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Le Jardin Academy is located on the Windward Side of Oʻahu in Kailua, Hawaiʻi, and offers private education from preschool to high school.

1 Campus 2 History 3 Today 4 External links

Campus

The school has separate campuses for its preschool students and those in higher grades. The preschool campus is located about one and one-half miles down road from the main campus. Two playgrounds, one hall, and one portable hall comprise its facilities. The main campus has 24 acres (97,000 m²) of land which has constructed upon it seven halls, a portable library, two playgrounds, and an auditorium. Its athletics facilities consist of a swimming pool, gymnasium with two full basketball courts, outdoor basketball court,a newly built gym, and a soccer field. Special classrooms were built for art and music instruction.

History

Madame Henriette D. Neal, founded a preschool in 1961 at St John's Lutheran Church in Kailua. It was known as Le Jardin d'Enfants Madame Neal taught her students the French Language. French is still taught at the school today and the fleur-de-lis appears in Le Jardin's logo.

After 1961 and for the next eight years, a new grade was added nearly every year. By 1945, the school's enrollment contained more than 100 students, all in sixth grade or lower. During the early 2000s the first H.S graduations took place and currently L.J.A has close to 800 students.

Le Jardin was donated the land that was once the site of the Kailua drive-in and constructed upon it the new permanent campus. On August 30, 1999 the school opened its new campus. Stones with personal messages from students were placed under the foundations of one of the halls. In 2001, Le Jardin added a high school in the same manner it had expanded in the sixties, by adding a new grade each year. In 2009, a new high school building and gym was added to the upper campus.

Today

The school's headmaster is an English educator, Mr. Adrian Allan. The mascot of the school is a Bulldog.

Le Jardin Academy has just recently joined the IB program (Or the International Baccalaureate Program) which lets students have a unique learning style.

External links

• Le Jardin Academy website

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Come and Party with us on Cinco de Mayo!

WHO: Open to the Public with focus on UH Supporters
WHAT: Cinco de Waikiki Party! 2 Live Bands. Drink Specials. Best Sombrero Contest.
WHERE: Tiki's Grill & Bar
WHY: Great place to get everyone to together again and have a fun night.
WHEN. Cinco de Mayo - Wednesday May, 5th 2010 starting a 5pm. First Band 5pm -7pm and second Band Starts at 8pm
HOW MUCH: Free Cover, Free Valet Parking for 3 Hours, No Host party.

Mahalo Nui Loa,

Michael C. Miller
Director of Sales & Marketing
Tiki's Grill & Bar

808-923-Tiki (8454)
www.tikisgrill.com

P.S.  Don't forget to make your Mother's Day Reservations!

Tonight Tiki's is hosting a fundraiser organized by friends of Presley Tagaloa, a Hawaii Army Reservist with the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry who passed away from a battle with leukemia.  Tiki's, which is providing a percentage of that night's sales to the Tagaloa family.

Read more of the story from the The Honolulu Advertiser:
Family man, proud soldier dies peacefully of leukemia
By William Cole - Advertiser Military Writer

When the end came on April 6, Army Spc. Presley Tagaloa was home in Hawai'i, at peace, and with family and friends, relatives said.

When it all began 15 months earlier, the Army Reservist with the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry was on a deployment to Kuwait and had been providing security for convoys heading into southern Iraq.

The Farrington High School graduate, air-evacuated to Germany and then the United States, was diagnosed with leukemia. He died four days after returning to Hawai'i on April 2 following complications from a bone marrow transplant, his family said.

'NEVER COMPLAINED'

The 23-year-old will be buried tomorrow at the Hawai'i State Veterans Cemetery in Kāne'ohe.

A fundraiser is scheduled for Friday at Tiki's Grill & Bar in Waikīkī for Tagaloa's wife, Reva, and their two daughters, ages 2 and 3.

The Hawai'i man found a job he liked in the Army, the respect of fellow soldiers and a way to support his family, and those aspects of his life are being remembered."Family was everything to him," said the soldier's mother, Christine Feagaimaalii.

Sgt. 1st Class Alika Naluai, Tagaloa's platoon sergeant, remembers how hard Tagaloa worked despite starting to feel ill.
"He never complained and we didn't realize how bad it was until our last mission with him," Naluai said. When D Company's 1st Platoon returned to base and started putting its weapons away, Tagaloa fainted, falling into fellow soldiers who caught him before he hit the floor, Naluai said. "He came to and he was like, 'What's going on?' We told him, 'You fainted,' and he said, 'I'm OK, I'm OK,' " Naluai said. "He knew what he needed to do (for the mission) and he was going to do it." A checkup with a doctor led to further testing and a diagnosis of leukemia.

More than 1,700 Hawai'i National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers — the 100th Battalion among them — deployed to Kuwait in late 2008 and returned in the summer of 2009. Tagaloa joined the Army Reserve unit knowing a deployment was coming up, according to relatives. "At first, I think he had mixed feelings about it, but it was something that he thought he had to do to take care of his family," his mother said. But after boot camp and training for the Kuwait and Iraq duty, Tagaloa e-mailed to family how proud he was to be in the Army.

