Japanese class at
Waldorf School marks
traditional Girls’ Day

By Ken Ige, Star-Bulletin
Aylya Marzol and her classmates, below, learned how to put
on a kimono today in Yoshiko Doi Scion's seventh-grade Japanese
conversation class at Honolulu Waldorf School in Niu Valley.
Today is Girls' Day, the Hina Matsuri festival, honored in
Hawaii as it is in Japan.

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Would You, Could
You, Read A Book?

By Ken Sakamoto, Star-Bulletin
State librarian Virginia Lowell reads to Jessica Valdez, Michelle Togami
and Sihon Jones from Nuuanu Elementary School yesterday at Washington
Place. The Hawaii State Teachers Association sponsored the "Green Eggs
& Ham Sandwich" read-along in which about 400 children participated.
The day also offered Star-Bulletin Senior Editor Diane Chang
a chance to reflect.

You Gotta Have Art

By Kathryn Bender, Star-Bulletin
Louise Barr talks to Mauka Lani Elementary School third-graders
in Art Mobile Hawaii. The Art Mobile, with its "House It" exhibit,
put together by The Contemporary Museum for the state Education
Department, is making its way around Oahu.

Crowd fills convention
center with song, spirit

By Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin
Worshippers join in song at the start of "Honolulu 2000," a gathering
of local clergy and lay people from Hawaii churches. The event last
night at the Hawai'i Convention Center continues with two days of
workshops led by Christian speakers from the isles and the
mainland on topics from ministries, marketing and counseling
to parenting and prayer. "Honolulu 2000" is sponsored by
Hawaiian Island Ministries.

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