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MEDIA RELEASE Retired Waikoloa financial professionals, Herb Soloway and Larry Bryan, visited the Parker School campus on April 5 to share their knowledge and financial tips with the Junior and Senior classes as part of Parker School’s Speaker Series. Soloway spent most of his professional career in the furniture industry before joining Edwards Jones to [...]

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Please bring any incandescent light bulbs you would like to upgrade to CFL’s to the Advancement Office at Parker School for exchange. Feel free to spread the word.

Parker earns $.50 for each bulb exchanged. In addition to bringing bulbs to the school we will also be exchanging bulbs at a few community locations — Saturday (April 14) at KTA Waimea from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the Waikoloa KTA Village Market at 68-3916 Paniolo Avenue on Friday (April 20) from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School junior Aidan Wharton came in third place in the State Poetry Out Loud competition March 18 at St. Andrew’s Tenney Theatre in Honolulu. Wharton qualified to compete at the state level after taking first place at the school level at Parker on March 1. The contest is sponsored by the State [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School hosted its seventh annual fundraiser gala evening, Kahiau, on Saturday, March 10. The dinner and auction event took place at the Fairmont Orchid on the Kohala Coast and raised more than $175,000 for the school’s financial aid program. This year’s Kahiau also boasted the largest attendance so far. Parker School wishes [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School students earned top prizes across the board at the Waimea Arts Council’s 28th Annual Na Opio Juried Youth Art Show. The show runs through the month of March and awards were presented Saturday, March 10 at the Firehouse Gallery in Waimea. The first, second and third place prizes in grades 9, [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Competitors from Parker School, Christian Liberty Academy and Kealekehe High School participated in the District IV Big Island Qualifying Tournament on March 5 at Parker School. From Parker, Jesse Tarnas took first in Championship Lincoln-Douglas, Lysha Matsunobu took first in Novice Lincoln-Douglas, Maia Tarnas and Victoria Andrade-McKeehan took first in Varsity Policy, Thomas [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Junior Aidan Wharton earned first place in Parker School’s 5th annual Poetry Out Loud competition on March 1. Twenty-three Parker School students in grades 9-12 participated in the contest, which is sponsored by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. The competition [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School student artists celebrated several wins for their works in advance of Youth Art Month, recognized through the month of March every year. According to the National Art Education Association’s website, YAM is designed “to emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School senior Jesse Tarnas earned third place at the statewide Shakespeare Recitation Contest on Saturday, Feb. 25 at Punahou School in Honolulu. He performed Shakespeare’s Sonnet 104 and a monologue from Hamlet. Tarnas’ third place prize included a volume of Shakespeare’s works, tickets to all three productions of the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival [...]

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Special to Hawaii 24/7 Parker Lower School students participated in the American Heart Association’s Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser on Thursday, Feb. 23. The event raises money for the American Heart Association to help children with heart problems, and also teaches the young participants about how to keep their own hearts healthy through exercise and [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Parker School senior Jesse Tarnas brought home the first place trophy in the Championship Lincoln-Douglas category from the Iolani Debate State Qualifying Tournament on Oahu. Tarnas and 19 of his debate teammates flew Feb. 17 to Honolulu to compete in the two-day tournament against 15 other schools, including Punahou, Iolani and Kamehameha. “It [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE Last week, Parker School fifth graders showed up at school wearing mysterious outfits representing various secret vocabulary words. They then had to guess what words their classmates’ costumes could possibly be describing. The day culminated in a Vocabulary Parade where the other classes got to see the elaborate costumes and also have a [...]

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