Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 6, Number 7, 1 Iulai 1989 — Two Join Ka Wai Ola O OHA Staff [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Two Join Ka Wai Ola O OHA Staff

Ann L. Moore of Honolulu is the new assistant publications editor for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Mrs. Moore will be assisting Deborah Ward, who in November 1988 was named publications editor of Ka Wai Ola O OHA, the agency's monthlv newspaner.

Also joining the staff for the summer as a student intern is Lynn Nalani Oamilda. Moore is a member of a newspapering family and she brings extensive journalistic experience to the job. Her father, Frank A. Lawlor, was general manager of the Lowell Sun, Lowell, Mass. , for over 40 years and it was from him she leamed the newspaper business. Moore was most recently news and features editor of the Rockingham Gazette in Portsmouth N.H., an Ottaway newspaper. She eame to O'ahu in 1988. Moore has two sons: Jay A. Hammer, a resident of Maui and graduate of the University of Hawai'i, and Curtiss Hammer who lives in Stratham, New Hampshire with his wife Erin, and daughter Ashley Elizabeth.

Oamilda is a senior at the University of Hawaii at Manoa majoring in joumalism and minoring in political science. As an intem she will be writing stories about particular events and issues conceming the Hawaiian community. "I enjoy working on the newspaper because

it is giving me a ehanee to practice my writing skills and gain more practical experience before I graduate. Working as an intem on a newspaper exposes you to many different people and situations. It gives you a little taste of what to expect in the real world." She feels that working on the OHA newspaper is special because it keeps her aware of the issues affecting the Hawaiian people. "I think it is important that all Hawaiians keep informed about what is happening around them and keep leaming about how outside influences are affecting them in a positive and negative way." Oamilda is the daughter of Glenn and Jane Oamilda of Ewa Beach.