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NORTH SHORE
Free breast exams offered
Workers at Kahuku Hospital's North Shore Community Health Clinic will provide free breast exams and mammograms to uninsured women 40 years and older throughout Ko'olauloa and the North Shore.
The service is provided through a $50,000 grant from the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, said Jeanette Baer, a physician assistant at the clinic.
The program will provide screening services to 500 women, but people don't seem to know about it, Baer said.
With more than 192,000 new cases projected this year, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer for women in the United States, but deaths can be prevented with early detection.
Call Baer at 293-9231 for an appointment.
CENTRAL
Firefighters in temporary digs
The Honolulu Fire Department will remain on site in trailers during the replacement of the Wahiawa fire station, according to Fire Chief Attilio Leonardi.
During construction, scheduled to be completed around July 2002, the public may enter the temporary site via Mango Place, the department said.
The new station will cost $1.8 million. The original station was built in 1941 at a cost of $33,094. Fire officials said the new station design will complement the plantation roots of Wahiawa.
The station, which will meet all requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, will include central air-conditioning in its living areas, a standby emergency generator and a decontamination room.
The station houses an engine company of five firefighters and a tanker that is staffed by one firefighter.
Transportation tops agenda
State Rep. Willie Espero will lead a town meeting to discuss transportation issues at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the 'Ewa Beach Public and School Library.
The meeting will cover transportation concerns for the 'Ewa area. Representatives from the state departments of transportation and land and natural resources, the city Department of Transportation Services, O'ahu Metropolitan Planning Organization and TheBus are expected to attend.
Topics will include improvements to North/ South Road and Fort Weaver Road, a commuter ferry for 'Ewa Beach, the Kapolei Parkway, TheBus service, roads from 'Ewa Villages to 'Ewa by Gentry, and the Renton Road connection to Roosevelt Avenue.
For more information, call 586-6360.
LEEWARD
Blood drive in Wai'anae set
The Wai'anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center will conduct a blood drive from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
The Blood Bank of Hawai'i must collect 200 pints of blood a day to meet local needs.
Anyone 18 or older, weighing at least 110 pounds and in good health may donate.
Call the health center for an appointment at 696-1456.
Safeway leader to give address
John Obrey, general manager of Safeway in Hawai'i, will speak at the Kapolei Rotary Club meeting at 7:30 a.m. Thursday at the Kapolei High School faculty/staff lounge.
Obrey has been with Safeway since 1970 and became general manager here in 1996.
Safeway has 1,747 stores in the United States and Canada and 18 stores in Hawai'i. The company closed its store in the Waipahu Town Center in November, raising concerns about the vitality of business in Waipahu.
Kapolei Safeway manager Rodney Fujii also will attend the meeting.
The fee for the meeting, which includes a buffet breakfast, is $7.
For more information, call Van McCrea at 672-3924 or e-mail at vanmccrea@aol.com.
Seagull gets financial boost
Seagull Schools of Kapolei, which provides child and adult care services, recently received grants of $150,000 from the Atherton Family Foundation, $75,000 from the James and Abigail Campbell Foundation and $20,000 from the Cooke Foundation to support a $1.25 million capital building project for its intergenerational program.
Under the program, pre-schoolers interact with seniors in the adult daycare program.
Construction on the new Kapolei facility is scheduled to begin in January.
WINDWARD
Kailua fire began in garage fridge
A motor malfunction in a refrigerator caused a fire that left a Kailua family homeless Friday evening.
Fire Capt. Richard Soo said investigators determined the blaze started with an electrical malfunction in a refrigerator the family kept in the garage.
The two-story, four-bedroom home at 1422 Nanaloko Place was all but destroyed.
A 42-year-old man and his two children were at home but escaped uninjured.
