Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 11, 1 November 1987 — Alu Like Youths Get Outstanding Ratings [ARTICLE]

Alu Like Youths Get Outstanding Ratings

Nine Hawaiian youths ranging in age from 16 to 19 spent the past summer working at their first paid jobs as clerical or general labor help at Hiekam Air Force Base, thus getting hands-on training with computers, word processors and other office equipment.

The summer jobs were made available through Alu Like ine., whose primary purpose is to assist native Americans (native Hawaiians, Amenean Indians and Alaskan natives) by providing job training and employment services for the economically disadvantaged and unemployed. Alu Like had 800 youths participating in its job training program. Of this total, 36 were selected as the best summer workers. Two of them, Barbara Delizo, a senior at Campbell High School, and Guy Dias, graduate of Waianae High School, were featured recently in the Hawaiian Falcon, Hiekam AFB newspaper.

They were highly lauded for their work performances. According to her supervisor, Delizo "exceeded our expectations and she showed such initiative in her work that we were able to give her more responsibility." "Guy was such a hardworking young man that he performed his duties in.an effective manner and he was always looking for more to do," said Dias' supervisor of the youth's eight-week performance on the job. Dias joined the Air Force following his summer job. Upon completion of basic training he will attend security poliee technical school at Lackland AFB, Texas, because he wants to get experience in law enforcement and join the Honolulu Poliee Department when he gets out.

The other seven youths who worked at Hiekam and their schools are Nathan Bush, Waipahu High School; Joseph Chang and Moniea Dilany, Campbell High School; Lloyd Kaihana, Waianae High School; Tammy Wilson and Sandra Gaspar, Aiea High School; and Tema Watson, Radford High School.