Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard employee and Hawai'i Kai resident Eleanor Shimogaki was selected this month as the recipient of the Hawaii Navy League's George S.B. Walters Shipyard Service Award.

Shimogaki is the project material manager assigned to the shipyard's Fleet Maintenance Availability Project for Submarines.

After starting work in the shipyard as a clerk typist, Shimogaki entered two upward mobility programs and eventually worked her way up to her current position six years ago, according to a news release issued by Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Public Affairs.

Shimogaki will be honored by the Honolulu Council of the Navy League at the organization's annual Sea Service Awards luncheon Dec. 5 at the Ford Island Conference Center. The award comes with a $1,000 cash prize. PHNSY is the largest industrial employer in the state of Hawai'i with a combined civilian and military workforce of about 4,800. For more information on Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, visit www.phnsy.navy.mil.

GIFTS MAILED TO ISLE-BASED TROOPS

Operation Homefront of Hawai'i last week mailed more than 60 holiday boxes — weighing a total of 2,011 pounds — to Hawai'i-based Marines, airmen, soldiers and sailors, including Reserve and Guard members, in Iraq, Afghanistan and Djibouti.

Volunteers collected Hawai'i-themed goodies — macadamia nuts, coffee and Spam, among other aloha gifts — for the boxes.

Operating under a memorandum of understanding presented by the Department of Defense, Operation Homefront provides aid to families struggling with emergencies as well as everyday matters.

The nonprofit organization has 31 offices in 34 states. For more information about Operation Homefront of Hawai'i: www.operationhomefront.net/hawaii or 866-569-9185.

DOOLITTLE CO-PILOT IN TOWN FOR TALK

Retired Lt. Col. Dick Cole, Gen. Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot on the famed Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, will give a lecture at 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Pacific Aviation Museum-Pearl Harbor.

Cole will also join Jonna Doolittle Hoppes, Doolittle's granddaughter and author of "Calculated Risk," for a book signing at the museum on Dec. 8 and 9 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Reservations are required to attend Cole's lecture.

To make a reservation, call 441-1000.

Information is also available at www.pacificaviationmuseum.org.