Posted on: Monday, May 9, 2005

Salutes

Advertiser Staff

Mentor group honors volunteers

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu has announced its Volunteers of the Year. They are Teague Mangiaracina and Jaclyn Salazar, Big Brother and Big Sister of the Year for the Community-Based Mentoring Program and Jason Ideta and Grace Kashiwa, Big Brother and Big Sister of the Year for the Site-Based Mentoring Program.

UH China center announces awards

The University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Center for Chinese Studies has announced the recipients of awards from the Tung Bui Guangdong Project and the Chung-fong and Grace Ning Chinese Studies Fund.

Jennifer Dunn and Jay Hubert received the Tung Bui Guangdong Project Student Excellence Award.

Yoshihisa Amae and Kuan-hung Chen received the Chung-fong and Grace Ning Excellence in Chinese Studies Graduate Student Award.

Hawai'i officers applauded

Hawai'i's law-enforcement officers received three international awards for their efforts in the Law Enforcement Torch Run at the LETR International Conference in Washington, D.C.

An added highlight of the conference was the receipt by HPD officer Rob Steiner of the international John Carion "Unsung Hero" Award, a special award given to the person who best exemplifies unheralded dedication to the Special Olympics program and the community.

Conservation effort recognized

A U.S. Department of the Interior Four C's Award has been presented to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Pacific Islands Conservation Partnership Program. The award recognizes the staff's efforts in working with landowners and conservation organizations to benefit Hawai'i's native ecosystems.

Craig Rowland, program coordinator for Pacific Islands Conservation Partnership Program, accepted the award on behalf of staff members Chris Swenson, Benton Pang, Naomi Bentivoglio, Stephanie Bennett, Donna Ball and Bret Harper.

They helped provide almost $2.7 million in assistance and coordination.

11th-grader wins ACLU award

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai'i has announced that Raquel "Honey-girl" Hoe-Pedro, an 11th-grader from the Windward charter school Hakipu'u Learning Center, is the first recipient of its Thomas P. Gill Scholar award.

She worked with the ACLU during the legislative session, conducting research, preparing drafts and presenting testimony on a range of issues.