Hawaii community roundup with good news for the Leeward Coast, where 14 new emergency medical technicians just finished training closer to home than ever before.

• 14 people graduated from Kapiolani Community College's EMT program after classroom work, clinical labs, and real ambulance shifts.
• For the first time the training ran in Waianae itself, so Leeward Coast residents no longer have to travel across Oahu to qualify.
• Volunteers planted 11 native coastal trees and grasses at Kaiaka Beach Park to slow beach erosion.
• A Waikiki Aquarium cleanup pulled 134 pounds of trash off the shoreline and nearby parks.
• Maui Ocean Center reopened sign-ups for its Maui 5K, with money going to local schools that runners pick themselves, and Kauai Community College opened an exhibit tracing Hawaii from unification under Kamehameha I through annexation to today's sovereignty movement.

Outlook: The new EMTs head into service on a coast that has long waited longer for ambulances, and the Waianae-based program is set up to keep training more locals.