Thank you, Streets! Kauai Christian Academy seniors Cyra Feliz and Addison Reusser celebrate being recipients of $1,000 scholarships from the Pauline and Nicholas EZ Street Foundation. Feliz will be studing Mechanical Engineering at George Fox University, and Reusser will be attending Taylor University where she will be studying film and media. The pair are two of the six graduating seniors at the Kauai Christian Academy.
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Fifteen graduating seniors from Island School were awarded $2,000 scholarships from the Pauline and Nicholas E Z Street Charitable Foundation administered through the Hawaii Community Foundation. Shown are (front row) TaiMana Kjeldsen, Luke Junqueira, Lilah Hamid, Orion Magaoay, Jude Washburn, Kristian “Quist” Bran, (back row) Bodhi Czarske, Aaron “Spike” Egan, Ruby Frazer, Mary Magoun, Keaupuni “Kea” Miyake, Michaela “Mac” Meuldijk, Lyla Nakayama, Emily Racpan. Missing is Ashley Chjin.The E Z Street Foundation also contributed scholarships to the Kapaa High School Foundation, the Waimea Alumni and Friends Foundation, the Kauai High School Foundation and the Kauai Community College Nursping Program.
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Coordinated by Sheldon Peralta of Bubba’s Toy Box, the Mei Makeke space turned into a comic and collectors’ convention over the weekend, including Saturday, May 17, 2025. What is it going to be this weekend after all those high school graduations?
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The Kauai Filipino Community Council group invites people to join them in their monthly cleaning of the Hanamaulu Beach Park. The group that presents Miss Kauai Filipina Scholarship Pageant (coming up on June 21, starting at 7 p.m. at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall) meets on the third Sunday of each month from 8 a.m.
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Midweek writer (freelance status) Ginger Keller on Sunday, May 18, 2025, gets a photo of her sister, Sage Keller and alumni of Kilauea Elementary School, lakeside at the Steve and Janine Hunt home during the North Shore Lions Scholarship get-together.
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Miss Kauai Filipina contestant Ciaralan Tolentino was surprised at the number of cigarette butts were just tossed on the lawn when she joined the Kauai Filipino Community Council group that met at the Hanamaulu Beach Park for its monthly clean up on the third Sunday … President Nancy Apalla said her husband (he’s with the Philippine Island Hawaii Island, or PIHI, bicycle group) has been eyeing the railroad trestle that is part of the Kauai Pathways long-term plans to Nawiliwili.
Miss Kauai Filipina contestant Ciaralan Tolentino was surprised at the number of cigarette butts were just tossed on the lawn when she joined the Kauai Filipino Community Council group that met at the Hanamaulu Beach Park for its monthly clean up on the third Sunday … President Nancy Apalla said her husband (he’s with the Philippine Island Hawaii Island, or PIHI, bicycle group) has been eyeing the railroad trestle that is part of the Kauai Pathways long-term plans to Nawiliwili.
Miss Kauai Filipina Scholarship Pageant Contestant Coordinator Liz Kawamura said this year’s pageant (and, we have the Miss Hawaii Filipina state pageant on Kauai in August) is lucky to have the help of a Philippines teacher, Jordan, who has an extensive background in stage productions in the Philippines.
Carol Yotsuda has a graduation on Oahu Friday night, but will be back on Kauai to open the Boroboro Boutique and all its grandma-style, hands-on learning and sewing from Saturday through Monday at the Kauai Society of Artists gallery at the Kukui Grove Center. Carol said Shannon Hiramoto’s dad Charlie is supposed to bring his press so people can print some of the cards, and someone else is bringing the hand-powered Singer sewing machine.
Mahalo to Steve and Janine Hunt for allowing use of their lakeside (Lion Gary Pacheco said he used to fish there) property to the North Shore Lions Club and its scholarship get-together where alumni of the Kilauea Elementary School were doing reunion photos. Sage and Ginger’s (she used to write for Midweek before coming home to Kauai) mom Sue Martin Keller was a key figure with the Kauai County Fair where Ginger would do microphone duty to help out Sen. Billy Fernandez.
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Dennis Fujimoto can be reached at 245-0453 or at dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
