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LEEWARD
Wai'anae Coast board to meet
A city consultant will discuss plans at today's Wai'anae Coast Neighborhood Board meeting for a bus transit center in Wai'anae. The meeting is at 7 p.m. at the Wai'anae Neighborhood Community Center, 85-670 Farrington Highway.
The board will also discuss a recommendation by the Education Committee to support incentives to help retain teachers on the Leeward Coast.
Book sale will benefit library
The Friends of the 'Ewa Beach Public & School Library will conduct a book sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Campbell High School library, 91-950 North Road.
All proceeds will go to the library.
New memberships and renewals will be taken at the door. Annual membership fees are $2 for individuals, $3 for families, and $25 for corporate and lifetime memberships.
For more information, call 689-1204.
CENTRAL
Waipahu gets $65,000 grant
The Waipahu Community Association has been awarded a $65,000 grant by the Agenda for Building Communities to help make Waipahu a better place for residents to live, work and raise their families.
Darrlyn Bunda, executive director of the Waipahu Community Association, said this is the second year the association has been awarded a grant. Bunda said the first-year money was used to restructure the association into a community development corporation, the most important objective of the association's five-year strategic plan.
The association will now focus on the coordination of community-building activities and programs for the economic and social revitalization of Waipahu.
Waipahu is one of seven communities statewide receiving Agenda for Building Communities grants.
WINDWARD
Vandals strike at 2 locations
The Waimanalo post office and Kailua Starbucks Coffee were vandalized over the weekend. Police said they have no suspects in the two cases and do not know if the incidents are related.
At about 10:40 p.m. Friday, someone threw a brick at a window of the Waimanalo post office, causing less than $500 damage, according to a police report.
At 2:17 a.m. Saturday, employees at Aloha Gas Express reported that someone shattered the Starbucks' glass door with a baseball and fled toward Kailua District Park, police said. Damage to Starbucks was also less than $500.
NORTH SHORE
Seniors headed for Disneyland
Graduating seniors from Waialua High are set for the party of their lives when they fly to California after graduation June 2 for three days of fun at Disneyland, Universal Studios and Knott's Berry Farm.
Some 65 of the 105 expected graduates have signed up for the event, said Neil Teves, co-chairman of the project.
Fund-raisers netted about $450 for each teenager, and students contributed $200 out of their pockets.
EAST HONOLULU
Playground gear on agenda
The Kuli'ou'ou/Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the 'Aina Haina Public Library.
Up for discussion are the status of playground equipment in the community and reports from public officials. For more information call 527-5749.
