Kinoole Farmers Market
Kinoole Farmers Market
Three East Hawaii students were selected to receive $1,000 scholarships each from the Kinoole Farmers Market.
The student were chosen for their outstanding academics and their service to agriculture.
• KaMele Eileen Sanchez is a Honokaa High School graduate and in her junior year at Colorado State University majoring in ecosystem science and sustainability with a minor in watershed management.
She interned at Costa Farms in North Carolina, the second-largest industrial nursery in the country where she had the opportunity to work with different growers.
Sanchez is the daughter of Jaymie Sanchez.
• Royden Domingo Tagalicud was valedictorian of his class at Keaau High School, made the dean’s list his freshman year at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, where is a sophomore majoring in computer science.
Tagalicud works on his family’s farm and says communication, finance management and technology training are partners for agriculture success and growth.
Tagalicud is the son of Rodrigo and Gloria Tagalicud.
• Mark Andrew Riki Tanouye, a Christian Liberty Academy graduate, is a junior at UH-Hilo majoring in tropical horticulture. He made the dean’s list his freshman and sophomore years. He works in the family-operated anthurium business Green Point Nurseries and aspires to do agricultural work and research in the state.
Tanouye is the son of Eric and Lolita Tanouye.
Keaukaha General Store
Waiakea High School graduate Kristi Hirata is the recipient of Keaukaha General Store’s $1,000 Holomua Scholarship, created to encourage students to “holomua,” or “move forward, improve and progress.”
This is the second year the store has offered the scholarship to high school students from different parts of the Big Island. The scholarship allows students to begin thinking of issues in their community and how they can better where they come from.
This year’s question was “What do you consider to be the biggest problem in our society? Why? And how do you suggest improving it?”
Hirata wrote about the platforms of religion and gender and how accepting each other in society is our biggest problem, with lack of respect and acceptance, leading to dysfunction, hurt and conflict. Hirata summarized that with simple acts of compassion, kindness and good character, we can all contribute to society with positive interaction and genuine intention.
Hirata is attending the University of Portland (Ore.) for the fall 2017 semester as she begins her major in nursing.
The scholarships are anonymously judged by Keaukaha General Store employees. For more information, visit keaukahageneralstore.com.
Hawaii Island Contractors’ Association
The Hawaii Island Contractors’ Association and it’s co-sponsors, Bank of Hawaii and HPM Building Supply, awarded two $750 scholarships during its installation banquet in June.
The recipients were second-year Hawaii Community College students Cheyenne Chun, an architectural, engineering and CAD technologies major and Henry Sanborn, a carpentry major.
For the past 18 years, the HICA and its co-sponsors annually hold a Scholarship Trolling Tournament to fund the scholarships for students entering their second year of college pursing a degree in a construction-related field.