Advertiser Staff
Snack bar reopens at Wailua course
LIHU‘E, Kaua‘i — The snack bar at the county’s Wailua Golf Course reopened last week after an extended closure.
Course manager Ed Okamoto said the firm Ku Hale, which operates Princeville’s Beamreach Restaurant, was awarded the contract to run the public facility.
The snack bar will serve sandwiches, musubi and one hot menu item daily. The operator has applied for a liquor license, but is not likely to be able to serve alcohol until at least mid-May.
Maui county office temporarily moved
WAILUKU, Maui — Continuing problems with the air-conditioning system have forced the temporary relocation of the Maui County Department of Planning and the Land Use and Codes Administration.
Last week, work at the Kalana Pakui annex on High Street in Wailuku was disrupted for two days after employees suffered nausea and headaches from the smell of chlorine dioxide used in air-conditioning maintenance.
The fumes have lingered, and the county is working with an air-quality testing consultant and the vendor who did the maintenance.
The Planning Department has been relocated temporarily to the Civil Defense conference room on the first floor of the Kalana O Maui Building next door. The phone number is still (808) 270-7735, but the fax number has been changed temporarily to (808) 242-8196.
Land Use and Codes has been moved to the David K. Trask Jr. Building on Kaohu Street. phone and fax numbers are unchanged.
Arrangements have been made to accommodate county employees at the temporary locations for as long as two weeks.
Kaua‘i posts teen summer jobs
LIHU‘E, Kaua‘i — The county of Kaua‘i will accept applications for six weeks of summer work for youths, starting today.
Opportunities available to high school and college students age 16 and older include clerical jobs, recreational aide positions, internships and lifeguard jobs.
Visit the mayor’s office or the county Department of Personnel Services. Applications also are available at any county neighborhood center. Applications will be accepted through April 30.
Man sentenced in Kona coffee fraud
A Berkeley, Calif., man has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for his involvement in a scheme to pass off Central American coffee as premium Kona coffee from Hawai‘i.
Michael Norton admitted 87 percent of the coffee he sold as pure Kona coffee was actually grown elsewhere. Kona coffee fetches much higher prices than coffee grown in Central America.
From 1993 to 1996, Norton purchased and sold about 3.6 million pounds of the mislabeled coffee, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco said Norton made $15 million from the scheme. He was convicted last year on charges of wire fraud and tax evasion.
Norton also admitted he had failed to pay taxes on $1.3 million in sales. He is required to pay almost $1 million in restitution and back taxes, and will forfeit more than $3 million.
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