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A college student from Kailua is slated to appear Thursday on “Wheel of Fortune.”
CJ Covington, a senior majoring in communication at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, began watching “Wheel of Fortune” as a boy but now watches with his roommates, according to a spokesman for the game show.
Covington won a spot to appear on the show — now in its 35th season — after attending a Wheelmobile event in San Luis Obispo. At that event he hoped to win enough money to launch his own business.
The show is scheduled to air at 6:30 p.m. on KHON.
U.S. Senate passes resolution honoring former Sen. Akaka
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday honoring the life of retired U.S. Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, who died Friday at the age of 93.
Introduced by U.S. Sens. Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono, the resolution commemorated Akaka as the first and only U.S. senator of Native Hawaiian descent, who “personified the spirit of aloha.”