Posted on: Sunday, October 7, 2007
Salutes
Advertiser Staff
Sheralynn Humel, a user of the Kane'ohe Public Library and a sophomore at Castle High School, is the $1,000 grand prize winner of the 2007 Hawai'i Pizza Hut and Hawai'i State Public Library System Young Adult Summer Reading Shopping Spree Sweepstakes.
Her name was recently drawn by sponsoring Hawai'i Pizza Hut officials from among 51 entries submitted by Hawai'i's 51 public libraries. Humel read 11 books, her favorite being "Crazy in Love" by Dandi Daley Mackall.
She wins a $1,000 shopping spree at Pearlridge Center.
The International Quilt Association recently announced that Honolulu quilter Monika Scola has had her work, Pink Beauty, named as a finalist in the art/pictorial category of the Association's annual judged show, Quilts: A World of Beauty. Winners of the competition will be announced Oct. 30 in Houston, Texas, just before the International Quilt Festival, the largest annual quiltmaking show, sale and quiltmaking academy in the world.
Some soldiers stationed in Iraq are playing soccer with local children to forge positive relationships within the community. Kmart Salt Lake and its general manager, Mike Lane, made this possible by donating soccer balls to the troops.
The soldiers gave the soccer balls to Iraqi youth teams and conducted workshops to teach kids how to play.
Dr. Michael Bennett, founder and CEO of Retina Institute of Hawai'i and Hawai'i Vision Project, is featured in the July/August issue of Healthy Aging magazine.
Bennett, a local vitreoretinal surgeon, was asked to author an article on age-related macular degeneration in collaboration with Dr. Wendy Yee, who practices at Retina Institute of Hawai'i. The article discusses the risk factors for AMD and describes new treatments.
Bennett also was featured in the May/June issue of American Fitness magazine where he discussed the effects of exercise on AMD.
Nicholas Young of Honolulu has been named All American State Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
"Commander Young is one of 27 state commanders selected as All American," said VFW National Commander Gary Kurpius. "This prestigious honor is earned through exceptional performance in advancing VFW membership as well as actively participating in at least five of the VFW's core programs."
The VFW assists all veterans and their families in obtaining veterans entitlements and other services.
Participation in a mentoring program called Site-based Plus has won the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset the Best Cooperative Projects Award from Rotary International. With the cooperation of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu, Sunset Rotarians went on monthly group outings with students of Palolo Elementary to such places as Bishop Museum, USS Missouri and even a local bowling alley.
In addition to his duties as an internist, Dr. S. Kalani Brady teaches about medical issues that affect Native Hawaiians, makes weekly trips to Moloka'i to tend to Hansen's Disease patients, and shares his medical expertise in lay person's terms on morning television. It is this commitment to the medical profession and the community that prompted the Hawai'i Medical Association to name him 2007 Physician of the Year, an award he officially received on Sept. 15.
A native of Kaua'i, Brady is an associate professor of Native Hawaiian Health at University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine, director of education at Straub Foundation, journal editor and education co-chair for HMA and vice president and scientific program committee chair of the Hawai'i Chapter of the American College of Physicians. He also serves on the boards of the local American Heart Association, 'Ahahui o na Kauka and Saint Louis School.
Recently elected to the board of directors of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i for 2007-2008 were: Susan Eichor, president and chief operating officer of aio Group, owner of Honolulu Magazine; Gordon Kagawa, president and chief executive officer of Occidental Underwriters of Hawaii; and Curt Otaguro, senior vice president of First Hawaiian Bank.
The directors, who manage the property and business of JCCH, also elected a new board of governors, an advisory group that oversees and organizes various JCCH programs and activities.
The Arc in Hawai'i has presented its 21st Century Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Garret Yanagi, a pioneer in clinical psychology who led Waimano Training School and Hospital through its transition from a residential facility to a developmental model of treatment and training.
Established in the 1950s when most people with intellectual and developmental disabilities were institutionalized, The Arc in Hawai'i worked to gain education programs in public schools and residential services in community settings. Its success was both an opportunity and a challege to the State of Hawai'i's Waimano facility, and Yanagi played a key role in the changes that took place over his 22-year tenure there.
"Dr. Yanagi's leadership and regard for the human rights of every individual were instrumental in the transition from institutional to community-based care," noted Thomas Huber, president of The Arc in Hawai'i.
Hawai'i Women Lawyers recently announced its 2007-2008 officers. They are: president, Lauren Sharkey of Case Lombardi & Pettit; vice president/president elect, Emi Kaimuloa of Watanabe Ing & Komeiji; secretary, Shellie Park-Hoapili of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing; treasurer, Zale Okazaki of Ayabe Chong Nishimoto Sia & Nakamura; and immediate past president, Lynne Jenkins McGivern of Ashford & Wriston LLP.
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard diver and rigger supervisor Thomas Glazier was selected recently by the Navy League of the United States as the winner of its Robert M. Thompson Award for Outstanding Civilian Leadership. The award recognizes a civilian whose personal efforts have furthered sea power.
Glazier was recognized for executing 10 critical voyage repairs and about 17,700 man-hours of underwater work within the past year, and for contributing his 20-plus years of knowledge to a fleet-wide "lessons learned" Web site.
Glazier supervises the shipyard's Regional Dive Locker.
