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MEDIA RELEASE At 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, Regional Vice President Hawaii and General Manager Chris Luedi along with Executive Chef Hubert Des Marais of The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii will donate gently used adidas workout gear and running shoes to members of Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School’s cross country team during its afternoon practice. […]

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MEDIA RELEASE To move forward the leadership transition at Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School, interested community members, families, faculty, staff and students of WMS are being invited by the Local School Board Hookakoo Corp. (HC) to participate in a facilitated work group planning session 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, March 31 in the school cafeteria. […]

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More than 300 people call for explanation, reversal of decision to remove principal

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Hookakoo Corporation Board of Directors accept Colson’s resignation effective March 31

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MEDIA RELEASE By spelling 25 words correctly – including the champion word – A-l-l-e-g-o-r-y – at last Saturday’s Hawaii Island District Finals Spelling Bee, Waimea Middle School’s sixth grade student, Roland Afaga Jr. was declared the island’s Champion Middle School Speller for 2012. As district champion, Afaga will compete in the State Spelling Bee Finals […]

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MEDIA RELEASE It promises to be an inspiring glimpse of the life and paahana (hard, industrious work) of “treasures in our own backyard on Hawaiian homestead farms and ranches” as Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School (WMPCCS) family members and community friends come together for a series of free after-school classes on four consecutive Wednesdays, […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Sixth grader Roland Afaga calmly stood at a microphone on the giant stage at Kahilu Theatre in front of nearly 400 very quiet Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School students, teachers, staff and families last week, and despite blinding stage lights and tension you could cut with a knife, he competently spelled the […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Families and community friends of Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School students are invited to Kahilu Theatre’s 5th Annual K(Arts) Grand Finale performance at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14 by nearly 100 of the school’s 6th-8th grade students who have been enrolled in this free after-school performing arts program. Students have participated in […]

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MEDIA RELEASE “Slam Poet Kealoha’s presence at Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School absolutely revolutionizes what we are doing here,” Principal John Colson says. “When I was in school, you couldn’t have paid me to get up in front of an audience and present something I wrote,” says Colson, who admits he almost turned down […]

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