TURN FOR WORSE

Tagaloa's wife, Reva, 22, said when her husband came home on rest and recuperation leave he had lost weight and didn't really eat. "We thought he was thin because he was in Kuwait," she said. Naluai, his platoon sergeant, thought the same thing. By late January, Tagaloa had been diagnosed with leukemia, a form of cancer that starts in the tissue that forms blood.

Tagaloa was transferred to a hospital in Germany, then Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and finally the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

The soldier had a bone marrow transplant from his brother, who "was a 100 percent match," his wife said.But his immune system couldn't catch up and his health worsened, she said.Tagaloa had asked for months to return to Hawai'i. On April 2, the Army flew him to Tripler Army Medical Center, and he died four days later.

"When I brought my son home, he saw his family and friends and I knew my son made peace with God and he came to accept" that the end was coming, Christine Feagaimaalii said.

When Tagaloa died, "he was fine," Reva Tagaloa said. "He passed away in his sleep. They gave him medicine and he was strong. I'm OK because I know he's not in pain."She said their two young daughters still ask for their dad, and when they see another soldier in uniform, they think he is their father.

Naluai said Tagaloa was laid-back and mature beyond his years. "He was a soldier I never had to worry about," Naluai said. "He was a hard worker; humble and very patient with regards to any changes in situation ... that would normally rile up most soldiers. He was real calm about it."

Friends are organizing Friday's fundraiser at Tiki's, which is providing a percentage of that night's sales to the Tagaloa family. "I want to celebrate his life with everyone," said Reva Tagaloa. "Just share."

We just got a a 5 star review from a Bride at weddingmapper.com  Heather and Ryoji's Wedding Honolulu   |   March, 2010   |   Rehearsal Lunch / Dinner / Party

Rehearsal Dinner Venue:

Tiki's Grill & Bar

"Never having been there in person, and not being able to sample the food beforehand, I was quite nervous booking this place. But we were really really happy with it! Everyone raved over how yummy the food was - we went with the grand buffet. We had 36 people seated in the semi-private section, Lava Tube, and it was very festive and fun, and we didn't feel noise or anything intruded from the rest of the restaurant. The wait staff was great, very quick to serve drinks and refill food trays. They were also very flexible with us extending our time a bit so as not to rush everyone out of there."

This is our first papaya we picked from our tree. It is a little to firm to have for breakfast.  So we are going to make:

Green Papaya Salad

A refreshing and unusual salad made with shredded green papaya, it stands alone or takes such additions as cooked prawns to turn it in to a main dish.

- 1 large ripe tomato, cut in to wedges.
- 1 green papaya (500 g/1 lb), coarsely grated to yield 3 cups.
- 1 small carrot, coarsely grated to yield 3 cups.
- 1 small carrot, coarsely grated to yield 1 cup.
- 2 tablespoons chopped mint leaves.
- Sprigs of mint leaves, to garnish.

Dressing
- 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice.
- 3 tablespoons fish sauce.
- 1 talespoon sugar.
- 2 cloves garlic, minced.
- 1 finger-length chili, deseeded and sliced.
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds, dry-roasted for about 10 minutes over low heat until browned.

- Combine the Dressing ingredients in a large bowl and mix until the sugar is dissolved, then add all the other ingredients (except sprigs of mint leaves) and toss well to combine.
- Transfer to a serving platter, garnish with the mint leaves and serve immediately

Serves 4
Preparation time: 15 mins.

(Source: homestyle vietnamese cooking)

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If you play farmville you might like this bonus photo. Today's bounty.

We have been growing our own vegetables for a few months now and here are some of the results.

We were proud to learn Eduardo (Ed) Menor was awarded "Elk Of The Year" from the Pearl City Elks Lodge #2669.

From the Elks Website:

You may be asking yourself - "Self? What are Elks?" We are a very American organization providing services to our youth through programs that support such groups as Special Olympics and Boy Scouts, we coordinate the Elks National Hoop Shoot program with the Department of Parks and Recreation and work with schools promoting our Drug Awareness and Americanism programs.

We are Americans, proud of our country and its people. As such we are very active in recognizing and supporting our Veterans. We raise and appropriate funds for their support, collect donations from our members and the community to assist homeless Veterans and attempt in every way to repay them for their dedication to our Freedom. As Americans we also respect our beautiful flag, "Old Glory." Each Flag Day we honor our flag at a very emotional ceremony on board the USS Missouri, the "Mighty Mo," which is open to the public.

Other community involvement includes:
AMERICANISM ESSAY CONTEST - "What Freedom Means To Me.".
CALIFORNIA-HAWAII MAJOR PROJECT - The Major project "The Purple Pig," serves children from birth to 21 years of age with home-based occupational therapy, physical therapy ...
SPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII - Special Olympics was founded on the belief that people with intellectual disabilities can, with proper instruction and encouragement, learn, enjoy and ...
NATIONAL DRUG AWARENESS PROGRAM - Every year, the Elks Drug Awareness Program...
VETERANS SERVICES - The Pearl City Elks, have identified the homeless veterans at Kalaeloa as the major group of Veterans most in need that we can help..

Ed - Congratulations from your entire family!