Salutes
Advertiser Staff
Woman to get peace award
Church of the Crossroads will honor June Shimokawa with the 2004 Hawaii Peacemaker Award. She was selected on the basis of her lifelong commitment to issues of peace and justice. Shimokawa is director of the Hawai'i office of the American Friends Service Committee.
The award will be presented at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration 7 p.m. today at Church of the Crossroads on University Avenue.
Schools given 100 monitors
AT&T Hawaii has donated 100 computer monitors to six O'ahu schools: Ala Wai Elementary School, Kahuku High School, Kalaheo High School, Kalani High School, Mililani High School and Roosevelt High School.
"Our recent call-center growth and new systems applications required us to purchase new 21-inch computer monitors," said Jackie Ingamells, managing director of AT&T Hawaii. "We immediately thought about giving our replaced computer monitors, which are less than a year old and in excellent condition, to our local schools."
AT&T Hawaii is also providing manpower to help set up the computer monitors through AT&T CARES, a nationwide community initiative that provides AT&T employees eight paid hours to volunteer in the community.
Lanakila honors top employees
Lanakila, a nonprofit social service agency in Honolulu, announced its employee and client awards at its recent annual meeting. Awardees were:
• Karen Pang, Adult Day Services Client of the Year, Bachelot branch.
• Celeste Kagimoto, Adult Day Services Client of the Year, Wahiawa.
• Brian Kaku, Workforce Development Services Client of the Year, Community Employment Service.
• Charles Saromines, Workforce Development Services Client of the Year, Community Employment Service.
• Felicidad Rubiano, Adult Day Services Employee of the Year.
• Philip Wong, Workforce Development Services Employee of the Year.
• Susan Ito, Meals on Wheels Employee of the Year.
• DISA-PAC (Military), Meals on Wheels Volunteer of the Year.
• Margaret Scharsch, Department of Health Case Manager of the Year.
• Diane Pittman, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor of the Year.
Lanakila provides services to support people who have physical, cognitive or age-related challenges to learn job and living skills.
