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Island Images
For Tuesday, November 16, 2010
By Star-Advertiser Photographers
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 14, 2010
LAST UPDATED: 02:16 a.m. HST, Nov 16, 2010
MOTOR-VATED: A motorcyclist, red Mohawk blowing in the wind, cruised yesterday (Nov. 20) down Diamond Head Road near the lighthouse.
TREE-MENDOUS | Mayor Peter Carlisle, in the bucket of a cherry picker, and city workers posed for a city photographer yesterday after the workers erected the city's Christmas tree in front of Honolulu Hale. The 55-foot Norfolk Island pine was donated by Green Thumb Nursery in Waimanalo.
TREE-MENDOUS | Mayor Peter Carlisle, in the bucket of a cherry picker, and city workers posed for a city photographer yesterday after the workers erected the city's Christmas tree in front of Honolulu Hale. The 55-foot Norfolk Island pine was donated by Green Thumb Nursery in Waimanalo.
THE DIRTY TOOTH ABOUT SMOKING | Dental hygiene students Ariel Ha, left, and Pamela Terrado showed a model of a "gross mouth" due to smoking and tobacco use as part of a "Great American Smokeout" fair yesterday at the Campus Center at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. The event was put on by the Health Promotion Office of the University Health Services.
OVERFLOWING WITH FLOWERS | The arms of the Duke Kahanamoku statue at Waikiki Beach yesterday bore a bounty of lei.
Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Shane Victorino met with members of the national champion Waipio Little League baseball team yesterday at Zippy’s in Waipio. Victorino spoke to the team as part of a promotion that has helped the Shane Victorino Foundation raise $25,000 toward building a batting cage at nearby Kanoelani Field.
Sunshine created a star-like effect through the tree that workers from the city Department of Parks and Recreation cut at Green Thumb Nursery in Waimanalo yesterday. The 55-foot Norfolk pine, which will be displayed at Honolulu Hale, was too tall so the bottom had to be trimmed to size.
STUDENTS URGE SAFE DRIVING: More than 75 Roosevelt High School students lined the street in front of the school yesterday to remind motorists to slow down. Students Kyanna Guieb, left, and Hailey Pedersen waved signs on Nehoa Street.
INVESTING IN THE ENVIRONMENT | Mayor Peter Carlisle presided over the Mayor's Annual Arbor Day Ceremony and helped plant six trees with the help of Kalihi Elementary School kids at Kamehameha Community Park.
Three-year-old Dennison Zakahi was dressed by kimono dresser Kumiko Okimoto yesterday during a keiki kimono dressing at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii in Moiliili. Shichi Go San, literally translated as “seven, five, three,” stems from the Meiji era (1868-1912) when parents brought their kimono-clad children — girls ages 3 and 7, and boys ages 3 and 5 — to shrines to pray that they have long and prosperous lives.
HOLIDAY CHEER: Ballet Hawaii dancers practiced at Dole Cannery yesterday for their upcoming performances of "The Nutcracker" Dec. 17-19 at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. Gabrielle Chock, Raven Matsushita, Courtney Schenberger and Stephanie Schenberger waited for their turn to practice. The ballet will be the subject of a public service announcement by filmmaker Edgy Lee.
MARINES TO MIDDLE EAST | More than 200 Marines, part of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment stationed at Kaneohe, said goodbye to their families yesterday as they left for southern Afghanistan. Kelly Sawielski, left, gave a helping hand to his daughter, Sophya, before boarding a bus to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
Pfc. Sam Breeden, left, Cpl. Daniel MacLaren and Lance Cpl. Trey Rasmussen waited to board their buses.
Victoria Vegas-Muraki, left, and Toni Vegas visited the grave site of their father, George Vegas, a U.S. Army sergeant who served in World War II. They brought floral decorations to the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery yesterday and cleaned the grave marker. For more on Veterans Day observances across the nation and in Hawaii.
A shaka sign was flashed from a Hawaii National Guard Humvee during the annual
Wahiawa Veterans Day Parade yesterday along California Avenue in Wahiawa. Please see story on Veterans Day activities.
Marching bands from 16 Hawaii high schools, including the Kahuku Red Raiders Marching Band, above, performed in the University of Hawaii Rainbow Marching Band’s 31st annual Meadow Gold invitational yesterday at Aloha Stadium.
A 70-foot banyan tree crushed a Honda minivan yesterday on Oahu Avenue in Manoa. Owner Jessica FitzGerald, a University of Hawaii sophomore, told KITV she was walking to the vehicle when the tree toppled. “I heard a creaking noise and it fell over in slow motion,” she said. “It was really surreal.”
Lance Cpl. Isidro Grana, wearing a uniform from the Barbary Wars, was engulfed in a cloud of smoke after firing his musket yesterday during a celebration of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 235th birthday at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The Marines held a historical Marine Corps uniform pageant and cake-cutting ceremony.
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