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Phoenix Uesugi selected a pumpkin yesterday to take home from Aloun Farms in Kapolei.

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Gabriel Lafollette of Fort Shafter Elementary School had his hands -- and head -- full yesterday.

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Fort Shafter teacher Darleen Bumanglag and Alesha Bradford, above, were among those waving from a hayride tram.

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Students from St. Francis School, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, visited Sea Life Park yesterday and blessed the animals in honor of the school's namesake, St. Francis of Assisi.

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Liholiho Elementary School celebrated at an assembly yesterday as the deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, Ken Meyer, presented Principal Christina Small with the 2004 National No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School Award for Academic Excellence. The ceremony closed with kindergarten students -- including Eleu Heininger, left, Triniti Pruitt-Rodrigues, Hiilani Taum and Weylin Pada -- singing the school song. The other Hawaii school to earn the Blue Ribbon School Award this year is Momilani Elementary.