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Island Images, November 2015

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM

The Honolulu Zoo welcomed four African penguins on Wednesday afternoon. The male penguins — named Huey, Avery, Beazle and Elrond — swam and frolicked in their exhibit, located in the African Savanna section. According to zookeeper Natalie Wilson, the birds had once preferred to live out of the water at their original home in the Seneca Park Zoo in New York. Since arriving in Hawaii, however, they have spent most of their time in the water. Wilson said the zoo plans to introduce females and eventually grow the population to 25 penguins.

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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

An area where a 150-year-old tree crashed down Monday at the Queen’s Medical Center was slowly being cleaned up by workmen Friday afternoon.

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM

Juto Matsumoto, 10, right, played a pair of congas as his father, La Dean Westbrooks, drummed on a picnic table behind him. The father-and-son duo was out practicing at Kapiolani Regional Park on Friday. “He’s learning the beats,” said Westbrooks, who then danced and added, “The thing that makes everybody do this.”

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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM

Volunteers served Thanksgiving meals to some of Honolulu’s 2,000 needy, elderly and homeless residents and guests at the Salvation Army’s 45th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner at the Neal Blaisdell Exhibition Hall. Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Maj. John Chamness, leader of the Salvation Army’s Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division, Salvation Army personnel and about 800 volunteers prepared the meals and cleaned up after the event. About 900 pounds of turkey (approximately 100 20-pound turkeys), 300 pounds of stuffing, 35 gallons of gravy, 350 pounds of rice, 125 cases of fresh pineapples, 165 dozen dinner rolls, 100 gallons of fruit punch, 250 pies and 30 pounds of coffee were served.