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KCC’s new food truck focuses on teaching and community service

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM

The new Kapiolani Community College food truck pulls into Kuhio Park Terrace’s Family Center to deliver hot lunches for low-income families.

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Kaise Lautonga, left, brought her four children to Kuhio Park Terrace’s Family Center gym for lunch. Daughters Destiny Nebo, 22 months, and Rukcok Nebo, 5, tucked into their plates.

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM

Kapiolani Community College culinary instructor and chef Lee Shinsato, who instructs students in the Go Cook! Hawaii program, visited Kuhio Park Terrace, where meals his students prepared were served.

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM

KCC staffer Justin Ng loads insulated food carriers into the truck. In its current configuration as a delivery vehicle, the truck has plenty of space to carry the hot boxes, but it can also be filled with plug-in cooking equipment that allows it to operate as a food truck.

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM

Plates of teriyaki chicken, hapa rice, green salad and mandarin oranges were prepared by culinary students, then transported in the Cooking Up a Rainbow food truck.