As the official hotel of the 36th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, Ala Moana Hotel will present its own prize envelope to three lucky people that correctly predict the winners of three Na Hoku award categories.  Kama‘aina and Pacific Business Connection members are invited to enter  for a chance to win a free two-night stay in a sleek one-bedroom, ocean-view suite at Ala Moana Hotel.

“Ala Moana Hotel is proud to be the official hotel of the 36th annual Na Hoku Hanohano awards,” said Marty Milan, Ala Moana Hotel’s director of sales and marketing. “To celebrate Hawaii’s biggest night in music, our island residents are encouraged to stop by and take a guess at who might bring home the gold for a chance to win a two-night stay here at Ala Moana Hotel.”

“And the Winner is…” 

McDonald’s Restaurants of Hawaii has awarded $2,500 to each of its top ten student employees to help them pursue higher education.

“McDonald’s Restaurants of Hawaii is proud to award these well-earned scholarships to our outstanding employee-scholars and support their journey toward a college degree,” said Linda Rosario, a McDonald’s Restaurants of Hawaii owner and operator. “We look forward to watching these employees continue to grow as they work toward their professional goals."

This year’s $25,000 scholarship package is an example of McDonald’s Restaurants of Hawaii’s continuing commitment to reward hardworking employee-scholars. Since 1995, scholarship recipients have been selected based on academic achievement, community involvement and on-the-job performance. The winners, listed below, will use their scholarships at the following institutions this fall.

The McDonald’s Employee Scholarship Program winners for 2013 are:

THE WORLD - The world is experiencing an alarmingly accelerated rate of language extinction. It is predicted that at least fifty percent of languages will not survive this century. Every time a language disappears without documentation, we experience a monumental loss of scientific and human information.

In order to help stem this linguistic and cultural crisis, the Henry Luce Foundation has awarded $160,000 to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences for research on endangered languages in China and mainland Southeast Asia for the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat).