Paz, Production Manager
Although Paz has a similar story to Marietta, our resident jokester is definitely her own person. She moved to Hawaii in 1971 from the Philippines with her husband, Gody, and their two sons. Gody and Paz met at a body building competition. Gody saw her playing the piano while he was competing and from then on he adamantly courted her until she agreed to marry him. Before they decided to move to Hawaii, she worked at her family's convenient store.
When she first arrived she worked for a few weeks at the former Kuilima resort before getting hired at Kukui Nuts of Hawaii. She was assigned to the tedious task of preparing the kukui nuts for lei making where she did everything but string the leis. She would buff the stone-like shells and drill holes in the nuts. After the company was bought and turned into Oils of Aloha, she began coordinating the production line. She oversees filling the bottles of our various products from macadamia cooking oils to kukui skin care. With her great eye for detail, she is happy doing that and enjoys her work.
And she doesn't do this job by herself. After her husband retired from working for the State of Hawaii, Oils of Aloha hired him as her Production Assistant. Which she says is no big issue, because they are so busy at work that there is not a lot of time to talk, so it doesn't affect their home life in the least. In addition to working on the production line, she is also the master deep-fryer where she helps prepare delicious lunches for many of the production workers nearly everyday.
While she has enjoyed her time in Hawaii, after they retire from Oils of Aloha, she and Gody have decided to move back to the Philippines. When the time comes their company and hard work ethic will be missed.
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