The Left Lane
Get paid to park at specific Ward lots

Through Aug. 31, Victoria Ward Centers is offering a dollar bill to anyone who parks in one of two designated free-parking lots on either side of the new Ward 16 Theatre. Just park, go see a movie, present your ticket stub and you get the $1 bill.

Signs proclaiming "Park Here, Earn Cash" are posted at the Bank of Hawaii parking lot on Auahi Street, and at the corner of Auahi and Queen streets, in the Garden Office Building lot. The promotion is aimed at combating Hawai'i folks' well-known resistance to going anywhere new unless they're certain there's somewhere free to park, and meant to draw attention to parking options that some might not realize are open to Ward Centers shoppers.

'Millionaire' lures in most weekly viewers

Here are prime-time ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research for July 2-8. Top 10 listings include the week's ranking and the season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation. The rating is the percentage of the nation's estimated 102.2 million TV homes. Each ratings point represents 1,022,000 households.

1. (9) "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Sunday," ABC, 9.4, 9.6 million homes.
2. (10) "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Thursday," ABC, 8.1, 8.2 million homes.
3. (35) "20/20-Friday," ABC, 7.9, 8.0 million homes.
4. (32) "Weakest Link," NBC, 7.9, 8.0 million homes.
5. (5) "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Tuesday," ABC, 7.8, 8.0 million homes.
6. (12) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 7.6, 7.7 million homes.
7. (17) "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.4, 7.5 million homes.
8. (6) "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 7.4, 7.6 million homes.
9. (6) "Friends," NBC, 7.1, 7.3 million homes.
10. (60) "48 Hours," CBS, 6.8, 7.0 million homes.