Posted on: Sunday, July 8, 2001

Kailua gets wrong telephone directories

By Eloise Aguiar
Windward Bureau

About 2,000 Kailua telephone company customers have received the wrong neighborhood directory, but the correct book is on the way.

A private contractor has been hired to distribute the Verizon Hawai'i 2001-2002 telephone directory to 1 million customers, said Ann Nishida, media relations manager for Verizon. Kailua residents reported receiving the East Honolulu book on Tuesday.

"As soon as they discovered the error, they went back to the area they knew they had given the wrong book to and started swapping them," Nishida said.

Residents who have received the wrong neighborhood directory can call 833-2018 for a replacement.

Verizon Hawai'i began distributing the 2001-2002 telephone directories Monday and expects to have them all distributed by the end of the month, she said.

The new directory features Maui artist Betty Hay Freeland's "Out of the Mist—Jacarandas at Keokea." The O'ahu, Hawai'i and Maui SuperPages also feature additional original artwork as part of advertising on the back cover, by local patients of the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific.

People can recycle their old phone books by taking them to one of 80 city Community Recycling Bins on O'ahu.

Free pickup for bulk collections of 400 or more books is available through Island Recycling by calling 845-1188.

Quantities of less than 400 can be dropped at one of two Island Recycling locations: from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1811 Dillingham Blvd., and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 50 Sand Island Access Road.