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MOLOKA'I
Governor appoints commission head
Colette Machado of Moloka'i has been appointed by Gov. Ben Cayetano to serve as chairwoman of the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee replaces Noa Emmett Aluli, also of Moloka'i, who finished an eight-year term as commission chairman. Like Aluli, Machado was active in the movement to stop the bombing of the 45-square-mile island and to establish it as a Native Hawaiian cultural reserve.
Kaho'olawe is undergoing a federally financed cleanup of unexploded ordnance that is expected to end in 2003. The commission represents the state's interest in the cleanup.
Machado, who runs a nonprofit seaweed cultivation and bottling business on Moloka'i, previously served on the commission as a representative of the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana and now fills the slot reserved for an OHA representative.
MAUI
Woman rescued from Maui trail
WAIHE'E, Maui — A Maui Fire Department helicopter helped rescue a woman injured yesterday afternoon while hiking to Swinging Bridges in Waihe'e Valley.
The woman slipped on the trail around 1 p.m. and suffered a compound fracture to one wrist, said Assistant Fire Chief Alan Cordeiro. Rescuers from the Wailuku and Kahului fire stations used a net and helicopter to take the woman to an ambulance waiting on Waihe'e Valley Road. The woman's age and hometown were not available.
Fatal accident shuts Maui highway
UKUMEHAME, Maui — A woman was killed yesterday in a three-car wreck on Honoapi'ilani Highway.
Maui police said the unidentified woman was a passenger in a Lahaina-bound Chevrolet sedan that had stopped to make a left turn into Ukumehame Beach Park. The car was hit from behind by another sedan and pushed into the oncoming lane, where it was broadsided by a Ford pickup truck.
Traffic on the two-lane highway, the main link between West and Central Maui, was backed up for miles in either direction as police closed the road for nearly five hours.
Maui civil defense plans siren test
WAILUKU, Maui — The Maui County Civil Defense Agency will conduct a special siren test at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow.
The test will consist of a steady 45-second tone on selected sirens only on the island of Maui. Officials said the sirens are being converted to a new activation system.
Maui camp site meeting scheduled
WAILUKU, Maui — Maui County Councilwoman Jo Anne Johnson is planning a public meeting to discuss county camping sites at 6 p.m. Aug. 22 at the Pa'ia Community Center.
Johnson heads the council's Parks and Recreation Committee, which is considering a proposed bill that would create new campgrounds on Maui.
For more information, call (808) 270-7838.
BIG ISLAND
Sea turtle talk slated tonight
WAIMEA, Hawai'i — Researcher Marc Rice will discuss "Sea Turtles of Hawai'i and the World" in a Reeftalk presentation from 6:30 to 8:30 tonight at Thelma Parker Memorial Library.
Rice is director of the Sea Turtle Research Project at Hawai'i Preparatory Academy, with a focus on Hawai'i's green sea turtle biology and life cycle.
The free talk is sponsored by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant Extension Service. For more information, call (808) 329-2861.
Traditional sailing presentation slated
KIHEI, Maui — Harold Ayat of Na Hoaloha O Hokule'a a Hawai'i Loa (the Friends of Hokule'a and Hawai'i Loa) will speak at 7 p.m. tonight at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary headquarters, 726 S. Kihei Road.
Ayat has been involved in revitalizing traditional navigational skills and vessels since 1990, ever since he responded to a plea for volunteers to help with a canoe project at the Bishop Museum.
The free lecture will be held in the sanctuary headquarters' education center.
