O'ahu briefs
Advertiser Staff
WINDWARD
Marine project habitat-safe
The proposed replacement of 1,612 family housing units at Marine Corps Base Hawai'i will not significantly impact the quality of human or natural environment or generate significant controversy, according to Marine Corps officials.
The Marines want to demolish the units and replace them with a similar number of units at the base in Kane'ohe.
Copies of the environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact for this proposal is available from Commander, Pacific Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 258 Makalapa Drive, Suite 100, Pearl Harbor, HI 96860-3134, Attn.: Cory Waki, PLN231; or telephone 471-2801.
Bomb claimed in robbery try
Police evacuated all businesses at the La'ie Shopping Center yesterday after a woman in a Halloween costume tried to rob the Bank of Hawai'i branch there.
The woman gave the teller a note saying she had a bomb in a package, police said. She fled on foot, leaving the package behind.
Police were called at 11:48 a.m. but were unable to complete their investigation until about 5:30 p.m. after the bomb squad arrived and destroyed the package, police said.
Police said the area was evacuated as a precaution. Before destroying the package, police stopped traffic in both directions on Kamehameha Highway.
EAST HONOLULU
Council to hear bike plans
Plans for a bicycle staging area at Kapi'olani Community College will go before the City Council by late January.
Two people went to a public hearing yesterday on the issue of the city building a comfort station with showers, lockers and bicycle racks on the school's campus.
Those two spoke in favor of the city vision project, which has been in the works since 1998.
The public has until Nov. 23 to comment on the project. Comments should be sent to Steve Tagawa at the city Department of Planning and Permitting at 650 S. King St., Honolulu, HI 96813.
HONOLULU
Ehime Maru diving resumes
U.S. Navy divers yesterday resumed their search for the last body missing in the shipwreck of the Ehime Maru.
The search was suspended Tuesday when corrosion was discovered on straps of a flotation device for the spreader bar assembly used to move the vessel to shallow water. The divers installed a new flotation device yesterday.
Divers have recovered the bodies of eight of the nine men and boys killed when the Japanese fisheries training vessel was rammed accidentally Feb. 9 by the Navy submarine USS Greeneville.
REMINDERS
Public meetings today:
• Kuli'ou'ou/Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board, 7 p.m., 'Aina Haina library.
• McCully/Mo'ili'ili Neighborhood Board, 7 p.m., King William Lunalilo Elementary School.
• Downtown Neighborhood Board, 7 p.m., Pauahi Recreation Center.
• Kailua Neighborhood Board, 7 p.m., Kailua recreation center.
