KAPAIA — Waimea High School graduate Swede Sandblom was announced the recipient of the 2026 Kapaia Foundation scholarship during a lunchtime gathering Saturday with his family, including grandmother, Nancy Matsuda.
“The Kapaia Foundation Scholarship was created to recognize the dreams of sugar plantation era immigrants for the success of their descendants,” said Kimo St. John of the Kapaia Foundation, which only recently changed its annual koino…