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LEEWARD
Kapolei library group to meet
The Friends of the Library-Kapolei, known as FOLK, will have a general membership meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Makakilo Recreation Center.
The group will review last month's FOLK Festival and discuss future projects to support the library.
For information, call Kristine Newmann at 674-1909.
WINDWARD
Hearing set on Kane'ohe park
The city has scheduled a permit hearing for a Kane'ohe park that will include an educational garden, soccer fields, a softball field and picnic area.
The May 30 hearing will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Kane'ohe Community and Senior Center, 45-613 Pu'ohala St.
The Kahua O Waikalua Neighborhood Park is to be built next to the Kane'ohe Wastewater Treatment Facility and Bay View Golf Park. A permit for special management area use is required for construction.
The facility will be built in two phases and will have a shelter with comfort station, a concrete walkway system, fencing and 67 parking stalls.
The public may view maps of the project area between 7:45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. daily at the city Department of Planning and Permitting, Permit and Zoning Records Access, on the first floor of the Honolulu Municipal Building, 650 S. King St. For assistance, call 527-5349.
People who require disability assistance or other special help should call 527-5046.
Individuals wishing to testify at the hearing should bring a copy of their testimony. Written testimony can be submitted to the planning department at the above address.
Model airplane contest today
Teams of radio-controlled aircraft will challenge one another in a contest to build and fly a model plane in 45 minutes beginning at 2 p.m. today at Kawai Nui Model Airpark on Quarry Road in Kailua.
The Aloha State Radio Control Club is sponsoring the event and will give each team the same materials to build their model. No one will know what the materials are, so no early preparation can be done.
The event is free and open to the public.
Castle to start plaza project
Castle Medical Center will begin construction on its medical plaza and wellness center with a ground- breaking ceremony at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the site, 640 Ulukahiki St., Kailua.
The program includes music by Moe Keale.
The medical plaza will provide office space for specialists and a wellness center where doctors can refer patients to nutritionists, fitness counselors and complementary medicine professionals for reviews of lifestyle habits.
The construction project is expected to be completed next spring.
NORTH SHORE
Arts group plans food fest
Hale'iwa restaurants and art lovers will hold their annual "dine around" fund-raiser, in which participants visit a different eating establishment for each dinner course.
The Hale'iwa Arts Festival Progressive Dinner will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. May 29 in historic Hale'iwa town. The cost is $25. Tips and other gratuities are not included.
Proceeds from the fund-raiser will benefit fine arts and programs for arts in the schools on the North Shore, including the fourth annual Summer Event to be held July 21-22 at Hale'iwa Beach Park.
Restaurants featured in this year's event are Rosie's Cantina for the appetizer, Pizza Bob's for salad, Aoki's Shave Ice for frosty intermezzo, Hale'iwa Joe's for the entree and Jameson's by the Sea for cream pie dessert.
Each restaurant is donating food and services.
To purchase tickets, call the Hale'iwa Arts Festival at 637-2277.
HONOLULU
O'ahu libraries closed June 6
All public libraries on O'ahu will be closed June 6 for Library Institute Day.
Library Institute Day is an annual, all-day in-service training session conducted statewide for employees of the Hawai'i State Public Library System.
Other training sessions will be between Wednesday and June 8.
The dates and sites for the other training sessions are:
- Wednesday on Kaua'i.
- June 1 on the Big Island.
- June 8 on Maui (includes Lana'i and Moloka'i library staffs).
Although public libraries will be closed on the designated days, book drops will remain open.
Man sought in bar shooting, robbery
Police are searching for a man who fired a shotgun inside a Ke'eaumoku Street bar and robbed the business and five of its patrons early yesterday morning.
The robbery occurred shortly after 2:15 a.m. at Mylynh's Sports Bar at 835 Ke'eaumoku St.
Police said the man came into the bar with a sawed-off shotgun and demanded money from the cash register before firing a round into the ceiling.
After taking the money from the register, the man robbed five of the customers. He then struck one of the patrons with his weapon, and ran from the bar, police said.
The man struck by the robber refused medical treatment. No one else was hurt in the incident.
The bar, one of several businesses at that address, was closed yesterday and management could not be reached for comment. Would-be customers yesterday found the entrance doors locked.
The suspect is described as a male in his late 20s, between 6-feet and 6-feet-1, weighing between 220 and 240 pounds with a heavy build and a tan complexion.
He wore a light-colored baseball cap and blue shorts and used a white T-shirt or cloth to cover his face.
Four masked men armed with shotguns robbed a Chinatown pool hall in late April, with one of the men firing a shotgun into the ceiling. Police said they were not sure if there was a connection between the two shootings.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.
Makiki museum plans new wing
The Contemporary Museum on Makiki Heights Drive may convert its unused tennis courts into a new gallery and education wing, Georgianna Lagoria, the museum's director, announced this weekend.
Group 70, a Hawai'i-based architectural firm, has been hired to draw up plans for the wing and to prepare the permit applications.
The proposed wing would house the museum's educational programs for children, as well as part of its permanent collection.
Lagoria said she wanted to inform the community early about the proposed construction and assure neighbors that museum overseers are sensitive to their concerns.
"We know from past experience that it is best to keep the lines of communication open," she said.
The museum plans to break ground on the new project in 2002 and open the wing in time for the museum's 15th anniversary in 2003. It plans to spend $9 million for endowment, $5.5 million for new construction and $1 million for renovations. The funding campaign is 75 percent complete.
