Last week, I attended the Nu'u Ministries' annual Lumana'i Awards Banquet, a scholarship program for Hawaii high school students of Samoan ancestry.
Last year, we had 2 Kahuku students win the award. This year, there were 4 Kahuku students and one area resident among the awardees. Way to go Ko'olauloa!
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Helping bring basketball fever back to the island's most feverish football community, Kahuku senior Jray Galea'i led the Red Raiders to a perfect and thrilling O'ahu Interscholastic Association regular season.
For his efforts, he was named OIA Red Conference Eastern Division Player of the Year after a recent vote of league coaches.
Galea'i, a 6-foot guard, was an explosive force in the open court who also could pull up and drain the 3-pointer or penetrate and dish to teammates.
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A state champion can carry the team only so far.
But behind an all-around team effort, championships are more than possible.
The Kahuku High School girls retained its team title at yesterday's 7-plus-hour O'ahu Interscholastic Association Eastern Division Track and Field Championships at Kaiser. The Red Raiders edged runner-up Kaiser, 131-116.
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Ghialana Borges, a Kahuku High School senior, has won the grand prize at the 2009 Congressional Art Contest "Kaha Kii: An Artistic Discovery."The announcement was made Monday by U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono.
Borges' winning work, a photograph titled "Reflections," will represent Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District on display in Washington, D.C.
A total of 148 students from Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Oahu and the Big Island entered the contest.
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