LEI-BOR OF LOVE REACHES OUT TO
SEPT. 11 VICTIM'S FAMILY

BARRY MARKOWITZ, SPECIAL TO THE STAR-BULLETIN At a charity football game yesterday between members of New York City's Police and Fire departments in East Rutherford, N.J., Laie teen Catalina Markowitz, left, presented a fresh lei to Rhiannon O'Callaghan, who lost her firefighter father, Daniel, on Sept. 11 in World Trade Center rescue efforts. The lei were arranged by the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau after officials became aware that Markowitz's father, Barry, was invited to the game in recognition of a football game in Hawaii that he and Father John Fredericks set up to help firefighter widows and orphans. Rhiannon and her mother, Rhonda, were on hand for a ceremony in which families were presented with lost players' jerseys, framed and bearing plaques with the words, "Forever a hero on our team."

SCORING WITH KIDS

COURTESY PHOTO BY SPC. CHAD JONES Shane Vazquez, 7, went one-on-one against former Pro Bowl wide receiver Flipper Anderson (L.A. Rams, Denver Broncos) during Athletes Helping Kids, held Saturday at Wheeler Army Airfield's football stadium. More than 150 of the island's youth came to the free community event, hosted by the 25th Aviation Brigade. As part of the program, former professional football players speak to children about issues such as staying in school and the dangers of drugs and gangs.

EAGER FACES
UH-Manoa holds its spring graduation ceremony

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM University of Hawaii-Manoa undergraduates waited to receive their degrees yesterday at the commencement in the Stan Sheriff Center. Nearly 1,000 students received their diplomas.

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