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WINDWARD
Park to get another estate
Workers are clearing land on the hillsides of Valley of the Temples Memorial Park & Mortuary, preparing the area for a "private estate," said David Ordenstein, the park's regional general manager.
The quarter-acre site will be designed for a Taiwan client and will include bronze statues of the man's parents, Ordenstein said, adding that the grading will cost about $500,000.
The park already has four estates; five other estates are at various stages of development. The park has room for about 20 estates.
Library closed for three days
The 'Aiea Public Library will be closed for three days starting Thursday while electrical work is done to allow for the installation of new computers.
The book drop also will be closed during the construction, but residents can check out and return materials at other libraries, including the Pearl City Public Library, which is open every day.
The 'Aiea library, 99-143 Moanalua Road, is closed on Sundays and will reopen at 9 a.m. July 30.
LEEWARD
Coast Guard tops agenda
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Robert W. Dunn will discuss the mission of the Kalaeloa air station at the Kapolei Rotary Club meeting at 7:30 a.m. Thursday in the Kapolei High School faculty/staff lounge.
Dunn, the air station's commanding officer, said during a typical year the Coast Guard flies 1,200 hours on search-and-rescue missions, saves 50 lives, assists 700 others in need and preserves $5 million in property. The Coast Guard routinely searches for overdue vessels and provides medical evacuations throughout the Hawaiian chain and the service's 14th District jurisdiction, which includes Palmyra, Chuuk, Kwajalein, and Wake, Christmas and Yap islands.
The fee, which includes a buffet breakfast, is $7. For more information, call Van McCrea at 672-3924.
CENTRAL
City bus route workshop set
The City Department of Transportation will have a community workshop from 7 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Mililani High School cafeteria. The modernization of bus routes in Mililani will be discussed.
The workshop is part of the Central Hub and Spoke Bus Project, which was developed in response to requests for more express service and community-circulator bus service.
Call 543-3068 or visit the Transportation Department Web site for more information.
Mililani High School is at 95-1200 Meheula Parkway.
HONOLULU
Department has new deputy
Elizabeth Kent, who is on a two-year leave of absence as director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution branch of the Hawai'i judiciary, has started work as a new deputy director for the Department of Human Services.
Kent, who took the position June 28, will work with department director Susan M. Chandler in helping provide services and assistance to people in need.
"I'm still pretty new, but my goal is to help the department with all the administrative work and helping Gov. Cayetano," Kent said. "I'm very excited that I'll be helping people through this department."
A 1985 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, Kent has worked as a motions law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and as an attorney for commercial litigation at Paul, Johnson, Park & Niles. She also taught graduate and undergraduate business law at the University of Hawai'i for six years.
Kent is one of the Hawai'i commissioners to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, a mediator for the Mediation Center of the Pacific Inc., an arbitrator in the Court Annexed Arbitration Program and a member of the Medical Claims Conciliation Panel.
