SHINING STARS
Funds raised by Run for Hope going to cancer fighters
More than $80,000 was raised for cancer research in the two-day 2007 Run for Hope event at the
Four Seasons Resort Hualalai on the Big Island in September. The 11th annual event included the Taste of Hawaii Island and Silent Auction, a 10K/5K run/walk, the Hualalai Golf Scramble and a tennis tournament.
Proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society (West Hawaii Unit), and the University of Hawaii-Manoa's Cancer Research Center.
The
Office of Hawaiian Affairs awarded $25,000 to the
Kahumana Organic Farm on the Waianae Coast to establish an apprenticeship project in food services and farm industry.
Kiyoe Wellington, a 10th-grader at La Pietra-Hawaii School for Girls, and
Victoria Davis, an eighth-grader at La Pietra, won Gold Key awards in the 85th Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards program -- and a trip to the mainland for the national contest.
Caelan Hughes, a ninth-grader at La Pietra, a nondenominational college preparatory school for girls, won a Silver Key award.
Their work will be on display at the Hawaii State Art Museum until April 4.
Lillian Too's Feng Shui Extravaganza Hawaii 2008 workshop in January raised $11,273 for the
Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. The event, "How to Think Big in the Year of the Earth Rat," was sponsored by
Joanie and Peter Lung of the World of Feng Shui, which has raised $35,000 for the hospital.
The
Harold K.L. Castle Foundation awarded $200,000 to
Chaminade University to support the expansion and renovation of its Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division. The money will provide three new laboratories and a faculty research hotel, and fund the renovation of support areas in Henry Hall.
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