Bill Text: HI HR145 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulating Emma Tandara And Cierra Nakamura As Recipients Of The 2017 Prudential Spirit Of Community Award, Evan Liu And Lisa Kam As Finalists For The 2017 Prudential Spirit Of Community Award, And Kacie Kajihara As A Presidential Scholar Candidate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-21 - Resolution adopted in final form. [HR145 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-HR145-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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HOUSE RESOLUTION
Congratulating Emma Tandara AND Cierra Nakamura AS RECIPIENTS OF THE 2017 PRUDENTIAL SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY AWARD, EVAN LIU and Lisa Kam AS finalists for THE 2017 PRUDENTIAL SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY AWARD, AND kacie Kajihara as A PRESIDENTIAL Scholar candidate.
WHEREAS, EMMA TANDARA, a recipient of the 2017 Prudential Spirit of Community Award, is an eighth-grader at Ewa Makai Middle School and organized her school's recycling program by creating an instructional recycling video seen across the state, coordinating recycling drives, and leading recycling sorting games at elementary schools across the island; and
WHEREAS, CIERRA NAKAMURA, a recipient of the 2017 Prudential Spirit of Community Award, is a senior at Iolani School and created a campaign called "Spreading Smiles Across Miles," a program that sends donated dental hygiene products to impoverished families in underdeveloped Asia-Pacific countries; and
WHEREAS, EVAN LIU, a finalist for the 2017 Prudential Spirit of Community Award, is a junior at Punahou School and is an active volunteer at Kuakini Hospital, the International Hospitality Center, and Smile Train, where he is working to raise funds for cleft lip surgeries; and
WHEREAS, LISA KAM, a finalist for the 2017
Prudential Spirit of Community Award, is a senior at Maryknoll School and
worked with the Hawaii Chinese History Center to create a program called Family
Oriented Cultural Understanding Study (FOCUS), which is designed to help
students and their families trace their Chinese roots; and
WHEREAS, KACIE KAJIHARA, is a senior at Kalani High School, has earned recognition
as a National Merit Semi-Finalist and Presidential Scholar candidate, and also
showed ingenuity in contemplating the future of local agriculture by conducting
experiments pertaining to more rapidly growing and nutritionally sound papayas;
her experiments earned her a prestigious second place gold medal at the 2016
National FFA Agroscience Fair; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-Ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2017, that this body hereby commends, congratulates, and honors EMMA TANDARA, CIERRA NAKAMURA, EVAN LIU, LISA KAM, AND KACIE KAJIHARA for their outstanding accomplishments and much-deserved recognition, and extends to all of them its sincere mahalo and best wishes for continued success in all future endeavors.
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2017 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
