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Article: Welcome to the neighborhood: Waimanalo
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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We are a community of volunteers who contribute, on a daily basis, for the betterment of the youth and kupuna: for social, educational and sports purposes. We have youth mentors at Friends of Waimanalo Library, Hui Malama O Ke Kai, Ke Ola Hou, God's Country, Hawaii Job Corps, Boy Scout Troop 45, Family and Youth Collaborative and Teen Center. Many sports teams have coaches who have given many years of service to spend with the youth to train, develop and guide the younger athletes to improve.
When Wilson Kekoa Ho, Waimanalo Neighborhood Board president, was asked what images best capture the sense of the neighborhood, he cited the sheer Koolau cliff faces and Rabbit Island, seen above in ...