Henry J. Kaiser High School

A memorial continues to grow for 30-year-old Thomas Malone who was killed in the Target parking lot.

Malone was a standout athlete at Kaiser High School and helped lead the football team to a state championship under Coach Rich Miano

MianoThomas was very respectful to the, almost to the day he died in terms of when we would see him, you know, "Hey, Uncle, how's everything going? How's your family?" So all of that stuff in terms of, like, local, loving, uh, caring, respect culture was clearly evident in him

A suspect in the case, a 24-year-old woman, turned herself in Monday night.

Um, I wanted to get the chefs started first.

So this is all happening because of the Kaiser High School, uh, PTA.

Uh, what are you making over there, Chef Amin?

I'm making fusion Japanese and Italian.

Every, every Tuesday, 4:00 to 6:00, rain or shine.

And this is at, where exactly?

At Kaiser High School.

Kaiser High School.

And the Bishop Estate and Kaiser launch a joint venture out of land holdings that the Bishop Estate maintained at this point in time to convert largely agricultural land on the east side of the island of Oahu into housing that we now call Hawaii Kai today.

There's even a high school named after Henry Kaiser in Hawaii Kai on the east side of Oahu called Kaiser High School.

He's also someone that generated significant

corporate

And that's something that we can talk about as a kind of part of the modern Hawaiian sovereignty struggle too later.

But they're also one of the biggest private landowners in the archipelago today.

so kaiser partners with the bishop of state to transform a largely agricultural village of landless pig farmers and other kinds of agriculturalists in kalama valley to create this housing development that we now call hawaii kai on the island of oahu where there is a kaiser high school in 1970 this is the beginning according to haunani k trask as the modern Hawaiian sovereignty movement because Kaiser and Bishop Estate pushed to evict Native Hawaiians, non-Native Hawaiians that were agriculturalists and farmers in Kalama Valley.

So what that means then is a trust that has been dedicated to maintaining and building the intergenerational wealth of the Hawaiian kingdom's constitutional monarchy is dispossessing, displacing, and bringing police violence in partnership with a housing developer and industrialist, that's a white settler, Henry Kaiser, down on the people of Hawaii.

It's funny, I've been seeing, I think I saw our local high school.

We can say it, right? Kaiser High School.

I don't think that, if I shouldn't have said that, edit it out, I guess.

But I've seen some of their Instagram posts lately and they just seemed kind of like, like kind of really plain, I don't know.

How's it going, gang? And welcome back to High Now Daily.

Kaiser High School's class of 2027 is bringing the community together for a night of great food, entertainment, and a whole lot of fun.

It's all going to be going back to support Project Grad.

Joining me today is Sophia Magel and Gavin Antonio.

An East Honolulu high school student discovered a fungi in coconut husks that could clean up plastics and sunscreen from the ocean, and she won multiple awards at the Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair.

Vera Wang, a senior at Kaiser High School, won in multiple categories after conducting experiments in Anthony Amend's lab at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and she qualified for the International Science and Engineering Fair taking place in May in Arizona.

Ms. Wang designed and built an ocean filter that removed sunscreen and microplastics from the surface water, which was inspired by traditional Polynesian weaving while incorporating modern environmental science.

Among her awards, Wang's project earned first place in the microbiology category and a scholarship award from the McInnery Foundation.

An East Honolulu high school student discovered a fungi in coconut husks that could clean up plastics and sunscreen from the ocean, and she won multiple awards at the Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair.

Vera Wang, a senior at Kaiser High School, won in multiple categories after conducting experiments in Anthony Amend's lab at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and she qualified for the International Science and Engineering Fair taking place in May in Arizona.

Ms. Wang designed and built an ocean filter that removed sunscreen and microplastics from the surface water, which was inspired by traditional Polynesian weaving while incorporating modern environmental science.

Among her awards, Wang's project earned first place in the microbiology category and a scholarship award from the McInnery Foundation.

And on Friday, Latham will also be thinking of another Hawaii resident who he knew who died that day.

Miley Hale was the valedictorian of Kaiser High School, and Latham said he used to live in the same neighborhood in Hawaii Kai and used to cut her family's grass as a teenager.

Kaiser has planted a tree with a plaque to honor her memory.

Hale was in New York for a seminar.

Well, let's go back.

You went to Kaiser High School in Honolulu.

You ended up getting drafted out of high school in 1981 by the Dodgers.

You ended up signing right out of high school.