Bonds to fund sewer repairs
Honolulu is preparing to issue about $300 million in bonds to help pay for repairs and upgrades to the city’s sewage system.
The city said Wednesday that proceeds will help cover work on wastewater pump stations, pipes and facilities in areas including Ala Moana, Kalihi and Wahiawa.
The bonds will be sold starting next week.
Moody’s and Fitch rated the city’s wastewater revenue bonds “Aa2” and “AA” last year.
WCC teacher wins Cades award
Windward Community College instructor Janine Oshiro has received the Elliott Cades Awards for Literature.
Cades, an English instructor, was one of two winners of the prestigious Hawaii literary award chosen by the Hawaii Literary Arts Council, which hosts the awards program. Oshiro was recognized as an
emerging artist.
Oshiro accepted her award and read a selection of poems at the Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival on the Civic Center Grounds at Honolulu Hale held May 5-6.
Oshiro was born in Kahaluu and raised in Mililani. She graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., received her master’s degree in writing from Portland State University and studied at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a Kundiman fellow and the recipient of a poetry fellowship from Oregon’s Literary Arts.
Her first work, “Pier,” was published last year.
The Cades Awards, given annually since 1988, were created by Charlotte and J. Russell Cades in memory of Russell’s brother, Elliott, a teacher and lover of literature.
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442nd photo brought back to vet’s family
A veteran’s photograph of members of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat team has been returned to the Maui family of a deceased Japanese-American World War II veteran.
The photo disappeared during a chaotic estate sale at the Kahului home of Russell Shigeru Takashima over the weekend. The Maui News reported that family members say the photo showed up in a trash bag on his yard Wednesday morning.
His daughter, Faith Minyard, said the back of the framed photo was a little torn and was wet from the rain. The bag contained no note.
Takashima died Aug. 17 at age 90.
The photo is signed by some of the men from the highly decorated combat team of second-generation Japanese-Americans. The unit received the Congressional Gold Medal last year.
