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MEDIA RELEASE Big Island students are heading to Oahu this week to attend the 2014 forum for Sustainable Hawaii Youth Leadership Initiative. The conference is Friday, April 4, at Windward Community College in Kaneohe. Students from the Hawaii Island and Lanai will present their sustainability projects to a diverse audience of leaders from business, government […]

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MEDIA RELEASE On April 15, youth leaders celebrated a year full of accomplishments at the Sustainable Hawaii Youth Leadership Initiative’s Graduation. They inspired everyone with their life-changing experiences. They also passed the torch to the new youth who were nominated by their communities to serve as SHYLI delegates for the coming year. To honor the […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Sustainable Hawaii Youth Leadership Initiative’s Job Shadow Day 2013 Awards Ceremony in partnership with The Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce Sust’AINAbility Committee Feb. 22 was an important day for SHYLI’s youth leaders. “We were all given the wonderful opportunity to attend Job Shadow Days molded to our future aspirations,” said Kohala youth leader Kynan […]

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Tanaka’s resolution moving through state Legislature

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By Trevor Tanaka | Special to Hawaii 24/7 It was September 2011. The state was abuzz over the upcoming APEC meeting in Honolulu in November where President Obama and 20 other heads of state would be gathering. All eyes would be on Hawaii. It was the first time, since 1993, that the U.S. would be […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Sustainable Hawaii Youth Leadership Initiative was launched Wednesday, Dec. 14 at the West Hawaii Civic Center. Hosted by Hawaii County Council member Angel Pilago, he invited Monica Pilimai Traub and her daughter Wainani to first share a Hawaiian chant and blessing. Pilago spoke of the significance of the canoe to the Hawaiian […]

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