Happy Camper for Friday, May 21, 2021

Dennis Fujimoto/ T he Garden Island

Cade Raposas-Carvalho, white shirt, graduating from Kaua‘i High School, and Maile Fernandez, far right, graduating from Island School, are celebrated by the Kevin Celebrato ‘ohana at the Deli & Bread Connection at Kukui Grove Center in Lihu‘e.

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

Tiffany Dick of Aloha Dance Studio gave her high-school-senior instructors, Shaylyn Vegas of Waimea High and and Jannele Puplava of Kaua‘i High an opportunity to try out their caps and gowns at the Kukui Grove Center studio in Lihu‘e.

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

Jannelle Puplava, a Kaua‘i High School senior who helps teach dance with Tiffany Dick of Aloha Dance Studio, demonstrates the crazy life of a high-school senior when she shows up for her Wednesday appointment at the Kukui Grove Center studio in Lihu‘e.

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

Denise Zumwalt of the Flip Flop Shop at Kukui Grove Center in Lihu‘e,left, said Tuesday was Alina Puig’s last day until next week because of graduation from Kapa‘a High School that takes place today. Puig will be heading off to Arizona State University to study biomedical engineering. A dancer, Puig likes Birkenstock footwear because of the high arches that give her the right kind of support.

Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island

From left, Alice Baptista, Hawai‘i Health Systems Corporation Kaua‘i Region CEO Lance Segawa, Cliff Crouch, Alessandra Hess, holding Basu Koa Ridge-Hess, Jill Faye Papworth and Steve Kline of the Kaua‘i Veterans Memorial Hospital Foundation, celebrate the new bilirubin analyzer machine made possible by a $3,000 donation from Crouch, Hess and Basu Koa Ridge-Hess Monday at KVMH in Waimea. A bilirubin analyzer is a device used to measure bilirubin levels and is often used in neonatal-intensive-care units to screen new-borns for jaundice. The analyzers either detect bilirubin levels in blood or serum samples or record skin reflectance measurements, which virtually eliminate the costs, trauma and time associated with blood draws.