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Team hopes to promote local wood with grant

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM

Joseph Valenti is part of a group that was awarded the state’s first federal Wood Innovation Grant. Valenti and his girlfriend Christine Johnson paused in April on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, where they are using Albizia trees to build a small house.