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Je s s i c a Ho l d e n Ka t h r y n Ch r i s t i a n Co l l e e n Ru t h La y n e Ma n d r i a l - S a n t o s Pa r a d o Na k a n i s h i Ue c h i Ch e n ED I T O R LAYOUT EDITOR EDITOR IN CHIEF CO-EDITOR IN CHIEF CO - E D I T O R EDITOR IN CHIEF Mo s t KA H U K U KA I M U K I KA I S E R KA L A H E O KA M E H A M E H A - M A U I KA M E H A M E H A Val u a b l e

Staffers Vi c t o r i a Ma l i a Re n e e Jo n Sh i l o h Ab i g a i l Hu r s t Ro s e Ta k a r a Gi l b e r t Ca b a t i n g a n Tr e n h a i l e Selected by the staff of each high school newspaper ED I T O R FEATURES EDITOR FEATURES EDITOR EDITOR IN CHIEF SPORTS EDITOR EDITOR IN CHIEF

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Elizabeth Dhana St e p h a n i e Bl a y l o c k Di a z CO - E D I T O R ED I T O R

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Ke l s e y Br a n d o n Fo r t e y Ho o EDITOR IN CHIEF EDITOR IN CHIEF

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Jo s h u a Da n i e l l e Fu j i n o Ch o a t e CO - E D I T O R EDITOR IN CHIEF

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / [email protected] St a y s o n La u r e n Ka Moi, the Kamehameha Schools-Kapalama campus newspaper, won the Top Overall Newspaper award yesterday at the annual Hawaii High Is o b e Ri g n e y School Journalism Contest. Pictured with the perpetual award are Kamehameha students Anuhea Akamine, left, Erica Weber, Corinn Perry SPORTS EDITOR EDITOR IN CHIEF and Abigail Trenhaile, Ka Moi editor in chief. RA D F O R D SACRED HEARTS Kamehameha Schools

Da n i e l l e Cy d r i e n n e Sn y d e r Ll a m a s EDITOR IN CHIEF ED I T O R win journalism award ST. ANDREW’S ST. FRANCIS

By Laurie Au said Kapiolani Street, a senior at Kamehameha la u @ s t a r b u l l e t i n . c o m Schools and a copy editor for Ka Moi. “We knew we hadn’t won for a while and had hoped TH E WINNERS ARE … OR THE FIRST time in 37 years, the Ka- it would be us. Our work is finally being vali- Yesterday’s award winners at the Hawaii mehameha Schools-Kapalama campus d a t e d . ” High School Journalism luncheon: newspaper was the best overall paper The 24 staffers of Ka Moi meet two weekends in the Hawaii High School Journalism a month to lay out the monthly paper, some- F >> BEST NEWSPAPER Co n t e s t . times staying from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m., Barona 1. Kamehameha Schools-Kapalama Kamehameha’s paper, Ka Moi, beat Nanakuli said. Some of their work included coverage on 2. Nanakuli High School Ra y n n a An n e Intermediate and High School by one point Doe v. Kamehameha, a case that had garnered 3. Hawaii Baptist Academy Ma c G u y e r Go n z a l e s with Hawaii Baptist Academy taking third for national media attention, and an in-depth piece MERIT AWARDS EDITOR IN CHIEF ED I T O R top overall high school papers in the state. on the so-called Akaka Bill. >> Established: Iolani Schools “I can’t even count the number of hours we The students of Nanakuli Intermediate and Intermediate: Mililani High School WA I A K E A WA I A L U A spent working on the paper,” said Lionel Ba- High School’s paper, Ka Leo O Nanakuli, were Beginning: Kamehameha Schools-Maui rona, faculty adviser for Kamehameha’s Ka Moi also surprised that they won second place and BEST SINGLE ISSUE for the past three years. “For most of the edi- were not disappointed that they were only one >> Farrington High School tors and myself, this has become our lives for point behind. BEST EDITORIAL the last couple of years.” There is no news-writing class at Nanakuli. >> Mililani High School The 38th annual contest, sponsored by the Instead, they meet every Saturday from 9 a.m. BEST FEATURE STORY Hawaii Publishers Association, the Honolulu to 4 p.m., usually arriving an hour early to get >> Nanakuli High School Star-Bulletin and the Honolulu Advertiser, in- work done with a staff of just seven students. BEST NEWS STORY vited students and faculty from the 29 partici- “Being that it’s not a regular class, for these >> Kaiser High School pating schools to yesterday’s ceremony at the seven kids to take second place, it’s amazing,” BEST PHOTOGRAPHY Pagoda Hotel. said faculty adviser Robin Kitsu, who hopes >> Ly n n Ke l s e y Kaiser High School In recent years the top winners were the stu- that next year the school will hold a news-writ- Na k a g a w a Ri c h v a l s k y >> BEST SPORTS STORY dent papers of Farrington and Waianae high ing class. ED I T O R CO - E D I T O R Punahou School schools. When announcing this year’s winner, Danielle Choate, Ka Leo O Nanakuli’s editor >> BEST LAYOUT & DESIGN presenter and Advertiser Editor Mark Platte in chief and a junior, said she was proud of WA I A N A E WA I P A H U Waianae High School said he had to look in the record books to see their coverage on the debate over splitting the the last time this paper had won. It was 1970. intermediate and high school, a story that won Cheers erupted when he announced it was the state award for feature writing. Kamehameha Schools. “We’re overwhelmed,” Choate said. “It’s good great that all the schools here got the recogni- “All of us didn’t know we were going to win,” to be recognized for our hard work, and it’s tion they deserved.”

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this has become our lives for the last couple of years.” Ap r i l y n Ra y m o n d Lionel Barona Ba n i a g a Ng o Faculty adviser for Ka Moi, the Kamehameha Schools-Kapalama campus newspaper EDITOR IN CHIEF SPORTS EDITOR —— — — —