KAIMUKI, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow)- Kaimuki Christian School is gearing up for a big expansion thanks in part to a record-setting donation.        

The Clarence T. C. Ching Foundation presented a $1.5 million check to the school Wednesday morning, the largest ever received by the school.

The money will go towards the construction of the $7.8 million Clarence T. C. Ching educational center.

"We are grateful for the generosity and commitment this foundation has demonstrated giving us such a generous gift," said Kaimuki Christian School Principal Mark Gallagher.

The center will hold ten classrooms and school administrative offices.

Construction on the new center is set to begin in 2015 and the space will be used right away because the school is adding grades nine through twelve.

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).

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow)- Hundreds of people jammed Hotel Street in Chinatown, lining up to get into nightclubs for the monthly First Friday event. And that's a bit of a problem, according to some area residents as well as the Chinatown Business and Community Association, which has filed a formal request with the Honolulu Liquor Commission to address the noise that comes from First Friday.

Some of the complaints focus on loud, low-frequency noise from some of the clubs.

"This is a mixed use neighborhood, where the residents are, so there's always a little of that conflict and tension between the residents and the bars and restaurants," said Sandy Pohl of the Louis Pohl Art Gallery. Pohl is one of the members of the Arts District that puts on First Friday. It also helps in organizing four other street party events that shut down Nuuanu Avenue and include food, music and street sales of alcohol. (Such alcohol sales are not part of First Friday.)