural Foundation of Hawai'i. There were nine nominees from all over the state. Fred is from Narvacan Ilocos Sur, Philippines.
As a teenager during World War II he volunteered with the Secret Service of the Philippine 121st Infantry. In 1946 he settled on Lana'i.
Rosita Magaoay was born in Kahuku. She attended Lana'i High where she graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1951. She completed a certificate in secretarial science through correspondence school.
In the past 50 years they have set an example of love, trust, perseverance and relentless giving and service to the community, the foundation said in its nomination. Their six children continue to be achievers, it added.
