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BIG ISLAND
Snorkeler's body retrieved in Kona
SOUTH KONA, Hawai'i — Fishermen aboard a private boat yesterday discovered the body of a snorkeler off Honaunau Bay.
Big Island resident Dale J. Miller, 31, had been missing since about 1 p.m. Friday. When he failed to return from a snorkeling trip, his wife alerted authorities.
Firefighters, on foot, in boats and in a helicopter, searched the bay until nightfall Friday and continued the search at daybreak yesterday.
The fishermen found Miller's body about 7:30 a.m., floating off an area known as Red Hill, 3 1/2 miles south of Keauhou.
MAUI
Peace Poem event tomorrow in Kihei
KIHEI, Maui — The International Peace Poem Project is sponsoring a Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day observance tomorrow at Peace Park on the south end of Kama'ole Beach Park III in Kihei.
Organizer Melinda Gohn said the observance from 6:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. will include prayers and "an invitation for people to write two lines of peace on the International Peace Poem."
Members of the International Peace Poem Project went to the United Nations in New York last September to participate in Millennium Peace Day and make a presentation to dignitaries, including Assembly General President Harri Holkeri.
More than 195,000 people were killed, injured or missing after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and another on Nagasaki three days later, leading to the surrender of Japan.
For more information, call (808) 661-0517 or visit the Web site.
MOLOKA'I
Missing man found dead on Moloka'i
KAUNAKAKAI, Moloka'i — An elderly man who had been missing for nearly two weeks was found dead Friday on Moloka'i.
The Maui County Fire Department rescue helicopter spotted the body of 72-year-old Wally Silva, police said.
Police Sgt. Keith Kawano said the body was in an open wetland area of mangrove and brush, one or two miles west of Silva's home in Kalama'ula, a Hawaiian homestead community west of Kaunakakai.
Silva had last been seen alive on July 21. Police and firefighters began a search when his family reported him missing two days later.
Family members said Silva, suffering from a stroke-related dementia that is similar to Alzheimer's disease, had wandered off by himself in previous instances.
Silva, a Moloka'i resident for more than 40 years, was well-known, Kawano said.
