
Jim Mendoza
News Reporter at KGMB-TV (Honolulu, HI)
News Reporter at KHNL-TV (Honolulu, HI)
Hawaii News Now News Reporter [email protected]
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Jun 21, 2024 |
hawaiinewsnow.com | Jim Mendoza
Corvid Academy, a small private school in Kapolei, is doing something that’s way out of the ordinary.
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May 21, 2024 |
hawaiinewsnow.com | Jim Mendoza
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Hawaii nonprofit created an educational curriculum aimed at middle-school students - kids ages 12 to 15. It teaches that they don't have to leave the islands to find success because it can happen at home. "Our kids are looking for guidance. What's their future going to be? What are they capable of?" said Gabe Amey, the founder and executive director of RiseHI. The initiative is called Make it Happen.
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Apr 30, 2024 |
hawaiinewsnow.com | Jim Mendoza
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Michelle Manu is a multitalented multitasker. She's an actress who holds a law degree from Harvard. But she's best known around the world as the leading female teacher of the ancient Hawaiian warrior art called Lua. "I am a kumu lua of the Kaihewalu lua lineage," she said. Earlier in life, Michelle was a professional hula dancer. After she began studying lua, she discovered striking similarities between the combat art and hula.
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Apr 9, 2024 |
hawaiinewsnow.com | Jim Mendoza
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Licensed pharmacist Zoe Green admits she wasn't very fond of school, and yet she works in one as a special education teacher. "It felt claustrophobic for me when I was a student so I was very happy to be out of there," she said. "But the universe and karma have a funny way of putting you right back in those places."The same applies to what the Kahaluu resident takes on in her spare time.
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Apr 1, 2024 |
hawaiinewsnow.com | Jim Mendoza
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - During Spring Break, while many students were searching for something to do, a big group of youngsters from Lanai and Molokai teamed up for a performing arts camp. "I made a lot of news friends, and we connected like that. I'm really excited for it to happen again. It was amazing," camper Georgia Baetge said. The youth learned songs and skits based on the camp's theme, which was Be My Own Superhero. "The kids on Molokai and Lanai are as talented as anywhere else.
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Punahou School Science teacher Jamey Clarke uses the ukulele to teach his high school students physics. They build their own instruments, study the sound they produce, then donate their uke’s to sick keiki in children’s hospitals. Very cool. https://t.co/W4CSGg5Smd

A non-profit that sews and donates burial gowns to parents whose infant dies needs volunteers in Hawaii. Diane Dionne of Angel Gowns by Diane is moving to the mainland. She hopes someone in Hawaii continues her work. https://t.co/JVG44NoZFJ