Kahale Ahina, the culinary arts teacher at Bonney Lake High School, recently was selected as the 2013 ProStart Teacher of the Year by the Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation.
Ahina also was nominated for the 2013 National Restaurant Association Educator of the Year award.

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